NEW DELHI: As many as 550 jobs have disappeared every day in last four years and if this trend continues, employment would shrink by 7 million by 2050 in the country, a study has claimed. Farmers, petty retail vendors, contract labourers and construction workers are the most vulnerable sections facingContinue Reading
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to replace debit cards whose security is suspected to have been compromised after being used in some automated teller machines (ATMs). The issue was first suspected by payment gateways such as Visa, Mastercard and Rupay, the last of which is operatedContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar: Only three of Odisha’s 568 hospitals have fire safety clearance, the National Human Rights Commission said today and issued a notice to the state government over the fire incident at a hospital in Bhubaneswar which has left 21 people dead so far. The Commission has taken suo motu cognisanceContinue Reading
More than 70 percent of rain water in Kerala is drained offContinue Reading
Fr Chiramel moots kidney exchange programContinue Reading
Twenty-two people were killed and 120 injured in a major fire at SUM Hospital in Bhubaneswar on Monday evening. While 14 patients were declared “brought dead” at Capital Hospital, eight were “brought dead” to AMRI Hospital from the fire-struck private medical facility, officials said. Capital Hospital superintendent Binod Kumar MishraContinue Reading
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has apologised after being criticised for modelling an “insensitive” top on a Conde Nast Traveller magazine cover. The top has the words “migrant”, “refugee” and “outsider” crossed out while the word “traveller” stands out. Both the actress and Conde Nast were criticised over the “privileged” message,Continue Reading
Kottayam(Kerala): The bicentenary celebrations of the arrival of Church Mission Society (CMS) missionaries in the state, being organised by the Madhya Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India (CSI), will conclude with a host of programmes in November. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, CSI deputy moderator BishopContinue Reading
Agra: On an average, one prisoner dies in Uttar Pradesh every 26 hours. According to the state prison department’s response to an RTI query, more than 2,050 prisoners have died in Uttar Pradesh since 2010. Human rights activist Naresh Paras, who filled the RTI application, has witten to the NationalContinue Reading
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Mumbai and president of the Bishops’ Conference of India, has expressed closeness to the victims of satuday’s accident in Varanasi where during a gathering of Hindu pilgrims, because of a false alarm, at least 24 people have died crushed by the crowd .Continue Reading