23:27
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav held out an olive branch to Chirag Paswan, saying the beleaguered LJP leader must reconsider his continuance in the NDA, led by the BJP which swore by the RSS ideology instead of the Constitution.The leader of the opposition also charged the ruling JD-U in Bihar with...
23:07
The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday conducted searches at the office of former encounter specialist police officer Pradeep Sharma's NGO in suburban Andheri, days after his arrest in connection with the recovery of an explosives-laden SUV from outside the south Mumbai residence of...
22:41
India's cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 30 crore, the Union health ministry said on Wednesday. According to the provisional report, the total figure was 30,09,69,538.As the new phase of universalisation of COVID-19 vaccination commenced from June 21, more than...
22:23
Noting that children usually have a mild disease but there is a need to develop COVID-19 vaccines for them, AIIMS Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria has said Bharat Biotech and other companies are doing trials at a very fast pace and hoped that data will lead to approvals so that there is a...
22:00
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Centre for victimising her former top bureaucrat Alapan Bandyopadhyay, against whom the union government has initiated penalty proceedings that could deprive him of post-retirement benefits.Banerjee said that IAS and IPS...
21:42
Daily COVID-19 cases not falling below the 8,000-mark in Maharashtra is a matter of concern, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday even as he observed that the study of the Delta Plus variant has indicated that it could be more virulent compared to the previous mutants. ...
21:28
Taking a swipe at Congress leader P Chidambaram's 'Hoard on Sunday, vaccinate on Monday, and go back to limping on Tuesday' tweet, Bharatiya Janata Party national president J P Nadda hit back to say that India was not limping, but sprinting ahead powered by the strength of its citizens.Earlier,...
20:58
Mumbai on Wednesday reported 863 new coronavirus infections, the highest single-day count since June 5, and 23 fresh fatalities, the city civic body said. With this, the tally of COVID-19 cases jumped to 7,23,324, while the death toll increased to 15,338, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal...
20:38
A parliamentary panel meeting on the issue of vaccine development witnessed high drama on Wednesday as several BJP MPs walked out of it asserting that this is not the appropriate time to discuss the vaccine policy, sources said. Scientific Advisor to the government K Vijaya Raghavan,...
20:24
Health officials in England have tracked 41 cases of the Delta K417N variant of COVID-19, an even more transmissible strain of the mutation first identified in India, and said on Wednesday that extra measures have been in place for two weeks to investigate the new Delta variation causing concern...
20:02
Over 16 lakh people in Delhi have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus, while more than 50 lakh have received at least one dose so far, AAP MLA Atishi said on Wednesday. She said 84,539 doses were administered in the city on June 22. Of this, around 52,000 jabs were given to...
19:27
A genome sequencing laboratory, to identify variants of coronavirus, is likely to start at the Delhi government's Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital by the first week of July, officials said on Wednesday. A genetic sequencing machine for the laboratory has been procured from...
19:12
Jammu and Kashmir has been put on alert for the next 48 hours ahead of PM Narendra Modi's all-party meet with political leaders from the UT. Similar orders have been issued for areas along the Line of Control.Internet services in the Union Territory of J&K could also be snapped on...
18:30
Indian industry's doyen Jamsetji Tata has emerged as the biggest philanthropist globally in the last century by donating $102 billion, as per a list of top-50 givers prepared by Hurun Report and EdelGive Foundation.'Tata, the founder of what has now become a group spanning interests from salt to...
18:22
Fashion designers Manish Malhotra, Sabyasachi, Ritu Kumar have been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case. The three designers have been asked to report on Thursday and Friday at the agency's headquarter in New Delhi. Officials familiar with...
18:08
Warren Buffett resigned as a trustee at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the charity grapples with upheaval created by the divorce of its namesake founders.My goals are 100 per cent in sync with those of the foundation, Buffett, 90, said Wednesday in a statement that also announced he had...
17:50
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The Union Health Ministry on Wednesday refuted as baseless reports, which alleged that the homeless have been barred and conspicuously left out'' from registering for Covid-19 vaccination due to unavailability of technical requirements. There have been some media reports alleging that...
17:34
From the first Covid-19 case on January 30 to 3 crore and more cases today, the Covid graph that we wish India did not have.
17:32
TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty
After the Hirandanani, Kandivali, fake vaccination case in Mumbai, another scam gets busted in Kolkata.TMC MP Mimi Chakraborty says she has busted a fake COVID vaccination drive in Kolkata.I was approached by a man who introduced himself as an IAS officer and said he was running a...
17:20
Equity frontline indices closed lower on Wednesday after a volatile trading session with metal and IT stocks witnessing selling pressure. The BSE S&P Sensex closed 283 points or 0.54 per cent lower at 52,306 while the Nifty 50 dipped by 86 points or 0.54 per cent to 15,687.
17:10
A novel study that drew on data gathered by UK Biobank suggests COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of grey matter and other brain tissue over time. The damage was seen in brain areas that involved smell, taste, cognitive function and memory formation, said researchers who studied pre-...
