New Delhi, (UNI) Delhi’s BJP government in its first cabinet meeting on Thursday approved the Ayushman Bharat scheme with a top up of Rs 5 lakhs and 14 pending CAG reports, which the new regime has promised to table in the first seating of the Assembly. The cabinet meeting was chaired by Rekha Gupta after…
Bhopal: The bail plea of ??former RTO constable Saurabh Sharma was heard in ED court on Wednesday. Saurabh’s lawyer argued in the court for granting bail that his client has no criminal background. Nothing was seized from him. His car was full of gold and cash. However, the government lawyer opposed the bail, criticizing the…
Panama City, Feb 19 (UNI) The system of collecting toll from ships in the Panama Canal has proven its effectiveness for 25 years of work, and there is no point in changing it now, Boris Moreno, vice president for operations at the Panama Canal, told Sputnik. “We see no need in changing the system because…
Bhubaneswar, Feb 19 (UNI) Reigning World Champions Germany beat India 4-1 in a high-octane encounter here at the FIH Hockey Pro League 2024-25 (Men) at the iconic Kalinga Hockey Stadium here. It was goals by Florian Sperling (7′), Thies Prinz (14′), Michel Struthoff (48′) and Raphael Hartkopf (55′) that helped clinch the winning points while…
Washington, Feb 19 (UNI) Officials from the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) attended meetings at the Pentagon last week, CNN reported, citing a source. On February 7, US President Donald Trump said that he tasked Elon Musk, who is in charge of DOGE, with checking the Pentagon’s spending. “Some DOGE personnel attended meetings in…
New York, Feb. 19 (UNI) U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of civil servants in the past few days, but the cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, coming on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic, the worst public health crisis…
Washington, Feb 19 (UNI) The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Howard Lutnick as the Secretary of Commerce. During the confirmation vote, 51 senators supported Lutnick’s nomination, while 45 spoke out against him. US President Donald Trump nominated Lutnick in November, more than two months before his inauguration. Lutnick is the CEO of Cantor…
Washington, Feb 19 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the talks between the US and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia were “very good.” “They were very good. Russia wants to do something,” Trump told reporters. He pointed out that Russia wants to stop “the savage barbarianism.” Trump compared pictures from the battlefields…
Rabat, Feb. 19 (UNI) Morocco and France signed several agreements here on Tuesday to strengthen cultural cooperation, covering areas such as film, artificial intelligence, cultural heritage protection, and video game development. The signing took place on the final day of French Culture Minister Rachida Dati’s three-day working visit. At a press conference after the signing…
Sydney, Feb. 19 (UNI) Two people have died and four more have been hospitalized after a house fire in western Sydney in Australia’s state of New South Wales (NSW). Emergency services were called to the fire in the suburb of Heckenberg, about 30 kilometers west of central Sydney, at about 12:40 a.m. local time on…
