BENGALURU: The private schools in the city are facing the brunt of water scarcity in the city, rendering students and teachers helpless. The Associated Managements of Primary & Secondary Schools in Karnataka, which has all private schools under its ambit, met with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Sunday and submitted a memorandum requesting the government to …
GUWAHATI The days of Ministers and government officers and employees enjoying heavily subsidised power will soon be over, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. He said he had instructed the Power Department to install individual prepaid meters in every government quarter, including the residences in the Ministers’ colony, so that they do not get away with paying …
CAIRO: From his job as a Cairo doorman, Mahmoud Farag earns 1,500 Egyptian pounds each month but it's no longer enough to adequately feed his family of five. Now bread, a politically symbolic staple on which many Egyptians are heavily dependent, is also getting costlier as Black Sea wheat exports are disrupted and global prices surge. "I eat less so …
Unlike some advanced economies, India’s stimulus package has largely focussed on subsidised credit to small businesses and farmers, while direct fiscal stimulus was limited to around 1 percent of the GDP, economists said. New Delhi: Gross domestic product data out later on Friday is expected to show the economy grew at its slowest pace in at least two years in …
The Lancet study noted that in 2018 alone, there were 2.15 million new tuberculosis cases in India, an increase of 3 lakh cases in a single year. It adds that India must increase domestic expenditures on health and research on TB and also provide universal TB care to eliminate catastrophic costs for people with the ailment. Union Health Minister JP …