23:40
Some farmers in Haryana destroyed their wheat crop in protest against the Centre's new agriculture laws, prompting political and farmer leaders to appeal to them not to resort to such drastic measures. Some farmers in the state's Karnal, Jind and Ambala districts had destroyed wheat...
23:19
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday asked the state's chief secretary to draw up a plan to implement two working shifts at Mantralaya, the government's administrative headquarters.At the NITI Aayog meeting last week, Thackeray had talked about the need to adopt staggered office...
23:07
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a kisan mahapanchayat here, calling him arrogant and a coward who does not owns up the responsibility for his policies. She also accused the PM of insulting farmers by...
22:07
Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said on Tuesday that if the Centre does not repeal the three new agriculture laws, the protesting farmers will gherao Parliament. He appealed to farmers to be ready as the call for 'Delhi march' can be given at any time. Tikait was addressing the Kisan...
21:26
Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old climate change activist charged with sedition after being arrested February 13 in connection with a toolkit relating to the farmers' protest, walked out of Delhi's Tihar Jail late Tuesday night, hours after a Delhi court granted her bail.
21:15
AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal
Putting up a strong show, the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday won 27 seats in Surat municipal polls to emerge as the main Opposition party in the local body. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 93 out of 120 seats to emerge as the winner. The Congress could not open its account in Surat. The...
20:52
Amid a rise in COVID-19 cases over the past few days, night curfew was imposed in Aurangabad city between 11pm and 6am till March 8, a senior police official said on Tuesday.Police Commissioner Nikhil Gupta told reporters that the decision was taken after district, civic and police officials held...
20:38
The Centre on Tuesday said that more private hospitals will be utilized to increase the speed and coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in the coming days. Responding to a query during a press briefing in New Delhi, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said out of 10,000 hospitals...
20:14
The number of COVID-19 cases in Mumbai increased by 643 on Tuesday to reach 3,20,531, a drop in the daily addition for the second day in a row, civic officials said.The country's financial capital had recorded 900 and 760 cases respectively in the past two days, they pointed out.Three deaths...
20:10
President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation of Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy and his council of Ministers, a day after they quit in the wake of losing the trust vote in the assembly. A notification of the Union Home Ministry issued on Tuesday said: The President...
19:28
Social media giant Facebook on Tuesday said it will restore news services in Australia after it reached a revised agreement with the government on the proposed media bargaining laws, which aim to make technology companies pay for hosting news content. The dispute on paying news organisations...
19:21
The Biden administration has announced the reversal of the stringent Trump-era policy by reverting to the 2008 version of the naturalisation test module to make the path to US citizenship more accessible to all eligible individuals. US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on...
19:07
Two variants of SARS-CoV-2 -- N440K and E484K -- have been detected in Maharashtra and Kerala but there is no reason to believe presently that they are responsible for the surge in cases in some districts in these two states, the Centre said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference...
18:30
A Delhi court Tuesday sent actor-activist Deep Sidhu to judicial custody for 14 days in connection with the Red Fort violence on the Republic Day during farmers' tractor parade against the Centre's three new agri laws. Sidhu was produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Samarjeet Kaur...
17:46
The Punjab government on Tuesday ordered curbs on both indoor and outdoor gatherings from March 1 and authorised deputy commissioners to impose night-curfew in COVID-19 hotspots in their districts if needed. Chairing a virtual review meeting of the COVID-19 situation in Punjab, Chief...
17:23
The Uttarakhand government has issued a notification authorising 136 people still missing after the flash flood in Chamoli district over two weeks ago to be declared presumed dead. Sixty-eight bodies have so far been recovered after the February 7 disaster. There is a tunnel in which around...
16:40
The Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim bail on medical grounds to ailing poet-activist Varavara Rao in connection with a 2016 Surjagarh iron ore mine arson case. Rao, 82, and advocate Surendra Gadling were arrested by the Gadchiroli police in Maharashtra in February...
16:35
The Mumbai Police on Tuesday clarified that the fine for not wearing a mask is Rs 200 and not Rs 1,000. The clarification comes amid the news that a fine of Rs 1000 is being levied on those found without masks. Dear Mumbaikars! #FakeNews mongers are back again! This time claiming that No...
16:28
Toolkit case: Delhi court grants bail to 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi. Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana granted relief to Ravi on a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of like amount.A Delhi court on Monday had sent Ravi, arrested in connection with allegedly...
16:24
Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty ended marginally higher on Tuesday amid high volatility and tepid cues from global markets. After gyrating 667.46 points during the day, the 30-share BSE Sensex ended 7.09 points or 0.01 per cent higher at 49,751.41. After a similar movement, the...
16:05
NCP chief Sharad Pawar
In a major shock to the BJP, the NCP on Tuesday managed to elect its mayor for the Sangli Miraj Kupwad Municipal Corporation, which was ruled by the saffron party. The NCP's Digvijay Suryawanshi was elected as the mayor of the civic body, after five BJP corporators voted in favour of...
15:07
No increments or bonus in years? Send this to your HR.Companies in India are likely to offer a 7.7 per cent salary increase in 2021, one of the highest among the BRIC nations, and higher than the average actual increase of 6.1 per cent in 2020, says a survey. Global professional services...
14:47
Petrol price on Tuesday neared the Rs 91 per litre mark in the national capital and diesel crossed Rs 81 a litre, as fuel prices were hiked again after a two-day pause. Petrol and diesel prices were raised by 35 paise per litre each, sending retail rates to an all-time high, according to a...
