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Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena can come together if the former agrees to give the Uddhav Thackeray-led party the post of Maharashtra chief minister for a full five-year term. Speaking to reporters in...
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An expert panel of the country's central drug authority has recommended granting emergency use authorisation to Serum Institute of India's COVID-19 vaccine �Covovax' with certain conditions, official sources said on Monday. Prakash Kumar Singh, director, Government and...
23:25
Seasoned diplomat Vikram Misri has been appointed as deputy national security adviser in the national security council secretariat. The appointment of Misri, a 1989-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, came after he served as the Indian ambassador to China for nearly three years.Misri has...
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Alleging that the recent hate speeches at the 'Dharma Sansad' in Haridwar were made with the blessings of the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttarakhand, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday demanded that the guilty be arrested and said issuing an FIR...
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Of 6,098 applications received under the 'PM CARES for Children' scheme, 3,481 children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic have been approved as eligible for its benefits, the government said on Monday. ...
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Winter break for students up to class 5 at Delhi government schools will be from January 1 to 15 and no online or offline teaching learning activity can be conducted during this period, the Directorate of Education (DoE) said on Monday. However, it said that to help students...
21:55
Pakistan on Monday summoned India's Charge d'Affaires to the ministry of foreign affairs and conveyed its concern over the alleged hate speeches made at a conclave held in Haridwar recently to incite violence against the minorities....
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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday went all guns blazing on the Bharatiya Janata Party and said that the state government was forced to enact anti-mob lynching legislation after the 'Ravana' party came to power at Centre, 'ruining the social fabric' of the country. ...
21:03
The Goods and Services Tax officers arrested perfume trader Peeyush Jain and seized more than Rs 177 crore unaccounted cash from his house in Kanpur, the finance ministry said on Monday. Further searches are underway at Jain's...
20:43
The Kerala government on Monday directed that New Year celebrations shall not continue after 10 pm on December 31 and similar restrictions shall be in place at night from December 30 to January 2, possibly with a view to prevent any increase in COVID-19 cases due to the festivities....
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Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, booked under the NDPS Act, on Monday moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking anticipatory bail. The plea, moved by Majithia's counsels Damanbir...
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An earthquake of 5.3 magnitude hit Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, officials said. So far, there are no reports of damage due to the quake, they said. Tremors were felt around 7.01 pm, the officials said. The earthquake was 5.3 in magnitude and its epicentre was at a depth of 10...
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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation commissioner Iqbal Chahal has called a meeting on Monday with health and ward officers on the rising number of COVID-19 and Omicron cases in the city. On Sunday, Mumbai reported 922 new COVID cases, the highest single-day spike since June 4 this...
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Twenty-eight more students and three staff members of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district have tested positive for COVID-19, taking the number of such cases at the institute to 82 in the last one week, a health department official said.According to the official, a...
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The Tamil Nadu government on Monday requested the Centre to grant the state permission, as a special case, to announce Omicron confirmed cases rather than wait for reports from the National Institute of Virology, owing to its expertise in whole genome sequencing.Reiterating the demand for...
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Indian Police Services (IPS) officer Violet Baruah on Monday became the first-ever woman to get promoted to the rank of Inspector General in Assam Police.In an official notification, the Home Department of Assam government promoted Baruah, who received the President's Police Medal for...
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Two more persons have been booked in connection with hate speeches delivered against Muslims at a Dharma Sansad in Haridwar recently.The names of Swami Dharamdas and Sadhvi Annapurna were added on Saturday in the FIR lodged after available footage of the event was scanned, Haridwar Kotwali SHO...
17:37
Christmas lights in Bandra, Mumbai
They want to celebrate the commercial aspect of Christmas but don't want Christmas to be there, said John Dayal, former president of the All India Catholic Union. Read the report here.
17:25
Tech Mahindra was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising by over 3 per cent. Dr Reddy's rose by 1.95 per cent, PowerGrid by 1.6 per cent, Kotak Bank by 1.56 per cent and Sun Pharma by 1.16 per cent. Gains in ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, HDFC, M&M, Axis Bank and Bajaj Finance helped the...
