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MCDF grants support key projects

DOHA, Sept. 29 -- TANZANIA has benefited from 6.7 million US dollars (equivalent to 17.73bn/-) in grants from the Multilateral Cooperation for Development Financing (MCDF) to prepare three strategic i... Read More


Public entities face new yardstick

ARUSHA, Sept. 29 -- PUBLIC institutions will increasingly be assessed by productivity, service quality and their contribution to the economy not dividends alone as the government pushes to align state... Read More


Govt reviews plans to phase out IMF-linked Aswesuma beneficiaries

Sri Lanka, Sept. 29 -- The Government is reconsidering plans to remove nearly one million families classified as extremely poor and poor from the Aswesuma welfare programme, with Deputy Social Securit... Read More


India Airlifts Anti-Tuberculosis Medicines to Colombo

Sri Lanka, Sept. 29 -- A consignment of approximately three tonnes of anti-tuberculosis medication arrived in Colombo aboard an Indian Air Force C-130J transport aircraft. Indian External Affairs Min... Read More


Jaishankar says India-US trade deal could contribute to better bilateral ties

India, Sept. 29 -- A trade agreement between India and the US, if concluded, would contribute to "better" bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, noting that expectations of rapid... Read More


Soren challenges lower court order in land case

RANCHI, Sept. 29 -- Jharkhand chief minster Hemant Soren on Monday moved the high court against a recent directive issued by the Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act court in a land case. People... Read More


SC seeks Centre's response on UPI MDR above Rs.2,000

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of the Centre on a petition challenging the government's decision to introduce a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on Unified Payments... Read More


Authorities' failure: SC's censure over Delhi rape

New Delhi, Sept. 29 -- The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Delhi government and police for a "systemic failure" to guarantee basic public safety, taking suo motu cognisance of recent sexual offe... Read More


Will file formal plaint over incident: Mittal

Jalandhar, Sept. 29 -- Reacting briefly to the series of violent episodes at LPU, Ashok Mittal, university's chancellor and BJP Rajya Sabha member, said it was disheartening to see what had happened o... Read More


Warring leads Ferozepur protest, seeks CEC's removal

Ferozepur, Sept. 29 -- : Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday led a party protest here demanding the removal of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, accusing th... Read More