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All state government held competitive exams would from now on have a compulsory paper in the Tamil language and a pass in the subject is the basic qualifying norm for entry to Tamil Nadu government services and state-run public sector enterprises, the government announced on Friday. A paper...
23:21
The Congress received another jolt in Meghalaya on Friday when its youth wing president Richard M Marak, a close aide of former chief minister Mukul Sangma who along with 11 other MLAs joined the TMC last week, quit the grand old party citing 'structural defect' in it. Marak, the Meghalaya...
22:49
Seven aircraft of the Indian Air Force have crashed in the last two years, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday. Minister of state for defence Ajay Bhatt, replying to a question, said every aircraft...
22:30
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the pleas of socialite Poonam Jaidev Shroff, engaged in a bitter matrimonial dispute with her industrialist husband Jaidev Shroff, that she be either permitted to live with her estranged husband in their posh matrimonial home in Mumbai or be paid Rs 35.37...
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Death certificates indicating coronavirus deaths either already issued prior to coming into force government guidelines or as ratified by district committees shall be treated as valid document for considering any death as death due to COVID-19, the Lok Sabha was informed on...
21:35
A crucial meeting of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha will be held at the Singhu border on Saturday to decide on the future course of the agitation. Farmer leaders said any decision on whether to send five names...
21:23
Actor George Clooney turned down an offer of USD 35 million for a day's work for an airline commercial, the star recently revealed. According to Variety, in an interview published in a newspaper on Friday, Clooney said, I was offered USD 35 million for one day's work for an airline...
21:00
Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has come out with his autobiography to tell the dramatic story of his life and work including the extraordinary events that took place during his tenure -- the 'infamous' press conference prior to his elevation to the top post, allegations of sexual...
20:29
The National Investigation Agency has moved Supreme Court against the Bombay high court order granting default bail to lawyer-activist Sudha Bharadwaj, who was arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case in August 2018 under the provisions of UAPA.The high court on December 1 had said in its...
20:23
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Seven people were detained by the police in Gurugram over an alleged attempt to disrupt the Friday namaz by raising slogans.A police official said some people were detained in the Sector 37 area as a precautionary measure to maintain peace.Several members of some Hindu outfits gathered at the...
20:20
Two days after the police seized a kilogram of RDX from Punjab's Dinanagar, a tiffin bomb and four hand grenades were recovered in Gurdaspur district, officials said on Friday.Earlier this week, two terror modules sponsored by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence were busted in...
19:17
The VIP security cover of Union Cabinet Minister Narayan Rane has been upgraded to Z-category by the government in view of prevailing security threats to him, official sources said on Friday. Rane, the minister for micro, small and medium enterprises, has been enjoying central security cover...
19:03
A decision on booster dose and Covid jabs for children will be taken on the basis of scientific guidance from experts, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday even as India stepped up surveillance for Omicron variant of the coronavirus.Replying to an 11-hour-long debate on the...
18:16
Prime Minister Narendra Modi bows before the Constitution of India
Opposition MPs on Friday stalled the introduction of a private member's bill by BJP MP K J Alphons that seeks to amend the Preamble of the Constitution. Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh had initially allowed the introduction of the bill, but later reserved his decision on it after a...
17:46
Thousands of Afghans are starving as aid doesn't reach them
Pakistan on Friday agreed to let India transport 50,000 metric tonnes of wheat and life-saving drugs as humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan on Afghan trucks through the Wagah border crossing.A row had erupted between the two countries over the modalities of...
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To attack academic freedom is now viewed as a duty in the name of Hindutva. The question is whether university administrators will act to protect the academic freedom of faculty who write about India. The fear of being called Hinduphobic may be too powerful for academic institutions in today's...
17:36
A total of 51,775 cases of mucormycosis have been reported till November 29, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. On the steps taken by the government to tackle such cases, Mandaviya in written reply to a question said health is a state subject and...
17:27
Domestic markets lurched lower on Friday after India reported its first case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, prompting investors to dial back risk exposure. The Centre on Thursday said two cases of Omicron have been detected in Karnataka.Snapping its two-session rally, the...
