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China said that it was pleased over Pakistan's positive interactions with India and it will work with Islamabad to inject positive energy into regional peace, stability and development.The militaries of India and Pakistan announced on February 25 that they have agreed to strictly observe all...
20:36
Mumbai added another 5,888 cases to its Covid tally in a span of 24 hours. In the same time, it also recorded 3,561 discharges, taking the overall recovery rate to 85 per cent. According to the civic body of the financial capital of the country, the doubling rate is 53 days.
20:25
Pakistan's President Dr Arif Alvi has tested positive for COVID-19, he confirmed on social media. The President said that he had already got the first vaccine dose against the coronavirus, but its effect starts only after the second dose. He also prayed for those who have been affected by the...
20:01
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan will take the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday morning at Delhi Heart and Lung Institute, an official release said.
19:35
Delhi reeled under a severe heatwave on the day of Holi, as the maximum temperature shot up to 40.1 degrees Celsius, making it the hottest day in March in 76 years, the India Meteorological Department said on Monday. The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for...
19:12
Owing to a surge in COVID-19 cases in Mumbai, the city civic body will place the order for procuring 1.5 lakh injections of antiviral drug Remdesivir and other medical equipment to avoid any potential shortage of medicines at hospitals, a senior official said on Monday.He also said that a...
18:52
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday dismissed speculations that Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and Union home minister Amit Shah secretly met in Gujarat, calling for the rumours to end.Rauts comments came after local news reports in Gujarat said that Pawar and his party...
18:29
Hotel Taj in Rishikesh closed for three days by the district administration, after 76 people were found to be Covid-19 positive there. The hotel was sanitised and has been closed as a precautionary measure, ANI quotes Tehri Garhwal SSP, Tripti Bhatt as saying.
18:08
Delhi on Monday reported 1,904 new cases of the coronavirus disease and six more fatalities in the last 24 hours, taking the caseload and death toll to 659,619 and 11,012 respectively, according to the health departments bulletin. Mondays figures have been the highest in more than three...
17:37
Three Rafale fighter jets are flying from France to India on Wednesday evening with key ally United Arab Emirates Air Forces Airbus 330 multi-role transport tankers providing mid-air refuelling over the Gulf of Oman. The Rafale fighters will join the Golden Arrows Squadron in Ambala, taking the...
17:13
Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said there was no attack on two nuns during a train journey via Uttar Pradesh recently and alleged that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was lying and making false statements on the issue.There was no attack on any nun whatsoever...the Chief...
16:29
A day after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asked officials to prepare a plan for implementation of a lockdown, state BJP president Chandrakant Patil said lockdown is not a solution for the rise in cases of coronavirus.Talking to reporters after meeting Pune Police Commissioner...
16:10
The cases of Covid-19 are on a steady rise in the National Capital are rising as an emergent second wave of the virus make sit self felt in other parts of the country. Over the last 24 hours, Delhi has reported over 1,800 fresh infections and the number of active cases has crossed 7,000 -- the...
15:56
An analysis of the candidates in the second phase of elections in West Bengal
15:47
Actor Fatima Sana Shaikh on Monday said she has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under home quarantine. Shaikh, 29, took to Instagram and said she is following all the health and safety protocols after contracting the virus. I have tested positive for COVID-19 and...
15:30
Eight more cases have been reported at IIM Ahmedabad, taking the total to 53.
15:12
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday claimed he had warned some party leaders that Sachin Waze, the suspended Mumbai police officer who is currently in the NIA's custody, could create problems for the Maharashtra government.Raut also said the Sachin Waze episode taught some lessons to the...
14:49
Pharma major Dr Reddy's Laboratories expects the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V to get approval from the Indian regulator in the next few weeks, a company official has said.We expect to get the approval in the next few weeks. It is a two dose vaccine. You take the first dose on day...
14:24
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti tweeted today to say that the passport office has refused to issue her a passport on basis of a report by the Criminal Investigation Department.Passport Office refused to issue my passport based on CID's report citing it as 'detrimental to...
14:10
Five Naxals were killed in an encounter with Maharastra police in Kurkheda's Khobramendha forest area on Monday.Five Naxals killed in an encounter with police in Khobramendha forest area of Kurkheda in Gadchiroli district, said Sandip Patil, DIG, Naxal Range.
13:40
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government did not consult key ministries and states while imposing the world's strictest coronavirus lockdown a year ago, according to an investigation by the BBC.The BBC filed more than 240 right to information applications with various Indian government...
13:16
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Beijing should be transparent about the COVID-19 outbreak and there is a need for accountability.Blinken said, There needed to be accountability but didn't elaborate on what measures needed to be taken while echoed calls from other Biden officials...
12:39
DMKs A Raja on Monday apologised for his controversial remarks a day after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami turned emotional while reacting to the DMK leaders disparaging remarks. Reacting to the remarks, CM Palaniswami said a mother occupied a lofty position in society and anyone who...
12:15
Ahead of the second phase of West Bengal assembly polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a 'padayatra' (roadshow) in Nandigram on a wheelchair, marking the first roadshow here after she was injured in an alleged attack earlier this month.Nandigram will witness the most high-profile contest in...
11:56
Expelled AIADMK leader VK Sasikala performs puja at Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram. Photograph: ANI/Twitter
11:42
The Centre turned down BMCs proposal to allow door-to-door vaccination of senior citizens suffering from physical disabilities citing that there was no policy framed to this purpose.Suresh Kakani, additional municipal commissioner of BMC while talking to Mumbai Mirror claimed that Centres...
11:19
A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is extremely unlikely, according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.The findings were largely as expected...
10:59
JUST IN: Stranded container ship blocking the Suez Canal was re-floated on Monday and is currently being secured, reports Reuters quoting Inch Cape Shipping Services. -- ANI
10:49
Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik tweets:'Kind attention. Our party president Sharad Pawar saheb was feeling a little uneasy due to a pain in his abdomen last evening and was therefore taken to Breach Candy Hospital for a check up.'Upon diagnosis it came to...
10:33
The Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal has shared a video claiming to feature Trinamool Congress leader Nusrat Jahan where she is seen agitated during a campaign.In the video shared through West Bengal BJP Twitter handle a woman can be heard saying: I have been at the rally for over an hour. I...
10:03
India reports 68,020 new COVID-19 cases, 32,231 discharges, and 291 deaths in the last 24 hours, as per the Union health ministry.Total cases: 1,20,39,644Total recoveries: 1,13,55,993Active cases: 5,21,808Death toll: 1,61,843Total vaccination: 6,05,30,435 -- ANIIMAGE: A medic...
09:47
United States President Joe Biden has expressed outrage over the recent killings of innocent people by the security forces in Myanmar, where military junta overthrew a democratically elected government.It's terrible. It's absolutely outrageous. And based on the reporting I've gotten, an...
09:07
Security forces have seized a cache of arms and ammunition, including five AK assault rifles, from an area close to the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district, an army official said on Monday.In a major success to security forces deployed in Karnah, a huge recovery was made in...
08:16
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday hinted that the audio tape in which Bharatiya Janata Party national vice- president Mukul Roy purportedly told another leader Shishir Bajoria about how to influence the Election Commission was leaked by someone in the saffron camp.Reacting to Union Home Minister...
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