21:09
The easterly winds have made conditions favourable for the advancement of the southwest monsoon and it is likely to cover parts of north India, including Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, in a day, the India Meteorological Department said.
21:02
Trading barbs over the induction of Jyotiraditya Scindia in the Union cabinet, a Congress leader on Saturday sent tubes of Burnol cream to Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra to 'ease pain'. Mishra on Thursday had said that those who are feeling jealous about Scindia, a...
20:47
United Kingdom health officials said the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues as the dominant strain of coronavirus and marked a sharp increase in the UK with 54,268 more cases logged on Friday, which marks a 32 per cent increase over the previous week. Public Health England said its weekly...
20:36
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday attended the formal handing over ceremony of the holy relics of 17th century Queen St Ketevan to Georgia, nearly 16 years after they were found in Goa, describing such historical objects as a bridge of faith between the two countries. ...
20:20
The Assam cabinet on Saturday decided to create a new department to protect the culture and practices of people belonging to tribal and other indigenous communities, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said in Guwahati.The new department, he stated, would ensure that the state's indigenous...
20:13
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Saturday sounded a note of caution against reported blatant disregard of COVID-appropriate behaviour at hill stations and other tourist locations, stressing that the second wave of the pandemic is not yet over. The Home Secretary was reviewing...
19:56
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has sacked 11 of its employees, including sons of Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin and two from the police department, for allegedly working as over ground workers for terrorist organisations, officials said on Saturday.The 11 employees, who have been...
19:10
Delhiites will have to pay Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh for violating noise pollution norms by using loudspeakers without permission or DG sets as the Delhi Pollution Control Committee has asked authorities to strictly implement revised rules. According to the Central Pollution Control...
19:10
Delhiites will have to pay Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh for violating noise pollution norms by using loudspeakers without permission or DG sets as the Delhi Pollution Control Committee has asked authorities to strictly implement revised rules. According to the Central Pollution Control...
19:08
Kolhapur District Co-Operative Milk Producers Union, which owns the milk brand Gokul, on Saturday said it has decided to hike milk prices by Rs 2 per litre in Maharashtra, except in Kolhapur, Sangli and Konkan from Sunday. Gokul has hiked the prices of buffalo milk and cow milk by Rs...
18:56
Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan on Saturday paid a backhanded compliment to estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras, by congratulating him on joining the Union cabinet, which he said was a goal he achieved by breaking up his own family.The beleaguered LJP leader, who has suffered a setback...
18:01
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday offered to share CoWIN platform with other nations for free, saying that humanitarian needs outweigh commercial benefits. Participating on the second day of the ongoing G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting, Sitharaman...
17:45
New Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today.
17:44
Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh was cremated with full state honours at a royal crematorium in Jogni Bagh near Shimla's Rampur on Saturday afternoon. His son Vikramaditya Singh performed the last rites around 4.30 pm. Thousands of his well-wishers gathered at the...
17:38
The Taliban has said it sees China as a friend of Afghanistan and assured Beijing that it would not host Uyghur Islamic militants from the volatile Xinjiang province, which is a major worry for the Chinese government, according to a media report.The comments came as the Taliban made territorial...
17:24
A day before his visit to poll-bound Uttarakhand, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday asked why the people of the hill state, which generates electricity, cannot get free power like in the national capital. The Aam Aadmi Party national convenor will visit Dehradun on...
17:04
It's going to be only the second launch of the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency in the COVID-19-hit 2021. The ISRO successfully launched PSLV-C51 mission on February 28 with Brazil's earth observation satellite Amazonia-1 and 18 co-passengers, including some built by students, on...
16:53
Two terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, police said. Security forces had launched a cordon and search operation in Kwarigam, Ranipora area of the South Kashmir district following inputs about the presence of...
15:56
The World Health Organization is likely to take a decision on including Bharat Biotech's COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin in the emergency use list (EUL) within four to six weeks, Soumya Swaminathan, the global health body's chief scientist has said. Speaking at a webinar organised by the Centre...
15:13
Doyen of Ayurveda and managing trustee of Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala Dr P K Warrier passed away in Malappuram on Saturday, family sources said.He was 100.KAS sources said Dr Warrier breathed his last around noon.The country had honoured him with the Padma Shree in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2010.A...
