'We have the technical expertise, and international collaborations. We also have robust real-time data. We are a university of pandemic management. If the ministry neglects the role of NCDC, it is the loss of the country'
A severe cold wave brought the minimum temperature down to a numbing 1.5 degrees Celsius at the Ridge weather station in central Delhi.
There are 9,73,175 active cases of COVID-19 in the country which comprises 20.47 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
Authorities alerted people to avoid staying outdoors and L-G ordered to halt all civil construction activities across the city till Sunday.
India's death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 6,642 with a record increase of 294 deaths in the 24 hours till Saturday 8 am.
The death toll has gone up by 193 since Saturday morning, of which 99 were from Maharashtra, 27 from Gujarat, 18 from Delhi, nine each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, seven from West Bengal, six each from Tamil Nadu and Telangana, five in Bihar, three from Uttar Pradesh, two from Punjab, and one each from Haryana and Kerala
The first Airbus A-320 aircraft of Tata-SIA joint venture Vistara airline, painted with its logo and livery, landed at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on Wednesday, taking the carrier a step closer to its launch.
A massive pan-India inoculation drive against COVID-19 was set in process on Tuesday with more than 56 lakh doses of the Covishield vaccine flown to 13 cities across India from Pune and taken to designated national and state-level stores amid tight security.
It and Vistara both book slots here; former also likely to launch Mumbai flights from early 2015.
People must also avoid mass gatherings, and new year celebrations need to be at low intensity, the government said.
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu reported one case each, officials said.
The boy was born through a C-section on June 16 at Sonam Nurboo Memorial Hospital in Leh and 30-year-old Dorjey Palmo found out that her baby was unable to suckle when she tried to feed him. The baby underwent a complex life-saving surgery recently at a private hospital New Delhi.
Kapoor said the names of the prominent places should be changed after those who worked for the welfare of the country.
Jammu and Kashmir and Odisha on Tuesday recorded their first cases of the Omicron variant of COVID as the count of the new strain in 14 states and union territories crossed 200 even as the Centre said there is a need to 'activate' war rooms, take 'pro-active' action and consider night curfews.
According to sources, Vistara was looking at commencing operations on Oct 15 to commemorate J R D Tata's flight from Karachi to Mumbai on the same date in 1932.
Indian evacuation flights are operating out of Bucharest and Budapest. The government is not charging the rescued citizens for the evacuation flights.
The airline will be running the fight on a daily basis from the Rajasansi International Airport. The flight currently runs thrice a week. The proposed move is expected to provide a relief to perishable exporters and farmers of Punjab who were affected after Jet Airways and Singapore Airlines withdrew their services last year stating it was not feasible for them to continue anymore.
Polling for 16 Rajya Sabha seats in four states will be held on Friday amid allegations of attempts at horse-trading by rival parties which have corralled their MLAs in hotels and scenic resorts, prompting the Election Commission to appoint special observers and order videography of the entire exercise.
The airline is also looking at cities in the northeast.
As many as 38 flights, including 23 domestic and nine international, were diverted from the Delhi airport to nearby cities between 6-8.45 pm.
Kingfisher Airlines is likely to commence international operations from August. It will initially start its operations to destinations like San Francisco, London, New York from the Bangalore Airport. Some more destinations will be added later, according to Siva Ramachandran, vice-president (global sales), Kingfisher Airlines.
'The Khalistanis get bulk of the money from abroad.' 'Where did Amritpal's Mercedes come from, which costs well over Rs 60 lakhs?' 'Where does his fleet of vehicles come from?' 'Local Punjabis can certainly not contribute this kind of money.'
Two days back, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation had asked IndiGo to take "appropriate action" after it found alleged violation of safety and social-distancing protocols by mediapersons in the airline's Chandigarh-Mumbai flight that had actor Kangana Ranaut as a passenger.
The future certainly looks good for Bangalore.
Modi's critics will say that he has put up cement and steel structures, but weakened the institutions of governance whereas Nehru strengthened them, observes T N Ninan.
The sky turned cloudy around 4:30pm and gusty winds swept the national capital.
L&T had also sought shareholders' approval to raise $600 million through a qualified institutional placement.
Aviation turbine fuel accounts for 35-40 per cent of the total operating cost of an Indian airline.
This is the first time after 25 years, that Himachal received snowfall on Christmas day, officials said.
Airline pares capacity on routes like Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Bengaluru on weekends, uses freed up slot at Mumbai to fly Amritsar, Patna, Varanasi
The really disturbing numbers relate to inequality.
This is the first market where the newest entrant to Mondelez's global chocolate portfolio will be launched, Siddharth Mukherjee, director, chocolate category & media, Mondelez India Foods Ltd, said in an exclusive conversation with Business Standard.
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Some experts believe that building new cities may not be the answer to India's swelling urban population.
'Somehow the Flying Sikh has endured in people's memory.'
'India's first and longest-serving prime minister created -- or at the very least imagined -- a modern, democratic nation-State of the 20th century,' says Sunil Sethi.
The fresh round of cancellation process of the 4,470 NGOs started on May 6.
An analysis of the National Housing Bank's Residex shows from 2007 to now, almost all tier-II cities have seen their residential property prices appreciate by 45-120 per cent.
Dense fog and cold weather conditions continue in the national capital as the mercury plunges to 2.6 degree Celsius, five notches below normal on Monday.
Singapore Airlines has given new brand names to two carriers it controls - SilkAir (short-haul) and Scoot (low-cost, long-haul.
Major global airlines, including Gulf carriers, are keen to invest in this space.
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