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Delhi on Thursday reported 2,668 fresh COVID-19 cases and 13 deaths, while the positivity rate dropped to 4.3 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. With this, the national...
23:19
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Thursday hoisted a 104 ft tall monumental National Flag at Ngangpa Natme (Buddha Park) at Tawang, a Buddhist pilgrim town bordering China. Talking to media later, Khandu while congratulating the people of the state, said that the monumental...
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The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday asked the state government to file its counter affidavit within four weeks on a plea by Dr Kafeel Ahmad of BRD College, Gorakhpur, challenging his termination from services. The court also granted two weeks to the petitioner to file...
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Courtesy, Akhilesh Yadav on Twitter
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav waved at each other from their vehicles when their roadshows crossed paths in Bulandshahr on Thursday. Priyanka was travelling in an open vehicle while Akhilesh was travelling in a bus repurposed...
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Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said radiation technology has been installed in Parliament building to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus but urged MPs to continue following social distancing norms. The Union minister for science and technology said the Ultraviolet-C...
22:07
Amid speculation over the chief ministerial face of Congress for upcoming Punjab polls, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, has said that her husband is 'a hero' and it does not matter whom the party chooses its face in the state for the polls. Navjot Singh...
21:19
Uday Narayan Dev, former legislator, royal scion and a noted ornithologist who carved a niche for himself, died in Bhubaneswar, his family said on Thursday. He was 86 and survived by a son. Dev was suffering from old-age-related ailments for the last two days and was admitted to a...
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Mumbai's daily coronavirus count again dropped below the 1,000-mark as it reported 827 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, while seven more patients died due to the infection, the city civic body said. With these additions, the tally of coronavirus infections rose to 10,49,348, while the...
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Bharatiya Janata Party's Rajasthan president Satish Poonia on Thursday said he will not wear a safa (turban) or garland, and will skip dinner until his party comes to power in the state in the next assembly election in 2023. I will not wear safa and garland, and will have dinner only after...
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DD Sports channel will not telecast live the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics being held in Beijing, Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati said on Thursday. The announcement came shortly after the Indian government decided that its envoy will not attend the opening...
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The Delhi Disaster Management Authority is likely to deliberate on lifting night curfew and reopening of schools during its meeting on February 4 in view of the decline in COVID cases in Delhi, official sources said on Thursday. The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline...
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Asaduddin Owaisi
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday alleged his car was fired upon by unidentified men while he was returning to Delhi from Hapur district in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. Owaisi's car was near the Chhijarsi toll plaza on the Hapur-Ghaziabad stretch of the National Highway 24 when the...
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The government is working to ensure that Indian workers are back to their work and jobs in the Gulf and is pursuing the issue with its counterparts in the region at the highest level, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday....
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Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi
Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi has returned to the state government, an assembly Bill seeking exemption to the state from the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test, saying it went against the interests of rural and economically poor students. The governor has...
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The government on Thursday said it was concerned about the freedom of speech and expression and that the country was not in the times of 1975 or the Emergency. Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan told the Rajya Sabha that the government has initiated action...
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India on Thursday announced that its charg d'affaires in the Beijing embassy will not attend the opening or closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in the Chinese capital over China honouring a military commander involved in the Galwan Valley clashes as its torchbearer for the mega sporting...
17:14
A US lawmaker has slammed China for choosing the People's Liberation Army's regimental commander, involved in the Galwan valley clash as a torchbearer for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Torch Relay.China's People's Liberation Army's regimental commander, who had suffered severe injuries during the...
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Offence is the best form of defence, George Washington has said.And so, the BJP continued to attack Rahul Gandhi on Thursday over his speech in Parliament, with Union minister Kiren Rijiju saying the Congress leader is used to behave like India's yuvraj and now thinks that he is its...
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The Union health ministry on Thursday refuted as misleading media reports which claimed that 50 lakh unused Covishield doses may go waste by the end of this month. It said the Centre had proactively advised all state governments to review the availability of vaccines, right from the start of...
16:07
Akhilesh Yadav is leading an ebullient challenge to the Modi-Yogi suzerainty in Uttar Pradesh. The Telegraph assesses whether he can go all the way or will, like Tejashwi in neighbouring Bihar, fall short. Read the report here.
16:05
Kerala has the maximum Covid cases in India
The number of active coronavirus cases in the national capital has registered a fall of over 60 per cent in the last one week.The DDMA authorities are slated to meet on Friday to discuss further relaxations in Covid-19 curbs in view of the improving situation. While daily cases count,...
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Congress's MP Ripun Bora in Rajya Sabha on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he did not create a single Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) while he privatised 23.Speaking on the Motion of Thanks to President's Address in Rajya Sabha, Bora also compared previous Prime...
15:43
TMC MP Mohua Moitra
The spirited Mahua Moitra, a Trinamool Congress MP, has tweeted a dare telling hecklers to prepare for her speech in the Lok Sabha today by drinking cow urine -- gaumutra -- which has been bandied by rightwingers as the panacea of all evils. Moitra on Thursday 'gave an early heads up to...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form government in Uttar Pradesh with a two-third majority.While addressing a public meeting in Anupshahar, I am sure that this time also in Uttar Pradesh, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra...
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Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday hit out at Rahul Gandhi, claiming that the Congress leader earlier used to behave like 'Yuvraj' and now thinks he is the 'King' of India. Continuing the attack on the former Congress President for alleging that the BJP government had created two Indias,...
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Claiming success in controlling crime in the state, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday accused his predecessors of failing to undertake police reforms and modification as the latter wanted to use the department as their personal tool. The chief minister also claimed...
