The Centre has warned it is likely that the spread of the new variant will outpace the Delta variant where there is community transmission.
It said it will also allow reservation of reserved tickets from common service centres (CSC) and through ticketing agents with effect from Friday. The zonal railways have been instructed to decide and notify opening of reservation counters as per local needs and conditions, the order stated.
CPI-M- MP from Serampore, West Bengal, Santasri Chatterjee said the government should understand that the Unorganised Workers' Social Security Bill in its present form would not be able to fulfil the aspirations of the workers in the sector. BJP MP Satyanarayan Jatiya said 94 per cent of the workforce falls under the unorganised sector and there was a need to set up a mechanism to look into their specific needs.
Shabaz, representing Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, trounced Shravan of Maharashtra 82-38 54-67 54-20 65-26 while Andhra Pradesh's K Someswara Rao thrashed Druv Sitwala of PSPB 58-1 49-27 61-73 39-58 43-34 in the Senior Snooker draw of the ongoing National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Hyderabad.
The incident, initially reported as a stampede, occurred when there was a huge rush of pilgrims to board vessels to reach Kolkata.
The Nandigram fracas is taking a toll on placements at the oldest Indian Institute of Management (IIM), in Kolkata, with top-notch recruiters like Goldman Sachs deciding not to visit the campus this year for summer placements.
Hundreds of migrant workers from Delhi, Haryana and even Punjab reached Anand Vihar, Ghazipur and Ghaziabad's Lal Kuan area after taking arduous treks of many kilometers on foot to take buses to their respective native places
The results were declared for Delhi and Allahabad regions covering seven states, and Class X results were declared for Ajmer and Chennai regions.\n\n\n\n
Alarmed by a petition pointing out a parallel Islamic judiciary for handling "Imrana" type cases, the Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notices to the central government, All India Muslim Personal Law Board and Islamic seminary Darul Uloom.
The TMC leader, who was attending a sports event in Howrah, West Bengal on Sunday was busy attending phone calls while the national anthem was being played.
Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday registered a record number of 46 cases in a day in connection with its probe in the Rs 10,000-crore Saradha chit fund scam naming Trinamool Congress' sitting Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh as one of the accused.
Researchers plan to move court if Shyam Benegal's film, Bose -- The Forgotten Hero, is released in its present form.
'The handling of the pandemic, under this totally constitutional and legal three-level dictatorship, has begun to show its downside,' observes Shekhar Gupta.
The Union textile minister's car collided with truck.
He said the poll victory in Assam, the first for the party in the north east, has made it clear that BJP is rapidly receiving "popular acceptance" in all parts of the country which "augurs well" for the democracy.
Factories are shutting down owing to a shortage of labour and raw materials, and a lack of logistical support amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic.
In a major outsourcing deal, Nokia has bagged an order to manage Hutch-Essar's mobile network in nine circles for five years
The All Asom Koch Rajbongshi Students' Union activists stopped the bus, which was traveling from Cooch Behar in West Bengal to Assam's North Lakhimpur, on National Highway 31 near Golakganj late on Friday. The activists pelted stones at the private bus, hurled two petrol bombs and locked the doors of the burning vehicle with the passengers inside, Mahanta said. The injured said they broke the front windshield and window panes to get out of the burning bus.
'If he has not achieved 'Congress mukt Bharat' even now, the question of his creating a 'DMK mukt Tamil Nadu' does not arise,' points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Tata group chairman Ratan Tata on Tuesday came out in support of the West Bengal government for offering shares of Haldia Petrochemicals Limited to state-owned Indian Oil Corporation -- a decision contested by HPL's principal promoter, the Chatterjee
Prime minister-elect Narendra Modi's first official visit as head of government will likely be to Dhaka, where he is expected to sign the much-awaited Teesta water-sharing agreement with Bangladesh Prime Minister Hasina.
Barua beat GM Pendyala Harikrishna while Ganguly accounted for Sriram Jha in the third round of the National 'A' chess championship to forge ahead.
Of the 937 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 369 fatalities, followed by Gujarat at 162, Madhya Pradesh at 113, Delhi at 54, Rajasthan at 46 and Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh at 31 each.
Elections are due in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal that year. Early indications show Bengal holds promise for the BJP, but the party may have to recast itself to win Tamil Nadu.
The government has set up a monitoring committee to pursue cases against fly-by-night companies and has involved the RBI and the Sebi in the process.
The entire stadium had plunged into darkness save for two generator-propelled emergency lights, and the beginning of the second half was delayed by 29 minutes due to the powercut
Armed Maoists on Sunday hijacked a passenger train on the West Bengal-Jharkhand border and threatened to blow it up, but later abandoned it and made off with two rifles and a walkie-talkie.
Ice-candies sold in Kolkata full of enteric microbes.
The Centre said the upsurge of COVID-19 cases is happening in cities and the Omicron variant is the predominant circulating strain.
The top seed is closely followed by Kruttika Nadig after the fourth round in the National Junior girls' chess championship.
Punjab Police emerged overall champions in the 10th Federation Cup athletics championships, which concluded on Thursday.
Despite the national capital recording its best air quality on Diwali day in eight years, pollution levels may rise due to low night temperatures and sporadic burning of firecrackers though there is a ban on their manufacture, storage, sale and use within the city.
Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Dilip Vengsarkar and Mohammad Azharuddin took a lap around the 'Mecca of Indian cricket'
