According to official data, all states and Union Territories (UTs) in India have achieved over 50% coverage of tap water connections in rural households. The Har Ghar Jal scheme aims to provide tap water connections to all rural households by the end of this year. Currently, 11 states and UTs have reached 100% coverage. The states and UTs with complete tap water coverage are Goa, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Haryana, Telangana, Puducherry, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Mizoram. On the other hand, the lowest coverage levels are in West Bengal…
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asked the residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to come and join India as “we consider you as our own unlike Pakistan which treats you as foreigners”. Addressing an election rally in the Ramban assembly constituency in support of BJP candidate Rakesh Singh Thakur on Sunday, the Union minister came down heavily on the National Conference-Congress alliance over its poll promise of restoring Article 370 and said it is impossible as long as the BJP is there. He welcomed the “sea change” in the overall security situation in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370…
Trinamool Congress MP Jawahar Sircar on Sunday announced resigning from the Rajya Sabha and quitting politics citing growing disillusionment with the state’s governance and corruption issues within the party. Sircar wrote to TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that he would soon visit Delhi and handover his resignation letter to the Rajya Sabha Chairman. In the letter, written in Bengali, Sircar expressed his gratitude for the opportunity given to him to raise the state’s concerns but expressed his frustrations over the lack of action against corruption. “I have suffered patiently for a month since the terrible incident at…
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday announced the detection of the first suspected case of the Monkeypox virus in the country. In a statement, it informed the public of a young male patient who had recently arrived in India, with his recent travel history linked to a country currently experiencing Mpox transmission. “A young male patient, who recently travelled from a country experiencing Mpox (Monkeypox) transmission, has been identified as a suspected case of Mpox,” the Health Ministry said. “The patient has been isolated in a designated hospital and is currently stable,” it added. Significantly, the Health…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday flexed its muscle in the midst of ongoing talks over a pre-poll alliance with the Congress in Haryana, saying it was ready to contest all seats on its own. Both sides appeared to be bargaining hard ahead of the September 12 nomination deadline. Hours before AAP’s Raghav Chadha met AICC general secretary Deepak Babaria on Saturday for negotiations over seats, AAP leaders said no one should underestimate the party’s strength in Haryana. “We are ready to fight on our own on every seat. Those who are assessing us as weak are bound to…
For the first time in 25 years, the Pakistan Army has publicly admitted its involvement in the Kargil War of 1999. Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir, while addressing an event to mark the country’s Defence Day, said several soldiers had laid down their lives while fighting the wars in 1965, 1971 and in Kargil in 1999. “The Pakistani community is a community of braves which understands the importance of freedom and how to pay for it. “Be it 1948, 1965, 1971 or the Kargil war of 1999, thousands of Shuhadas (martyrs) have sacrificed their lives for Pakistan and Islam,” he…
The Union government on Friday discharged former trainee officer Puja Khedkar from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), officials from the Department of Personnel and Training said. “Vide Order dated 6th September, 2024, the Central Government discharges Ms Puja Manorama Dilip Khedkar, IAS Probationer (MH:2023), from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) under Rule 12 of IAS (Probation) Rules, 1954, with immediate effect,” an official said. After allegations of her violating the rules for the civil services examination emerged, the Union Public Service Commission on July 31 cancelled Puja’s candidature for the CSE-2022. She had allegedly changed her name and parents’ names…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday launched the BJP’s poll campaign and released the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections Addressing party supporters Amit Shah, who is on his two-day visit to the Union Territory, said Article 370 is “part of history now and that it will never come back.” Highlighting the BJP’s rule in the past decade, the home minister said, “Last 10 years saw the golden era of Jammu and Kashmir,” adding that the party has ensured peace, progress and development during the period. Ten years since the last Assembly elections and the first…
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday referred the anti-rape Bill passed by the assembly to President Droupadi Murmu for her consideration, a Raj Bhavan official said. Bose, who was handed over the technical report of the bill by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant earlier in the day, referred the Bill to Murmu after going through it, he said. In a statement issued on Friday, Raj Bhavan confirmed that the Bill had been sent to the President after the Governor received the mandatory technical report from the Government of West Bengal. The Governor’s office, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the…
Ahead of the Haryana Assembly elections, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the Congress party on Friday in the presence of party’s general secretary KC Venugopal, Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan and AICC in-charge of Haryana, Deepak Babaria. Speaking during the occasion, Vinesh Phogat said the country has supported her in her journey and she is grateful to all. Soon after she joining the party, she was declared as party candidate from Julana. The Congress party on Friday announced its first list of 31 candidates for the Haryana Assembly elections, set for October 5. Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh…