New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) Indicating uptick in the employment, the EPFO has said that it added 15.62 lakh net members during December 2023, which is highest in the previous 3 months. Releasing the provisional data for the month of December, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) said the net addition is an increase of…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday examined the eight defaced ballot papers of the Chandigarh mayor poll and video recording of the counting process following the contentious victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and ordered to treat the eight invalidated ballots as valid. A bench, headed by Chief Justice of…
Sultanpur (UP), Feb 20 (UNI) Amid his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi appeared before an MP-MLA court on Tuesday in a more than five-year-old defamation case, after which he was granted conditional bail, prosecution sources said here. Prosecution sources said that amidst tight security, the Congress leader appeared in the court…
Srinagar, Feb 20 (UNI) National Conference President and Member Parliament Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dedicating the first electric train to the Kashmir valley. PM Modi, who is on a visit to Jammu, flagged off the first electric train on Baramulla-Srinagar-Banihal-Sangaldan (in the Ramban district of Jammu) through a video…
Hyderabad, Feb 20 (UNI) The Telangana BJP has announced the initiation of the ‘Vijaya Sankalpa Yatra’ throughout the state of Telangana, aiming to achieve a dual objective: bolstering support for Narendra Modi in Telangana ahead of the upcoming elections and exposing the Congress party’s alleged hypocrisy in the state, particularly in failing to fulfill critical…
Lucknow, Feb 20 (UNI) After resigning from the post of national general secretary, Samajwadi Party (SP) MLC Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday tendered his resignation from the membership of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council and primary membership of the party. In his resignation sent to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Maurya has stated, “I got the…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (UNI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested travel agency owner Prasanna Roy, suspected of being a middleman in a ‘teacher recruitment scam’ in West Bengal government-owned schools, after a 10-hour interrogation, official sources said on Tuesday. The ED, probing the money trails in the alleged irregularities of the teacher’s appointment, arrested Roy…
Srinagar, Feb 20 (UNI) The rain continued in Kashmir for the third consecutive day, and the upper reaches of the valley received fresh snow, triggering the closure of crucial highways, officials said on Tuesday. Jammu-Srinagar national highway and Srinagar Leh road remained closed for vehicular traffic due to the snowfall and rain on Tuesday. Traffic…
Ballia (UP), Feb 20 (UNI) Four people, including two youths, were killed when a motorcycle collided head on with a tractor in the Nagra area of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, police sources said here on Tuesday. Police sources said that the incident took place late on Monday night when Shailendra Rajbhar (25), a resident…
Beijing, Feb 20 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted Galapagos Islands region at 2326 GMT on Monday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 92.4 km, was initially determined to be at 0.03 degrees north latitude and 88.30 degrees west longitude.
