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Youth grab 118bn/- loans to boost businesses

DODOMA, April 18 -- A TOTAL of 118.03bn/- has been disbursed to 8,165 youth groups comprising 44,754 members nationwide from July 2024 to February 2026. This was said by Deputy Minister in the Prime ... Read More


Petroleum Dealers seek President's intervention over reduced fuel commissions

Sri Lanka, April 18 -- The Petroleum Dealers' Association has written to President and Finance Minister Anura Kumara Dissanayake seeking his intervention over changes to the fuel dealers' commission c... Read More


Sugeeshwara Bandara questions minister Lal Kantha's wealth

Sri Lanka, April 18 -- Leader of the Nava Janatha Peramuna, Sugeeshwara Bandara, along with party members, visited the residence of Agriculture Minister K.D. Lal Kantha in Welivita, Kaduwela this morn... Read More


Pakistan using drug smuggling as weapon to destroy J&K youth: LG Sinha

Rajouri, April 18 -- Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday accused Pakistan of using narcotics as an "insidious weapon" to nurture terror and destroy generations of youth in Jammu and Kashmir, a... Read More


CPI(M) delegation stages sit-in outside Noida DM's residence

India, April 18 -- A delegation of CPI(M) leaders staged sit-in protests twice in Noida on Friday, after they were stopped from meeting families of workers detained following agitations earlier this w... Read More


Modi and Shah likely to visit Ahmedabad

India, April 18 -- As Gujarat gears up for the upcoming local body elections scheduled on April 26, political activity across the State has intensified, with parties ramping up their campaigns. In a ... Read More


203 contractors face action in Noida over labour violations

India, April 18 -- In a sweeping crackdown on labour law violations, the Uttar Pradesh Government has moved to cancel the licences of 203 contractors linked to 24 factories in Gautam Buddh Nagar. The ... Read More


Illegal sand mining has created environmental crisis in Chambal Sanctuary: Supreme Court

India, April 18 -- The Supreme Court on Friday said rampant illegal riverbed sand mining has created an "environmental crisis" and wreaked "havoc" in the National Chambal Gharial Sanctuary, causing a ... Read More


Nari Shakti at the heart of new India's MSME revolution

India, April 18 -- The Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam told the world that India's women belong in its Parliament. The MSME policies of this government are telling the world that India's women belong in ... Read More


Women, youth and India's democratic promise

India, April 18 -- There are moments in a republic's life when a reform is less about policy and more about self-recognition. The passage of women's reservation in Parliament belongs to that category.... Read More