23:48
The Congress on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been missing in action all through the COVID-19 pandemic and it is time for him to act instead of giving speeches and advice. The party said India needs compassion and healing instead of tears of guilt and a strong resolve to...
23:29
Samantha Akkineni in 'The family man 2'
The The family man 2 web series, which is set to be released soon on Amazon Prime, sought to portray the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as terrorists and Tamils as vicious, Naam Tamilar Katchi top leader Seemanalleged on Friday. Demanding that the airing of the web series...
23:20
Amid an acute shortage of COVID-19 vaccines in the country, executive director of Pune-based Serum Institute of India Suresh Jadhav on Friday alleged that the government began inoculating people from multiple age groups without taking into account the available stock of vaccines and the WHO...
22:27
Achieving herd immunity against the COVID-19 may be unrealistic due to the mutations of the virus that causes it, South African experts have said, as they called for long-term vaccination strategies amid uncertainty about current vaccine efficacy. Many governments are targeting herd...
22:16
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that the USD 60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has achieved remarkable results and brought important benefits to people of both countries. He made the remarks in an exchange of congratulatory messages with his Pakistan counterpart Arif...
21:56
At least 3 million people are estimated to have died from the COVID-19 pandemic globally in 2020, about 2 times higher than the 1.8 million official fatality figure reported by countries to the WHO, a significant undercount of total deaths directly and indirectly attributed to the coronavirus,...
21:21
Mumbai on Friday added 1,416 COVID-19 cases to its tally, taking it to 6,95,080, while in a sign that the second wave of infections was easing, the case doubling time crossed the 300 day mark and surged to 317, officials said. As on the Thursday, the time...
20:28
Senior journalist Rajkumar Keswani, who warned about the 1985 Bhopal gas tragedy, passed away. Read his special interview with Rediff.com HERE
20:22
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday announced extension of lockdown from May 24 to June 7 for a period of 14 days to contain the spread of coronavirus in the state. The stringent restrictions are already in effect from May 10 and was supposed to end on May 24....
19:52
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of over 40 protesting farmer unions, Friday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging resumption of talks over the three farm laws they have been agitating against at Delhi borders since November last year. Several rounds of talks between...
19:31
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed order of Allahabad high court in which it said that entire medical system in villages and small cities of Uttar Pradesh is at God's mercy ('Ram bharose') amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A vacation bench of Justices Vineet Saran and BR Gavai said that the directions...
19:12
Tech giant Google has revealed that it would be opening its first-ever physical retail store in New York City this summer.According to Mashable, located at 15th and 9th Streets, the Chelsea location will host an extensive selection of products made by Google, including Nests, Pixel phones, Fitbit...
19:07
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, who is currently lodged in a Rohtak jail, was on Friday granted one-day parole to meet his ailing mother, officials said. For the daylong parole, he was taken from the Rohtak's Sunaria jail to meet his mother at a location, which has been kept...
18:51
13 Naxals, including 6 men and 7 women, neutralized in a police operation in the forest area of Etapalli, Gadchiroli earlier today. AK-47, SLR Rifle, 303 Rifle, Carbine, 12 Bore Rifle and explosives recovered.
18:50
The Delhi high court on Friday passed an interim order restraining social networking platforms WhatsApp and Telegram and certain individuals from allegedly illegally circulating e-papers of Bennett, Coleman and Company Ltd on their respective platforms. Justice Jayant Nath said prima facie...
18:45
'The peculiar challenge for Indian democracy is that the Adityanath brand of politics could be a threat both if it succeeds and if it fails. We are reaching a stage in Indian democracy when we should not be complacent about peaceful transitions of power. The BJP is attempting to subvert an...
18:43
Beneficiaries queue up to get vaccinated
A total of 500 Covishield vials, used to treat Covid patients, have been reported missing from a government hospital in Hyderabad, police said on Friday. The medical superintendent of the hospital at Kondapur has lodged a complaint that 50 boxes containing 500 Covishield vaccines have gone...
18:13
The government has asked Twitter to remove manipulated media tags for tweets on an alleged Congress toolkit to discredit Covid efforts, NDTV reports. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra's tweet on May 18 posting screenshots of the alleged toolkit was marked manipulated media by Twitter last...
18:06
Britain's Prince Harry has spoken out about how he used alcohol and even thought about drugs as he struggled with mental health issues following his mother Princess Diana's death in a car crash in Paris in 1997. In a new documentary series for Apple TV which he has made with American talk...
17:53
Crew rescued from Barge P305 walks out of INS Kochi
Afcons Infrastructure, whose chartered barge had sunk in the Arabian Sea due to a cyclone this week leaving at least 51 people dead, on Friday said it will provide compensation ranging from Rs 35-75 lakh to the families of the deceased personnel. The chartered barge P-305 sank in the Arabian...
17:34
A patient with Black Fungus treated in hospital
Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Friday said there were 197 cases of black fungus or mucormycosis in hospitals across Delhi till Wednesday night, including non-residents who have come to the city for treatment. The minister also said many inoculation centres for the 18-44 age group are being...
