Self employed, unorganised entitled to higher compensation: Supreme Court

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Apr 25: Self-employed and those engaged in unorganised sector are also entitled to higher compensation for injuries and deaths in road accidents, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of justices G S Singhvi and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhayay said judgements relating to accidents More

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Anganwadi workers' pay may go up again

New Delhi, Apr 25: The Planning Commission is thinking of raising the remuneration of Anganwadi workers, who currently earn Rs.3,000 a month. "We need to dignify the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) workers. They are paid very low remunerations," Syeda Hamid, member of the commission More

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NOW, AN ENTIRE VILLAGE FOR DWARVES IN ASSAM

ANUP SHARMA

Guwahati, Apr 25: Almost 70 dwarves, ranging from one-and-a-half feet to three feet in height, across Assam will soon have a place to live in with dignity and comfort, with a theatre actor setting up a village with houses adapted to their stature. Pabitra Rabha, a National School of Drama More

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No damage in Andaman islands in quake

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Apr 25: No damage has been reported from anywhere in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands which was hit by a series of moderate intensity tremors today. "The situation in all the islands has been checked and it is found that the situation is normal and there have been no reports of More

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Special Force created for Parliament security

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

New Delhi, Apr 25: The government has approved creation of a 1,500-strong armed unit for Parliament security drawn from specially trained CRPF personnel. The new unit called the 'Parliament Duty Group' has been mandated by the Union Home Ministry to be the "only force to provide armed security More

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Ask GoI to book culprits: Dal Khalsa urges UN

1984 ANTI-SIKH RIOTS

Amritsar, Apr 25: Dal Khalsa has sent a fresh memo addressed to the United Nation Secretary General, Baan ki-Moon urging him to influence the government of India to bring the culprits of November 1984 genocide to book and abolish capital punishment from the Indian laws, an e-mailed statement said.
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Talk therapy for India's depressed

MADHULIKA SONKAR

New Delhi, Apr 25: It is early morning, and inside a single-storey building's basement, a man picks up one of four ringing telephones. He asks the caller in a deep baritone: "But what went wrong?" and steers the person towards an hour-long conversation. It was a depressed caller, he says More

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Ranbaxy launches 'indigenous' malaria drug

New Delhi, Apr 25: Indian pharma major Ranbaxy Wednesday launched a new "indigenous" anti-malaria drug at a ceremony in the national capital to mark World Malaria Day. The new drug, called Synriam, which is effective against the deadliest malaria microbe, Plasmodium Falciparum, would be a More

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