17:02
Hitting out at the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the issue of crime against women, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said that in 'jungle raj' women's safety is in God's hands. The Congress general secretary alleged that such crimes are being committed against women...
16:38
Yoga guru Ramdev on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the proceedings in multiple cases lodged against him in various states over his alleged remarks on the efficacy of allopathy in the treatment of COVID-19. Ramdev has sought protection from coercive actions in FIRs...
16:35
Infosys' up to Rs 9,200 crore buyback plan is scheduled to commence from June 25, wherein the IT major has proposed to buy back shares at a maximum price of Rs 1,750 apiece. The Board approval for the buyback was granted on April 14, 2021, and the shareholders' nod was received on June 19,...
16:24
Wanted diamond merchant Nirav Modi, whose extradition to India was ordered in April by UK Home Secretary Priti Patel in the estimated USD 2-billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case, has lost the first stage of his extradition appeal in the High Court in London.The appeal was before a High...
16:17
Dilraj Kaur (in black, right)
Para-shooter Dilraj Kaur has been forced to sell chips and snacks near a park in Dehradun to make ends meet.I started shooting in 2004 and won 28 Gold, 8 Silver and 3 Bronze medals on the national level and played some international games also, she says.My father died after a prolonged illness....
16:06
Equity benchmark Sensex gave up early gains and tumbled 283 points on Wednesday following losses in index heavyweights Reliance Industries, HDFC and ICICI Bank. The 30-share BSE index ended 282.63 points or 0.54 per cent lower at 52,306.08. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty declined 85.80...
16:02
The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought to know whether movie, 'Nyay: The Justice', which is purportedly based on the life of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, has been released as scheduled on June 11 after both the director of the film and the actor's father gave contradictory statements...
15:59
HBO's insanely popular 'Mare of Easttown' was designed to be a limited series, but the show's creator Brad Ingelsby is not closing the book on a second season just yet. Ingelsby opened up about the show's future and about a potential second season in a new interview with TVLine, reported E!...
15:32
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to extend the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) to provide free ration to over 80 crore people, mostly poor, by five more months till November-end. The PMGKAY was reintroduced for two months till June this year in order to minimise...
15:27
A worker disinfects an open drain
In Allapur village of Dharwad district, Karnataka, a remarkable story unfolds.The village remained unaffected by the second wave of COVID-19 with not a single coronavirus positive case reported in the village.Mallikarjun Radder, president, COVID19 Taskforce, Allapur Gram Panchayat said, Even...
15:10
Sri Lanka's former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday was sworn in as an MP for a record ninth consecutive time, creating history as the only politician in the country to have entered every Parliament since 1977. The United National Party (UNP), which Wickremesinghe has...
14:58
Political strategist Prashant Kishor met Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar in New Delhi on Wednesday, a day after leaders of eight opposition parties gathered at Pawar's residence and discussed various issues facing the country. According to sources, the closed-door...
14:22
ASHA workers called off their strike after the Maharashtra government agreed to increase their salary by Rs 1000 and give additional Rs 500 as COVID-19 allowance, to be implemented from July 1: State Health Department.
14:02
Vaccination is the only way out of the pandemic
The Union Health Ministry wrote to the chief secretaries of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Kerala and requested them to take up immediate containment measures as cases of Delta Plus variant were found in these three states. Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, in the letter, requested the...
13:59
Cash deposits of up to Rs 2.5 lakh by housewives post demonetisation will not come under I-T scrutiny as the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) has held that such deposits cannot be treated as income of the assessee. Ruling on an appeal filed by an individual, the Agra bench of ITAT said...
13:35
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has received a dose of Moderna as her second shot of coronavirus vaccine having had Oxford-AstraZeneca as her first, a government spokesman told the BBC.The 66-year-old leader was vaccinated a few days ago after getting a dose of AstraZeneca in April.Experts...
13:32
A woman gets a Covid test at Dadar railway station
The Goa government has increased surveillance along the border adjoining Maharashtra in the wake of the neighbouring state reporting cases of the COVID-19 'Delta Plus' variant, which is considered highly infectious. Chief Minister Pramod Sawant told reporters on Wednesday that cases of...
13:22
West Bengal shares a 2,216.7-km border with Bangladesh, a large portion of which is unfenced. It is common for Border Security Force (BSF) to catch Bangladeshis trying to enter Bengal illegally.What is not so common is the case of the 36-year-old Chinese national Han Junwe, who...
13:18
BJP MP Varun Gandhi pays homage to his father Sanjay Gandhi on his 41st death anniversary. The Congress leader died in a plane crash in 1980; Varun Gandhi was then just three months old.
13:15
Ending more than a month's suspense, the cabinet formation in Puducherry finally took shape on Wednesday with Chief Minister N Rangasamy submitting a list of members to be included in his ministry, including two BJP MLAs, to Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan.Though the AINRC-led NDA had swept...