17:17
Farmers in Punjab stopped actor Kangana Ranaut's car near Ropar and demanded she apologise over her statements on the farmers' protest. If the security personnel were not present here, lynching would have happened. Shame on these people, Ranaut said.Ranaut had shared a tweet on November 27,...
16:46
News from Maharashtra: Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Friday said the swab samples of 28 persons, who returned to the state from high-risk countries last month with nine of them already testing COVID-19 positive, have been sent for genome sequencing.The international travellers who arrived in...
16:37
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday informed Parliament that RTPCR tests of 16,000 passengers from 'at-risk' countries have been conducted so far, of whom 18 have tested positive for COVID-19. He also said that genome sequencing for Omicron detection is underway for such...
16:21
Former Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board chairman AV Venkatachalam, who was facing corruption charges, has died by suicide, Chennai Police says. A case of unnatural death has been registered. His body was handed over to the relatives today after post-mortem.
16:06
Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya speaking on the Covid-19 pandemic in the Lok Sabha: -- 3.46 cr Corona cases have been reported in India and 4.6 lakh people have died - which is 1.36 per cent of total cases. -- 25,000 cases and 340 deaths per million population have been reported...
15:57
The Union Health Ministry on Friday said while there is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, some of the mutations reported may decrease the efficacy of the jabs. It however underscored that definitive evidence for new variant's...
15:25
In view of the cyclone Jawad, around 65 trains from the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh scheduled for December 3 and 4 have been cancelled, informed the East Coast Railways on Friday. The senior Divisional Commercial Manager of Waltair Division of East Coast Railway, A.K. Tripathi...
15:23
In view of cyclonic storm Jawad, 46 teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been deployed in Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.A total of 46 NDRF teams have been sent to Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. They are prepositioned there. IDS is on alert if the situation...
15:02
Terming Citizenship (Amendment) Act 'fundamentally anti-national', Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday alleged that the act targets a particular community. Speaking to ANI, Tharoor said, I spoke in Parlament when the CAA came up. I objected to the Home Minister. Any law that is seen...
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Sri Lanka on Friday detected its first case of COVID-19's new variant Omicron, Deputy Director General of Health Services Hemantha Herath said. Today, we have found one Omicron infected person from our labs, he announced. The person, who arrived from an African nation, was currently in...
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Atul Karwal DG NDRF
A low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a cyclonic storm 'Jawad', the India Meteorological Department said on Friday. The cyclonic storm is likely to reach the west-central Bay of Bengal off the coast of north Andhra Pradesh and Odisha by Saturday morning, the...
13:32
The politics around oxygen started with the second wave of COVID-19 and some states went to courts and showed increased demand for oxygen in their respective state to get favourable orders, said Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya in Lok Sabha on Friday. Prime Minister...
13:25
Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar
The Indian Navy is fully confident of defending India's maritime interests and is carrying out acquisition of platforms considering the possible security challenges facing the country, Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar said on Friday.Addressing a press conference, he also said that the details of...
13:19
The first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant has been detected in Malaysia and found to have been brought in on November 19, days before South Africa reported the first case to the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 24, Malaysian Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said on...
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The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Delhi government to go ahead with construction activities of hospitals in the city and expressed satisfaction over fresh steps taken by the Commission for Air Quality Management in Delhi-NCR for enforcement of orders to tackle air pollution. A Bench of...
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2018 AH is estimated to be around 190 meters long, similar to the Tunguska asteroid, meaning it would be far more powerful than a nuclear bomb. Read the report here.
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Top Indian genome scientists have recommended a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccines for those above 40 years with preference to high-risk and high-exposure population. The recommendation was made in the weekly bulletin of the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Sequencing Consortium (INSACOG), a...
12:16
Update: Nine international travellers, including one from South Africa, who arrived at Mumbai International Airport between November 10 - December 2 have tested positive for COVID-19, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday. The BMC has sent the samples of the patients...
12:10
The number of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has reached eight, the French public health agency said. The first Omicron infection case was detected in the French overseas department of Reunion on Tuesday. The next day, French government spokesman...