15:03
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, nominated by United States President Joe Biden as the country's ambassador to India, has said that he is honoured to accept the nomination and will bring the same energy, commitment and love with which he served the sprawling city to his new role in the world's...
14:33
An 18-year-old mentally-challenged man, who had gone missing at the age of eight years from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and started living in Maharashtra's Nagpur, was reunited with his family with the help of his Aadhaar details, an official said on Saturday. ...
14:27
Former Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Saturday announced the arrival of his second child with wife, actor Geeta Basra. The 41-year-old sports star shared the news on his official Instagram page. Blessed with a baby boy #grateful #babyboy, Singh wrote.He said both mother...
14:16
The Congress on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttar Pradesh over incidents of alleged violence and misbehaviour with women during the filing of nominations for block panchayat chiefs, with party leader Rahul Gandhi saying that violence has been renamed masterstroke in...
13:26
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed for traffic on Saturday due to a massive landslide triggered by heavy rains in Ramban district that left over 500 vehicles stranded, officials said. The 270-km highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the...
13:04
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Saturday informed that from July 22 onwards, 200 people will hold protests near Parliament, in view of the ongoing farmers' protests. While speaking to ANI, Tikait said, If the Centre wants discussion on farm laws, we're ready for talks. But, if...
12:22
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to chair a meeting with the Council of Ministers on July 14, said sources.This will be PM Modi's second meeting with the Council of Ministers after the Union Cabinet reshuffle on July 7. A day after the expansion of the Union Cabinet, the Prime...
12:05
The condition of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, who is admitted to the intensive care unit of Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Lucknow., is stable, the hospital said. The vital parameters are stable. He (Singh) is communicative. The...
11:47
As a major influx of tourists are moving to hills in search of some much-needed respite, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur on Friday appealed to tourists to follow COVID-19 norms. Speaking to ANI, Jairam Thakur said, We are concerned about the number of tourists coming to the...
11:38
The Maharashtra government has constituted a three-member committee headed by DGP Maharashtra to inquire into allegations of phone tapping by Congress leader Nana Patole.The committee set up on Friday and headed by Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey has been asked to investigate the matter...
11:03
JUST IN: PM Narendra Modi to chair Council of Ministers meeting on Wednesday, 14th July 2021.
10:52
Former union minister Thawarchand Gehlot will be sworn in as the 19th Governor of Karnataka on Sunday.As per an official release issued by the Karnataka government, former Rajya Sabha MP Gehlot will take oath at 10:30 am at Raj Bhawan in the state. Former Union Minister of Social Justice and...
10:26
Any person having more than two children in Uttar Pradesh after the enactment of a new law on population control would be barred from getting any government subsidy or the benefit of any government sponsored welfare scheme, cannot apply for a government job or contest election to any local body,...
10:00
The Jagannath Temple administration informed that like the previous year, this year's Ratha Yatra festival would be organised without the participation of devotees and in strict adherence to safety protocols to contain the spread of coronavirus.According to the Administrator of Puri Jagannath...
09:45
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday extended greetings to Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on his birthday and said that he is an outstanding parliamentarian and administrator.In a tweet, PM Modi wrote, Best wishes to our senior Cabinet colleague Shri @rajnathsingh Ji on his birthday. He...
09:17
India recorded 42,766 number of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases on Saturday, pushing the total tally of cases to 3,07,95,716. In the previous 24 hours 1,206 number of deaths were also reported, and the overall death toll now stands at 407,145, according to the Union health ministrys dashboard...
08:30
In order to expand the 70-acre Ram temple complex, the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra has purchased at least 4,514 sq metre adjoining land in Ayodhya, where some of the oldest temples, including Kaushalya Bhavan, Fikerah Ram Mandir and Deen Kuti Mandir, are situated.Around 250 to 300 years...
08:02
Ninety cases of the highly transmissible Delta plus variant of the coronavirus have been detected in Tripura through the genome sequencing of samples, officials in the state said. This is the first reported case of the deadly and highly infectious variant of COVID-19 in the northeast.At least 151...
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Vaccinated teachers and students don't need to wear masks inside school buildings, the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines.The changes come amid a national vaccination campaign in which children as young as 12 are eligible to get...
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