14:22
A Delhi court has framed terrorism, sedition and other charges against Kashmiri separatist Aasiya Andrabi and her two associates for allegedly waging war against the government of India and conspiring to commit terror acts in the country. The case relates to waging war against the country...
14:17
Police have recovered four crude bombs in the Siuri area of Birbhum district in West Bengal on Tuesday.Further investigation is underway. Earlier, Trinamool Congress leader and state Labour Minister Jakir Hossain, suffered injuries after the bomb attack on him while he was walking towards...
13:48
The Uttarakhand government on Tuesday issued an order to make the COVID-19 test mandatory for people coming from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the wake of a surge in coronavirus cases in these states.Due to the rise in COVID19 cases in Maharashtra, Gujarat,...
13:32
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the Main Battle Tank Arjun Mark1A to the nation, the defence ministry on Tuesday is all set to clear the acquisition of these tanks worth over Rs 6,000 crore by the army.The defence ministry had recently cleared the induction of 118 Arjun Mark1A...
13:00
Gangster Ravi Pujari, who was brought to Mumbai from Bengaluru this morning, has been remanded to police custody by the sessions court till March 9, in the 2016 Gajali restaurant firing case. Pujari, who is wanted in more than 49 cases in the city, is a prime catch for the Mumbai...
12:45
Tamil Nadu Deputy CM O Panneerselvam presented the interim budget in the State Assembly today. DMK and Congress MLAs staged a walkout from the Tamil Nadu Assembly today during the presentation of the interim budget. Image: O Panneerselvam with a pictorial briefcase of late TN CM J...
12:39
A CBI team visited the residence of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday to question his wife Rujira in the coal pilferage case, officials said.Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee visited the residence of her nephew Abhishek in south Kolkata's Harish Mukherjee Road minutes before the CBI...
12:27
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 58 seats in the elections for six municipal corporations in Gujarat, while Congress has maintained a lead in eight seats, as per initial trends. The BJP is leading Jamjodhpur, Thaltej, Vastrapur, Asarwa, Saijpur, Nava Vadaj and Navrangpura wards...
11:53
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee arrives at nephew and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's residence. Abhishek's wife, Rujira, is expected to answer CBI's queries today in connection with the coal scam case.Rujira Banerjee yesterday, responded to the CBI's summons in the alleged coal pilferage...
11:44
BJP's Bengal president Dilip Ghosh
Amid a spate of corruption investigations on people associated with the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Dilip Ghosh on Monday said the agencies proceed with evidence at hand and the notices issued against TMC allies has no political...
11:39
Thane has reported 479 new cases ofcoronavirus, raising the infection count in the Maharashtra district to 2,61,204,an official said on Tuesday. Besides these new cases reported on Monday, five more people died of the viral infection, taking the toll in the district to 6,243, he said. The...
11:21
The body of Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha member Mohan Delkar, who was found dead in aMumbai hotel, has been handed over to his relatives after postmortem, an official said on Tuesday.His viscera has been preserved for histopathological examination to ascertain the exact cause of the death,...
10:59
Gangster Ravi Pujari, who has nearly 80 cases filed against him in Mumbai, was brought to the city this morning. Last week, a Bengaluru court had given his custody to Mumbai Police after a year-long battle.We had been trying to get his custody for a year, and finally got success in the 2016...
10:44
Slamming the Centre over the hike in prices of fuel and train fares, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday termed the situation as a 'disaster' for the people and an 'opportunity' for the government.Sharing a newspaper article that reported that the fare of passenger trains will be doubled, the...
10:22
India reports 10,584 new COVID-19 cases, 13,255 discharges, and 78 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per data provided by the government.The tally stands at --Total cases: 1,10,16,434Total discharges: 1,07,12,665Death toll: 1,56,463 Active cases: 1,47,306Total Vaccination: 1,17,45,552
09:54
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday will hold a meeting with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner and officials to review the coronavirus situation in the state.This comes a day after Maharashtra on Monday recorded a little over 5,000 daily Covid-19 cases after a...
09:39
Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation are likely to question Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjees wife Rujira Banerjee on Tuesday in connection with a multi-crore coal smuggling case.The central agency has already questioned Rujira Banerjees sister Menaka Gambhir for nearly three...
09:25
A prominent farmer leader from Jammu was taken into custody by the Delhi Police for his alleged involvement in the violence during farmers' tractor parade against the new agri laws in the national capital on Republic Day, officials said on Tuesday. Jammu and Kashmir United Kisan Front...
09:08
Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar distributes masks at Dadar vegetable market as COVID-19 cases rise in the city.Mumbai has recorded 36.38 per cent rise in the active COVID-19 cases since February 8, according to the city civic body.Careless attitude of citizens, allowing the general public to travel...
08:54
India has allowed Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's aircraft to use Indian Air Space, according to informed sources.Imran Khan will be travelling to Sri Lanka on his maiden visit on February 23. In 2019, Pakistan had denied opening its airspace for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flights to the...
08:37
The Gujarat Municipal Election Results 2021 will be declared today. Counting of votes polled in elections to six municipal corporations of Gujarat -- Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Vadodara, Bhavnagar, and Jamnagar -- will begin at 9 am. Polling for 576 seats in 144 wards across six...
07:52
The COVID-19 death toll in the US has topped 5,00,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University on Monday, are about equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and greater than that...
00:18
Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday announced a national level film award after legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Javadekar made this announcement at a programme organised by the National Film Development Corporation in Kolkata,...
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