12:04
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on BJP MPs' protest against Opposition: It was needlessly provocative of the BJP MPs to come here and rub salt in the wounds. If anything BJP should've shown solidarity. My colleagues were unjustly expelled by a party that has institutionalised disruption.BJP MPs staged...
11:39
US President Joe Biden gets vaccinated in September
As India refuses to consider booster shots for Covid-19, the US is urging its citizens to get their boosters. President Joe Biden has appealed for Americans to get their boosters and get behind his plan to tackle the new Omicron variant through wider availability of vaccines and shots, but...
11:34
World Health Organisation officials in the Western Pacific say border closures adopted by some countries may buy time to deal with the omicron coronavirus variant, but measures put in place and experience gained in dealing with the delta variant should remain the foundation for fighting the...
11:21
The Mizoram government is likely to soon come out with new guidelines on tackling the new Omicron variant of coronavirus, a health department official said. The state-level expert team on COVID-19 management has submitted draft guidelines to the government to screen and monitor people coming...
11:08
Nashik city in Maharashtra has this week recorded the highest-ever single-day rainfall during December, the Met department has said. Unseasonal rains lashed the city and other parts of the district on December 1 and showers continued during the intervening night of Wednesday and...
11:00
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will be chairing a meeting with experts, senior Ministers and officials, on Friday, in the wake of two cases of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus detected in the state.New guidelines aimed at controlling its spread is likely to be...
10:26
Updates on the worrying Omicron variant, of which 2 cases have already been detected in Karnataka. -- Mumbai: 9 international travellers including one from South Africa who arrived at Mumbai International Airport between 10th Nov-2nd Dec have tested positive for COVID19. Their samples have...
10:05
Two travellers from South Africa have tested preliminarily positive for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 after landing in Singapore, the Ministry of Health has said. Two passengers who arrived in Singapore from South Africa on a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight SQ479 have tested preliminarily...
09:59
A Mirage fighter jet
Ludicrous but true: Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday filed a case against unidentified miscreants after a tyre of a Mirage fighter jet was stolen from a truck carrying a consignment of military equipment from Lucknow. The truck was carrying the consignment to Jodhpur airbase from...
09:55
People queue up to get vaccinated
With 9,216 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,46,15,757, while the active cases increased to 99,976, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 4,70,115 with 391 fresh...
09:52
Equity indices opened in green on Friday with Sensex up by 279.65 points and Nifty up by 83.80 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was up by 279.65 points or 0.48 per cent at 58740.94 at 9.21 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17485.50 at 9.21 am, up by 83.80 points or 0.48 per...
09:48
Harvard University has added caste as a protected category for all graduate and undergraduate student workers.The historic addition marks Harvard as the first Ivy League school to have caste equity protection in its non-discrimination clause for unionised student workers. This decision will...
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The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on Thursday expressed displeasure over Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya's tweet on a temple in Mathura and said the Bharatiya Janata Party is only concerned about getting votes in the upcoming polls. The remarks came a day after...
09:16
The well marked low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression and is likely to take the form of a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours and reach Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coast on December 4, the IMD has said in its bulletin on Thursday. ...
09:10
Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of International Monetary Fund, is being promoted as IMF's First Deputy Managing Director, the fund announced Thursday. She would replace Geoffrey Okamoto who plans to leave the Fund early next year. Gopinath, who was scheduled to return to...
08:19
The World Health Organization has deployed a team of officials to South Africa's Gauteng province, the epicentre of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, for ramping up surveillance measures and contact tracing efforts as the country grapples with rising infections, an official said on...
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Goa Forward Party MLA Jayesh Salgaonkar on Thursday resigned as legislator ahead of assembly elections in the coastal state early next year. He would be joining the ruling the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday afternoon, Goa BJP chief Sadanand Shet Tanavade told reporters. Salgaonkar on...
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The well marked low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal has intensified into a depression and is likely to take the form of a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours and reach Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coast on December 4, the India meteorological department has said in its bulletin on...
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