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The Election Commission on Saturday issued a notice to the Samajwadi Party for organising a public gathering in the name of virtual rally at its Lucknow office in violation of COVID-19 norms. Referring to Friday's event in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the notice...
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Mumbai on Saturday reported 11 new coronavirus-related deaths, the highest single-day toll since July 29 last year, and 10,661 fresh infections, the civic body said. As many as 21,474 patients were discharged, taking the total of recoveries to 8,99,358.The number of new infected...
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After the Congress denied ticket to him for the upcoming Punjab assembly polls, Moga MLA Harjot Kamal on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of its senior leadership, including Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. The Congress on Saturday released its first list of...
20:01
The farmer unions contesting the Punjab assembly polls will no longer be part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella body that spearheaded the agitation against the now-repealed agri laws said on Saturday. SKM leaders in a press conference after their meeting at Kondli on the...
19:35
The Central Bureau of Investigation has booked E S Ranganathan, director (marketing) of public sector undertaking GAIL, and others in connection with an alleged bribery case, officials said Saturday. Following the registration of the case, CBI teams carried out searches at several locations...
19:19
Virat Kohli's full statement.It's been 7 years of hard work, toil and relentless perseverance everyday to take the team in the right direction. I've done the job with absolute honesty and left nothing out there. Everything has to come to a halt at some stage and for we as Test Captain...
19:04
Breaking News: Virat Kohli has stepped down as Test captain of Indian cricket team.
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Sitting Bharatiya Janata Party legislators have made way for Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya to contest from the Gorakhpur Urban and Sirathu assembly seats in the Uttar Pradesh elections. While four-time MLA Radha Mohan Das Agarwal has been replaced by...
18:01
Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases, the Election Commission on Saturday extended its ban on physical rallies and roadshows until January 22 in the five poll-bound states. The poll panel, however, granted a relaxation for the political parties to the extent that indoor meetings of maximum...
17:58
Amid the scare caused by the Omicron variant of coronavirus, a senior official of the Maharashtra health department has said that the Delta strain of the virus still accounts for the maximum number of infection cases in the state as revealed by the genome sequencing of the patients'...
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The West Bengal government on Saturday extended the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions till January 31, allowing fairs on open grounds in a very restricted manner with strict adherence to safety norms, an official order said. The state government also allowed...
17:07
Congress nominee Archana Gautam
The Congress' decision of fielding actor-model Archana Gautam from Hastinapur constituency in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls has kicked up a controversy, with the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing the grand old party of indulging in cheap publicity. The Congress, however, has...
16:20
Railway Board Chairman V K Tripathi Saturday inspected the site where the Bikaner-Guwahati Express had derailed in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district and said all aspects related to the accident will be thoroughly investigated. At least nine people were killed and 36 injured...
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday took a jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party's decision to field Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from the Gorakhpur constituency, saying the saffron party has already sent him home. Gorakhpur is the hometown of...
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In yet another suspected hooch tragedy in dry Bihar, four persons have died here after allegedly consuming spurious liquor, triggering shock waves in the headquarters of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's home district of Nalanda, police said on Saturday. The...
15:32
The Congress on Saturday released its first list of 86 candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab, fielding Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from Chamkaur Sahib and PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar East. The party has also fielded Punjab deputy chief...
15:22
The West Bengal Election Commission on Saturday postponed polls to four municipal corporations by three weeks to February 12 in the wake of rising COVID-19 cases. According to a notification issued by the SEC, polls to Siliguri Municipal Corporation, Chandernagore Municipal...
15:06
On its 74th foundation day, the Indian Army on Saturday unveiled its new combat uniform at the 'Army Day' parade.
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The country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank on Saturday reported an 18.1 per cent rise in its standalone net profit at Rs 10,342.20 crore for the third quarter ended December 2021. The bank had registered a net profit of Rs 8,758.29 crore in the corresponding quarter of the...
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The Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express train hit a cement pillar, which some miscreants had allegedly placed on the railway track near Valsad in south Gujarat, although no passenger was injured, police officials said on Saturday. The police suspect that the...
14:55
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for innovating for India and from India to tackle challenges facing the country as he counted steps taken by the government in freeing entrepreneurs and innovation from bureaucratic silos. Our startups are changing the rules of the game....
