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HP: Mid-Day Meal Scheme faces funding crunch, schools run on credit as grants remain unreleased

Shimla, Dec. 17 -- At a time when billions of rupees are being pumped into the education sector under centrally sponsored schemes such as Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the Universalisation of Education pr... Read More


Maha Minister Manikrao Kokate Resigns

Mumbai, Dec. 17 -- Sports Minister Manikrao Kokate, who had landed in trouble in connection with irregularities in the allocation of flats in Nashik, resigned on Wednesday. Kokate submitted his resig... Read More


Mamata calls BLA meet on Dec 22, launches door-to-door voter verification in Bhawanipur

Kolkata, Dec. 17 -- A day after it was revealed that over 44,000 names of voters were deleted from Bhawanipur, Chief Minister's assembly constituency, during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) proce... Read More


Kharge slams 'Political Vendetta' following Court ruling, reaffirms faith in Judiciary

New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the central government, characterising the ongoing legal proceedings against the party's top le... Read More


Domestic dispute turns deadly in Shamli: Father kills wife and children

Shamli, Dec. 17 -- A man allegedly murdered his wife and two minor daughters following a domestic dispute in Garhi Daulat village under Kandhla police station area of Shamli district, police said on W... Read More


PIL in non-compliance of Sports Code: DB OF J&K HC expresses displeasure over non-filing of response by Comm Secretary YSS, others

Jammu, Dec. 17 -- A Division Bench of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh at Jammu comprising the Chief Justice Arun Palli and Justice Rajnesh Oswal on Wednesday expressed displeasure over ... Read More


Akhilesh targets BJP, says weapons-over-knowledge mindset must be kept away from education

Lucknow, Dec. 17 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) National President Akhilesh Yadav, in a veiled attack on the BJP government, said that those who consider weapons superior to knowledge should be kept away fro... Read More


Ajit Pawar meets CM amid Manik Rao Kokate's conviction in Govt quota Housing Scam

Mumbai, Dec. 17 -- Senior Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) leader and Maharashtra Sports Minister Manikrao Kokate has been sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 10,... Read More


Patole Writes to PM Modi for Marathi Announcements on All Maharashtra-Bound Flights

Mumbai, Dec. 17 -- Former Maharashtra Congress president and MLA Nana Patole has demanded that announcements should be made in Marathi on all flights arriving in the state on the ground that it would ... Read More


State Plans Legal Amendments to Apply MCOCA on Gutkha Trade

Mumbai, Dec. 17 -- The Maharashtra government has decided to invoke the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against gutkha manufacturers to strictly enforce the existing ban on the proh... Read More