welfare department news

Hisar official under scanner for not acting against fraud accused

Sonam Goyal, the DLO Rohtak, who also holds the charge of Hisar could not be reached for comments despite repeated phone calls and text messages. (HT File)

chandigarh news

Updated on Jul 04, 2023 12:36 am IST

Each grain of wheat will be procured: Haryana CM Khattar

Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday assured the cultivators that “each grain of wheat” (both shrivelled grains or affected by lustre loss) will be procured at the minimum support price (MSP) of ₹2,125 per quintal. (HT File Photo)

chandigarh news

Updated on Apr 11, 2023 07:45 pm IST

Welfare payments process fully digital, says minister

(Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

delhi news

Published on Feb 09, 2022 12:52 pm IST

Teenager’s ordeal: Brother, high on drugs, raped her last year

chandigarh news

Updated on Sept 24, 2020 10:02 pm IST

Chandigarh’s child rights body without chairman for over a month

Due to reverse migration in the wake of the Covid outbreak, several children will drop out from Chandigarh’s schools, says a former member of the Chandigarh Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

chandigarh news

Updated on Apr 24, 2020 01:31 am IST

Anganwadi running in public toilet for 14 years in Mohali

The defunct public toilet that has been converted into an anganwadi in Sohana village.

cities

Updated on Feb 22, 2020 12:22 am IST

Former inmate of Muzaffarpur shelter home raped in moving car: Bihar police

Four men allegedly raped a woman, who had been an inmate of the infamous Muzaffarpur shelter home that hit the headlines in 2018

india news

Updated on Sept 16, 2019 07:28 am IST

APSC Recruitment 2019: Apply for CDP officer post before September 9

APSC recruitment 2019

education

Published on Sept 06, 2019 04:08 pm IST

Children of 574 schools of social welfare department yet to get free uniforms

Representative

education

Published on Sept 02, 2019 10:07 am IST

Suspense over competent authority delays courts for the specially abled

The state commissioner for persons with disabilities, a quasi-judicial body, had ordered the Delhi government to set up the courts in all 11 districts, as mandated under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act.

delhi news

Updated on Aug 17, 2019 01:43 am IST

Yediyurappa: 10 points about BJP’s mascot in the south

Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa.

india news

Updated on Jul 27, 2019 09:29 am IST

After Centre’s rebuff on OBC inclusion, oppn builds pressure on UP govt

“The UP government has already ordered that 17 sub-castes be included in the SC list but the Centre has declared the move unconstitutional which means they aren’t in SC list now. The government must break its silence.”

lucknow news

Updated on Jul 03, 2019 05:14 pm IST

In Bihar, abandoning elderly parents will land children in jail

The proposal of Bihar social welfare department has provisions for punishments which could go up to imprisonment if wards do not look after their parents properly in their old ages.

india news

Updated on Jun 12, 2019 09:10 am IST

Depts asked to check posts for the disabled

Gautam’s office said that the circular to the effect will be issued by the end of this week.

delhi news

Published on May 17, 2019 05:11 am IST

8 held after 4 remand home inmates escape in Nalanda

A senior official of the social welfare department said the authorities had decided to hold a departmental enquiry into the repeated incidents of escape of inmates from remand homes in Bihar.

patna news

Updated on May 15, 2019 01:40 am IST

Digitise document verification for alumni abroad: Mumbai University senate members

According to a university official, between 80 and 100 students apply for transcripts every day.

mumbai news

Updated on Mar 14, 2019 10:03 am IST

In rejection of forest rights claims, duplications cited

State governments have attributed the high rate of rejection of forest rights claims largely to duplication of claims — either by one forest dweller making multiple claims or persons from the same family making separate claims.

india news

Published on Mar 06, 2019 11:07 pm IST

Bihar to seek top court directive on whether to shift shelter home girls

An eye witness shows the spot where a girl was allegedly beaten and killed by a staff member at a state-funded shelter home, in Muzaffarpur district.

india news

Updated on Mar 01, 2019 10:35 pm IST

Bihar to seek top court directive on whether to shift shelter home girls

Bihar plans to ask the Supreme Court (SC) whether it should to keep the sexually abused inmates of a Muzaffarpur women’s shelter at the temporary homes to which they have been shifted.

patna news

Published on Mar 01, 2019 10:34 pm IST

Karnataka tribal communities allege false rejection of claims under FRA

Siddi tribe members show their fingers marked with indelible ink during a voting awareness campaign ahead of Karnataka Assembly elections in Bengaluru last year.

india news

Updated on Feb 27, 2019 01:03 pm IST

Police map area of island where US man was killed, spot Sentinels

Authorities have been struggling to figure out how to recover the body of 26-year-old John Allen Chau, who was killed by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach.

india news

Updated on Nov 24, 2018 08:33 pm IST

Karnataka inks MoU with 30 firms to launch employment scheme

Karnataka social welfare minister Priyank Kharge said entrepreneurship potential in villages and small towns is huge and youth lack access and support.

bengaluru news

Updated on Oct 30, 2018 05:16 pm IST

UP: As cases pile up, govt depts fail to meet deadlines for filing counter affidavits

As more cases piled up due to delay in filing of counter affidavits in some of the departments even after the deadline, the state government has now asked them to take a serious note of the issue and clear the backlog by October 31.

lucknow news

Published on Oct 24, 2018 03:30 pm IST

Pune’s Sinhgad technical education society assures to clear dues to 427 ex-staff members

The management of Sinhgad technical education society on August 21 had issued cheques worth ₹11 crore to former employees.

pune news

Updated on Sept 24, 2018 03:04 pm IST

Court sends four accused to CBI custody in Muzaffarpur shelter home sex scandal case

Brajesh Thakur (pictured), who headed the NGO that ran the shelter home, is the prime accused in the scandal

india news

Updated on Sept 21, 2018 11:59 pm IST

State sanctions ₹7.97 crore compensation for victims of Bhima Koregaon riots

Police personnel at the Bhima Koregaon Vijay Stambh, after the violence, in Pune on January 2, 2018.

pune news

Updated on Aug 08, 2018 02:33 pm IST

Delhi cabinet okays relief to HIV patients, special needs pensioners

Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Tuesday asked urban development minister Satyendar Jain (pictured) to submit “in writing” detailed comments about his discussions with officers from urban development department who had allegedly not furnished replies to questions pertaining to the municipal corporations.

delhi news

Published on Aug 08, 2018 03:23 am IST