New Delhi,  The government has been able to provide safe drinking water to arsenic-affected habitations across six states, the Parliament was told on Monday.

Of the total 10,961 habitations, Assam has 3,026, Bihar 472, Jharkhand five, Punjab 317, Uttar Pradesh 668 and West Bengal has 6,473 habitations, J

New Delhi,  BJP chief J.P. Nadda said on Monday that Congress has a philosophy of ‘no decision is best decision.

Nadda was speaking at a function organised at the party headquarters here to commemorate Kargil Vijay Diwas.

Hitting out at the main opposition party for

New Delhi, In addition to the existing flood-prone Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, extreme floods (water level above previous highest flood level) were seen in 10 more states, due to excess to large excess rainfall in these states combined with extremely heavy rainfall in short duration, the Parliament was

New Delhi,  As much as 56,898.14 tonnes of Covid-19 bio-medical waste (BMW) was generated between June 2020 and June 2021 in India, as per the data collected by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.

This data was collected through an app -- COVID-19 BWM -- de

New Delhi, The Delhi government on Monday announced Covid relief of Rs 5,000 each to 47,996 construction workers.

The Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board has been directed to disburse the relief amount to workers whose applications were approved between May 28 and July 18, an official

Bengaluru,  Just hours before resigning from the Chief Minister's post, outgoing Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa on Monday ordered a hike in dearness allowance (DA) for state government employees by 10.25 per cent.

With this, the DA of employees will be 21.50 per cent of their basic pay, according to a

Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh's Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) on Monday warned managements of junior colleges that it will cancel all illegal offline admissions already made by some of them for the first year in academic year 2021-22.

"It is noticed that certain college managements and principals

Agartala,  The Trinamool Congress on Monday alleged that 23 members of political strategist Prashant Kishor's Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) have been placed under 'house arrest' in Agartala even though the police here have termed the claim as 'totally false' and 'fabricated'.