India

Warangal: The CPI (Maoist) has expelled its politburo member and senior most leader Kobad Ghandy accusing him of abandoning the ‘dialectical and historical materialism, principles of Marxism and class struggle” and “for selecting the way of getting happiness through mysticism.” In a press release dated November 27, 2021, party national spokesperson Abhay said that the […]

New Delhi: The Centre’s ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign will continue till December 31 with a focus on 100 per cent first dose COVID-19 vaccination, and completing the backlog of second dose vaccination, informed official sources on Tuesday. This came after Union Health Ministry Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on November 22 wrote a letter to Additional Chief […]

The coins belong to 12th century AD which are engraved with bull and a horseman on them

New Delhi: Admiral R Hari Kumar on Tuesday took over as the new Navy chief, succeeding Admiral Karambir Singh who is superannuated after a 30-month tenure. Soon after taking over, Kumar said it was a matter of great honour for him to take charge as the Chief of Naval Staff. “Indian Navy’s focus is on […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday said it proposes to go ahead with the contempt matter involving fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, who is an accused in bank loan default case of over Rs 9,000 crore involving his defunct Kingfisher Airlines, and list it for hearing on sentencing. The apex court had earlier dismissed his plea […]

New Delhi: Delhi’s air quality remained in the very poor category on Tuesday even as the minimum temperature slipped to 9.8 degrees Celsius.The 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) read 329. It stood at 389 on Monday. The city had recorded air quality in the severe category for three days on the trot. Delhi had […]

Lucknow: Continuing its name changing spree, the Yogi Adityanath government is now mulling a proposal to name the Lucknow Zoo after former Prime Minister, late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Forest Minister Dara Singh Chouhan said that the government was considering the proposal and a decision would be taken at the right time. The Lucknow zoo, earlier […]

Mumbai: The rupee recovered 21 paise to 74.86 against the US dollar in opening trade on Tuesday, as positive domestic equities and a weak American currency in the overseas markets boosted investor sentiments. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened on a strong note at 74.91, then surged higher to 74.86 against the American […]

New Delhi: Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital has been designated to treat patients testing positive for the new Covid-19 variant Omicron. The hospital has been asked to earmark wards for isolating and treating such patients. In an order, the Health Department has directed the hospital not to deny admission to patients infected with the […]

Bijnor: A week after the murder of a 57-year-old man in Dharmuwala village under Badhapur police circle, the police have arrested the victim’s son and two of his accomplices and sent them to jail on Monday. According to police, victim Preetam Singh’s second marriage eight months ago and his intention to deprive his son (the […]

New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor offered an apology after he posted his picture on the first day of the winter session of Parliament. Tharoor posted a selfie with six women MPs, including Trinamool’s Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty, Congress’ Preneet Kaur and Jothiman Sennimalai, NCP’s Supriya Sule and DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian and wrote: “Who […]

Lucknow: The Lucknow Police have arrested a 25-year-old star on online social media platform for allegedly luring a Mumbai-based singer and actress into a relationship and dumping her when she became pregnant. The woman had lodged a case in September 2021 against the accused Divyansh Tiwari a.k.a Rajan Pandit and his sisters Neha and Neetu, […]

Bengaluru: In a shocking case, miscreants entered a house in Bengaluru on the pretext of giving a jab for the new virus Omicron and robbed the inmates of gold jewellery, the police said on Tuesday. According to police, three robbers came in a car and one of the accused wearing hand gloves went inside the […]

Gorakhpur: A bride’s cousin was beaten to death when he stopped the DJ from playing music to allow marriage rituals to continue. The incident took place in the early hours of Monday in the Gorakhnath area of Gorakhpur. The scene was captured by a CCTV camera.Police are trying to identify the miscreants with the help […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday posted a selfie with six women MPs on Twitter with a caption:”Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”, triggering a controversy with many netizens accusing him of sexism. Tharoor later apologised for offending “some people” and said the “whole selfie thing” was […]

Jodhpur: A team of innovators at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Jodhpur has developed low-cost ‘Talking Gloves’ for people with speech disability, the institutes announced on Monday. The device uses principles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to automatically generate speech that will […]

Prayagraj: In a shocking incident, five people, including four members of the same family, died in a road accident in the Nawabganj area in Uttar Pradesh. All five were riding on the same motorcycle when a truck rammed into them on the Shringverpur highway road on the intervening night of Sunday/Monday. The victims were returning […]

The round was led by Tiger Global and New York-based global private equity and venture capital Insight Partners.

Hyderabad: After Airtel and Vodafone Idea announced an increase in their tariff plans for prepaid customers, Reliance Jio has joined the bandwagon. As per reports, these three operators – which cover 90 per cent of users – have increased their tariff plans by 20-25 per cent. While Airtel announced that its new tariff plans will […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based Covid-19 vaccine (Covaxin) maker Bharat Biotech on Monday said the company has commenced the exports of the vaccine. “Long pending export orders have been executed during November, to be further expanded during the following months. With the number of countries that have granted emergency use approvals for Covaxin increasing, exports to additional countries […]

She also informed the House that the government does not collect data on Bitcoin transactions.

Soon after the Lok Sabha commenced, Speaker Om Birla administered the oath of office to the new members.

Jaipur: In a bizarre incident reported in Udaipur, a 14-feet python travelled along with passengers in a private bus, which was going from Udaipur to Mumbai, but the passengers were all unaware of the presence of this unknown guest. However, after completing the journey of more than 250 kilometres on Saturday, the bus stopped at […]

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh has been picked as the most friendly State for film shooting at the 52nd International Film Festival of India held in Goa.In a statement issued here on Sunday, the State government said Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur and Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant handed over the award to Uttar Pradesh […]