14:04
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday hailed Rahul Gandhi for his rousing speech in Lok Sabha and said the Congress MP had voiced the long-standing arguments of Tamils in the Parliament. In a Twitter post, the DMK president thanked Gandhi on behalf of all Tamils for his parliament...
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Reversing three days of winning run the Indian equities markets key indices fell on Thursday dragged by selling pressure in IT, FMCG and select financial stocks.The benchmark Sensex was trading at 59,164.76 points at 1.10 am, which is 393.57 points or 0.66 per cent lower from its previous day's...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav plants a sapling ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls. His daughter, Tina, tweets, A tree to the name of the 2022 win. Ek pedh 2022 jeet ke naam. The genes show.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday said that two Indias are being created. One India is for the extremely rich people, those who have immense wealth, for those who have immense power, for those who control the heartbeat of the country,' he said in Parliament. Another...
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India is witnessing trailers of future conflicts and its adversaries will continue with efforts to achieve their strategic aims, Army Chief Gen MM Naravane said on Thursday delving into national security challenges emanating from China and Pakistan. In an address at an online seminar, he...
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Senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar has condemned the alleged hate speeches against minorities at a recent Dharma Sansad in Haridwar and said all those who make provocative and divisive remarks should be punished as per law without any exception. In an interview with PTI, he termed the...
12:28
With Samajwadi Party (SP) fielding Raju Gandhi as their candidate for the Lucknow Cantonment seat, the speculations that the SP would field BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's son Mayank Joshi from the seat have been put to an end.Soon after the BJP denied the ticket to Mayank and fielded state Law...
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Claims that people are being registered as double vaccinated without receiving both doses. Read the report here.
12:07
The principal focus of the prime minister has been to strengthen the foundations of the national economy and use the disruption to steer economic policies in a particular direction. At the heart of the government's efforts has been the Make in India programme that has involved...
12:00
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi might be declared the Congress' chief minister face for the Punjab assembly polls as sources say that he is leading in the survey the party is conducting to choose the CM candidate. Opinions of candidates, workers, and party MPs are being recorded...
11:54
RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary, who has been slammed for his Hema Malini remark, clarified that it was a 'sarcastic' comment. Attempts were being made to poach our candidate from Maant seat. Yogesh (Nauhwar) had said from the stage that he was offered an MP post. So I said it sarcastically...
11:36
BJP MP Kamlesh Paswan
BJP MP Kamlesh Paswan reacts to Rahul Gandhi's praise in Parliament. After my speech on Motion of Thanks to the President in Parliament, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi yesterday said: Mr Paswan, you spoke very well. I think you are in the wrong party. He is trying to woo me. He should focus on...
11:24
After a section of students protested demanding to ensure 'uniform norms', girl students in Government Degree College in Karnataka were asked to attend classes without wearing hijab from Thursday. The girls, who have been entering the campus wearing hijab, were asked to remove it at...
11:21
This article explores the engagements of people and various civic organizations, even from the margins of society, with the making of India's constitution during the early stages of its drafting. Using hitherto unstudied archival materials, it examines constitutional visions, demands, conceptions...
11:18
Keeping a tab on the economy
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) its office bearers, MPs and other leaders will reach out to the masses across the country to explain the merits of the Union Budget to the people.BJP MPs will explain the merits of the budget of self-reliant India to the people of their respective areas on February 5,...
11:15
With the administration of more than 57 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has exceeded the 167.29 crore mark as per provisional reports till 7 am on Wednesday. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a press release today...
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Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday hit back at the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark of idea of the king has come back in Lok Sabha and said that he thinks he is the king of India.The Congress leader on Wednesday had accused the Centre of having a flawed vision and...
10:44
Friends in need
Amid the ongoing military standoff with the Chinese military, the top brass of the Indian Army, led by Army Chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane, is carrying out an operational review of the situation along the borders with China and Pakistan on Wednesday in view of the recent changes in the...
10:38
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla schooled Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday for not following proper Parliamentary procedure during a debate on the motion of thanks to the President's address in the Lok Sabha.After Rahul Gandhi gave permission to another MP to speak while he...
10:25
Equity benchmark Sensex declined over 100 points in opening trade on Thursday, tracking losses in index majors HDFC, Infosys and Wipro. Unabated foreign fund outflows weighed on domestic equities, traders said. The BSE gauge was trading 116.47 points or 0.20 per cent lower at 59,441.86 in...
10:15
With 1,72,433 people testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,18,03,318, while the active cases decreased to 15,33,921, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.The death toll climbed to 4,98,983 with 1,008 daily...
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A 27-year-old constable attached to the Thane police commissionerate collapsed and died during a routine parade in Thane on Thursday morning, an official said.The deceased, Mahesh More, was posted in the Quick Response Team (QRT) of the city police.Around 7.30 am on Thursday, he...
09:14
United States President Joe Biden on Wednesday (local time) spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron regarding Russia's continued military build-up on Ukraine's borders.'The two leaders affirmed their support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and reviewed our ongoing...
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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks that the Bharatiya Janata Party government's policies have brought 'China and Pakistan together', stating that 'some history lessons are in order' and that Pakistan illegally handed over the...
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India's COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 167.80 crore with over 48 lakh vaccine doses being administered on Wednesday, the Union health ministry said. The daily vaccination tally is expected to increase with the compilation of the final reports for the day by late in the night, it...
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Civil services preliminary examination 2022 will be held on June 5 to fill 861 posts, the Union Public Service Commission said on Wednesday. The civil services examination is conducted annually in three stages -- preliminary, main and interview -- to select officers of Indian Administrative...
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