China’s GDP sinks to three per cent in 2022, second lowest in 50 years
Beijing: The annual GDP of China totalled 121.02 trillion yuan (USD 17.94 trillion) in 2022, falling below the 5.5 per cent official target, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
Enquiry ordered into ‘flouting of rules’ by Assam officers in Pobitora
Morigaon (Assam): The Jeep Safari Owners' Association of Wildlife Sanctuary claimed the commissioner-level officer had sat on the bonnet of the jeep and smoked cigarettes
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
Meghalaya CM inaugurates state’s first govt engineering college
Shillong: The project was undertaken by Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) and constructed at the cost of Rs 26 crore and constructed in the Mawlai area
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
Pakistan-based LeT’s deputy leader Abdul Rehman Makki designated a global terrorist by UN
United Nations: The US Department of State's Rewards for Justice programme is offering a reward of up to USD 2 million for information on Makki, "also known as Abdulrahman Maki
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
EC holds consultation on remote voting; some oppn parties favour consensus on definition of migrants
New Delhi: On the request of the parties, the poll panel extended the date of submission of written views by them on various issues on RVM to 28 February
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
DCGI approves market authorisation for SII’s Covid vaccine Covovax as heterologous booster dose
New Delhi: Covovax is manufactured through technology transfer from Novavax and was granted emergency-use listing by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 17 December 2021
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
Assam’s small madrasas to be merged with larger ones to reduce threat of radicalism: DGP
Guwahati: All teachers will have to undergo police verification and the Islamic leaders will also keep a watch on the teachers coming from outside the state
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
Ensure party does not lose any of 9 state polls in 2023: Nadda at BJP national executive
New Delhi: Starting from Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya, assembly polls are expected to be held in Karnataka followed by Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram in one go and then in Telangana
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
COVID-19: Kerala makes masks a must in public places, vehicles, during travel
Thiruvananthapuram: The government said the new variants – XBB and XBB1 – of COVID-19 were more contagious than the earlier ones
PTI / 17 Jan, 2023
Nepalese pilot couple killed in plane crash nearly 16 years apart
Kathmandu: She used the money she received as an insurance claim after her husband's death to undertake an aviation course
PTI / 16 Jan, 2023
Sikkim CM announces incentives for indigenous communities to produce more children
Gangtok: The estimated population of Sikkim stood at under seven lakh at present of which around 80 per cent belonged to the indigenous communities
PTI / 16 Jan, 2023
No alliance talks without written assurance on ‘greater Tipraland’: Tipra Motha supremo
Agartala: The Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance or Tipra Motha, led by royal scion Debbarma, seeks a 'greater Tipraland', a separate state for the indigenous people of Tripura
PTI / 16 Jan, 2023
