Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed concern over rising covid-19 cases in India and urged authorities to take quick and decisive steps to contain the spread of the virus. “We will have to stop the emerging second peak of Coronavirus immediately,” PM Modi said to chief ministers during a meeting, earlier today. During the […]
New Delhi: India recorded 24,492 new COVID-19 cases, registering more than 20,000 cases for the sixth day in a row, taking the infection tally past 1.14 crore, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday. The total cases in the country rose to 1,14,09,831, while the death toll increased to 1,58,856, with 131 fresh fatalities, the […]
Top Maharashtra ministers on Tuesday met at Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s home amid the ongoing Mukesh Ambani security scare case, in which a Mumbai police officer is being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and other ministers including Eknath Shinde, Balasaheb Thorat, Anil […]
Delhi Police conducted a five-hour-long cordon-and-search operation in Karol Bagh on Sunday to prevent street crime. About 55 people who were found roaming around suspiciously in the area were detained in the mega search operation, officials said In the 5-hour-long search operation,100 personnel were involved, including those of paramilitary forces. It was conducted on Sunday […]
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha,a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime, on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress days ahead of the high- octane West Bengal assembly polls. Sinha, who served in the cabinet of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, had quit the saffron party in 2018 after having serious differences with the party […]
The BJP on Friday appointed MLA Madan Kaushik as its Uttarakhand state president, replacing Banshidhar Bhagat who may be inducted as a minister in the government headed by Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat. Kaushik is a fourth-term MLA from Haridwar constituency, and is one of the senior most legislators of the party in the hilly […]
West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, who was on Wednesday injured during her visit to Nandigram, said in a video message while lying on her bed at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata, that she might have to use a wheelchair for addressing her party’s electoral rallies but she would not give […]
Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination papers to contest from the Nandigram constituency in the upcoming Assembly polls. The TMC chief filed her papers at Nandigram’s Haldia sub-divisional office after taking part in a 2-km-long roadshow. She was accompanied by part president Subrata Bakshi. The […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the Election Commission’s decision to conduct assembly elections over eight phases in West Bengal and seeking to bar the BJP and its leaders from using “Jai Shri Ram” as a slogan during the campaign. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde initially told the […]
Chief Economist of the IMF Gita Gopinath on Monday said that India has been at the forefront in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and “really stands out” in terms of its vaccine policy. She hailed the country for playing a very important role during the crisis by manufacturing and shipping the Covid-19 vaccines to several nations. […]