17:11
Union Home Minister Amit will address public meetings in Hardoi, Sultanpur and Bhadohi districts on Tuesday as part of the BJP's campaign for the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh due early next year. The BJP's Uttar Pradesh media co-incharge, Himanshu Dubey, on Monday said Shah is...
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New entrant Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) put up a spectacular show in Chandigarh Municipal Corporation polls and won 14 of 35 wards while pushing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to second place. As per State Election Commission, Congress registered victory in 8 wards while the Shiromani...
16:41
A 9-month gap is mandated between the 2nd and 3rd vaccine
Delhi on Monday recorded 331 fresh COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise since June 9, and one death while the positivity rate mounted to 0.68 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. The death toll due to the coronavirus infection in Delhi rose to...
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The Centre has frozen all bank accounts of Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Monday. Expressing shock, Banerjee said that this move has left Missionaries of Charity's 22,000 patients and employees without food and...
15:58
Equity benchmark Sensex ended 296 points higher on Monday, tracking gains in index majors ICICI Bank, HDFC twins and Tech Mahindra amid a largely positive trend in global markets. After rebounding over 960 points from the day's low during the session, the 30-share index settled 295.93 points...
15:47
Modi in Himachal Pradesh today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday backed the central government's decision to increase the age of marriage of daughters from 18 to 21 saying that it will lead to daughters getting time to make their career. We have decided daughters will be allowed to marry at the same age sons...
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Himachal Pradesh Police have rescued at least 40 vehicles and around 150 persons from Parashar lake, who had been stuck due to heavy snowfall in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district on Sunday night. The rescuers worked for 12 hours last night, the police said. Himachal Pradesh Police...
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BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Monday cited a Centre's note to criticise the decision of several states, including Uttar Pradesh, to impose night curfew to curb Covid, and said the government should decide if the priority is to contain the pandemic or indulge in a show of strength during...
15:00
Salman Khurshid is among those who wrote to the CJI
Seventy-six lawyers have written to Chief Justice N V Ramana, requesting him to take suo motu cognisance of hate speeches allegedly made at separate events organised in Delhi and Haridwar. The letter alleged that the speeches delivered during the events were not mere hate speeches but...
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An eight-year-old boy, who arrived in Goa from the United Kingdom, has been found infected with Omicron, making it the first case of the new coronavirus variant in the coastal state.State Health Minister Vishwajit Rane told PTI on Monday that the boy, who travelled from the UK on December 17,...
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The gathering at Haridwar last week called itself a Dharma Sansad. It was, in fact, Hindutva's natural answer to a LitFest, a HateFest. Hindutva, as Aakar Patel has recently reminded us, has no politics, no economics, no worthwhile books, no view of the world separate from its consuming...
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Amidst initial signs of surge in cases of Covid-19 as well as increased detection of Omicron variant in different parts of the country, the Centre on Monday issued a fresh advisory to all States and UTs to deal with the pandemic situation. In the advisory, Union Home Secretary Ajay...
14:06
The religious leader hailed Nathuram Godse (pictured)
The Maharashtra government on Monday assured stern action against Hindu religious leader Kalicharan Maharaj for allegedly using derogatory words against Mahatma Gandhi.Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister raised the issue in the state Assembly and demanded that the religious leader be booked for...
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The BJP will contest the assembly polls in Punjab in alliance with Amarinder Singh's Punjab Lok Congress and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa's SAD (Sanyukt), Union minister Gajendra Shekhawat said on Monday. Both Singh and Dhindsa, a Rajya Sabha MP, met with the BJP top brass, including...
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Senior journalist Barkha Dutt shares a collage of images that announces the completion of her book on covering the pandemic. She tweets, two years of reporting Covid distilled finally into 66,285 words. Was emotionally overwhelmed in the writing of this book because of all the grief it made me...
13:33
The Reserve Bank of India on Monday said that RBL Bank is well capitalised and its financial position remains satisfactory, amid speculations relating to the private sector lender in certain quarters in wake of recent events surrounding the bank. In a statement, the Reserve Bank of...
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Update: Kerala has again emerged as the top ranking state in terms of overall health performance among larger states, while Uttar Pradesh is the worst, according to the fourth Health Index launched by Niti Aayog. The fourth round of the Health Index took into account the period 2019-20...
