23:54
Hitting out at Pakistan, India on Thursday said that despite repeated calls for restraint and adherence to the ceasefire understanding of 2003, Pakistani forces continue to provide supporting cover fire to infiltrators. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the...
23:36
Vaccine maker Serum Institute of India's CEO Adar Poonawalla on Thursday said the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine should be available for healthcare workers and elderly people by around February 2021 and by April for the general public, and will be priced at a maximum of Rs 1,000 for two necessary doses...
22:57
Delhi recorded 7,546 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday, taking the infection tally in the national capital to over 5.1 lakh, even as 98 more fatalities pushed the toll to 8,041, authorities said. These fresh cases came out of the 62,437 tests conducted the previous day, including...
22:20
Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh's son Raninder Singh was questioned Thursday for six hours by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged foreign exchange violation case. He appeared at the ED's Jalandhar office, answering summons in connection with the case under Foreign Exchange...
22:10
A COVID-19 vaccine developed by a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical firm has been administered to about a million people under the government's emergency use scheme, the company's chairman said.In terms of emergency use, the vaccines were applied to nearly a million people and there has not been...
22:03
Over three million Indians have returned from abroad after the government launched the 'Vande Bharat' evacuation mission on May 7 in view of the coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said phase eight of the mission, made...
21:17
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati's father Prabhu Dayal died here on Thursday, the party said. Dayal (95) was ailing for some time.BSP general secretary Satish Misra issued a condolence message, informing about the demise of the party supremo's father.He expressed condolence on behalf...
21:07
Delhi accounted for 22.39 per cent of the fatalities reported across the country due to the coronavirus infection in a span of 24 hours by recording 131 deaths and became the largest contributor to the single-day COVID-19 deaths in India, the health ministry said on Thursday. Even in terms...
20:36
Lashing out at colleagues who are targeting the Congress leadership following defeat in elections, senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused them of 'weakening' the party from within. Stressing the need to support the party high command, he said, ... we have to fight...
20:13
A night curfew will be imposed in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat from Friday to control the spread of coronavirus, a top government official said on Thursday.The curfew will be in force between 9 pm and 6 am from November 20 (Friday) and remain in operation till further orders, he said.The...
20:07
The chardham yatra came to an end on Thursday with the closure of the portals of Badrinath temple in the Garhwal Himalayas for the winter season. The temple gates were closed at 3.35 pm after an elaborate ritual performed by chief priest of the temple Ishwari Prasad Namboodri.The closure of...
19:51
Fertilizer minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Thursday said he has tested positive for coronavirus and has isolated himself. After initial symptoms of COVID-19, I got myself tested and the report came positive. I have isolated myself, Gowda tweeted. The...
19:41
The Congress is playing a dangerous separatist politics in Jammu and Kashmir and pursuing communal agenda in Assam that threaten the country's unity and integrity, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Assamminister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.He urged senior Congress leaders Sonia...
19:10
The Indian Army is carrying out pinpoint strikes on suspected terror launchpads inside Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to Pakistani military's unrelenting efforts to push maximum number of terrorists into India before the onset of harsh winters, sources in the security establishment said on...
19:07
As Delhi reels under the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his government is working on a war-footing to expand the number of ICU beds in various hospitals. Interacting with reporters after visiting DDU Hospital, he said the doctors have...
19:03
Bypoll to the Rajya Sabha seat vacated following the death of veteran LJP leader Ram Vilas Paswan will be held on December 14, the Election Commission said on Thursday. Paswan's term as a member of the Upper House from Bihar was to otherwise end in April, 2024. He died on October 8.The...
18:23
Nationalist Congress Party leader and former Maharashtra minister Eknath Khadse has tested positive for COVID-19, sources close to him said on Thursday.Khadse will be admitted to a city-based hospital.Natha bhau (as Khadse is known) tested positive on Thursday afternoon. He will be treated at a...
18:19
Shares of Pfizer Ltd on Thursday closed with over 3 per cent gain after Pfizer Inc's announcement that the COVID-19 vaccine developed in partnership with BioNTech was found to be 95 per cent effective in the final analysis of the phase 3 trial. On the BSE, the scrip rose by 3.02 per cent to...
17:45
The actual number of global infections in the COVID-19 pandemic could be up to six times higher than the reported number of cases, according to a modelling study. The researchers, including those from the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of Melbourne, found infection...
17:44
Just when the Delhi zoo was celebrating the arrival of a Royal Bengal tigress, the first in six years, from the Kanpur zoo for breeding proposes under an animal exchange programme, its 15-year-old Bengal tiger Bittu died on Thursday due to a kidney-related ailment. The tiger, 'B-2',...
16:57
CEC Sunil Arora
The widow of a CRPF jawan, who died fighting terrorists during the 2002 Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, has received ex-gratia payment from the Election Commission after 18 years following the intervention of the top brass. Anguished by the delay, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil...
