New Delhi: India has the highest number of under-vaccinated or unvaccinated children worldwide at 3.5 million, an increase of 1.4 million from 2019, amid the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, the UNICEF said. It also noted that over 3 million “zero-dose children” in 2020 lived in India. At nearly 4.4 million, South Asia recorded the highest number […]
New Delhi: Emphasising on the importance of skill development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling of people needed to be expedited as there is going to be a huge demand for this due to fast-changing technology. He said that skill development of the new generation is a national need and […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday welcomed the Supreme Court’s observation about the sedition law and asking the Centre whether it was still needed 75 years after Independence. Concerned over the “enormous misuse” of the colonial-era penal law, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana asked the Centre why […]
New Delhi: Emphasising that the future of Afghanistan cannot be its past, India on Wednesday presented a three-point roadmap for the conflict-ridden country that entailed cessation of violence and terrorist attacks, settlement of the conflict through political dialogue and steps to ensure that neighbouring countries are not threatened by terrorism, separatism and extremism. External Affairs […]
New Delhi: India recorded 38,792 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 3,09,46,074, while the death toll reached 4,11,408 with 624 more fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data updated on Wednesday. The active cases have declined to 4,29,946 and comprise 1.39 per cent of the total infections, while the national Covid recovery […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to examine a fresh plea by a former army officer challenging the Constitutional validity of the sedition law on the ground that it causes “chilling effect” on speech and is an unreasonable restriction on free expression, a fundamental right. A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana, A […]
NEW DELHI: Union minister Piyush Goyal has been appointed as the leader of house in Rajya Sabha, sources said on Wednesday. He will succeed Thawar Chand Gahlot who has been appointed the governor of Karnataka. The Parliamentary Affairs Ministry has intimated the Rajya Sabha Secretariat that Goyal will be the Leader of House, the sources […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would examine how far can constitutional courts venture into issues which are exclusively in the domain of executive related to Covid-19 management. The top court said that the courts need to respect the demarcation of power given under the Constitution even though the objective was in […]
NEW DELHI: India’s COVID-19 death toll climbed to 4,10,784 with 2,020 new deaths recorded after Madhya Pradesh reconciled its fatality data, while 31,443 new coronavirus cases were reported, the lowest in 118 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases mounted to 3,09,05,819. The active cases […]
MUMBAI: All eyes may have been on Novak Djokovic at the Men’s Singles final at Wimbledon last week as he won yet another grand slam title, but for the Bombay High Court the real sight to behold was a stadium full of spectators without masks. Wondering when India would see the return of this level […]