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Describing Chhatrapati Shivaji's thinking futuristic, President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday said the 17th Century king had taken many decisions of far-reaching effect with the help of his council of ministers and also complimented the founder of the Maratha empire for building the country's first...
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All 13 passengers who were diagnosed with COVID-19 here after arriving from at risk foreign countries have tested negative for the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, Omicron, the state government said on Monday.The 13 passengers arrived here since last week and were found to be positive for COVID-19 in the...
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Bollywood actors Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal arrived here on Monday night for their wedding to be solemnized at a hotel in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district.Both of them and eight others arrived at the Jaipur airport in a chartered flight. Earlier in the day, some of the family members...
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The BJP will hold its parliamentary party meeting at Ambedkar International Centre on Tuesday instead of the Parliament House Complex, official sources said. The venue has been shifted due to repair works going on in the auditorium, where all party MPs meet, but the choice of the new place...
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Five people, including two Russian nationals, who arrived in Goa on board a merchant navy ship were isolated after they tested positive for COVID-19 and their samples have been sent for genome sequencing to detect the presence of the Omicron variant, an official said on Monday.State...
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The Delhi government is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation arisen out of the Omicron variant, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Monday, even as he ruled out the possibility of a lockdown in the national capital.Interacting with reporters, he said, the city government has already put...
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Katrina Kaif leaves for Rajasthan
Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif were seen jetting off to Rajasthan on Monday for their rumoured wedding festivities. Katrina Kaif was spotted leaving her residence, dressed in a full-sleeved heavy yellow suit. Before sitting in her car, she also waved and smiled patiently for her fans and...
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Former UP Shia Waqf Board chairman Waseem Rizvi on Monday converted to Hinduism at a ceremony in a temple here.The ceremony took place at the Dasna Devi temple.Now, he will be known as Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi, temple priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati said declaring his new name.Rizvi...
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The Maharashtra government has revised rates for COVID-19 RT-PCR tests conducted at private laboratories, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Monday, adding that Rs 350 will be charged for samples taken from collection centres.Tope said on Twitter that for tests conducted at laboratories in...
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the Nagaland government over reports of killing of civilians during an alleged 'botched up operation' by the Army Para Commandos to target militants, officials said.It triggered several incidents of arson,...
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Two more cases of Omicron variant of coronavirus -- a 37-year-old South Africa-returned man and his 36-year-old America-returned friend -- have been confirmed in Maharashtra, taking the total number of cases to 10 in the state, says the Maharashtra government.More details awaited. -- ANI
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The Congress on Monday constituted a four-member delegation to visit Nagaland and submit a report within a week on civilian killings in Mon district.'Congress president (Sonia Gandhi) has constituted a delegation to visit Nagaland and report on the matters related to the recent killing of...
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A Pakistani delegation arrived here on Monday to participate in a cyber security seminar being hosted by India under the framework of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorism Structure (RATS).The Pakistan High Commission said its Charge d'Affaires Aftab Hasan Khan received the delegation at the...
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Update: PM Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in New Delhi.Putin says, We perceive India as a great power, a friendly nation, and a time-tested friend. The relations between our nations are growing and I am looking into the future.Currently, mutual investments stand at about $38...
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PM Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in New DelhiPM Modi says, Despite the challenges posed by COVID, there is no change in the pace of growth of India-Russia relations. Our special and privileged strategic partnership continues to become stronger.In the last few decades, the...
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PM Narendra Modi receives Russian President Vladimir Putin at Hyderabad House. The two leaders will hold the 21st annual India-Russia summit. Putin, who has not travelled much outside Russia during the pandemic, is making the trip to Delhi, at a time when the pandemic is still raging in his...
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Eighty-five per cent of India's eligible adult population has received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Monday.The cumulative vaccine doses administered in the country have exceeded 127.93 crore. Another Day, Another Milestone. 85% of...
