23:57
Several students who are heading to foreign countries for education had to return without getting a coronavirus vaccine jab for the second day in a row at civic-run Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), however, said later that 1,875 jabs were delivered...
23:38
China has started sharing hydrological data on Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers, an annual exercise of giving information on these two water bodies to India, sources said on Tuesday. The sharing of data by China on Sutlej and Brahmaputra comes amid strained relations between the two...
23:24
JP Nadda meets victims of Bengal violence
A group of over 600 professors and vice chancellors on Tuesday appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo motu cognisance of the post-poll violence in West Bengal and set up a special investigation team (SIT) to probe such incidents.In a statement, they claimed that a large section of the Bengali...
23:02
Britain on Tuesday reported zero daily coronavirus-related deaths for the first time since the pandemic began last year even as scientists continued to urge caution over a complete easing of lockdown restrictions.There were 3,165 new COVID-19 cases recorded in the latest 24-hour period, according...
22:58
Thespian Dilip KUmar
Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government on Tuesday approved the purchase of the ancestral homes of legendary Bollywood actors Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor in Peshawar for converting them into museums. Peshawar District Commissioner Capt (retd) Khalid Mehmud rejected the objections...
22:44
President Ram Nath Kovind has formally appointed Justice Arun Kumar Mishra as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission
22:25
The five-member Congress panel has submitted its report to Sonia Gandhi on losses in the just-concluded assembly polls. The panel, which was set up in May, is being headed by former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan and was formed to evaluate the party's performance in the...
21:21
A team of multi-agency officials led by a Central Bureau off Investigation DIG has gone to Dominica to bring back absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi to India if the courts in the Carribean island country allow his deportation to India, officials said Tuesday. The team consisting of...
20:50
The government on Tuesday cautioned that even though the coronavirus infection has not taken a serious shape among children till now, its impact can increase among them if there is a change in virus behaviour or epidemiology dynamics, and said preparations are on to deal with any such...
20:31
The International Cricket Council has given Board of Control for Cricket in India time till June 28 to take a call on whether it would host the marquee T20 World Cup in India amid the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ICC Board met virtually on Tuesday with India being...
20:15
The Mumbai civic body has proposed to steeply increase the amount of fine for spitting in public to Rs 1,200 from the current Rs 200, a senior official said on Tuesday.Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation chief Iqbal Singh Chahal recently gave a nod to the proposal for increasing the existing fine...
20:05
In a show of solidarity, foreign ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa opted for a collective 'namaste' during the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting on Tuesday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar chaired the standalone meeting through video...
19:42
The Centre today decided to cancel the CBSE Class 12 examinations in view of the second wave of the coronavirus infections in the country.
19:26
Syed Akbaruddin, former permanent representative of India to the United Nations, on Tuesday joined the Kautilya School of Public Policy in Hyderabad as its dean. While Akbaruddin tweeted saying it is a new start for him, the public policy institute said his appointment is...
19:05
There is actually no use in debating over allopathy and ayurveda as both are different and useful medicine systems, renowned scientist and Niti Aayog Member V K Saraswat said on Tuesday even as he emphasised that more research needs to be done in ayurveda to ensure it is more acceptable to the...
18:57
The Netherlands on Tuesday lifted the ban on passenger flights from India.The ban was imposed on April 26 in view of rising COVID-19 cases in India. As per the Dutch Government ban on passenger flights from India that had come into force on April 26, 2021, has been lifted w.e.f 01 June 2021, the...
18:26
According to a government notification, Swapan Dasgupta has been renominated as a Rajya Sabha member. Swapan Dasgupta had tendered his resignation from the upper house of Parliament after being named as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the West Bengal assembly elections.Dasgupta,...
17:57
PM Modi is chairing a meeting with officials to discuss class 12 board exams. The meeting commenced at 5:40 pm. He will be briefed on all options for conducting class 12 exams. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday appealed to the centre to cancel class 12 board exams in view of the pandemic....
