UP asks officials to ensure 100 pc FID coverage

UP asks officials to ensure 100 pc FID coverage

Lucknow, March 17 The Uttar Pradesh government has asked nine departments to ensure 100 per cent coverage of the number of beneficiaries under the Family ID (FID) scheme. Special attention is being paid to issuing IDs to beneficiaries of schemes being administered by the departments of social welfare, women welfare, empowerment of persons with disabilities,…

BSP snubs Mahan Dal’s request for alliance in UP

BSP snubs Mahan Dal’s request for alliance in UP

Lucknow, March 17 Supremely confident of its own performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has snubbed the Mahan Dal that offered to support the BSP without any conditions. Mahan Dal president Keshav Dev Maurya claimed that he has met senior BSP leaders, including Akash Anand and BSP Rajya Sabha MP…

WHO chief urges Israel to stop ground assault on Rafah

WHO chief urges Israel to stop ground assault on Rafah

Geneva, March 17 The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on Israel to halt its ground assault on Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, saying 1.2 million people there have nowhere safe to go. “I’m gravely concerned about reports of an Israeli plan to proceed with a ground assault on Rafah,” WHO…

Russia reports massive cyberattacks on its remote voting system

Russia reports massive cyberattacks on its remote voting system

Moscow, March 17 Russian election authorities have said that about 160,000 cyberattacks on the country’s remote electronic voting resources were blocked. The attacks were mainly directed toward the voting portal, with 30,000 attacks launched against the monitoring portal for the remote electronic voting system, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Russian Central Election Commission, was quoted…