Amid the massive security arrangements made at the Haryana borders with Delhi at Gurugram and Faridabad, tens of thousands of farmers on Thursday braved tear-gas shells and water cannons and broke police barricades on their way to Delhi while several farmers and policemen were injured ahead of the Punjab-Haryana border in Shambhu near Ambala. Reports […]
Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel was laid to rest at his native village Piraman in Gujarat’s Bharuch district on Thursday. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attended the funeral of the party’s key strategist and troubleshooter, who died on Wednesday. Patel’s mortal remains reached Piraman from Vadodara and he was laid to rest at a Muslim cemetery […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said India would go by scientific advice in respect of Covid-19 vaccine and answers to questions related to the vaccine were not yet available. Speaking to chief ministers of eight worst Covid-affected states, the PM said a comprehensive plan for vaccine administration rollout would soon be ready and asked […]
Waseem Rizvi, former chairman of the Shia Central Waqf Board who went from being a BJP critic to an avid supporter of the party’s leaders and policies after the change of guard in Uttar Pradesh, has been booked by the CBI for financial embezzlement and misappropriation of properties. The Lucknow unit of the CBI on Thursday […]
India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 90.5 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 84.78 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.67 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Saturday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 90,50,597 with 46,232 infections being reported in a […]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who left Delhi for a few days on medical advice on Friday, constituted three committees each comprising former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and some letter-writers barring Kapil Sibal. Gandhi, who left Delhi with son Rahul Gandhi, approved the committees on economic affairs, foreign affairs and national security to discuss related matters […]
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the penalty for not wearing masks in public places will be increased from Rs500 to Rs2,000 in light of the severe spike in Covid-19 cases in the capital. Kejriwal also said that the government has issued directions to all private hospitals to reserve 80% of their […]
New Delhi: The government has decided to reserve five MBBS seats under the central pool for wards of COVID-19 warriors for the academic year 2020-2021. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the move aims to dignify and honour the noble contribution made by COVID-19 warriors who have lost their lives due to the infection or died […]
India’s Covid-19 caseload rose to 89.58 lakh with fresh 45,576 infections, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 83.83 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.58 per cent, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Thursday. The total coronavirus cases mounted to 89,58,483, with […]
A six-year-old girl, who was found dead in a forested area in this Uttar Pradesh district on Sunday, was gangraped, killed and her lungs were then taken out of the corpse by the killers, police said on Monday. The lungs were removed to perform black magic, believing that it will help a woman give birth […]