India

New Delhi: November 11: The war of words has broken out in connection with the listing for urgent hearing of Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami plea on Wednesday in Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court denying him interim bail in 2018 abetement of suicide case. The Supreme Court Bar Association president Dushyant Dave has strongly protested against selective listing...

Greater Noida: Oct 1: High drama prevailed on Thursday after Uttar Pradesh Police personnel pushed former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on the ground near the Yamuna Expressway and detained him along with his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while they were walking towards Hathras to meet the family of the rape victim, party leaders claimed. Gandhi, along with...

Chandigarh: September 27 : The highest decision making body of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) core committee at its emergency meeting held here on Saturday night unanimously decided to pull out of the BJP-led NDA alliance because of the Centre's stubborn refusal to give statutory legislative guarantees to protect the assured marketing of farmers' crops at minimum support price...

Bhubaneswar: September 26: India recorded 85,362 new cases in last 24 hours and with this, total cases in India jumped to 59,03,932. On the other side, with a very high number of COVID patients recovering every single day, India’s steady trend of posting high level of recoveries continues. India has recorded 93,420 new recoveries in the last 24 hours. With this,...

Bhubaneswar: September 23: Khurda District reported 647 new COVID Positive cases in last 24 hours, which is highest among the districts. Also, Cuttack District registered 577 new cases, followed by Puri 219 cases, Jharsuguda 205 cases, Jajpur 201 cases, Jagatsinghpur 173 cases, Balasore 161 cases, Kendrapara 148 cases, Mayurbhanj 139 cases, Bhadrak 136 cases, Sonepur 131 cases, Bargarh 121...

New Delhi: September 18: Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked Opposition parties on Friday, saying they are "lying" to farmers. He also claimed that the NDA Government is doing what "they" themselves promised in their manifestos, referring to the Congress. The Prime Minister said the Bills were "necessary" to safeguard the farmers from middlemen. He was speaking after inaugurating the Kosi mega...

London: September 18: Researchers have created a 90-minute high speed Covid-19 test which does not require a laboratory and can be performed in cartridges smaller than a mobile phone with high accuracy. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Microbe, revealed that the Lab-in-Cartridge rapid testing device, which can be performed at a patient's bedside, was shown to have...

New Delhi: September 17: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday said that the coronavirus vaccine will be made available in the country by the start of next year. The remarks come at a time when India is recording more than 50 lakh cases and people are awaiting the vaccine with bated breath. "Just like other countries, India is also...

New Delhi: September 12:  India on Saturday once again recorded an unprecedented spike in a single day as 97,570 fresh Covid cases were recorded taking the total tally to 46,59,984, the Union Health Ministry data revealed. It is more than double the single day spike in the US, which is the only country ahead of India. There were 1,201 deaths reported...

New Delhi: September 8: Around 40 to 50 PLA soldiers, armed with spears and other sharp-edged weapons as well as guns, have come just a few metres from the Indian Army position on the heights north of Rezang La in eastern Ladakh, and are likely to make a fresh attempt to dislodge the Indian soldiers, sources said on Tuesday. The...

New Delhi: September 4:  With 83,341 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours, India's tally mounted to 39,36,747 on Friday, while the death toll climbed to 68,472 with 1,096 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry. Out of total confirmed cases, 8,31,124 are the active cases, while a total of 30,37,151 have recovered from the virus so far. With 66,659 recoveries in...

Mumbai: July 12: Soon after Amitabh Bachchan tweeted to confirm that he has been hospitalised with COVID-19 infection, the Bollywood icons son, actor Abhishek Bachchan, also took to social media on Saturday night to state that he has tested positive to the novel coronavirus. "Earlier today both my father and I tested positive for COVID 19. Both of us having mild...

Mumbai: July 12: Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan was admitted to Nanavati Hospital on Saturday evening. On Twitter, the actor confirmed that he has tested COVID-19 positive. "T 3590 -I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited .. All that have been in close proximity to me in...

Sheila Dixit returns to Delhi as the Congress chief on Wednesday after Ajay Maken’s exit, who cited health reason earlier on January 4. The three-time former CM returns to the political turf after being decimated by the AAP in 2015 assembly elections. The 80-year old Congress leader after taking charge was asked about upcoming polls and rumours of Congress aligning...