Chandigarh : THOUGH chief minister Amarinder Singh’s government claimed recently that crop residue bur-ning in Punjab has come down by a significant 30 per cent, smoke emanating from the ground indicates otherwise. MAIL TODAY visited Punjab and Haryana and found vast swathes of agricultural land on both sides of NH-1 — traversing Sonipat, Panipat, Karnal, […]
New Delhi : Continuing with the agreement to discuss the boundary issue, the next round of talks between designated special representatives Ajit Doval and Yang Jeichi are likely to be held in December. Yang, who was recently elevated as a member of the Politburo at the recent Congress of the Communist Party of China, is expected […]
New Delhi : The government needs to spend 3.8 per cent of the GDP on health to meet the goal of universal health coverage (UHC). New data suggests India needs to do much more than it’s doing to meet UHC targets as promised under the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The National Health Policy-2017, approved by […]
Mumbai : Maharashtra’s Minister for Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan has come in for attack from all major political parties for suggesting that alcholic products be named after women in order to boost their sales.Mahajan, who inaugurated a sugar mill cum distillery in the state’s Nandurbar district last weekend, suggested that its product should have […]
New Delhi : As many as 714 Indians figure in the list as a new leak of financial documents has revealed how the powerful and ultra-wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash in offshore tax havens, media reports said on Monday. The details come from a leak of 13.4 million files on Sunday that expose […]