NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Friday allowed 62 Malaysians and 11 foreigners from Saudi Arabia to walk free on payment of fine of Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000 each respectively, after they accepted mild charges, under the plea bargain process, related to various violations including visa norms while attending Tablighi Jamaat congregation here during the […]
NEW DELHI: The Press Council of India on Friday sought replies from the governments of Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh in connection with separate incidents of alleged targeting of scribes over their reporting on problems faced by the people during the Covid-19-induced lockdown. In a statement, the Press Council of India (PCI) said it […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a record single-day surge of 24,879 coronavirus infections which pushed the nationwide Covid-19 caseload to 7,67,296 on Thursday, while the death toll climbed to 21,129 with 487 new fatalities, according to the Union health ministry data. The number of recoveries stands at 4,76,377, while there are 2,69,789 active cases of coronavirus […]
NEW DELHI: Eight states, including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Karnataka and Telangana, account for around 90 per cent of the active COVID-19 cases in the country and 80 per cent of the active cases have been reported from 49 districts, the Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was informed on Thursday. Besides, the GoM was […]
NEW DELHI: Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Thursday said there has been an “uninformed commentary” on exclusion of certain topics from the CBSE syllabus to portray a false narrative. The comments by the minister came following a controversy over the reduction of syllabus by the CBSE due to the Covid-19 situation, with the […]
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court Thursday allowed 60 Malaysians to walk free on payment of a fine of Rs 7,000 each after they accepted mild charges, under the plea bargain process, related to various violations including the visa norms while attending Nizamuddin Markaz here during the COVID-19 lockdown, their lawyer said. Metropolitan Magistrate Siddharth Malik […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver on Thursday the inaugural address at the India Global Week 2020, a virtual conference being organised in the UK, which will also feature a “never-seen-before” performance on the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat campaign, the Prime Minister’s Office said. Themed ‘Be The Revival: India and a Better New World’, […]
NEW DELHI: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past the seven-lakh mark on Tuesday after a single-day spike of 22,252 infections, five days after crossing the six-lakh post, while the death toll breached the 20,000 mark, according to the Union Health Ministry data. It took 110 days for coronavirus infections in the country to reach the one-lakh, […]
NEW DELHI: India’s total number of coronavirus cases and fatalities per million population is one of the lowest in the world, the Union health ministry said on Tuesday even as the country’s infection tally went past the 7 lakh-mark and the death toll rose to 20,160. Referring to the ‘WHO Situation Report-168’ dated July 6, […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave one more month to the Centre for implementation of its verdict on giving all serving SSC women officers permanent commission in the Army. A bench headed by Justices D Y Chandrachud said that the Centre will have to comply with all its directions given in its verdict. […]