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It is very heartening that credit deposit ratio (CDR) has increased, but still there is scope left for further progress. said Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat while addressing the 61st state level bankers committee meeting in Dehradun. He asked the bank officials to ensure that the banks contribute to the vigorous development process being undertaken  by the state government by introspecting ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will not declare the Class 12 Board exam results today, sources from the Board have said. A Delhi High Court order yesterday, on May 23, directed the CBSE to restore the moderation policy – which allows the provision of extra marks to students for difficult questions – for the time being. A high-level ...

New Delhi/Islamabad, May 23(PTI) The Indian Army  said on Tuesday that it launched “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani positions across the Line of Control, inflicting “some damage”, days after two of its troopers were beheaded. It also released a video of the military action which showed some structures in a forested area crumbling in a heap under the impact of ...

An Indian Air Force Su-30 fighter plane is missing after it lost radio contact 60km north of Tezpur in Assam. The Russia-made fighter jet, with two pilots on board, took off from Salonibari in the north-eastern state at 10.30am on Tuesday. The IAF’s Sukhoi-30 fleet has been plagued by engine troubles and poor serviceability. India in March signed a pact ...

Major Leetul Gogoi, who had tied a man to a jeep in Kashmir purportedly as a shield against stone pelters, has been awarded by the Army for his ‘sustained efforts’ in counter-insurgency operations. The Army Chief’s ‘Commendation Card’ for Major Gogoi is seen as an indication that he is unlikely to be implicated for the incident by a Court of ...

An Indian climber has gone missing on Mount Everest after successfully scaling the world’s highest peak, officials in Nepal said on Sunday. Ravi Kumar, a climber from Moradabad of Uttar Pradesh, had gone out of contact with the balcony area, the final resting spot before climbers ascend the south summit of the mountain, after he was descending to lower camps. ...

Central Assistance for Border Area Development Programmes (BADP) has been enhanced from Rupees 990 Crore in 2016-17 to Rs. 1,100 Crore in the current financial year, the Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said this while chairing the review meeting of Chief Ministers bordering with China, in Gangtok today. He said that the Indo-China border is undemarcated, extremely cold with very ...

Four terrorists were killed and three soldiers lost their lives after the Indian Army launched an operation to foil an infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir’s Naugam sector on Saturday. The fierce encounter began when alert troops intercepted a group of infiltrators near the Line of Control in Kupwara district’s Naugam on Saturday. While two terrorists were gunned down on ...

The national highway to Badrinath, which was blocked by landslide at Hathi Parvat near Vishnuprayag on Friday afternoon, has opened for small vehicle on saturday. The landslide which did not result in any fatality closed this stretch of the highway to traffic. Following the incident, the authorities held back pilgrims in Badrinath while those who had departed from the pilgrimage ...

The water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on May 18, 2017 was 35.622BCM, which is 23% of total storage capacity of these reservoirs. This percentage was at 24 for the week ending on May 11, 2017. The level of May 18, 2017 was 123% of the storage of corresponding period of last year and 104% ...