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Children welfare share in govt’s budget has seen sharp decline in last 5 years: Report

Paper published by child rights organisation HAQ shows expenditure on children welfare schemes has fallen to 3% of Union budget in 2018-19 from 5% in 2012-13.

Bill to keep families of ex-PMs out of SPG Act to be tabled in Lok Sabha next week

The proposed amendment to the SPG Act, which extends SPG protection to only former prime ministers, was approved by the Union cabinet on Wednesday.

‘Hostility must stop’ — Amit Shah wants IPS and armed police forces to talk, end disputes

During his maiden visit to CRPF headquarters, Home Minister Amit Shah said no disciplinary inquiry needed against officers going public with grievances.

Paswan slams Kejriwal, says 95% of Delhi children get diseases due to impure water

Consumer Affairs Minister Paswan said the AAP govt should take responsibility for Delhi’s poor BIS water quality test results and apologise on national TV.

Modi tasks CAG with developing ‘innovative’ ways to check fraud in govt departments

Part of PM Modi's $5 trillion-economy plan is to have the CAG transform into a think tank that focuses on big data analyses.

Only 4 out of 82 secretaries working in Modi govt are from SC/ST communities

Minister of State for the Department of Personnel and Training Jitendra Singh gave the information in the Rajya Sabha Thursday.

Govt says more than 1,000 posts still vacant in CBI

The Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh told Rajya Sabha that a large number of the vacancies were in executive ranks.

Jharkhand gets major chunk of funds in Modi govt’s infrastructure push in Naxal-hit areas

MoS for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy says in Lok Sabha Rs 1,775 cr has been released to 10 LWE-hit states in 3 years, with 44% of it going only to Jharkhand.

Parliament panel on pollution sees near-full house, suggests artificial rain to help Delhi

After drawing flak for missing a meeting last week, MPs like Gautam Gambhir discussed a range of measures to curb pollution in Delhi and its neighbourhood.

NRC process will be carried out nationwide, Amit Shah tells Rajya Sabha

Home Minister Amit Shah assured there would be no discrimination based on religion and reiterated it was a different process than the Citizenship Amendment Bill.

On Camera

Gaza, Ukraine being fought on techno-battlefields. Indian military is 3 decades behind

My assessment is that the Indian armed forces are adopting emerging technologies for incremental change and not transformation—which is the need of the hour.

Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?