Sitharaman asked the collector to ensure that Modi’s picture should be put up at all the fair shops in the district. “It is the responsibility of all the district collectors to see that the ration shops should invariably have the pictures of the Prime Minister without fail,” she said

The Telangana chief minister’s tour to Patna came at a time when the death of four women on Tuesday due to botched sterilisation surgeries at a community health centre in Ibrahimpatnam in Telangana’s Ranga Reddy district was rocking the state

Forest minister A K Saseendran directed the divisional forest officer to visit the area and submit a report to him. Public works minister Mohammad Riyas also condemned the incident and sought a report from the National Highway Authority of India

The National Coastal Zone Management Authority has given its nod to Goa’s coastal management plan, the absence of which has led to several projects on the coastline pending.

According to the police, Jagdish Chandra, a member of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP), and Geeta eloped and solemnised their marriage at a temple in Bhikiyasen on August 21. Geeta’s family, who belonged to the Rajput caste, was allegedly not happy with the relationship, an official said.

The scheme, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018, is currently applicable to poor and vulnerable groups and provides an insurance cover of ₹5 lakh to 107.4 million families.

The eight officers featured in a brochure handed out to more than 3,000 guests at the INS Vikrant commissioning ceremony

The government maintained that it was because of the Congress party that the country had to wait for 75 years to get its first indigenous aircraft carrier.

India plans to buy 26 new fighters for INS Vikrant through a government-to-government deal, with US firm Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet competing with French aircraft maker Dassault Aviation’s Rafale-M for the order.