16:47
The Centre has rushed high-level teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur where they will visit districts reporting high number of COVID-19 cases and support the state's efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing and efficient clinical management of positive...
16:40
Bihar education minister Mewa Lal Chaudhary, whose appointment to the post had triggered a controversy on account of a corruption taint, on Thursday tendered his resignation, barely three days after being sworn in as a member of the Nitish Kumar cabinet. Chaudhary, who was allocated the...
15:59
The encounter spot where the 4 terrorists were killed
A significant quantity of Pakistan-made medicines were recovered from the possession of four terrorists who were neutralised in Jammu's Nagrota on Thursday, sources said.Several packets of SURFI, Flagyl tablets and Dicloran 75 mg injection are among medicines recovered from the killed terrorists,...
15:54
A Pakistan court awards 10 years jail term to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed in two more terror cases. The Saeed-led JuD is the front organisation for Lashkar-e-Taiba which is responsible for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attack that killed 166 people, including...
15:45
BJP's national women's wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan
The DMK alienated Tamil Nadu by not allowing the of Hindi, BJP's national women's wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan alleged on Thursday and said legendary Tamil women would be popularised in north India by her party. After assuming office as the president of the saffron party's Mahila Morcha in...
15:36
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A joint committee of Parliament for Data Protection asks Twitter why it has not taken action against the tweets by comedian Kunal Kamra about the Chief Justice of India.The social media giant's policy head Mahima Kaul was grilled by the Joint Committee headed by the BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi, reports...
15:28
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lay out the biggest programme of investment in British defence since the end of the Cold War in Parliament on Thursday, pumping in an extra 4 billion pounds a year over the next four years. The mega investment plan will fund space and cyber defence projects...
15:23
Former US President Barack Obama's highly anticipated memoir A Promised Land has sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours of sale, according to the book's publisher.Around 887,000 units were sold in the US and Canada, which includes pre-order sales and first-day...
15:07
Shoppers at Sarojini Mkt, Delhi probably believe Covid has disappeared
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the fine for not wearing a mask has been increased to Rs 2,000 in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases in the national capital.In Delhi, a large number of people are wearing masks but still some are not wearing them. A fine of Rs 2,000 will be...
14:51
Former CM and Hindustani Awam Morcha president Jitan Ram Manjhi sworn in as Pro-Tem speaker of Bihar Assembly. The party which joined the NDA shortly before the polls won four seats.
14:37
Noting that it is natural to prioritise Covid-19 vaccine distribution, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said healthcare workers and people aged above 65 will be early recipients when a vaccine becomes available.Addressing a webinar organised by the FICCI FLO on 'The Shifting Healthcare...
14:25
The Delhi government will increase the number of RTPCR tests conducted daily from around 18,000 to 27,000 and the chief minister will meet market associations if any decision is taken on shutting down markets in view of a Covid-19 surge, AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj said on Thursday.Speaking to...
14:23
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal addresses the media after the all-party meeting to discuss the COVID-19 situation in the national capital. I told all parties in the meet that it's a difficult time for the people of Delhi when COVID cases are rising. It's not the time for politics, there is an entire...
14:13
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing professionals to work from home and students to attend classes online using earphones, doctors are now getting more patients with complaints of pain, irritation and infection in the ears. According to medical experts, use of headphones and earpods for long...
13:46
Former Union Defence Minister and senior Congress leader AK Antony and his wife Elizabeth Antony have tested COVID-19 positive.AK Antony's son Anil K Antony shared the news through social media on Thursday and said his parents' condition is stable. The duo is undergoing treatment at the All...
13:37
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The coronavirus vaccine developed by teams at the University of Oxford has been shown to trigger a robust immune response in healthy adults aged 56-69 and those over 70 years of age. The findings published in Lancet on Thursday based on 560 healthy adult volunteers shows that the ChAdOx1...
13:15
Moody's Investors Service on Thursday upped India growth forecast to (-) 10.6 per cent for the current fiscal, from its earlier estimate of (-) 11.5 per cent, saying the latest stimulus prioritises manufacturing and job creation, and focuses on longer-term growth.Last week the government had...
12:51
Shares of Pfizer Ltd rose nearly 4 per cent in early trade on Thursday after Pfizer Inc announced that the Covid-19 vaccine developed in partnership with BioNTech was found 95 per cent effective in the final analysis of the Phase 3 trial. The stock surged by 3.83 per cent to Rs 5,098 on the...
12:36
The 'Karachi Sweets' shop in Bandra West - the owner of which was allegedly asked by Shiv Sena leader Nitin Nandgaokar to omit the word 'Karachi' from its name -- now has the name covered with newspaper.
