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While celebrities usually throw grand parties and invite the who’s who from different industries, Ratan’s decision to keep his celebrations simple won the hearts of netizens.

New Delhi: Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said that, Omicron Covid variant has gradually started to spread in the community. People with no travel history have also tested positive for Omicron, he added. Forty-six per cent of total 115 samples sequenced so far in Delhi have tested positive for it. “According to latest […]

New Delhi: The Chhattisgarh Police on Thursday arrested Kalicharan Maharaj for allegedly using derogatory language against Mahatma Gandhi from Madhya Pradesh’s Khajuraho. The police had registered an FIR against the religious leader and others for allegedly making derogatory comments on Mahatma Gandhi and praising Nathuram Godse. On the complaint of former Raipur Mayor and Congress […]

Jhansi: The Jhansi railway station has finally been renamed as Veerangana Lakshmibai railway station, after the revered warrior queen. The state government changed the name of the railway station following an approval from the Centre. Earlier, the Mughalsarai railway station had been renamed as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Railway Station. The district of Allahabad has […]

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday declared the entire Nagaland as a “disturbed area” for six more months with effect from December 30 under the AFSPA while terming the state’s condition “disturbed and dangerous”. The move came days after the Union government constituted a high-level committee to examine the possibility of the withdrawal of the […]

Kanpur: Kanpur-based businessman Piyush Jain has asked the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) to return the huge stash of cash seized from his premises after deducting tax and penalty. Jain was arrested on charges of tax evasion and is presently in 14-day judicial custody. Special Public Prosecutor Amrish Tandon, who represents DGGI, informed a […]

Srinagar: Six terrorists, including two Pakistani nationals, were killed in two separate encounters in Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. All the six terrorists belong to the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror group, said the police. Giving more details the Jammu and Kashmir Police quoting Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar tweeted: “Six terrorists of proscribed terror outfit JeM […]

Patna: A day after BJP legislator Lakhendra Kumar Raushan faced heat of residents of his home village in Vaishali over the gang rape and murder of a Dalit woman, Lok Janshakti Party-Ram Vilas President Chirag Paswan on Wednesday asked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to order a high-level inquiry and ensure speedy justice to the victim’s […]

New Delhi: Clearing the air on the much-awaited question many ask, Congress’ Central Election Authority president Madhusudan Mistry on Wednesday said the party would get its new national president by the end of September 2022. The grand old party is presently headed by interim president Sonia Gandhi, who took over after her son and Congress […]

Mumbai: A special POCSO court in Mumbai on Wednesday convicted a Catholic priest and sentenced him to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old boy in 2015. The teenaged boy was sodomized by Father Johnson Lawrence in a church. The parents of the victim registered a complaint and the priest was arrested in December 2015 and […]

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday announced the state government will provide a subsidy of Rs 25 per litre to the poor ration-card holding families in the state for petrol used in two-wheelers, saying that the poor and middle classes have been hit hard by the rising prices of petroleum products. The subsidy […]

Mumbai: Mumbai on Wednesday reported 2,510 COVID-19 cases, the highest daily addition since May 8, and one death, taking its tally to 7,75,808 and toll to 16,375, a civic official said. The spike in the country’s financial capital has got pronounced since December 20, when just 283 cases were reported. Tuesday had witnessed 1,377 cases […]

Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brainchild initiative of demonetisation has become a “failure” as evident in seizure of a huge pile of cash from a businessman’s residence in Uttar Pradesh. “You should ask the Prime Minister as to how so much of cash was found despite the demonetisation […]

New Delhi: Smartphones have evolved substantially in the last decade to meet the changing demands and expectations of the consumers. With the current momentum, foldable smartphones are set to witness a massive 638 per cent jump in sales in India in 2021, and are expected to touch a record 3 lakh units sales in 2022. […]

Lucknow: What is in a name, asked Shakespeare. But it is a lot if one belongs to a place that has changed its name. Well-known poet Akbar Allahabadi has been mentioned as ‘Akbar Prayagraji after the name of Allahabad was changed to Prayagraj by the Yogi Adityanath government, three years ago. The name of the […]

New Delhi: This is a breaking news story! Our CBSE sources have been tipped that CBSE is planning to upload the Term 2 Sample Papers in January 2022 with a big twist. Director of Academics, Dr Joseph Emmanuel has instructed the CBSE committee to focus on two types of paper pattern due to Omicron related […]

Puducherry: A person in a village in Puducherry’s Vilianur climbed a tree to avoid being administered Covid-19 vaccine. The man, who spotted the health authorities coming towards his house, ran away and later climbed the tree to prevent him from being vaccinated. The incident happened on Tuesday. Puducherry health authorities said that the middle-aged man, […]

New Delhi: While the phrase “now more than ever” was the one mostly searched and used in 2020, it was the turn of “new normal” amid the Covid-19 pandemic that was used the most in 2021, according to Google. Google’s ‘Ngrams’ tool (launched in 2009 by part of the Google Books team) has revealed how […]

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday claimed that after Muslims, Christians were the new target of the Hindutva brigade, citing the government’s refusal to renew the FCRA registration for the Missionaries of Charity. Chidambaram, who is senior election observer of the Congress for Goa, also claimed that the mainstream media had banished […]

New Delhi: Financial intelligence teams probing the recovery of around Rs 200 crore during raids in Kanpur-Kannuj have now found that perfume and compound businessman Piyush Jain has links across 50 countries. The teams have also taken around 100 samples of compounds which will be sent to the lab for tests. “Around 100 samples of […]

Bengaluru: Karnataka has become the first state in the country to adopt cashless payment solutions to facilitate education scholarship fee payment for eligible students. e-RUPI allows cashless payment solutions through a digital QR or SMS string which can be easily redeemed at the identified institute. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), State Bank of India […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of 23 projects worth over Rs 17,500 crore in Haldwani, Uttarakhand on Thursday. Among the 23 projects, 17 projects worth over Rs 14,100 crore cover a wide array of sectors/areas across the state including irrigation, road, housing, health infrastructure, industry, sanitation, drinking […]

Portblair: An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted Southeast of Portblair in the early hours of Wednesday, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) informed. According to NCS, the tremors of the earthquake had a depth of 100 kilometres and occurred at around 5.31 am. “Earthquake of Magnitude: 4.3, occurred on 29-12-2021, 05:31:05 […]

Goa: Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo’s statue has been installed in Panaji, Goa to inspire the youth and take football to next level in the state and country. The statue weighs around 410 kgs and the aim of installing it is to motivate the younger generation towards sports and following their dreams. “This is for […]