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As many as 38,408 schools and 2,86,310 anganwadi centres across the country do not have functional toilets, the Union government informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Replying to a question of NCP MP Vandana Chavan in the Upper House, Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel...
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The remains of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana -- a Sri Lankan factory manager who was lynched in Pakistan last week -- were sent to Colombo on Monday, reported local media. The Sri Lankan embassy officials arrived at the hospital to escort Diyawadana's body to the airport and laid flowers over...
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Update: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Monday urged the government to announce additional doses of Covid vaccine for healthcare, frontline workers and immunocompromised individuals.21 cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in India so far. The IMA also demanded that the...
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Actor Kangana Ranaut has sought more time to appear before the Delhi Assembly's Peace and Harmony Committee over her alleged hateful posts on social media, panel chairperson Raghav Chadha said on Monday. Chadha said the revised date of her appearance before the committee will be decided...
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The Army has 7,476 vacant posts of officers while the Navy and Air Force have 1,265 and 621 such vacancies, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said on Monday. In his written response to a question in Rajya Sabha, the minister also said that for airmen, sailors, junior...
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More testing, stepping up vaccination and boosters will help, say experts
Equity benchmark Sensex plummeted 949 points on Monday as concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant in the country triggered a sell-off across sectors. According to market experts, Indian shares fell as the country recorded more cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus over the...
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Update of Home Minister Amit Shah's statement on the firing on civilians in Nagaland: Situation was monitored yesterday. MHA immediately sent Additional Secretary in-charge of the northeast to Kohima where he today held a meeting with the Chief Secretary, other senior officials and senior...
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On Saturday, veteran journalist Vinod Dua, passed away in a hospital in New Delhi. For more on that read this. His daughter, stand-up comic, Mallika Dua, shared this moving post on Instagram, yesterday. If you haven't read it, do: There will never be another like you. My first and...
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The government continues to turn a deaf ear to studies as well as pleas by scientists to begin administering booster shots for Covid-19. Now, the IMA also asks for boosters. It's important that all healthcare workers and frontline workers should be given vaccine booster doses to enhance...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah reads out his statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament. Army had received information on the movement of extremists in Oting. On that basis, 21 commandos laid an ambush in the suspected area. A vehicle reached there, it was...
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The Indian Army has instituted a Court of Inquiry to probe the Nagaland civilian killings under a Major General-rank officer, sources said on Monday. Army sources told ANI, Indian Army has instituted a Court of Inquiry to probe the Nagaland civilian killings under a Major General-rank...
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Thermal screening at Patna airport
Omicron makes it clear that there will be no going back to the unselfconscious sociability that used to define normal life. One explanation for the many mutations that make up Omicron was that the variant was created when the virus moved from a human to an animal host and then moved back,...
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A separate ward has been set up for Omicron patients in this hospital
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain on Monday said there is a need to stop international flights in view of rising cases of Covid-19 Omicron variant. He alleged that similar negligence was seen in the second wave as well.The new variant is coming from abroad, there is a need to stop the...
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Travellers queue up to get tested for Covid
A team of researchers has developed a chewing gum that is laced with a plant-grown protein serving as a trap for the SARS-CoV-2 virus and could reduce its transmission. The study has been published in the 'Molecular Therapy Journal'. The work, led by Henry Daniell at Penn's School of...
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The NCB has been accused of going after soft targets.
The NCB could detect only 385 cases in 2019 under the NDPS Act, whereas our police forces had registered 72,779 cases during that year. The NCB was created in 1986 as a coordinating agency to monitor enforcement, the powers of which were scattered in the Indian Penal Code, Drugs &...
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A recent survey by the women and child development department has revealed that the number of children suffering from malnutrition has increased twofold during the closure of ICDS (Integrated Child Development Scheme) centres following Covid-19, prompting the Bengal government to take urgent...
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At its inaugural '2+2' defence and foreign ministerial dialogue with Russia, India on Monday listed extraordinary militarisation in its neighbourhood and unprovoked aggression along its northern border among major challenges facing the country. In his opening remarks at the talks, Defence...
