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New Delhi: Another day of isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall activity is in store for coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal even as northwest India would continue to witness cold wave conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted on Saturday. “A cyclonic circulation lies over southwest Bay of Bengal, off south Sri Lanka coast […]

New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said that it banned 1,759,000 accounts in India in November in compliance with the IT Rules 2021. WhatsApp also received 602 grievance reports in the same month from the country, and took action on 36 of those. “In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, we’ve published our sixth monthly […]

New Delhi: GST revenue collected in December 2021 was over Rs 1.29 lakh crore, 13 per cent higher than the same month last year, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday. Though the collection was lower than Rs 1.31 lakh crore mopped up in November, December is the sixth month in a row when revenue from […]

During the virtual event, the Prime Minister also released an equity grant of more than Rs 14 crore to about 351 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), benefiting 1.24 lakh farmers.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the country’s economic growth rate is over 8 per cent. Speaking at the release of the 10th installment of financial benefit under PM-KISAN, the Prime Minister said that the foreign investments, forex reserves, and GST collections are also at record high levels. “Today the growth […]

"The Incident of a landslide in a mining quarry took place in Haryana's Bhiwani. Two were injured and several went missing," Haryana Police said. 

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala police are yet to make any breakthrough in the investigation into the killing of BJP state leader and noted lawyer of Alappuzha bar Ranjith Sreenivasan. Sreenivasan was brutally murdered at his residence in front of his mother, wife, and two daughters on December 19. He was first hit with a hammer on […]

New Delhi: The Mumbai Income Tax team, which is conducting raids at the premises of Uttar Pradesh businessmen Pushapraj Pampi Jain, Anup Jain, Mahavir Prasad, Faizan Malik and Malik Mian, have collected a lot of evidence against them and are examining the balance sheets of FY 2016-2021. The raids, which started in the early morning […]

"Number of Covid infections in the third wave is going to be very huge," said Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Dr. Pradeep Vyas in a missive to all district collectors and health officials late on Friday.

Also, 406 deaths were reported in the same time span pushing the toll to 4,81,486.

Physical classes for students up to eighth grade will not be held till January 10, Chief Minister's office said in a statement on Friday.

"I wish speedy recovery to those injured," he said.

The Prime Minister also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those injured.

The stampede occurred in the early hours of Saturday near gate number three outside the sanctum sanctorum of the shrine atop Trikuta hills, about 50 km from Jammu.

Hyderabad: Omicron variant-driven Covid-19 infections are on the rise in major Indian cities, which could lead to a peak in January. However, it would still take a lot of time for the virus to spread to the entire country, researchers, who developed the noted SUTRA mathematical model for projecting pandemics, said. While the SUTRA model […]

New Delhi: India’s drug regulator on Friday approved Serum Institute of India’s proposal to manufacture a drug substance for new Covid vaccine against Omicron variant of coronavirus and carry out its testing and analysis, official sources said. The move assumes significance in view of the country reporting a rise in daily new Covid-19 cases which […]

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday extended the December 31 deadline for validity of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) registration of NGOs to March 31. A notice issued by the Ministry’s Foreign Division said that in continuation to its Public Notice of September 30, 2021 regarding extension of the validity of FCRA […]

Gurugram: Demanding the release of Hindu seer Kalicharan Maharaj, members of several right wing organisations took to streets here on Friday. They also announced a cash reward of Rs 22 lakh for any police officer that arrests All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi. Kalicharan was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police on Thursday for […]

Sonbhadra: School children in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district were reportedly made to take a pledge to make India a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ A video of the incident has gone viral on social media, creating a fresh controversy. The children, dressed in their school uniforms, had gathered in the park after school hours. Some kids visiting the […]

Jammu and Kashmir: A calligraphy workshop organised here by the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages attracted many art lovers, especially girls and women. For the past two years, such activities could not be held due to the Covid pandemic. In Kashmir, calligraphy has a thousand-year-old rich history, but due to modernisation, […]

The decision to defer the GST rate hike on textiles was taken in the 46th GST Council meeting held in the national capital under the chairmanship of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Acting on a tip-off, Odisha Police and Border Security Force (BSF) personnel launched an intensive combing operation in Swabhiman Anchal in Jodambo police station area.

Among the 23 states and UTs that have reported the Omicron infection so far, Maharashtra tops the list with 450 cases of this variant.

Pushpraj Jain alias Pampi Jain is the Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) of Uttar Pradesh and is linked to Samajwadi Party.