20:46
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out Monday whether he can be extradited from the UK to the US to face espionage charges over the publication of secret American military documents. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser is due to deliver her decision at London's Old Bailey...
20:31
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday visited the private hospital where BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is admitted and said the former India captain is doing fine following an angioplasty to clear a blocked coronary artery.He is fine now... He enquired about my health, too....
20:00
A 75-year-old farmer protesting against the Centre's new agri laws allegedly hanged himself at the Uttar Pradesh-Delhi border in Ghazipur on Saturday morning. Sardar Kashmir Singh, a native of Bilaspur in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district, hanged himself in a mobile toilet using a rope,...
19:35
The Trinamool Congress on Saturday hit out at BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya over his tweet in which he shared a photo of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee cooking food with some women.Sharing the photo on Twitter, Kailash Vijayvargiya wrote, Didi (Mamata Banerjee) has started...
19:28
Maharashtra's COVID-19 tally on Saturday rose to 19,38,854 as the state recorded 3,218 new cases of infection, a health department official said.With 51 fatalities being reported during the day, the death toll reached 49,631, he said.A total of 2,110 patients were discharged after treatment,...
18:57
Soon after the Congress announced a major rejig in its Tamil Nadu unit ahead of the Assembly polls this year, party MP from the state Karti Chidambaram on Saturday said such jumbo committees serve no purpose as no one will have any authority which would mean no accountability. In the...
18:44
CDSCO panel recommends granting approval for restricted emergency use of Bharat Biotech's indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin in India. The panel met earlier today and the meeting lasted for 40 minutes. India is staging nationwide drills today to start one of the world's biggest...
18:21
I feel we are ready for a vaccine rollout within the next 10 to 14 days in a smooth manner. We will start the vaccination in a slow process, by that time more vaccines will be available, says AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria.India is staging nationwide drills today to start one of the world's...
17:37
Delhi on Saturday recorded 494 cases of coronavirus disease and 14 fresh fatalities, official health bulletin stated. So far, 6,26,448 people have tested positive for the viral contagion in the national capital. The city-state has also recorded 10,571 deaths due to the disease outbreak.Marking a...
17:22
Actor Nagma tweets, Wishing you a speedy recovery @SGanguly99. Get well Soon . Much prayers.
17:17
Five India Test players, including vice-captain Rohit Sharma, rising opener Shubman Gill and wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant, have been put in isolation and an investigation launched into a possible breach of the bio-security protocol by them, Cricket Australia said on Saturday. While...
16:58
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a two-day visit to West Bengal that is likely to start on January 30, sources said. During the visit, Amit Shah will address the Matua community at a public rally in North 24 Parganas district.In the context of the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections,...
16:41
Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Kailash Choudhary on Saturday expressed his confidence citing that the next round of talks with farmers would bring a solution and conclude the impasse.Choudhary said, I am confident that in the next round of talks with farmers a solution will...
16:13
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Saturday termed the COVID-19 vaccines to be rolled out in the country as vaccine of the BJP and said he would not take the shot, drawing a sharp retort from the ruling party which accused him of insulting the doctors and scientists. How can I...
16:03
Noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's approval rating is the highest among world leaders in a survey conducted by a US data firm, BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday said this is a testimony to his able leadership and a matter of pride for all Indians.While Nadda tweeted to laud Modi's...
15:34
Kerala, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh have contributed to nearly 62 per cent of India's active cases of the novel coronavirus, the ministry of health and family welfare has informed.The total number of active cases in India stands at 2,50,183. Talking about these...
15:14
Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Saturday flights from India to UK will resume from January 6, while services from that country to here would resume from January 8 onwards. Resumption of flights between India & UK: India to UK from 6 Jan 2021. UK to India from 8 Jan...
14:48
LeT commander and 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks planner Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has reportedly been arrested in Pakistan.The LeT terrorist has been arrested in connection with a terrorism financing case registered by the Punjab Counter Terror Department, Punjab at Lahore police station. He was...
14:22
A panel of government experts will meet today to review Bharat Biotech's application for emergency use of its vaccine Covaxin - India's first COVID-19 jab developed indigenously in collaboration with the country's top medical research body ICMR.The development comes a day after the Subject Expert...
14:14
Cricket board president and former India skipper Sourav Ganguly was hospitalised Saturdayafter he complained of chest pain, a hospital official said.Ganguly, 48, is 'stable' and admitted to the emergency ward of a private hospital.He complained of chest pain following a workout session on Friday...
13:58
The protesting farmers today threatened to hold a tractor rally on Republic Day as demonstrations around the national capital's borders escalate. We have given a call for a tractor parade towards Delhi on January 26. Tractor parade with national flag on January 26 will be called 'Kisaan...
13:36
After hitting the slow lane, IT hiring is expected to pick up in 2021 as global clients open up their purse strings to digitise their operations using new age technologies.According to staffing solutions provider TeamLease, the demand for IT talents is expected to gain momentum in 2021 and see...
12:57
As India gears up to launch the world's largest immunisation drive, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan urged the public not to pay heed to anti-vaccine rumours and said the anti-Covid-19 shots will be free across the country.t will be free across the country, news agency ANI quoted Harsh Vardhan...
12:47
More than 64,000 tourists have visited the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, famed for the one-horned Indian rhinoceros, since it reopened on October 21, an official said.The park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site, usually remains closed between June and September because of the...
12:27
At least six civilians were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists in the Tral area of Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. The terrorists lobbed a grenade towards security forces personnel at the Tral bus stand in the south Kashmir district, a police...
11:56
Former Union home minister Buta Singh died at the AIIMS here on Saturday morning. He was 86. The senior Congress leader was in a coma since October last year when he was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he suffered a brain hemorrhage.His family said...
11:22
There should be no misconceptions about the safety of the coronavirus vaccine that India plans to use as everything has been checked in detail, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said today even as a dry run was on across all states to figure out the best way for mass inoculation and to plug...
11:06
Parts of the national capital received light rain on Saturday morning, while the minimum temperature rose to 7 degrees Celsius due to a cloud cover over the city, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.Clouds trap some of the outgoing infrared radiation and radiate it back downward,...
10:01
India reports 19,078 new COVID-19 cases, 22,926 recoveries, and 224 deaths in last 24 hours, as per Union Health Ministry. Total cases: 1,03,05,788Active cases: 2,50,183Total recoveries: 99,06,387Death toll: 1,49,218
09:55
A bipartisan Congressional provision condemning China's aggression towards India has become a law as the United States Congress overrode President Donald Trump's veto on the $740 billion defence policy bill which among other things included calling out the Chinese government for its actions along...
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With the objective to gear up for the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine across the country, the dry run will be conducted by all the States and UT governments from Saturday.According to Union Health Ministry, the objective of the dry run for COVID-19 vaccine introduction is to 'assess operational...
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