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The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) on Monday announced that it would contest the forthcoming Goa Assembly elections in alliance with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress. Addressing a press conference, MGP president Deepak Dhavalikar said their party's central committee resolved...
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Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday said that the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, 1958 should be repealed as he joined the growing chorus for withdrawal of the law amid the civilian killings in Nagaland. Civil society groups, rights activists and political leaders of the...
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Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Karnataka are top five states for Covid-19 infection in India.
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India and Russia on Monday signed the agreements for the procurement of 6,01,427 7.63x39mm assault rifles AK-203 through Indo-Russia Rifles Pvt Ltd, under the military-technical cooperation arrangement for 2021-31.This deal was signed following the meeting between Rajnath Singh and Russian...
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States have upped testing across the board
The wife and brother-in-law of an NRI man, who had been found infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Gujarat, have tested positive for coronavirus. Their samples have been sent for genome sequencing, officials said on Monday. Both of them were shifted to an isolation ward,...
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Karan Johar is a father to twins through surrogacy
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare of India Mansukh Mandaviya is scheduled to move 'The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2020' in Rajya Sabha on Monday for consideration and passage. The Bill seeks to constitute the National Surrogacy Board, State Surrogacy Boards and appointment...
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh meets his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu. The two leaders will take part in the first 2+2 ministerial dialogue between India and Russia today.India and Russia relations are time-tested, based on a common interest in multilateralism, global peace, prosperity...
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Myanmar court jails ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years for inciting dissent against the military and breaching Covid rules. Details awaited.
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Booster vax doses have begun in several nations but not India
Forty-three students of Chalmeda Anand Rao Institute of Medical Sciences at Bommakal in Karimnagar district of Telangana have tested positive for Coivd-19 after the college held a annual day function. Authorities have now suspended classes and shut down the campus.The annual day function was...
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The historic Babri Masjid
On the anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid on Monday, security arrangements have been tightened in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Gaurav Grover. To avoid any untoward incident, security forces in huge numbers have been deployed across the...
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And another boycott: Resident doctors of Safdarjung hospital boycotted emergency services along with Out-Patient Department (OPD) in view of the delay in NEET PG Counselling on Monday. Director-General of Health Services, Sunil Kumar interacted with protesting Resident Doctors of...
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Shashi Tharoor in solidarity with MPs last week
Expressing solidarity with the 12 suspended Rajya Sabha MPs, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday said he has decided to suspend hosting of a talk show on Sansad TV until the suspension of the legislators is revoked and a semblance of bipartisanship restored to the conduct of...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will give a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament on Monday.Some Naga youth were reportedly killed in Oting village of Nagaland's Mon district on Saturday when they were allegedly fired at by security forces, who suspected...
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In a controversial statement, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader on Sunday called Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait a terrorist and said the withdrawal of the central farm laws will lead to losses for farmers and profit for Khalistani gundas. In a purported video...
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Singapore's ministry of health has said that early clinical observations globally suggest that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may be more transmissible and have a higher risk of reinfection compared to the Delta and Beta variants of the virus. This means that there is a higher likelihood of...
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Journalist Girish Kuber
Suspected activists of an organisation on Sunday hurled ink at senior journalist and writer Girish Kuber at the Marathi literary meet in Maharashtra's Nashik district in protest against some allegedly controversial references about Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj in his book. ...
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President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid floral tribute to Dr BR Ambedkar on his 65th death anniversary which is observed as Mahaparinirvan Diwas.Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge...
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A five-member Trinamool Congress delegation will visit Nagaland on Monday to stand by the families of those killed and injured in the firing incident in Mon district. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee has demanded a thorough investigation into the killing of...
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The Nagaland government on Sunday announced an ex gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the 13 people killed in firing by security forces in Mon district where Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio will make a visit on December 6. The state government also decided to set up a High Level Special...
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