17:38
The Centre on Tuesday said that by July or early August, there will be enough COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate one crore people a day. It also said that mixing vaccines is not a protocol till further update and there is no change in the schedule of the two-dose Covishield and Covaxin vaccines....
16:54
Palanivel Thiagarajan
Friday's GST Council meeting had a side show of sorts. Goa Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho took offence to the fact that Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P Thiagarajan interrupted his lengthy speech, and demanded that the latter apologise to all Goans for the insult. The TN minister, who...
16:47
Union Health Ministry updates on Covid 19.-- There is absolutely no change in the schedule of Covishield doses; it will be two doses only. After the first Covishield dose is administered, second dose will be given after 12 weeks. The same schedule is applicable to Covaxin.(This comes after the...
16:32
A healthcare worker arranges a game of Ludo in a hospital
The lockdown cannot be extended indefinitely and it has to be ended soon, but it is in the hands of the people, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Tuesday and appealed to them to follow Covid-19 guidelines to help prevent the virus spread. There is no shortage of oxygen and no...
16:27
Porters say they are facing hardship due to the COVID lockdown. It's been two years, entire labour class has become debt-ridden. Our earnings have gone to zero. Some people do come with bags but they don't let us carry them as virus is transmissible via touch, Sonu, a porter said.
15:42
The Union Home Ministry has served a showcause notice to just-retired Chief Secretary of West Bengal Alapan Bandyopadhyay under the Disaster Management Act, officials said. A home ministry official said the notice was served on Bandyopadhyay hours before his retirement on Monday for refusing...
15:06
A consignment of three million doses of Russia's Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V landed at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Tuesday. A GMR Hyderabad Air Cargo (GHAC) press release said the vaccine consignment arrived from Russia on a specially chartered freighter RU-9450 which touched...
14:54
Kaushik Basu, former chief economist, World Bank, on the Indian economy. For all Narendra Modi apologists, listen up. Basu tweets, New growth data for 20-21 shows India (growth -7.3%) is now 142 among 194 nations, a shocking drop in rank for a nation once among the fastest growers. For those...
14:35
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee defied protocol in a review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the post-cyclonic situation in the state and is misleading on the controversy surrounding chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, said Government of India (GoI) sources on...
14:32
Over 9,900 minors tested positive for coronavirus at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra last month, but the district administration claimed that around 95 per cent of them were asymptomatic and the situation was not alarming. In May this year, atotal of 86,182 COVID-19 cases were reported in Ahmednagar,...
14:20
Citing rise in the number of divorce cases, the Goa government has decided to come up with a policy to make premarital counselling mandatory.State Law Minister Nilesh Cabral on Monday said the state government's Goa Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (GIPARD) will finalise...
14:18
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former Madhya Pradesh minister Laxmikant Sharma died of coronavirus at a private hospital, family sources said on Tuesday.Sharma, 60, succumbed to the deadly infection at Chirayu Hospital and Medical College on Monday night, the hospital's director Dr...
13:34
Pic: Sahil Salvi
The BMC Heritage Cell has reinstated the 157-year-old Fitzgerald fountain to its former glory. Located at the Vasudev Balwant Phadke Chowk near Metro Cinema in south Mumbai, this 45-feet high and 19-feet wide monument was erected in 1867 to mark the arrival of Sir William Robert Seymour...
13:26
Coming to the aid of all Air India pilots whose services were terminated, including the contractual ones, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday quashed the national carrier's decision of last year and directed their reinstatement. The direction was issued by Justice Jyoti Singh who also ordered that...
13:20
The Southwest Monsoon is likely to be normal in north and south India, above-normal in central India and below-normal in east and northeast India, the MeT department said on Tuesday.Releasing its Second Long Range Forecast for Southwest Monsoon 2021, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director...
12:48
Alapan Bandopadhyay with his successor WB chief secy HK Dwivedi
The Centre-state battle witnessed in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, where Central agencies followed the BJP leadership during poll campaigns by undertaking searches and reopening old criminal cases, has confused the public, which is the worst sufferer by way of uncertain delivery of services...
12:36
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A man in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow has filed a complaint against Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawala and Dr. Balram Bhargava, head of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) after he alleged that no antibodies were formed in his body after receiving the first dose of...
