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At least 64 cases of 4.2 variant of COVID-19 have been reported in the country as on December 16, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. These include 42 cases from Chhattisgarh, 11 from Gujarat, 4 from Tamil Nadu, 3 from Bihar, 2 from...
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The first batch of indigenously developed next-generation armoured engineer reconnaissance vehicles was inducted into the Army on Tuesday, the defence ministry said.It said the vehicles were inducted into the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army at an event in Pune in presence of Chief of Army...
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Three persons were killed and 44 others suffered injuries in a fire that broke out in the Haldia Refinery of the Indian Oil Corporation in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district on Tuesday, police said.The IOC in a statement said the incident occurred at a unit of the refinery during shutdown...
21:54
The Winter session of Parliament is likely to conclude on Wednesday, a day before schedule.Parliamentary sources said that with the government completing most of its legislative agenda, there is a likelihood that Parliament could be adjourned sine die on Wednesday.The session commenced on...
21:36
To scale up the Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign for the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Union Minister Amit Shah will tour the state in the coming days and will cover more than 140 constituencies, sources said on Tuesday. During his trip, which will span over a week starting December 24, Shah,...
20:29
Sensex- Top gainers today.
20:28
Amid Omicron scare, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said that prior permission is now mandatory for any programme or event to be attended by 200 or more people.As per a circular issued on December 20, permission of the local assistant municipal commissioner will be required for...
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Three out of the 34 Omicron-positive cases reported at the Lok Nayak Hospital in New Delhi do not have travel history, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Tuesday.The minister said the number of Omicron cases in the capital has increased to 54.The LNJP Hospital has reported 34 cases of...
19:16
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has been forced to call off traditional Christmas plans at her Sandringham estate in Norfolk, eastern England, and will stay on at Windsor Castle amidst a surge in coronavirus cases being driven by the Omicron variant of COVID-19.On Monday, she took what Buckingham...
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Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien has been suspended from Rajya Sabha for the remaining part of the current Session for 'unruly behaviour' in the House.He had allegedly thrown the Rajya Sabha Rule Book towards the Chair on December 21 during the discussion on Election Laws (Amendment Bill)...
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Over 96 lakh healthcare workers out of the 1.05 crore registered with the government's CoWIN portal have been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus till December 17, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday.In a written response to a question in the Upper House of Parliament, Minister of State...
17:47
No member of any community should hold religious prayers in public places, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar told the state assembly on Tuesday amid objections by several Hindu groups to Friday prayers by Muslims in open in Gurugram. People of all faiths hold prayers at...
17:33
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that her children's Instagram accounts have been hacked. Leave phone tapping Instagram account of my children have also been hacked, Priyanka told reporters when asked about allegations of phone tapping of opposition...
17:15
Shoppers throng Meena Bazaar for winter clothes
The national capital has recorded 102 fresh COVID-19 cases, the highest since June 27, and one death as the positivity rate stood at 0.20 per cent, according to data shared by the Delhi health department on Tuesday. On June 27, the city had logged 259 coronavirus cases with four deaths,...
17:10
Union minister Smriti Irani
A bill that seeks to fix 21 years as the uniform age of marriage for women and men was introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Union Minister Smriti Irani terming the move a decisive step in the country's history.The introduction of the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was...
16:51
HCL Tech was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising around 4 per cent, followed by Wipro, Tata Steel, Titan, Tech Mahindra and Sun Pharma.
16:44
Keeping in view the COVID-19 situation and the rising number of cases of Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus, the Karnataka government on Tuesday said that no parties or mass gatherings would be permitted in the state from December 30 to January 2. We had a meeting with experts...
16:22
Avijit Roy with this wife Rafida Bonya
The US has offered a reward of up to USD 5 million for information on the henious terrorist attack in Bangladesh in 2015 that left Bangladeshi-American atheist blogger Avijit Roy dead and his wife Rafida Bonya Ahmed seriously injured, the State Department has announced. Roy, a 42-year-old...
16:05
SBI was among the scrips that did not do well
Equity benchmark Sensex rebounded 497 points on Tuesday after a two-day selloff, tracking gains in index majors Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank amid a positive trend in other Asian markets. The 30-share BSE index jumped 497 points or 0.89 per cent to end at 56,319.01....
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Senior Congress leader and former Punjab minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi on Tuesday resigned from the party, saying he was deeply hurt by the bickering and in-fighting within its state unit. Sodhi, who is the MLA from Guruharsahai in Ferozepur district, was the sports minister in the...
15:36
How the sector compares this time last year.