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Kerala is the top state in overall health performance among larger states, Uttar Pradesh the worst, says the 4th Health Index by Niti Aayog. More details awaited.The index measured various indicators such as child mortality rates, sex ratios at birth, immunisation rates, proportion of people...
12:32
60% of the eligible population has been fully vaccinated
Dr RS Sharma, CoWIN platform Chief on the registration process on the CoWIN app. Children in the age group of 15-18 years will be able to register on the CoWIN app from January 1. We've added an additional (10th) ID card for registration -- the student ID card because some may not have...
12:09
RBI issues instructions for bank safe deposit lockers: In line with the SC order, the RBI has introduced revised instructions for bank safe deposit lockers applicable from January 1. -- Banks should carry out due diligence for all the customers who have applied for a locker.-- The locker...
12:07
After itinerant bangle vendor Taslim Ali was beaten in Madhya Pradesh, his attackers claimed he molested a child. Ali, now penurious, spent 108 days in jail before he was granted bail by the high court, which said he had no 'criminal antecedents'. The main evidence in the police...
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Former Punjab chief minister and leader of the newly floated Punjab Lok Congress Amarinder Singh on Monday met with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda in New Delhi.The BJP has announced that it will contest the Punjab assembly polls in alliance with Singh's...
11:55
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan reached the office of the Election Commission of India (ECI) for a meeting convened by the poll panel with senior officials of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to discuss the prevailing COVID-19 situation ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections...
11:24
Chandigarh Municipal Corp poll results : Aam Aadmi Party wins in 4 wards, leading on 3, BJP wins in 2 wards, leads in 3 wards, Congress wins and leads in 2 wards each, Shiromani Akali Dal leads in one ward, as per State Election Commission. The sitting mayor Ravi K Sharma loses in...
11:16
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders from Uttar Pradesh called on party president JP Nadda today at Delhi, ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
10:53
No fear of Covid for these shoppers in Delhi
Night curfew will be imposed in Delhi from 11 pm on Monday, restricting movement of individuals except those in exempted categories, due to rising COVID-19 cases and the threat posed by Omicron, according to a DDMA order. Delhi has recorded the most cases of the new strain in the country...
10:39
Children below 5 are ineligible for the vaccine
A jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations of children in New York has sparked concerns in California amid a surge in Omicron variant infections. Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money, writing in Los Angeles Times said that the Omicron wave hit New York before California, where cases have been...
10:35
Investors mask their fears
The Indian equities market on Friday opened in the red on Monday. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 350.16 points or 0.61 per cent at 28266.76 at 9.35 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 16898.30 at 9.35 am, down by 105.50 points or 0.62 per cent. On the Sensex,...
10:32
India has finally begun boosters for FLWs
The risk of opening educational institutions and office amid the Omicron surge. Thirteen students have tested positive for Covid at the MIT World Peace University, Pune. These students are asymptomatic and are under isolation. The university is vigilant, follows all SOPs to track and trace...
10:17
India saw the highest single day rise of Omicron infections with 156 fresh cases, taking the total tally of such cases to 578, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The ministry said 151 out of the 578 people who contracted the infection have recovered or...
09:44
The first death from the Omicron strain of the coronavirus has been confirmed in Australia, the health department of the state of New South Wales reports.'A man in his 80s from western Sydney died at Westmead Hospital. The man was a resident of the Uniting Lilian Wells aged care facility in North...
09:42
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan who was bitten by a snake at his farmhouse in Panvel kept up with tradition by celebrating his birthday on Monday with family and close friends.'A snake had entered a room in my farmhouse and the children got scared. So I took it outside using a stick. Gradually it...
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If the Yogi Adityanath government returns to power in Uttar Pradesh for a second term, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi will start wearing Hindus' sacred thread 'janeu', worn across the shoulder, and chanting Lord Ram's name, a UP minister said on Sunday.This will be...
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) will convene a meeting with senior officials of the Union health ministry including Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Monday to discuss about the current COVID-19 situation as five states are going into polls next year, informed ECI sources.Assembly...
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