17:19
Renowned environmentalist Sunder Lal Bahuguna who died of Covid-19 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh on Friday, was cremated with full state honours at the Poornanand Ghaat on the banks of the Ganga. His body was brought to the ghat wrapped in the national...
17:14
Rebel YSR Congress MP K Raghurama Krishnam Raju, arrested on sedition charges, granted bail by Supreme Court.
17:07
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Friday claimed that over one lakh people have died in the state due to COVID-19 in March-April this year as per the figures provided by the cremation grounds and graveyards, and accused the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government of hiding the real...
16:55
The two sons of eminent sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra died of COVID-19 within days of their father succumbing to the infection, family sources said on Friday. Raghunath Mohapatra (78), a former Rajya Sabha member who was conferred with Padma Vibhushan, died at AIIMS- Bhubaneswar on May...
16:52
Rajasthan HC rejects the interim bail plea of Asaram Bapu, serving life imprisonment in a rape case. He was seeking interim bail on health grounds He was admitted to AIIMS after contracting COVID and as per his health bulletin he has completed his quarantine period and can be discharged.Another...
16:49
--Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal meets the family of Nitin Tawar, a teacher who succumbed to COVID-19, and hands over a cheque of Rs 1 crore to them.-- SN Shrivastava, presently holding the additional charge of Commissioner of Police, Delhi is hereby appointed to the post of Commissioner of Police:...
16:13
Cyclone Amphan had hit Bengal end May last year
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has begun positioning its teams in West Bengal and Odisha as Cyclone Yaas is likely to hit these states on the eastern coast of the country around May 26-27, officials said on Friday. Some of the teams dispatched to undertake evacuation, rescue and...
16:06
Equity benchmark Sensex skyrocketed 976 points on Friday, led by gains in index heavyweights HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and SBI as steady earnings reported by key financial stocks lifted investor sentiment. The 30-share BSE index ended 975.62 points or 1.97 per cent higher at 50,540.48,...
16:02
Arun Gawli gets his 1st Covid vax jab
The once infamous den of underworld don Arun Gawli's criminal activities, Dagdi Chawl in Byculla here is all set to be redeveloped and make way for two swanky 40-storey residential buildings, an official said on Friday. The chawl, which was once a housing facility for workers employed...
15:53
A Black Fungus infected patient in Hyderabad
The Union Health Ministry on Friday said licenses have been given to five more manufactures for production of Amphotericin-B, used in the treatment of black fungus, and they will start producing 1,11,000 vials of the drug per month from July. Efforts are being made to supplement the...
15:39
Doctors treat patients at a Black Fungus ward
Maharashtra: Dy CM Ajit Pawar says, Presently there are over 300 cases of black fungus in Pune, including many outsiders (residents of other districts). There's a shortage of injections for them. If there are 300 patients, around 1800 injections a day are needed and that is not available in...
15:31
Bhowanipur MLA Sovandeb Chatterjee (right) with the Speaker
TMC's Sovandeb Chatterjee resigns as MLA from Bhawanipore. West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee said, I have enquired from him if he has resigned voluntarily and without coercion. I am satisfied, and I have accepted his resignation. Bhowanipur MLA Sovandeb Chatterjee said,...
15:20
The Goa government will appeal against the acquittal of founder and former Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka Magazine Tarun Tejpal. Goa CM Pramod Sawant says his government is very serious about pursuing the case. A Sessions Court in Goa acquitted Tejpal of all charges in the alleged sexual assault...
15:00
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of indulging in anti-people activities, playing with the future of farmers and acting against their interests by bringing new agriculture laws. She praised the...
14:49
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday talked about mucormycosis and how it is emerging as a new challenge, the Centre said it has taken a slew of measures to ensure mucormycosis medicine Amphotericin-B is available in the country adequately. Be it ramping up the capacity of the existing...
14:36
Veteran TMC leader and Bengal minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay says he will vacate Bhowanipur assembly seat, three weeks after he won elections from there. Bhowanipur was Mamata Banerjee's constituency for the last 10 years, but this time she choose Nandigram and was pitted against BJP's...
14:14
Procurement of coronavirus vaccines and raw materials to boost domestic production is set to be a major focus area of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's five-day visit to the United States beginning Monday. Announcing the visit, the Ministry of External Affairs said Jaishankar will...
14:00
Indira Gandhi with Rajiv, Sonia, Maneka, and the kids, Priyanka and Rahul
May 21, 2021, marks the 30th death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated on this day in 1991 by Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists in Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, while on an election campaign.Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf spoke to veteran Congress watcher Rasheed Kidwai, a Visiting Fellow...
13:57
Senior Congress leader Margaret Alva's son, Nivedith, tweets this picture with former PM Rajiv Gandhi, on his death anniversary today. @nivedithalva: One of my favourite pics. December 1989. #RememberingRajivGandhi Tributes to a visionary leader on his death anniversary.
13:50
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will begin a five-day visit to the United States from Monday with a focus on procurement of coronavirus vaccines from American companies as well as explore the possibility of their joint production. The Ministry of External Affairs said Jaishankar...