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Pic: Umar Ganie
The weather office has forecast colder nights over the next couple of days in Kashmir as further fall in the minimum temperature is expected. There is also a possibility of light to moderate snowfall from December 22-25. 'Chilla-i-Kalan' (big cold), which started today, is...
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The 40-day harshest winter period in Kashmir started on Tuesday with the minimum temperature settled well below the freezing point across the valley, officials said. Srinagar recorded a low of minus 2.8 degrees Celsius on Monday night, slightly up from minus 5.8 degrees recorded the...
15:23
Kerala has the most Covid cases in India
The complete COVID vaccination has crossed the 75 per cent mark in Kerala as over two crore people have received both the first and second doses of the jab, the state government said here on Tuesday. A total of 2,60,09,703 people- 97.38 per cent of the total population to be...
15:13
Russia has confirmed 25,907 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total to 10,267,719, the federal response center said on Tuesday.Over the past 24 hours, 25,907 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in 85 regions in Russia, including 1,877 cases (7.2 per cent) without...
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File pic
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 10th visit to Uttar Pradesh in the past month, said Yogi Adityanath has put criminals in place in the state.
14:52
A Delhi court has discharged former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar and five others in the 2019 accident case of Unnao rape survivor, saying that prima facie no charges are made out against him. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey discharged the accused...
14:43
Kirti Azad tweets this keepsake picture: 83 team Waiting for the team bus to take us for media interaction to film city, Mumbai. @83thefilm @therealkapildev @RanveerOfficial.Filmmaker Kabir Khan's 83 is the story of the Kapil Dev-led team from India, seen as underdogs, which brought home the...
14:28
Sanjay Chandra
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested jailed ex-promoter brothers of the Unitech realty group-- Sanjay Chandra and Ajay Chandra-- in a money laundering case being investigated against them, officials said on Tuesday. They said the brothers were taken into custody on Monday and...
14:26
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday at a programme here transferred Rs 1,000 crore to bank accounts of self help groups to benefit around 16 lakh women. The amount was transferred under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM). The mission...
14:19
Some good news from South Africa: South African Medical Association Chairperson Dr Angelique Coetzee on Tuesday said that most patients in her country recovered from the variant with a simple and an easy line of treatment. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Dr Angelique Coetzee, the...
14:10
The word lynching was practically unheard of before 2014 when the BJP came to power, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Twitter on Tuesday and went on to taunt the prime minister with a Thank you Modiji. Asked about the lynching jibe at a media briefing later in the day, the former...
14:07
Trinamool Congress retains Kolkata Municipal Corporation for third consecutive time; wins 89 out of 144 seats, leads in 44.TMC wins 89 and leads on 44, BJP wins 1 and leads on 3, CPI wins 1, CPI(M) wins 1, Congress wins 2, Independent 3.In its letter to the State Election Commission on Sunday,...
13:25
R Madhavan is getting rave reviews for his role as the motor-mouthed husband and father in Netflix's Web series Decoupled.The actor Madhavan admits his character is unique.My character Arya Iyer was a departure from everything I've done so far, he tells Subhash K Jha. Read the...
13:20
PM Modi arrives in Prayagraj. He will participate in a programme that will be attended by over 2 lakh women today. The program is being held to empower women, especially at the grassroot level, by providing them with necessary skills, incentives and resources.Modi will transfer around Rs 1,000...
13:03
Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco with Mamata Banerjee
Goa Congress' former working president Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco joined the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata on Tuesday, ahead of the Goa Assembly polls due early next year. On Monday, Lourenco resigned as a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly as well as from...
12:54
Shoppers buy winter clothing in Delhi
As the cold wave continues to grip Northern India, the national capital on Tuesday recorded a minimum temperature of 4 degrees Celsius at 8 am. As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the cold wave conditions are very likely to prevail in some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh,...
12:16
A single spammer made over 202 million spam calls in India this year, according to Truecaller's Global Spam Report 2021. The year also saw India rise to the 4th spot in spam calls, up from 9th in 2020, owing to a significant increase in sales and telemarketing calls.The average number of...
12:12
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's photograph from COVID-19 vaccination certificates and imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on the petitioner by terming the petition as frivolous, being politically motivated and a publicity interest...
12:02
Meena Devi Purohit, BJP candidate wins her seat in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation polls: I am happy to be elected as councillor for the 6th time. This is a win for the public and BJP workers. The people who work for the public will eventually win. The voting process was not neutral, if it was...