12:18
Though the graph of Covid-19 cases has shown signs of decline, the Maharashtra government, anticipating a second wave of the infection, has asked authorities not to drop guard and take all necessary steps to deal with any situation. A circular-cum-advisory issued by the state Directorate...
11:58
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Centre to respond to a PIL seeking a declaration recognising same sex marriages under the Hindu Marriage Act and Special Marriage Act. A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Asha Menon issued notice to the Centre on the plea and asked it to file a...
11:51
A video of Shiv Sena leader Nitin Nandgaokar goes viral, where he's allegedly asking Karachi Sweets shop owner in Bandra to change the name 'Karachi'. You have to do it, we're giving you time. Change 'Karachi' to something in Marathi, says Nitin Nandgaokar in the video. The Maharashtra...
11:23
Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro on Thursday said it has bagged an order worth over Rs 7,000 crore to construct a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR), also known as the Bullet Train Project. The engineering and construction company, however, did not provide the exact...
11:06
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi cuts a lonely figure on her way to pay tribute to former Prime Minister and her mother-in-law, at Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum, on her birth anniversary.
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The minimum temperature in the national capital dropped to 9.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday morning, the lowest this season so far, due to cold winds blowing from snow-capped western Himalayas. The minimum temperature on Thursday was three notches below normal. The city recorded a low of 10.6...
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Poet-activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, has been shifted from Taloja jail in Raigad district to Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital following a directive by the Bombay High Court, a jail official said on Thursday. Rao was shifted to the private hospital late...
10:28
Equity benchmark Sensex tumbled over 200 points in early trade on Thursday, tracking losses in index majors HDFC twins, ICICI Bank and Infosys amid negative cues from global markets. The 30-share BSE index was trading 240.96 points or 0.55 per cent lower at 43,939.09 in the opening...
10:05
On Indira Gandhi's birth anniversary, journalist Nikhil Wagle has a point: Indira Gandhi reminds me of emergency, sycophancy and attacks on democratic institutions. Today Modi is inspired by her style. But Indira was defeated and made to admit her mistakes. I am waiting for Modi to do that one...
09:58
With festivals just behind us, apart from the ongoing Chhat puja, the Covid tally in India, expectedly has risen. There are 45,576 new Covid-19 infections, India's total cases rise to 89,58,484. With 585 new deaths, toll mounts to 1,31,578. Total active cases at 4,43,303 after a decrease of...
09:48
A 12-hour bandh call has been given by the state BJP after their party worker was allegedly beaten to death in Cooch Behar. Our workers are constantly being killed by TMC but police is not doing anything. So, today's bandh is our protest against such killings, says a BJP worker.
09:37
US President-elect Joe Biden has warned that a delay in transition by the outgoing Trump administration will put behind the COVID-19 vaccination plan by weeks or months. In a virtual roundtable with healthcare workers on COVID-19, Biden alleged on Wednesday that his transition team has not...
09:22
Aatish Taseer's tweet, if you haven't stumbled on it yet: I like Love Jihad. It's the only kind of jihad worth waging --and, quite frankly, where would I be without it?Taseer, a writer and columnist, is the son of senior journalist Tavleen Singh and the late Pakistani politician Salman Taseer.His...
09:17
Rahul Gandhi tweeted this picture of his grandmother
The Congress on Thursday paid rich tributes to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary with Rahul Gandhi saying the whole country still gives the example of her impressive leadership. Born on 19 November, 1917, Indira Gandhi served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and...
09:03
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called an all-party meeting on Thursday to discuss a strategy for COVID-19 management and containment in Delhi, where cases have been spiralling since October end.The meeting is likely to be attended by BJP, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party legislators, and...
08:34
An encounter broke out at the Ban toll plaza in Jammus Nagrota where security forces laid a naka upon receiving information about suspected terrorists hiding at the location. Four terrorists have been gunned down in the encounter on Thursday morning.The gunfight went on for several hours while...
08:22
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi pays tribute to former prime minister and his grandmother Indira Gandhi at Shakti Sthal, on her birth anniversary today.On the occasion of birth anniversary of former prime minister Indira Gandhi, Indian Youth Congress workers distributed blankets to the needy present...
08:11
The United States has seen more than 250,000 deaths due to Covid-19 as a new swath of data was released that pushed the stricken country over the grim landmark on Wednesday.Latest figures from Johns Hopkins University showed that the number of people killed by the virus is now 250,180.The news...
07:47
Delhi recorded 7,486 fresh COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the infection tally in the national capital to over 5 lakh, even as 131 new fatalities, the highest single-day death count till date, pushed the toll to 7,943, authorities said.These fresh cases came out of the 62,232 tests conducted...
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The Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party were engaged in a war of words on Wednesday on the issue of Chhath puja, with the saffron party's Manoj Tiwari calling Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal namakharam for banning the rituals at public places. In a tweet, Tiwari lashed out...
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