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100% organic Sikkim shortlisted for FAO's Future Policy Award

100% organic Sikkim shortlisted for FAO's Future Policy Award

10-10-2018 comments

United Nations (IANS): Sikkim's achievement in becoming the world's first totally organic agriculture state has gotten it a place on the shortlist of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Future Policy Award.

The FAO…

Brisk voting in Jammu, poor turnout in valley

Brisk voting in Jammu, poor turnout in valley

10-10-2018 comments

Jammu/Srinagar (IANS): Amid high security and separatist-called boycott, brisk voting was witnessed in six districts of Jammu, but very feeble turnout outside the polling booths in seven districts of the Kashmir Valley for the municipal polls that…

UP train derailment: 6 dead, ex-gratia announced, CRS inquiry ordered

UP train derailment: 6 dead, ex-gratia announced, CRS inquiry ordered

10-10-2018 comments

New Delhi (IANS): Six persons were killed on Wednesday after nine coaches and the engine of an express train heading to New Delhi from Malda town in West Bengal derailed in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced an…

Cyclone Titli: Evacuation ordered in 5 Odisha districts

Cyclone Titli: Evacuation ordered in 5 Odisha districts

10-10-2018 comments

Bhubaneswar (IANS): The Odisha government on Wednesday directed the Ganjam, Puri, Khurda, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara district administrations to evacuate all those areas where cyclonic storm Titli is expected to pass through after making landfall…

Three Kashmiri students nabbed in Punjab with AK-47, explosives

Three Kashmiri students nabbed in Punjab with AK-47, explosives

10-10-2018 comments

Chandigarh/Jalandhar (IANS): In a joint operation, the Punjab Police and Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday arrested three students after busting a terror module of Kashmiri terror outfit Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind…

Railwaymen likely to get 78-day bonus before Puja

Railwaymen likely to get 78-day bonus before Puja

09-10-2018 comments

New Delhi (IANS): Ahead of the festive season, railway employees are likely to get 78-day wages as bonus this year, the same as in the last six years.

The Railway Board has proposed 78-day wages as productivity-linked bonus (PLB) for its employees…

Pollution alert over north India: Anti-stubble burning moves go up in smoke in Punjab, Haryana

Pollution alert over north India: Anti-stubble burning moves go up in smoke in Punjab, Haryana

09-10-2018 comments

Chandigarh (IANS): When Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh flew over Punjab and Haryana last week, he admitted he saw agriculture fields emitting plumes of smoke at several places -- meaning that stubble-burning of the harvested paddy crop was…

Nine killed in SAIL factory blast

Nine killed in SAIL factory blast

09-10-2018 comments

Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) (IANS): At least nine people were killed and several others injured on Tuesday in a blast at a gas supply pipeline in Bhilai Steel Plant, the flagship of Indias largest steel maker in public sector.

"It was a major…

Pension schemes for elderly, widows, disabled not working: SC

Pension schemes for elderly, widows, disabled not working: SC

09-10-2018 comments

New Delhi (IANS): The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that pension schemes under the National Social Assistance Programme suffered from "huge" implementation gaps, observing that the beneficiaries who were assured of a monthly sum of Rs 200…

J&K municipal polls: Voter queues in Jammu, valley wears deserted look

J&K municipal polls: Voter queues in Jammu, valley wears deserted look

08-10-2018 comments

Jammu/Srinagar (IANS): The Municipal polls in Jammu and Kashmir that are taking place after a gap of 13 years, on Monday witnessed long queues in Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts while people barely arrived in the valley booths that wore a deserted…

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