The quarterly bulletin of the Periodic Labour Force Survey also suggests that at least some of this improvement is because of a higher than usual engagement in poor quality jobs in the quarter ending June 2022

Bihar minister Kartik Kumar, accused in a kidnapping case, resigned from his post amid protests from the opposition late on Wednesday.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the signing of a MoU between India and Nepal in the field of biodiversity conservation.

Former Pradesh Congress Committee president Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed in Jammu and Kashmir was among 33 leaders who resigned from the party in support of former senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the party last week and is likely to float his own political outfit.

Environmentalists are worried that it will regularise illegal sand mining happening within the sanctuary unabated for the past many years and provide incentive to for more illegal mining

India’s first indigenously developed quadrivalent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer will be launched here on Thursday, officials said on Wednesday.

Apart from the uprooted trees and flooding potholes, the city witnessed a five-hour traffic jam outside RMZ Ecospace in Bellandur.

Tamil Nadu minister for public works, highways and minor ports EV Velu on Wednesday said the government will take a policy decision on the project after taking views from all stakeholders. He said his earlier comments on the project were misunderstood.

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, in a letter to the Karnataka superintendent of police, asked him to conduct an inquiry into the matter ensuring that the victims’ identities are not disclosed during the process of investigation.