13:48
As per a new report, studies show that maintaining good oral hygiene can help you overcome COVID-19, implying that there is a direct connection between oral hygiene and the deadly infection.report was published in the US's leading organisation of periodontists, the American Academy of...
13:16
Doctors treat a Black Fungus infected patient in Jabalpur
AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria on the Black fungus infection that has caused several hundred deaths in Covid patients.There has been an increasing trend in the fungal infection being seen in COVID patients. This was also reported to some extent during SARS outbreak. Uncontrolled diabetes with...
13:09
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lauded Varanasi for fighting efficiently against the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis.Modi choked with emotion while thanking doctors, frontline workers during the video conference with them and said the fight against COVID-19 is going to be...
13:05
Chipko movement leader Sundarlal Bahuguna dies of Covid-19 at AIIMS, Rishikesh today, says AIIMS Rishikesh Administration.
12:50
After his acquittal on Friday in the alleged sexual assault case, Tehelka magazine Editor-in-Chief Tarun Tejpal said he had been fasely accused and thanked the additional sessions judge court in Goa for its rigorous, impartial and fair trial.In a statement after the verdict, Tejpal also thanked...
12:47
Microsoft has said that it is retiring its long-standing browser Internet Explorer on June 15 next year after serving the netizens for over 25 years. The veteran web browser was released with Windows 95, the tech giant said in a blog post on Wednesday. The Internet Explorer 11 desktop...
12:42
The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered house arrest of four political leaders, including two Bengal ministers, who were held in the Narada sting tapes case earlier in the week. The judges of the division bench -- presided by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal -- differed in...
12:12
China on Friday said that any successor to the present Dalai Lama should be approved by it, ruling out recognition to any heir nominated by him or by his followers. The reincarnation of the Dalai Lama and other grand Living Buddhas has been subjected to approval by the central government since...
11:50
Two doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are around 85 per cent to 90 per cent effective against symptomatic disease, Public Health England (PHE) has said, citing a new analysis of real-world data from the rollout of the shot in the UK. (The AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured...
11:50
Uddhav Thackeray arrives at Chipi airport
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is on a tour of cyclone Tauktae-hit Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts in Konkan region on Friday, where he directed the administration to complete within two days the assessment of crops loss. Thackeray arrived at Ratnagiri in the morning...
11:11
Breaking news: Former Editor-in-Chief of Tehelka Magazine, Tarun Tejpal acquitted of all charges in the alleged sexual assault case against him.Tejpal, who is out on bail, was accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague in 2013 on the sidelines of a conference at a five-star resort in...
10:48
After a gap of two days, petrol and diesel prices again witnessed a minor hike across the metros on Friday.In Delhi, petrol prices went up by 19 paise from 92.85 per litre on May 19 and reached 93.04 per litre while the diesel prices have gone up by 29 paise from Rs 83.51 per litre to Rs 83.80...
10:35
Twitter has labelled as manipulated media a tweet of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra on the alleged toolkit prepared by the Congress to target the Modi government. Twitter says it may label Tweets that include media (videos, audio, and images) that have been deceptively altered or...
10:19
The Mumbai Police registered a case against the captain of the barge which sank in the Arabian sea during Cyclone Tauktae. As many as 49 lives were lost in the incident. The captain was booked on the basis of the rescued barge engineer's complaint.Mumbai's Yellow Gate police station registered...
09:51
Bodies of at least 13 Naxals were recovered on Friday from the forest area of Etapalli in Gadchiroli district where an encounter is underway between the C-60 unit of Maharashtra Police and Naxals.According to Sandip Patil, Deputy Inspector General of police, Gadchiroli, the operation was a huge...
09:31
The number of coronavirus disease cases recorded in India in the last 24 hours dipped to 2.59 lakh, the Union health ministry data showed on Friday. With this, the nationwide tally reached 26,031,991.The daily fatality count - an area of concern in the second wave of the pandemic - once again...
09:16
The Union health ministry said that 50 per per cent of the country's population isn't wearing a mask, as it shared an update about Covid-19 situation in India. At the media briefing, health ministry Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal said that eight states have more than 1 lakh active cases of Covid-19,...
08:43
An Indian Air Force pilot sustained fatal injuries after his MiG-21 aircraft crashed near Punjab's Moga, the Indian Air Force said on Friday.The aircraft was on a routine training sortie when the accident happened. The IAF lost Squadron leader Abhinav Choudhary in the accident. IAF took to...
08:37
Priyanka Chopra, who started a fundraiser along with GiveIndia organisation, informed fans that she has managed to raise Rs 22 crore with the help of contributions made by her fans and people across the globe.Your contributions are making things happen. Heres a quick update. With funds received...
08:10
Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire ending a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip and brought life in much of Israel to a standstill.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israel accepted the Egyptian proposal after a late-night meeting of...
01:12
The Indian Medical Association on Thursday released fresh figures on Covid-related fatalities among doctors, saying 329 of them succumbed to the disease during the ongoing second wave of the pandemic.Bihar alone saw 80 deaths, the maximum among states, followed by Delhi (73), Uttar Pradesh (41),...
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