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The Centre on Thursday debunked media reports about CoWIN being hacked, stating that prima facie, these reports appear to be fake and that the portal stores all the vaccination data in a safe and secure digital environment.'There have been some unfounded media reports on the CoWIN platform being...
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The Navi Mumbai International Airport will be named after Shiv Sena founder late Bal Thackeray, the father of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, it was announced on Thursday.The airport, coming up in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, is expected to relieve the pressure on the Mumbai...
22:48
India's squad for ODI and T20I series against Sri Lanka announced; Shikhar Dhawan named Captain, Bhuvneshwar Kumar named Vice-captain.Indian squad for ODI & T20I series against Sri Lanka: S Dhawan (C), P Shaw, D Padikkal, R Gaikwad, S Yadav, M Pandey, H Pandya, N Rana, I Kishan (WK), S Samson...
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A senior doctor at a tea garden in Biswanath district of Assam was allegedly assaulted by a group of people after garden management tried to implement COVID-19 protocols under its jurisdiction.According to police officials, the incident took place at Majuligarh tea garden on Wednesday evening...
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China on Thursday suspended the import of frozen seafood products from six Indian marine export companies for a week after Chinese customs claimed they found traces of coronavirus were detected on the packaging. Since early last year, China has been testing imported frozen food products from...
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Just In: One person was killed when three houses collapsed at Lokhandi Chawl in Shivaji Nagar, Dahisar east in Mumbai's western suburbs, on Thursday.Mumbai has been having incessant rains since Wednesday with the onset of the north-west monsoon.This was the second house crash in Mumbai in two...
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The Maharashtra government on Thursday said farmers who repay crop loan up to Rs 3 lakh regularly will be charged zero per cent interest. A decision to this effect was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray here. Earlier, there was 1 per cent concession...
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Yoga guru Ramdev, who had said he does not need the Covid vaccine as he has protection of yoga and ayurveda, on Thursday did a summersault, saying he will soon get the jab and described doctors as 'God's envoys on earth'.Ramdev had earlier stirred a controversy with his comments on the efficacy...
19:57
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar, who was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai due to breathlessness, is stable and will continue to remain in the hospital today, the actor's family friend said. The 98-year-old screen icon was admitted to suburban Khar-based Hinduja Hospital, a non-Covid-19 facility,...
19:45
In controversial remarks in Aligarh, a member of the Uttar Pradesh women's commission has suggested that girls should be kept off mobile phones by families who don't want them 'running away' with boys.She also asked mothers to keep tabs on their daughters.Girls should not be given mobile phones...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate virtually in the outreach sessions of the G7 summit on June 12 and 13, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. Last month, the MEA said Modi will not travel to the UK to attend the summit of the G7 grouping in view of the prevailing...
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A Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by a group of youths after a tiff over a poster with Dr B R Ambedkar's photograph put up outside his house in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, police said on Thursday.On May 24, Anil Sihag and Rakesh Sihag tore the poster put up outside the house of...
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A Covid patient on oxygen support in Telangana
The highly contagious Alpha and Delta variants of the coronavirus have been detected in Sri Lanka, which is facing a third wave of the pandemic. Patients carrying the Delta variant, or the B1.617.2 variant first identified in India, and the Alpha strain, formerly called the B.1.1.7 strain,...
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A Muslim cleric in northwest Pakistan has been arrested under the anti-terrorism act for threatening Malala Yousafzai and instigating people to attack the Nobel Laureate for her recent comments on marriage, police said. Mufti Sardar Ali Haqqani, a cleric in Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
17:05
The government will auction unmonetised large oil and gas fields of state-owned ONGC and OIL to boost the country's hydrocarbon production, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Thursday. Speaking on the launch of the third round of auction of small discovered fields, he said...
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As people are struggling to book slots for COVID-19 vaccination in their cities, many of them who are in less than 45 years age group from Delhi-NCR are travelling a long distance to get their first and even second dose of Covaxin. These people are even travelling distance of 224 km from Delhi...
16:21
The BSE benchmark Sensex surged nearly 359 points to close above the 52,300-level on Thursday, with financial, pharma and IT shares gaining the most amid positive global cues. The 30-share Sensex finished 358.83 points or 0.69 per cent higher at 52,300.47. Intra-day, the index swung...
16:16
Former President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha tweets: Haiku- new addition to the family. The button-nosed doggo has already won hearts on social media. Sharmistha Mukherjee is a Congress leader as is her brother Abhijit. Pranab Mukherjee passed away on August 31, 2020, due to...
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When the government eases lockdown, this is what happens. Heavy footfall seen around the Sitabuldi Main Road area in Nagpur. Social distancing norms flouted, Covid protocol not followed with people wearing chin masks.
15:46
A three-member AICC panel set up to end factionalism in the Punjab Congress submitted its report to party chief Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, sources said. The panel chaired by Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and comprising AICC general secretary in-charge of Punjab...
15:44
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra will complete its full term and praised ally Shiv Sena, saying it is party which one can trust. The remarks came against the backdrop of the one-on-one meeting between Maharashtra Chief Minister...
15:41
The tigers of Sunderbans are maneaters
A more than a century-old seaside retreat on the southern edge of the tiger-infested Sunderbans, where India's colonial rulers once wined and dined to the sound of orchestra music has been swallowed by the hungry waves which lashed onto the beaches and forests when cyclone Yaas hit last...