11:54
An intruder was shot dead by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the Indo-Pak border in the Gurdaspur sector when he was trying to cross over from the Indian territory at 6.45 am on Tuesday. According to the BSF, the intruder, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was shot dead...
11:53
A sheet of ice forms in a bird bath as Mount Abu in Rajasthan reels under a cold wave. Cold wave conditions were observed today at a few places over Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, and at isolated pockets over Punjab, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Gangetic...
11:48
Bharat Biotech on Monday said that its Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin now had a shelf life of 12 months from the date of manufacture after the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) recently approved the extension.This approval of shelf-life extension is based on the availability of...
11:42
Two weeks ago, on December 7, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Bharatiya Janata Party MPs that they needed to attend Parliament, warning them if they don't, there would be changes.Modi said party MPs should regularly attend Parliament and remarked that when children are reprimanded...
11:37
The ruling Trinamool Congress looks set to retain power in KMC for the third consecutive term, with its candidates leading in 112 wards and winning 13 seats that went to polls, while BJP nominees were ahead in five wards, SEC officials said on Tuesday. Counting of votes for 144 wards of the...
11:30
Amid Opposition criticism of a bill to link Aadhaar with electoral rolls, sources in the government on Tuesday said the move would solve the major problem of multiple enrolment of the same person at different places and help in cleaning the voters list to a great extent. The assertion...
11:20
India has a total of 200 cases of the Omicron variant, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said today. Maharashtra, Delhi and Telangana are the top three states with the most Omicron cases. See the table alongside.Meanwhile, the active Covid-19 cases in the country decline to 79,097. There...
10:56
Opposition leaders hold a meeting in Parliament to chalk out the Floor Strategy for the day. Opposition MPs will be conducting a march from the Gandhi statue in Parliament to Vijay Chowk at 12:30 pm on Tuesday to demand the resignation of Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Kumar...
10:50
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
Japan on Tuesday executed three people who were on death row, marking the first time the death penalty was carried out under Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government, Kyodo news agency reported. The three were identified as Yasutaka Fujishiro, 65, who killed seven of his relatives in...
10:32
A ward boy keeps an oxygen cylinder ready
Thane has reported 77 new cases of coronavirus, pushing the infection tally in the Maharashtra district to 5,71,304, an official said on Tuesday. These new cases were recorded on Monday, he said. No new fatality due to the virus was reported, keeping the death toll in the...
10:30
Counting of votes for Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections has begun as the results are to be declared on Tuesday. Netaji Indoor Stadium has been made the counting centre where the exercise is being carried out amid tight security. TMC leading on 114, BJP on 2, CPI(M) on...
10:28
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Party meeting has commenced at the Ambedkar International Center in the national capital on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not attending the meeting. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman; Ports, Shipping...
10:20
A day after the Indian equities markets slumped by nearly 1000 points, equity indices opened in green on Tuesday. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was up by 665.03 points or 1.19 per cent at 56487.04 at 9.30 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 16807.20 at 9.30 am, up by...
10:07
The United States has reported its first death due to the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Texas, according to health officials. A man in the US state of Texas, who was in his 50s, was unvaccinated and had previously been infected with COVID-19, according to a release from...
09:58
Photograph: Umar Ganie
Protesting employees of the Power Development Department in Jammu and Kashmir have called off their strike after written assurance from the administration to put on hold the proposed merger of PDD with Power Grid Corporation of India. An official team led by Divisional commissioner...
09:50
Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan returned to Mumbai last night after appearing before Enforcement Directorate in Delhi in connection with the Panama Papers leak case.The Enforcement Directorate on Monday questioned Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for nearly 5 hours in the Panama...
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A man was arrested on Monday for entering and vandalizing a Hindu temple in Pakistan's Karachi.The man entered a Hindu temple in Ranchore Line area of Karachi in the evening and damaged the statue of Hindu deity Jog Maya using a hammer, Pakistani Urdu language news television network Samaa TV...
08:39
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said that banks have recovered Rs 13,109.17 crore from asset sale of fugitives like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi. She said this while replying to a discussion on the second batch of Supplementary Demands for Grants which was...
08:30
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj today and will transfer around Rs 1,000 crore in the bank accounts of Self Help Groups, benefitting around 16 lakh women members of the SHGs.According to the Prime Minister's Office, this transfer is being done under the Deendayal...
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Fridays will no longer be weekly holidays for school students in Muslim dominated Lakshadweep.The Lakshadweep Education Department has brought out a new calendar declaring Fridays working days and all Sundays holidays for schools in the islands, ending the decades old privilege of the students...
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