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Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi backs protesting ASHA workers

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Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 1 (PTI) Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday threw her and her party’s weight behind the ASHA workers who have been protesting outside the Secretariat here for the last 20 days, seeking an increase in their honorarium and the provision of retirement benefits. In a post on social media platform ‘X’, Priyanka, also the MP from Wayanad constituency, said that the Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers are protesting “for a rightful increase in their meager honorarium of Rs 7,000, far less than what their counterparts receive in Karnataka and Telangana.” She said that the ASHA

One-tenth of people living with thyroid disorders in India

42 million people in India have thyroid disorders and hypothyroidism is the most common of thyroid disorders in India, affecting one in ten adults. In hypothyroidism, your thyroid gland doesn’t produce enough of certain important hormones. Think of thyroid as the furnace of the body – you need it to break down food, maintain metabolism. What happens when the furnace can’t function properly? Obesity, joint pain, infertility and heart disease. But these develop later as in the early stages there are seldom any symptoms. Women, especially those older than age 60, are more likely to have hypothyroidism. Some of the

Court allows police to withdraw 2019 sedition case against Shehla Rashid for tweets on Army

New Delhi, Mar 1 (PTI) A court here has allowed Delhi police to withdraw a 2019 case of sedition against former JNUSU vice president Shehla Rashid Shora for her tweets on the Army, police sources said. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Anuj Kumar Singh passed the order on February 27 on an application moved by the prosecution, which claimed that Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has withdrawn his sanctions to prosecute Shora. The case was filed for offences including sedition, promoting enmity between different groups on ground of religion, language, race, place of birth etc., and inciting riots. The charges carried

PM Modi boasts of 56 inch chest, but silent when Trump announced F-35 sale to India: Owaisi

Hyderabad, Mar 1 (PTI) AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who boasts of a 56-inch chest in the country, was silent when US President Donald Trump announced, as if unilaterally, that America would sell F-35 jets to India. Addressing a gathering at the AIMIM headquarters here on the occasion of the party’s formation day, he also hit out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his remarks against Samajwadi Party leaders that the latter send their own children to English medium schools but want others’ children to learn Urdu and become “maulvis”. Referring

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