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Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Tuesday launched a family planning programme aimed at “stabilising” population growth in 146 districts of seven states that account for nearly 28 per cent of the country’s population.   The ‘Mission Parivar Vikas’ was launched at a function organised by the Jansankhya Sthirita Kosh …

Lucknow: A day after a terror attack on Amarnath Yatra pilgrims, Uttar Pradesh authorities on Tuesday sounded a high alert in the state’s areas along the India-Nepal border, an official said.   A senior home department officer said all border police stations like Nanpara, Motipur, Martha and Sujauli have been …

Three activists of the Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV), an organisation floated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, were arrested on charges of gangrape and thrashing a police officer in Bareilly. The incident took place last night following a dispute between one Deepak and Avinash over playing of loud music …

With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Yogi Adityanath government today earmarked in its maiden budget Rs 1,240 crore for Ramayan, Buddhist and Krishna circuits in the pilgrim cities of Ayodhaya, Varanasi and Mathura.   The BJP government also allocated Rs 800 crore under the Prasad Yojana …

 Two Dahanu residents were among the seven Amarnath yatra pilgrims, who were killed in last evening’s terror strike at Anantnag. The victims, Nirmala Thakur, 53, and Usha Sonkar, 54, were residents of Santoshi Nagar, Dahanu. Mohanlal Sonkar, who lost his wife Usha in the attack, is yet to come to …

Ahmedabad: A class IV Hindi textbook of the the Gujarat State School Textbook Board has defined the Urdu word “roza,” which denotes the fasting during the holy month of Ramzan, as “an infectious disease that causes diarrhoea.” The serious error figures in the glossary carried at the end of legendary …

Mumbai july 11’After being sexually harassed for three years, two teenaged girls finally found some relief, as the special crime against children court convicted their brothers for raping them. Their mother has also been declared guilty in the case, as she physically abused her daughters, when they disclosed the matter …

 The car that caught fire on the sea link. Pics/ Shadab Khan A Borivli doctor’s presence of mind in the wee hours of today saved his life after his car caught fire on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. Dr Harilal Chowdhary had been in Worli and was on his way home …

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the ‘Ashiana Annexe’ in Dehradun, Uttarakhand today (July 10, 2017) which comprises of twelve low cost dwelling units constructed to accommodate officers and staff of Rashtrapati Bhavan during Presidential visits to the Retreat at ‘Ashiana’. These dwelling units have been constructed using …

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today interacted with Chief Secretaries of States and Union Territories. This interaction was part of the National Conference of Chief Secretaries on the theme of “States as Drivers for Transforming India.” This is the first time, that the Prime Minister has addressed such a gathering, at …