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Varanasi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was shown black flags amid chants of “Jai Sri Ram” in Varanasi on Wednesday when she was on the way to take part in Ganga Aarti. Banerjee sat on the stairs of the Dashashwamedh Ghat to watch ‘Ganga Aarti’ in an apparent protest against the showing of the […]

Meanwhile, the active Covid cases have further reduced to 77,152 which constitute 0.18 per cent of the country's total positive cases, as per the ministry report.

The government's remarks came in response to media queries after the claims of the Russian embassy in India on Wednesday that the Indian students have been taken hostage by Ukrainian security forces to use them as a human shield.

The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was up by 279.78 points or 0.50 per cent at 55748.68 at 9.35 am.

The Indian Air Force's first flight carrying 200 people from Bucharest landed at 1.30 am and Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt welcomed them at the airbase, they noted.

Dr. Rajkumar Santalani, a resident of Jaipur, his wife Dr. Mayuri Mohan Andhare and their two children are still in Kiev.

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel price hikes are likely to resume after State elections get over next week to bridge the Rs 9 a litre gap created by international oil prices soaring past $100 a barrel. International crude oil prices shot above $110 a barrel for the first time since mid-2014 on fears that oil […]

Hyderabad: Women are emerging in greater numbers as key home purchase decision-makers and over the years, an increasing number of Indian women have been making independent and individual investments in the real estate market. A new survey by Anarock shows that 64 per cent of women respondents are looking at real estate as the preferred […]

New Delhi:  In a distress call, the Indian Embassy in Ukraine has directed all stranded citizens to leave the second most populous city, Kharkiv under all circumstances by 6 p.m. (Ukrainian time, IST 9.30 p.m.) on Wednesday. The embassy stated: “Urgent advisory to all Indian nationals in Kharkiv. For their safety and security they must […]

During a press briefing, Alipov said that Russia is in touch with Indian authorities concerning the evacuation of Indian nationals stranded in Kharkiv and other areas of eastern Ukraine.

New Delhi: India has requested Russia for the emergency evacuation of its citizens stranded in Ukraine through Russian territory, informed Russian Ambassador-designate to India Denis Alipov on Wednesday. During a press briefing, Alipov said that Russia is in touch with Indian authorities concerning the evacuation of Indian nationals stranded in Kharkiv and other areas of […]

Election Department officials said that the accident occurred when the security personnel, as part of their election-related duty, were on their way to an area in Tamenglong district, where the second phase of Assembly election would be held on March 5.

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would hear tomorrow (March 3) a plea seeking direction to register FIRs against political parties for allegedly inducing voters by offering freebies. A bench of Chief Justice of India NV Ramana, Justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli posted the matter for Thursday for hearing after advocate […]

The Indian students who arrived in the city of Bucharest in Romania from Ukraine said that the national tricolour helped them as well as some Pakistani and Turkish students in safely crossing the various checkpoints in the war-torn country.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday invited ideas from the Information and Technology (IT) and Electronics sector for e-waste management, electric mobility solutions, and circular economy. Addressing a post-budget webinar on ‘Technology Enabled Development’ in India, PM Modi said that the nation should identify innovative ways to handle e-waste with the help of […]

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This is the ninth flight of 'Operation Ganga' that evacuated stranded Indian citizens from Ukraine.

The active cases comprises 0.20 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has further improved to 98.60 per cent, the ministry said.

The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 515.80 points or trading at 55,731.48 and down by 0.92 per cent at 9.30 am.

India launched the evacuation mission under which the Indians from Hungary, Romania, Poland and Slovakia are being brought back home after they exited Ukraine through its land border crossings.

One of them Mohammad Sohail, a resident of Firozabad, was handed over to Taj Ganj police by CISF personnel.

Hyderabad: Indian students pursuing medicine in Ukraine, many of them from the two Telugu speaking States, could face uncertainty when it comes to completing their degrees and starting their own practice in India. The MBBS students, after their return to India from Ukraine, will have to face several regulatory roadblocks related to their MBBS degrees. […]

New Delhi: As part of its Seasonal Outlook for March to May 2022, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday forecast a higher probability of occurrence of heat wave over west central and some parts of northwest India. The Indo-Gangetic plains, however, will have below normal temperature probabilities and hence, heat wave conditions are not […]