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Shimla: Like other park rangers, Roshan Chaudhary normally leaves for patrolling in the morning and returns at sunset. And when there is a tip-off on the movement of poachers for several nights at a stretch he has to camp for the conservation of Western Himalayan biodiversity. His job as a Deputy Ranger was to protect […]
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Hyderabad: The depiction of landscapes has been in existence long before it established itself as an exclusive genre of art in its own right. Capturing mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts from different nooks and corners of the world, landscape art familiarised a place to multitudes of people before the invention of […]
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Lauding her commitment to fighting colonialism, PM Modi also called the queen a personification of women empowerment.
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As announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 25, 2021, the vaccination for the age-group 15-18 years is scheduled to begin from January 3, 2022.
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New Delhi: Housing sales across top seven cities rose 71 per cent year-on-year in 2021 to 2,36,530 units, but demand fell short of pre-Covid levels by 10 per cent, according to Anarock. Housing sales stood at 1,38,350 units in 2020 and 2,61,358 units in the 2019 calendar year. Mumbai-based Anarock attributed the rise in housing […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court appointed committee probing the Pegasus spyware snooping matter has issued a public notice seeking details from people who may have felt their mobile devices may have been infected by Pegasus malware. The panel has asked the Pegasus victims to send the information before noon of January 7, 2022. On October […]
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New Delhi: Months after the derogatory “Sulli Deals” app, another app called “Bulli Bai” has appeared that targets women of a particular religion on code hosting platform – GitHub. Reacting to the development, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Sunday sought action against those who demean women. She said, “I had raised the issue of […]
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Mumbai: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not call himself a ‘fakir’ now with the addition of a “Rs 12 crore” car in his cavalcade. In his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut also praised former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru for always using an Indian-made […]
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Kumram Bheem Asifabad: A tribal man from the district was arrested for poaching a tiger through an electric snare he sep up neighbouring Maharashtra on December 25. A claw and tiger whiskers were recovered from him. Three more accused are absconding. District Forest Officer S Shantharam said the accused, Portheti Kantharam, a resident of Digide […]
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New Delhi: Oil marketing companies (OMC) have kept the prices of diesel and petrol unchanged across major Indian cities since November 3, 2021, when the Centre and some states reduced duties on them. Accordingly, diesel and petrol prices in Delhi stood at Rs 86.67 per litre and Rs 95.41 per litre on Sunday, respectively. In […]
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New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, India registered 27,553 new Covid-19 cases, a substantial spike amid the ongoing resurgence, with 284 additional deaths, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Sunday. With the addition of the new fatalities, the total death toll has climbed at 4,81,770. The active caseload has also […]
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Sukma: As many as 44 Naxals including nine women cadres surrendered before police at a village in the Chintalnar area of Sukma district in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, said police. The Naxals surrendered themselves before Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma at the police camp in Karigundam. SP Sharma said that one of them was carrying […]
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Nadia: In order to enhance patrolling on the India-Bangladesh border, female constables have been deployed to frisk women who cross over the border and are suspected to be involved in smuggling illegal substances into India, informed Border Security Force official. “This is the starting point of the India-Bangladesh border. There is a village on that […]
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New Delhi: In the last month, Delhi LNJP hospital has treated 138 Omicron cases, said Dr Suresh Kumar, MD of LNJP hospital. According to the doctor, the cases are increasing at an alarming rate. “Since December 2, we have seen 372 positive cases, out of which there were 138 Omicron cases”, said Dr Kumar. “95 […]
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Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Prisons Department has decided to ban visitors to meet inmates in view of the increasing number Covid-19 cases in the state. The Department had allowed visitors to meet jail inmates on August 16 after suspending visits on March 24, 2020, due to Covid-19. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Avanish Awasthi has instructed […]
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New Delhi: In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement, the country is preparing to begin the COVID-19 vaccination drive for 15-18-year-old children from Monday. CoWIN registration for the age group began yesterday. As per Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, the national capital has the capacity to vaccinate 3 lakh children falling in the age […]
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Lakhimpur Kheri: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested two farmers in connection with the alleged lynching of three BJP workers during the violence that took place in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3 last year. According to SIT sources, the two farmers, Kamaljeet Singh, 29, and Kawaljeet Singh Sonu, 35, were arrested by the SIT […]
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Meerut: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Meerut on Sunday to lay the foundation for the Major Dhyan Chand Sports University. According to an official release, the university will be established at an estimated cost of Rs 700 crore at the Salawa and Kaili villages of the Sardhana town. Massive security arrangements have been […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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"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.
