PITHORAGARH: Helicopters have landed heavy road-building machinery in the tough Himalayan terrain of Uttarakhand’s Johar Valley to help speed up construction of the strategic Munsiyari-Bugdiyar-Milam road near the India-China border, an official said. After several failed attempts in 2019, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) recently succeeded in carrying heavy road building equipment by helicopters to […]
JAIPUR: The Congress has the numbers and both the party candidates will win the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls in the state, said Rajasthan Deputy CM Sachin Pilot while asserting that there are no chances of the BJP winning a second seat. His statement has come a day after the ruling Congress in Rajasthan alleged attempts […]
NEW DELHI: India is definitely not in the community transmission stage of COVID-19 spread, the government asserted on Thursday, even as cases and deaths continued to mount with the country recording the highest single-day spike of 9,996 new infections and 357 fatalities. India’s first sero-survey on COVID-19 spread has found that lockdown and containment measures […]
New Delhi: A day after urging the people to offer namaz from their homes amid the spike in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, Jama Masjid”s Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari, here on Thursday, said the mosque would remain closed till June 30. Speaking to the media, Bukhari said, “I had made an appeal to […]
NEW DELHI: A group of armed forces veterans on Thursday described Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the central government over its handling of the Ladakh border row as “undesirable and deplorable”. The veterans said in a statement that Gandhi’s earlier statements on Pakistan were “used and supported” by the Pakistan government and military, “encouraging […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has restrained the police from circulating any information regarding allegations and evidence collected against any accused in the riots cases with any person, including those in the media or on social media platforms. “The respondent is restrained from issuing any such statements or circulating information regarding allegations and evidence […]
NEW DELHI: According to the Union health ministry data, the number of recovered Covid-19 patients has overtaken the number of active cases in India for the first time. The number of active cases in the country stands at 1,33,632, while 1,35,205 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, the ministry said. “Thus, 48.99 per […]
BENGALURU: Gains from the lockdown period in the battle against COVID-19 have possibly been lost in the unlock phase, a public health care expert warned on Wednesday, calling for protecting the population in rural areas ill-prepared to tackle any explosion in infection cases. Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad, Public Health Foundation of India, […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that China has taken away India’s territory in Ladakh and questioned the prime minister’s silence on the issue, saying he has vanished. “The Chinese have walked in and taken our territory in Ladakh. Meanwhile. The PM is absolutely silent and has vanished from the scene,” he […]
New Delhi: The Jama Masjid may have to be closed again in view of the “deteriorating” situation in Delhi due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the mosque’s Shahi Imam Syed Ahmed Bukhari said on Wednesday. The development comes after the Shahi Imam’s secretary Amanullah died due to the novel coronavirus at the Safdarjung Hospital on Tuesday […]
