In a significant move ahead of the Lok Sabha election, the BJP-led NDA government, on Monday, approved a 10 per cent reservation in jobs and higher education for “economically backward” sections in the general category.
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All hopes for the trapped miners are now pinned on a huge pump from state miner Coal India Ltd, which is being deployed on a concrete platform near the mine.
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The Supreme Court, on Thursday, while expressing concern for miners trapped in an illegal coal mine since December 13, has asked Meghalaya government as why it has not succeeded in rescuing miners until now.
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New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, on Friday, approved a Rs 10,000 crore budget for Indian Space Research Organization’s ambitious Gaganyaan programme,
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Cathal McNaughton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who works as a chief photographer with Reuters news agency at its Delhi office, has been denied re-entry into India for allegedly violating visa rules.
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The Indian Navy joined the Indian Air Force in the ongoing rescue operation to evacuate the 15 miners trapped inside the Meghalaya rat-hole mine. The agencies are racing against time to find the trapped miners alive.
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There seems to be little hope at the end of the tunnel for the 15 miners who remain trapped in the rat-hole Ksan coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district since December 13. And, that little hope seems to be rapidly fading now.
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For the second time in a week, bank employees have called for a nationwide strike. Around 10 lakh employees have turned to streets in protest against the expected merger of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with Bank of Baroda.
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The Delhi high court rejected the plea of the publishers of National Herald, Associated Journals Limited, against the Centre’s October 30 order, which ended its 56-year-old lease of the building at Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, which the media house was using as its main office.
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