14:42
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday left for the United States of America for a two-week long medical treatment. The CM is accompanied by his wife and personal assistant. Vijayan did not hand over charge to anyone in the ministry. According to CMO sources,...
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Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik on Saturday said his party is in talks with the Samajwadi Party over the seat-sharing formula for the upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh, and so far one seat has been decided for the NCP. He also said the...
14:11
Approximately 24,000 people will be permitted to attend the Republic Day parade on January 26 this year given the COVID-19 situation in the national capital, sources in the defence establishment said on Saturday. In 2020, before the pandemic struck India, around 1.25 lakh people were...
13:14
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to contest the upcoming assembly polls from Gorakhpur city, the Bharatiya Janata Party announced today.Yogi's deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya to contest assembly polls from Sirathu seat.
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Security has been tightened at the Ghazipur flower market in Delhi, a day after an improvised explosive device stuffed with RDX and ammonium nitrate was found inside an unattended bag there ahead of Republic Day, officials said on Saturday. The IED was defused around 1:30 pm on...
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Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar continues to remain under observation in the Intensive Care Unit of a Mumbai hospital, the doctor treating her said on Saturday. The 92-year-old singer tested positive for coronavirus with mild symptoms and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the...
12:33
The Republic Day celebrations will now begin every year from January 23 instead of January 24 to include the birth anniversary of freedom fighter Subash Chandra Bose, government sources said on Saturday. This is in line with the Narendra Modi government's focus on commemorating important...
12:29
The Indian Army's message is clear that it will not let any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo along the country's borders succeed, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane said on Saturday. In an address at the Army Day Parade in New Delhi, he said last year was extremely challenging for the...
12:08
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad today said that his political outfit -- the Azad Samaj Party -- will not ally with the Samajwadi Party for next month's Uttar Pradesh assembly election.After all the discussions, in the end, I felt that Akhilesh Yadav does not want Dalits in this alliance, he...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Bharatiya Janata Party members from Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on January 18, the party said on Saturday. This will be Modi's first political programme involving party workers after the Election Commission announced the schedule for the...
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Ahead of the assembly elections, former Punjab minister Joginder Singh Mann joined the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday, a day after snapping his 50-year-old ties with the Congress. AAP leader and Punjab...
10:46
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday greeted the Army personnel and veterans on Army Day. Kovind said the Indian Army has been pivotal in ensuring national security and the country is grateful for their service. ...
10:38
India registered 2,68,833 new COVID infections in a day taking the tally to 3,68,50,962, which includes 6,041 Omicron variant cases, according to the Union health ministry data on Saturday. With 402 more deaths, the number of people who have succumbed to the viral disease has risen to...
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The Election Commission of India will hold a meeting at 1 pm on Saturday. The meeting is to decide if ban on rallies and gatherings in five poll-bound states till January 15 will be extended further or not. Assembly elections in five states -- Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and...
09:57
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Saturday imposed complete restriction on non-essential movement during weekends in the Union Territory amid a surge in COVID cases that rose by 2,456 a day earlier. Announcing the decision of the state executive committee, which met under the...
09:07
Dara Singh Chauhan
Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who resigned this week from the Yogi Adityanath government and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the assembly polls, on Friday said that former state cabinet minister Dara Singh Chauhan will join the Samajwadi Party on Sunday. Dara...
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Trinamool Congress Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra on Friday hit out at Congress leader P Chidambaram saying that her party made a 'formal and definitive' offer to Congress in Goa to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. Moitra, who was responding to Chidambaram's statements about the lack of...
08:17
The Congress has fielded actor and beauty pageant winner Archana Gautam from Hastinapur constituency in the Meerut district to contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Gautam got a ticket within two months of joining the party. She had joined Congress in November 2021. On...
08:09
As a part of azadi ka amrit mahotsav, a week-long event, celebrating innovation ecosystem, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with more than 150 startups on Saturday at 10:30 am via video conferencing. According to Prime Minister's Office, the event is being hosted by the department...
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The central government on Friday refuted media reports alleging a 'significant undercount' of COVID-19 deaths in the first two waves in India, saying that these are baseless, misleading and ill-informed.Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a statement refuted some media reports alleging a...
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