13:09
About 40 per cent of the money lost by banks in the PNB scam and the fraud linked to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya's defunct Kingfisher Airlines has been realised by way of sale of shares seized under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Enforcement Directorate said on...
12:54
Two citizens on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court assailing the Centre's policy to allocate 25 per cent vaccines out of the total procurement to private hospitals and said, if not withdrawn, this would render the present vaccination campaign incomplete, inequitable, inefficient and opaque' and...
12:43
Shares of Jet Airways extended their rally to Wednesday, gaining 5 per cent, after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) gave its nod to the Jalan Kalrock Consortium's bid for the airline. The stock jumped 4.98 per cent to Rs 104.40 -- its upper circuit limit -- for the day on both BSE and...
12:30
Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday slashed India's growth projection to 9.6 per cent for 2021 calendar year, from its earlier estimate of 13.9 per cent, and said faster vaccination progress will be paramount in restricting economic losses to June quarter.In its report titled 'Macroeconomics...
12:14
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday accused the previous UPA regime for fuel price hike stating that Congress had left millions of crores of rupees due on the present government due to which the Centre has to pay both its interest and its price.The Union...
12:02
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has stayed the transfer of 100 MHADA flats here to the Tata Memorial Hospital for providing temporary accommodation to cancer patients undergoing treatment there. State Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad on Wednesday confirmed the...
11:43
IndiGo will give 10 per cent discount from Wednesday onwards to all passengers who have taken at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, a statement said. The discount would be given on base fare and only limited inventory is available under this offer, the airline's statement noted. The offer...
11:39
Maharashtra Govt hospital nurses are on a 48-hour strike over various pending demands including promotion and COVID allowance. Nurses from 24 districts including 1300 nurses of Mumbai's JJ Hospital are participating. If our demands are not met, then, we will go for an indefinite strike, the...
11:11
BJP president JP Nadda pays homage to the founder of the Bharatiya Jan Sangh party, the precursor of the BJP. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was the son of Ashutosh Mukherjee, one of Bengal's and India's greatest educators, a jurist and a mathematician. Sadly, outside of Bengal, he is barely...
10:51
Actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas says that people should embrace streaming platforms because they have not only allowed the audience to consume diverse stories but also democratised the film industry. Chopra Jonas, who made her digital debut with Netflix movie The White Tiger this year, said that...
10:28
India reports 40 cases of Delta Plus variant of the novel coronavirus. Most of the cases are from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It is still a variant of interest. Cases of the new strain, a mutation of the Delta strain or B.1.617.2 variant first detected in India, are...
10:12
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine as a second shot, Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. The newspaper reported about the second vaccine injection to the head of the Italian government in its report on the vaccination of German Chancellor Angela...
10:03
Asian Paints was among the laggards
Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 100 points in early trade on Wednesday, tracking gains in index-heavyweights Infosys, HUL and Maruti, amid a positive trend in global equities. The 30-share BSE index was trading 145.45 points or 0.28 per cent higher at 52,734.16 in initial deals....
09:59
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said he is not aware of any conclusive evidence but there is information in public domain that diamantaire Mehul Choksi was abducted and law enforcement agencies may be having some persons of interest after their research. Choksi, wanted...
09:57
Student activist Asif Iqbal Tanha, who was released on bail after being arrested under the UAPA in connection with the northeast Delhi riots, on Tuesday said securing the release of other political prisoners is their mission now. Tanha, who walked out of Tihar last week, met his...
09:51
Two spectators were removed from the Ageas Bowl for abusing some New Zealand players on day five of the ongoing World Test Championship final against India in Southampton. We received reports of abuse directed at the New Zealand players. Our security team were able to identify the...
09:40
India surpassed the 3 crore-mark in number of COVID-19 cases on Wednesday with 50,848 new coronavirus cases.Total cases: 3,00,28,709Total discharges: 2,89,94,855 Death toll: 3,90,660 Active cases: 6,43,194
09:36
The White House on Tuesday acknowledged that President Joe Biden's administration is likely to fall short of his stated goal of vaccinating 70 per cent of American adults with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine by July 4.We set 70 per cent of adults as our aspirational target. We have met or...
09:21
After the faceoff with Indian forces in Galwan Valley and other locations along the Line of Actual Control last year in eastern Ladakh, the Chinese Army has realised that it needs better training and preparation, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Tuesday.Speaking to ANI, CDS...
08:55
Vaccination figures across the country dropped to 54.22 lakh on Tuesday after over 88 lakh doses administered the previous day.India achieved a historic milestone of administering 88.09 lakh coronavirus vaccine doses in a single day on June 21, but the numbers dipped to over 53.4 lakh on...
08:19
The highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus is the greatest threat to America's attempt to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic, White House Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci has warned. Speaking at a White House briefing on COVID-19 on Tuesday, Fauci said the variant, which was...
00:45
The Ministry of Education is contemplating conducting pending editions of engineering entrance exam JEE-Mains in July and August while the medical entrance exam NEET can be shifted to September, according to sources.However, a final decision in this regard is yet to be taken and the Ministry is...
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