New Delhi: The government will have to move a bill in Parliament to repeal the three agri laws, which were at the centre of protests by farmers for the past year, Constitution and legal experts said on Friday. In his address to the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the three agri laws would […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 11,106 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country’s tally to 3,44,89,623, while the active cases have declined to 1,26,620, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll has climbed to 4,65,082 with 459 daily fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am. […]
Pak bill on facilitating Kulbhushan Jadhav appeal against death sentence NEW DELHI: A day after Pakistan passed a bill to facilitate Indian prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav appeal against his death sentence, India on Thursday said the law “simply codifies” the “shortcomings” of a previous ordinance and that Islamabad has “failed” to create an atmosphere to ensure […]
PUNE: A group of astronomers has discovered eight stars belonging to a rare class called ‘MRPs’ or Main-sequence Radio Pulse emitters using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) located near Pune, leading research institute NCRA said on Friday. The group of scientists, led by astronomers from the Pune-based National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), discovered […]
NEW DELHI: India exported more than 65 million doses of Covid vaccines to nearly 100 countries this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, asserting that the global trust earned by the Indian healthcare sector has led to the country being called the “pharmacy of the world”. Speaking after inaugurating the first global innovation […]
NEW DELHI: With 11,919 fresh cases, India’s COVID-19 tally has climbed to 3,44,78,517, while the number of active cases has gone up to 1,28,762, the Union health ministry said on Thursday. The death toll due to the viral disease has shot up to 4,64,623 with 470 more fatalities, according to the ministry’s data updated at […]
SHIMLA: In an apparent dig at opposition parties ahead of the Winter Session of Parliament, Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said Parliament is meant for discussion and not for dancing and tearing papers. He also suggested that 75 topics of national and human interests should be selected for discussion in Parliament to mark 75 […]
New Delhi: The air quality in the national capital remained in the ‘very poor’ category with the air quality index (AQI) clocking the value of 344 at 8 am on Thursday, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed. Though it remained in the ‘very poor’ category, the AQI improved marginally at 344 on Thursday […]
NEW DELHI: Of the more than 1.59 lakh applications filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the last eight years, 11,376 were filed by women and the rest by men, according to the personnel ministry’s data. Replying to an RTI query, the ministry said a total of 1,59,107 applications were filed under the […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress accused the BJP-led government on Thursday of compromising national security and India’s territorial integrity, and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on new Chinese villages coming up near the Dokalam plateau. Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said latest satellite images show that China has built four villages in Bhutan, next to Dokalam, […]