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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Wednesday announced a 4% dearness allowance hike for government employees, teachers, pensioners and family pensioners.The chief minister had earlier announced that the government would fulfil the demand of the government employees and teachers to immediately announce dearness allowance hike as and when the Union government announced the rate revision for...

MUMBAI: School students will soon have their own unique identification number, provided of course their parents give consent. As part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the Union ministry of education has planned to create 'One Nation, One Student ID' called 'Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR) for every student from pre-primary to higher education. This is in addition to the...

NEW DELHI: The government on Friday turned down demands of onion traders from Nasik to scrap 40% export duty and stop two government cooperatives — NCCF and Nafed — from selling onions at mandis. The government also asked the traders to immediately call off their strike.However, the government told the traders that their demand will be taken up at an inter-ministerial committee for...

NEW DELHI: Dismissing the claims made earlier by the Canadian government, David Eby, premier of the province of British Columbia, said at a press conference on Friday that the information provided to him by the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-led federal government regarding India’s involvement in Khalistani terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s assassination was “an open source information” that was...

Ujjal Dosanjh, who was first elected in the Vancouver-Kensington riding in Canada in 1991 and served as premier of the state of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001, was the first person of Indian origin to hold the highest state office and one of the most visible faces in provincial and federal politics in Canada. A Liberal Party MP in the Canadian Parliament between 2004 and 2011 and minister of health...

NEW DELHI: Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between Indian government agents and the murder of a Sikh leader in British Columbia in June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.The startling accusation was followed by the Canadian foreign minister stating that a high-ranking Indian diplomat has been expelled over the killing.The Indian...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has notified the final rules for online gaming. The new rules come after the draft regulations that were issued in January 2023. The development comes after Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar recently said that the rules were being scrutinised after “extensive consultation” and would be...