12:32
Union Education Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank admitted to AIIMS due to post COVID complications today: AIIMS officials.
12:10
At 5.11pm on Monday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced Alapan Bandyopadhyay's superannuation as Bengal chief secretary and his appointment as her chief adviser for three years.Mamata, who had held a virtual administrative review meeting and a brief news conference on the impact of Cyclone...
12:08
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday quipped that NCP president Sharad Pawar may have advised former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on how to be a good opposition leader during their meeting a day ago. Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Raut dismissed prospects of any new...
11:28
The empty chairs reserved for the CM and her Chief Secretary
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday stirred fresh controversy by saying ego prevailed over public service on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting to review post-cyclone damages on May 28. Dhankhar said the chief minister had called him...
11:25
Residents claim that dogs are eating half-burnt Covid bodies at Kedar Ghat, Uttarkashi. After receiving complaints from locals, we have assigned a person at Kedar Ghat for cremation of half-burnt bodies, Municipality president Ramesh Semwal, said.
11:15
More than 1.57 crore Covid-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and UTs to be administered, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The Centre has so far provided, both through the free of cost and through direct state procurement categories, more than 23 crore vaccine doses to...
11:08
A 45-year-old Anand, a resident of Koppalu village in Mysore cycles 300 km to Bengaluru to bring his son's medicine. I asked for my son's medicines here but couldn't find it. He can't skip medicines even for a day. I went to Bengaluru & it took me 3 days, says Anand.
11:03
Moody's Investors Service sees India GDP growth at 9.3 pc in current fiscal ending March 2022, 7.9 pc in FY23. India's economic growth slowed to 3.1 per cent in January-March and to an 11-year low of 4.2 per cent for the full fiscal 2019-20 amid a drop in consumption and investment.
10:55
The B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 variants of the COVID-19, first identified in India, have been named as 'Kappa' and 'Delta' respectively by the WHO as it named various variants of the coronavirus using Greek alphabets to simplify public discussions and also help remove stigma from the names. The...
10:29
The Delhi government has allowed home delivery of liquor under the amended excise rules. The Delhi Excise (Amendment) Rules, 2021, notified on Monday, allow licence holders to deliver liquor booked through an app or a website at the doorstep of the buyers. The rules also permit the holders of...
10:19
The Maharashtra Police registered a case against 60 people including BJP MLA Mahesh Landge for flouting COVID norms at a wedding ceremony in Pune.
10:09
Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 250 points in early trade on Tuesday, tracking gains in index-heavyweights HDFC twins, Reliance Industries and SBI amid a mixed trend in other Asian markets.The 30-share BSE index was trading 271.72 points or 0.52 per cent higher at 52,209.16 in initial deals,...
09:46
India reports 1,27,510 new Covid-19 cases, 2,55,287 discharges and 2,795 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Health Ministry.Total cases: 2,81,75,044 Total discharges: 2,59,47,629 Death toll: 3,31,895 Active cases: 18,95,520 Total vaccination:...
09:37
BJP in-charge for Lakshadweep A P Abdullakutty
A delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party from Lakshadweep met party chief J P Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday and discussed the situation in the union territory and the concerns of the locals.Shah assured the BJP delegation that all concerns of the locals will be addressed.A...
08:59
Father of 'Cycle girl' Jyoti died of cardiac arrest on Monday in Darbhanga. Jyoti had cycled around 1,200 km carrying her injured father from Gurugram to their native place in Darbhanga amid COVID-19 lockdown in May last year.Read her story: How Life has CHANGED for Bihar's Bicycle Girl
08:23
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is scheduled to chair a meeting of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) foreign ministers through video conferencing on Tuesday.In this meeting, the leaders will exchange views on COVID-19 pandemic, global and regional issues of concern,...
00:08
The Centre sent a reminder to West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay who retired on Monday to report to the Personnel Ministry in Delhi at 10 AM on Tuesday, failing which disciplinary action would be initiated against him, officials said. They said the reminder was sent...
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