NEW DELHI: India logged 552 new cases of Omicron, taking the total tally of such infections to 3,623 across 27 states and UTs so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. Out of the total Omicron cases, 1,409 people have migrated or recovered. Maharashtra recorded the maximum number of 1,009 cases […]
New Delhi: Four Supreme Court judges and almost five per cent of its staff have tested positive for Covid-19, official sources said on Sunday, as the national capital witnesses a sharp spike in coronavirus cases. An apex court official told PTI that out of the 32 judges in the apex court, at least four judges, […]
New Delhi: A day after the Election Commission of India announced poll schedule for five states, a survey claimed that 41 per cent of people supported a ban on all political rallies. According to the survey, held after the announcement by the EC, 31 per cent of citizens favoured postponing elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that pregnant women and ‘divyang’ (differently-abled) employees of central government departments have been exempted from attending office in the wake of a sharp spike in Covid cases. However, they will be required to remain available and work from home, he said. Officials and staff living in […]
Letter with over 180 signatories flags hate speech and attacks on minorities New Delhi: A group of students and faculty members from Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to steer the country away from “forces that seek to divide us” and said his […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the BJP of having set up several “factories” of hate and said the ‘Tek Fog’ app is one of them. He said the entire country is wondering where so much hate is coming from, going by the age of the accused in the ‘Bulli Bai’ app […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 1,41,986 new coronavirus cases, raising the tally to 3,53,68,372, which included 3,071 cases of Omicron variant reported across 27 states and union territories so far, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday. Of the 3,071 cases of Omicron variant, 1,203 have recovered or migrated, according to the […]
NEW DELHI: The Union Home Ministry has restored the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration of the Missionaries of Charity, days after revoking it following some “adverse inputs”. A home ministry official said that with the restoration of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licence, the Kolkata-based famed organisation will be able to receive foreign […]
PANAJI: The Congress is ready to accept the support of any party that is keen to defeat the BJP in the upcoming Goa assembly elections, senior leader P Chidambaram said on Saturday. His statement has come shortly after Trinamool Congress Party’s Goa desk in-charge Mahua Moitra suggested that the Mamata Banerjee-led party was open to […]
NEW DELHI: India and China are yet to finalise a date for the next round of the Corps Commander-level talks on the eastern Ladakh border row with the Chinese military yet to positively respond to the Indian proposals for the dialogue, people familiar with the development said on Thursday. The Indian side sent at least […]