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Chhattisgarh: Two women Naxals carrying cash reward killed in encounter in Dantewada. Dantewada, Dec 18 (PTI) Two women Naxals, collectively carrying Rs 6 lakh cash reward, were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Saturday, an official said. The gunfight took place around 5.30 am in a forest near Gonderas […]

Mumbai: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari urged investors to invest more in infrastructure projects for good returns while recalling a past event during his ministership in the Maharashtra government when he had made Reliance Industries founder Dhirubhai Ambani upset by rejecting the company’s tender for the Mumbai-Pune expressway in 1995. Addressing the National Conference on “Investment […]

Gwalior: Madhya Pradesh Energy Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar on Friday cleaned the toilet of a government school in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior to spread the message of cleanliness. “A girl student told me that there is no cleanliness in the toilets of the school, because of which the students face problems,” Minister Pradhuman Singh Tomar told […]

New Delhi: In India, there are an estimated 1020 females per 1000 males, as per the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey. “As per the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (2019-21), the sex ratio of the population (females per 1000 males) for the country was estimated as 1020,” said Bharati […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh at around 1 pm on Saturday. The inspiration behind the expressway is the vision of the Prime Minister to provide fast-paced connectivity across the country, the Prime Minister’s Office said on December 16. The 594-kilometre long six-lane […]

Guwahati: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson Justice Arun Mishra on Friday said it would be wrong to generalise that human rights get violated due to the imposition of AFSPA in some of the northeastern states. Justice Mishra said this while interacting with the media after a two-day public hearing on the complaints related to […]

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation on Friday approved emergency use listing of Covid vaccine Covovax, produced by the Serum Institute of India under licence from Novavax and part of the Covax facility portfolio. “This is yet another milestone in our fight against Covid-19. Covovax is now WHO approved for emergency use, showing excellent safety […]

New Delhi: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday slapped Rs 202 crore penalty on Amazon for providing false information and suppressing material particulars in the deal to acquire a stake in Future Coupons Private Ltd (FPCL). The competition watchdog has also suspended the deal. In 2019, the US-headquartered e-commerce giant Amazon announced the […]

New Delhi: As many as 101 positive cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected across 11 States and union territories so far, the government said on Friday and advised people to keep new year celebrations at low intensity. It said that though daily Covid-19 cases are below 10,000 for the past […]

Hyderabad: India has the oldest judiciary in the world. No other judicial system has a more ancient or exalted pedigree. It uses a common law system, inherited from the legal system established by former colonial powers and the princely States, as well as some practices from ancient and medieval times. The Judiciary system of India […]

New Delhi: As many as 101 cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 so far have been detected across 11 States and Union Territories, the government informed on Friday.Addressing a press conference, Joint Secretary of Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal said that 32 cases were reported in Maharashtra, 22 in Delhi, 17 in Rajasthan, 8 each in […]

New Delhi: Over 202 million spam calls were made by just one spammer in India this year, that is over 6,64,000 calls every day and 27,000 calls every hour of every day, a new report revealed on Friday. As per the Global Spam Report 2021, India has moved up in rankings from 9th to 4th […]

Washington: In habituation, an organism gets so used to a ubiquitous sight, smell, sensation or sound that it virtually disappears. Researchers have identified a transporter protein in the brain that plays a vital role in habituation Runa Hamid of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India, and colleagues have identified a transporter […]

Hyderabad: The fake news factory has now turned its attention on a major vulnerable portion of the public – students – and by exploiting the Omicron scare, is spreading panic across the country with a fake notice regarding offline exams in universities.   The notice, which is still being shared widely by unsuspecting students and […]

New Delhi: Union Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah said on Friday that India is likely to become the fastest growing economy in the world in the current financial year. “We are reaching the pre-COVID levels. July to September GDP number has been at 8.4 per cent and I think in the year […]

Hospitals across the country reported severe oxygen shortages for several days and private hospitals in the national capital approached the High Court demanding a steady supply.

New Delhi: The national capital on Thursday reported 10 new cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, pushing the total tally to 20, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said. “Ten new cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Delhi, taking the total number of cases to 20. However, 10 of them have been discharged […]

Bhopal: The mortal remains of Group Captain Varun Singh, who succumbed to his injuries after surviving last week’s helicopter crash in Tamil Nadu, were consigned to flames with full military and state honours in Bhopal on Friday. Wrapped in a tricolour, the mortal remains were brought to the cremation ground in Bairagarh area here from […]

Dhaka: President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday inaugurated the renovated Sri Ramna Kali Mandir here, 50 years after it was destroyed by the Pakistani forces in 1971, and described the temple as the symbol of the cultural and spiritual bonding among the people of India and Bangladesh. President Kovind is in Bangladesh on his maiden […]

"If it hurts the sentiments of women I have no problem in apologizing. I apologize from bottom of my heart," the Congress MLA said.

Many MLAs were anxious to speak during the discussions on rain and flood related damages highlighting the plight of people in their constituencies.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has directed the state government not to make Kannada language compulsory for degree students until further orders. “The state government at this stage cannot insist on making the Kannada language compulsory. Students who have already chosen to study the language can do so,” a division bench headed by Chief Justice […]

New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday said that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed six agreements with four countries for launching foreign satellites during 2021-2023. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Singh informed that about 132 million Euros would be earned through launching of these […]

The girl died on Tuesday night and the lekhpal was arrested and subsequently suspended on Thursday.