Colleyville, United States: One of several hostages being held at a synagogue in Texas has been released, local police said Saturday. “Shortly after 5:00 pm (2300 GMT), a male hostage was released uninjured,” the Colleyville police department said in a statement.
Read MoreKolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention after the Centre rejected West Bengal’s Republic Day tableau on Subhas Chandra Bose. Expressing shock over rejections of her state’s tableau featuring Netaji, the West Bengal chief minister said that she was hurt by...
Read MoreIndia added 2,71,202 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,71,22,164, including 7,743 cases of the Omicron variant, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The country saw 1,702 new cases of Omicron variant, the highest in a single day so far,...
Read MoreAssembly Elections 2022 LIVE: The BJP will hold a meeting today in Delhi to discuss candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttarakhand and Goa. BJP president JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, along with state chief ministers, will attend the meeing. Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party has time...
Read MoreUttar Pradesh, UP News on COVID curbs can be checked here with updates. Uttar Pradesh Schools and Colleges will be closed till January 23, 2022 due to a rise in COVID-19 cases. The state government has extended this closure of educational institutions for the safety of all students. UP...
Read MorePacific nations and humanitarian groups struggled to establish communications with Tonga on Sunday after a tsunami triggered by a massive volcanic eruption cut telephone and internet connections, raising concerns for the tiny island nation. An underwater volcano off Tonga erupted on Saturday, triggering tsunami warnings and evacuation orders on...
Read MoreUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is all set to contest the state Assembly election from Gorakhpur seat. Adityanath, who has won five terms to the Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur, is going to fight the Assembly election from the seat for the first time.
Read MoreLucknow: Dara Singh Chauhan – one of nearly a dozen ex-BJP MLAs, including three ministers, to quit the party this week ahead of next month’s election – joined Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party on Sunday. Apna Dal MLA RK Verma, whose party is allied with the BJP, also joined the...
Read MoreOne year ago, India set out on the challenging journey of vaccinating its massive 1.38 billion-strong population against Covid-19. In the year since the country’s vaccination drive began, 90 per cent of the eligible population has received the first dose and 60 per cent has got their second dose...
Read MorePanaji: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – in Goa Sunday to campaign for the Aam Aadmi Party ahead of next month’s election – offered novel ‘proof’ of his party’s honesty and track record – that raids ‘ordered’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had failed to find evidence of wrong-doing....
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