NEW DELHI: India registered the highest-ever single-day spike of 2,003 Covid-19 fatalities on Wednesday, pushing the death toll due to the disease to 11,903 in the country, after Maharashtra and Delhi added deaths that occurred earlier but were not attributed to the coronavirus. The country’s Covid-19 caseload rose to 3,54,065 with 10,974 new infections reported […]
Jaipur: Police have registered an FIR against a television news anchor for allegedly making an objectionable comment on Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. The FIR was lodged after a complaint against News 18 India anchor Amish Devgan by a khadim at the saint’s dargah in Ajmer on Tuesday night. He is running a communal agenda […]
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held two-back-to-back meetings with top military brass on Tuesday deliberating on the situation in eastern Ladakh after an Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed in a violent clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley. Singh also briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the killing of the three […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday termed as shocking and unacceptable the death of an Indian Army officer and two soldiers in a violent face-off with Chinese troops and said the development is a matter of serious national concern. While asking defence minister Rajnath Singh to confirm the incident, the party also demanded that the […]
NEW DELHI: India registered over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases for the fifth day in a row pushing tally to 3,43,091 on Tuesday, while the death toll rose to 9,900 with 380 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country recorded 10,667 coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours. The number of active […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed a Madhya Pradesh High Court decision on migration of OBC candidate to unreserved category. The High Court had quashed a decision of Madhya Pradesh public service commission to allow the candidate, appearing in an exam as a reserved category, to migrate to General category. A bench comprising Justices […]
New Delhi: Due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the National Testing Agency has extended the last date for submission of online application forms for entrance examinations to JNU, IGNOU PhD, hotel management to June 30. Human Resource Development minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said, “In view of the appeals made by the students and the difficult […]
NEW DELHI: The government is taking steps to revamp the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and large-scale reforms are needed further, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. NHAI has been mandated the task to develop, maintain and manage National Highways, the arterial roads of the country, for inter-state movement of passengers and goods. […]
India summoned the Pakistan charge d'affaires in Delhi and lodged a strong protest over the reported arrest of the two officials
NEW DELHI: Pakistani authorities on Monday evening released two Indian High Commission staffers in Islamabad hours after they were reportedly arrested for their alleged involvement in a “hit and run accident”. Top government sources confirmed that the two Indian staffers were released by Pakistani authorities and they are back at the Indian High Commission. The […]
NEW DELHI: Asserting that the road built by India till Lipulekh Pass is very much in its territory, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that his government believed in sorting out the “misunderstanding” in relations with Nepal through dialogue. In a virtual rally for Uttarakhand, Singh underscored the deep ties between the two countries, […]