Expressing concern over high infant mortalities at the only pediatrics hospital in the Valley, Peoples Democratic Party today sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention in ensuring basic health care facilities in Jammu and Kashmir. The Prime Minister should take serious note of the “unfortunate” development that has affected hundreds of families in Kashmir, PDP president [...]
Two employees of a power corporation contractor were today electrocuted while erecting an electric pole at Bhanolanga village near here. A contractor had taken a contract from power corporation for shifting the electric meters outside the houses in the village and the employees were erecting poles for the purpose when they came in contact with [...]
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today underlined the need for farmers to make a shift from the traditional agriculture to dairy farming. Reviewing the National Dairy Plan (NDP) in a meeting with the Managing Director of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) Dilip Rath here today, Badal said that it was the need of the [...]
Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra has expressed hope that complete normalcy would be established in the state, paving the way for sustained peace, progress and prosperity. “We sincerely hope that complete normalcy will be established (in Jammu and Kashmir) in the coming time, paving the way for sustained peace, progress and prosperity,” Vohra [...]
In an effort to strengthen the party at grassroot level, the state unit of Youth Congress today launched a month-long membership drive in the state. Congress has always promoted youths as the party firmly believes they have played an important role in the nation’s development, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on the occasion. [...]
Dozens of people today staged a demonstration outside a pediatrics hospital here where 350 newborn babies have died in the past five months. The protestors, led by independent legislator from Langate Sheikh Rashid, gathered outside the G B Pant hospital at Sonawar in the cantonment area and raised slogans against the administration for its alleged [...]
Encouraged by the success of newly-installed signals, authorities today said more such gadgets will be installed by the middle of next month to further streamline the traffic system in the summer capital Srinagar. “Traffic signals are being installed at 34 specified places in the city by June 15,” Superintendent of Police, Traffic Haseeb-ur-Rehman said. Traffic [...]
Farmers of the Bhartiya Kisan Union have once again raised their heads.In Kurukshetra, Farmers from all corners of the country have already started pouring in to participate in the maha rally being organised at the Pipli grain market today to protest against the Centre’s alleged failure to implement a series of welfare policies for the [...]
They are marginal farmers and thus pretty accustomed to living life on the margins… but even that has a limit, as this report from a Sangrur village reveals. The heavily-under-debt farmers are increasingly resorting to committing suicides. Dudiya village in Sangrur has a distinction it would much rather forget… but just how can a village [...]
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who was admitted to a hospital last night after his blood sugar level fluctuated, has been discharged this morning. “He was discharged this morning and his condition is much better now. Soon, he will resume his normal routine,” former Union Minister and Congress MLA from Ambala, Venod Sharma, who [...]