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Galwan was a turning point. The Indian response took the Chinese by surprise. They realised that our soldiers were more than a match for them. The Chinese realised they were vulnerable, says Lieutenant General Sanjay Kulkarni (retd), PVSM, AVSM, SC, SM, VSM.The General commanded a...
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Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath will visit Delhi today for meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah amid reports of dissent in the state. This is his first meeting with the Delhi leadership since turmoil started in UP for the BJP.The...
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday urged the minority community to adopt a decent family planning policy for population control to reduce poverty. All stakeholders in the community must come forward and support the government in helping reduce poverty in the...
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A red alert has been sounded in Raigad district of Maharashtra, warning of heavy to extremely rainfall till Friday, prompting the district administration to shift over 1,000 people from 20 villages to safer places. The district received an average rainfall of 58 mm in the last 24 hours,...
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Former Congress leader Jitin Prasada reacts to criticism from the party. Yesterday, the Madhya Pradesh Congress unit tweeted, saying, Jitin Prasada ke jane se Congress khush hai. He is a piece of garbage and it is natural to put him in the garbage bin. The tweet was later...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on June 7, days after the Supreme Court termed the centre's vaccine policy arbitrary and irrational'. He reversed the vaccine decentralisation strategy and said that the centre will provide free vaccines to states from June 21. Here's the...
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Jitin Prasada joined the BJP yesterday
A day after Jitin Prasada switched to the BJP, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Thursday said the Congress needs to undergo a major surgery and not depend just on legacy, asserting that the top leadership must give primacy to ideological commitment while giving responsibility to...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded that every person walking into a COVID-19 vaccination centre should get the jab, saying those who do not have access to internet also have the right to life. The Congress has been batting for vaccines for the poor, especially those living in...
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Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar holds a press conference. Highlights...-- On Covid deaths data fudging: Data of Covid deaths are not being hidden. No data is being hidden in Mumbai. There is no river in Mumbai where bodies of people succumbing to Corona are being dumped. All Coid deaths in Mumbai...
11:55
President Joe Biden plans to announce on Thursday that the US will purchase and donate half a billion (50 crore) doses of Pfizer vaccines to 92 low- and lower-middle-income countries and the African Union in a historic action that will help supercharge the global fight against the pandemic,...
11:36
It's BJP senior leader Subramanian Swamy's anniversary and the witty professor tweets his thanks, Thank you all for your good wishes on our 55th year completion of my wedding with Roxna. As she wrote a book that it was for her a roller coaster ride-- but she survived it.
11:32
The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to stay the release of the movie, 'Nyay: The Justice', which is purportedly based on the life of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The movie is scheduled to be released on Friday. Justice Sanjeev Narula dismissed an application by Rajput's...
11:21
The total number of Covid-19 fatalities in Bihar took a drastic upward leap of 3,951 in a day after the figures were revised by the state health department on Wednesday.According to the official data provided by the state health department, the total number of COVID-19 deaths in the state was...
10:56
Days after bodies were found floating in Ganga in the state, samples collected from the river have been sent for testing to check for COVID-19 contamination in the water, informed Bihar State Pollution Control Board Scientist, Navin Kumar.The sampling of Ganga river is a routine thing which we...
10:46
India will be receiving a share of the 80 million (8 crores) unused COVID-19 vaccines through the UN-backed COVAX global vaccine sharing programme that President Joe Biden has announced, according to a senior State Department official. On June 2, President Biden announced that the US...
10:40
Dasgupta's acclaimed film, Bagh Bahadur
Eminent film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta died at his residence in Kolkata early on Thursday due to old-age related ailments, family members said. He was 77. Dasgupta is survived by his wife and two daughters from his previous marriage. The national award-winning director was having...
10:34
Nanjing University published photos online of beautiful women holding signs with sexually suggestive text. The school removed the photos after an immediate backlash online. Read the report here.
10:18
Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 150 points in early trade on Thursday, tracking gains in index-heavyweights Reliance Industries, Infosys and HDFC Bank amid a positive trend in global equities. The 30-share BSE index was trading 160.07 points or 0.31 per cent higher at 52,101.71 in initial...
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India reported less than 1 lakh new COVID-19 cases for a third straight day, as 94,052 infections were detected across the country in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry's data showed on Thursday .With this latest single-day rise, India's cumulative COVID-19 infection tally has risen to...
09:13
External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar arrived in Kuwait on a bilateral visit early on Thursday. According to diplomatic sources, the aim of the visit is to deepen India's ties with the oil-rich Gulf nation.It comes nearly three months after the two countries decided to establish a...
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The Biden administration plans to donate 500 million Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses to nearly 100 countries over the next two years, Reuters reported quoting sources.United States President Joe Biden is set to make announce the deal at the G7 meet in Britain.Last week, Biden had announced his...
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Eleven people were killed and at least seven injured when a double-storey residential building collapsed on another structure at a slum in Mumbai's Malad on Wednesday night.It's an unfortunate incident. It was a G+2 building that fell on another building. 18 people have been rescued, of whom 11...
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In view of the India Meteorological Department's warning about heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in the Konkan region of Maharashtra between June 11 and 15, the state government on Wednesday requested the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) to send 12 teams to five coastal districts.The State...
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