Centre's response came on a plea, filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, seeking direction to it to frame

If the restrictions do not get consumption down by 35%, even stricter rules could follow next year, he added.... The California Department of Water Resources conducted the fourth snow survey of the season at Phillips Station and measured 2.5 inches of snow depth with a snow water equivalent of 1 inch, which is 4% of the April 1 average for this location.... The water district will be monitoring the daily water use and how much is being used, as well as how residents and businesses are respondi

Domestic rating agency Icra Ratings Friday said the monthly collection efficiency of its retail loan pools originated by non-banking finance companies( NBFCs) and housing finance companies( HFCs) dropped by around 10-35 per cent across asset classes in May 2021 from March 2021. The agency said a significant rebound in overall collections in the second quarter remains important to arrest the rising delinquencies as seen in its rated retail pools. The collection efficiency in Icra-rated securitisa

Samsung Electronics stayed on as the world's second-largest tablet computer vendor in the second quarter of the year, a report showed on Friday, as it strives to catch up with industry leader Apple. The South Korean giant logged a market share of 18 percent in the April-June period, after shipping 8.2 million Galaxy Tab tablets, up 19 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics." The Android tablet market is undergoing big changes as vendors retool their portfolios

The Rajasthan government is developing a plan to equip the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act( NREGA) and agricultural labourers with better skills in a bid to improve their livelihoods, a senior official said.... However, most of them are unskilled and lack expertise beyond agriculture tasks, the official said.... According to the latest government figure, the state has over 11.31 million job card-holding families....

Image source, PTI Image caption, Huge cut-outs of langur monkeys have been installed in Delhi Authorities in India's capital, Delhi, are taking steps to scare away monkeys from venues linked to the G20 summit.... Parliament authorities had earlier used real langurs for the same purpose, but stopped after animal rights activists said holding monkeys captive amounted to cruelty. BBC News India is now on YouTube.... Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features....

Image source, PTI Image caption, Huge cut-outs of langur monkeys have been installed in Delhi Authorities in India's capital, Delhi, are taking steps to scare away monkeys from venues linked to the G20 summit.... Parliament authorities had earlier used real langurs for the same purpose, but stopped after animal rights activists said holding monkeys captive amounted to cruelty. BBC News India is now on YouTube.... Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features....

" The unemployment rate only measures the proportion who do not find jobs of those who are actively seeking jobs.... " I am off to Canada myself, this year or next year.... Politicians keep promising us government jobs, but no one delivers.".....

To increase the use of drones in agriculture and boost the rural economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the government would soon launch a scheme through which women in around 15, 000 self-help groups( SHGs) would be trained to fly and repair drones.... Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of 77th Independence Day celebrations, Modi said India was focusing on women-led development, and highlighted the achievements made in various fields, includi

Consultants, recruiters and non-bank lenders have seen a five-fold rise in education loan applications from students and young professionals in Punjab looking to migrate to Australia, Europe, and Canada, Mint reported on Monday.... Punjab has been an outlier with a fivefold surge in loan applications since 2021.... Most of these applications originate from cities such as Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Mohali, as well as towns such as Barnala, Firozpur, Faridkot, Khanna, and Muktsar....