New Delhi: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has tested positive for COVID-19. In a tweet by the Vice President Secretariat, Mr Naidu has asked everyone who came in contact with him to isolate themselves and get tested. The Vice President, too, will remain in self-isolation for a week. “The Vice...
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New Delhi: Delhi on Sunday recorded 9,197 new COVID-19 cases, which is 19 per cent lower than yesterday’s number (11,486). At 13.3 per cent, positivity rate (the number of cases detected per 100 tests) saw a dip from 16.3 per cent a day before.The national capital also reported 35...
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The INSACOG said while most Omicron cases have been asymptomatic or mild, hospitalisations and ICU cases have increased in the current wave and the threat level remains unchanged.
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Chandigarh, January 23 Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday announced the Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) candidates from 22 constituencies for the February 20 polls to the state Assembly, with clear focus on winnability while ensuring due representation across regions and various sections. PLC has currently got 37 of the 117...
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Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the Centre is building Subhas Chandra Bose’s statue in Delhi at the same time when it rejected West Bengal’s tableau, depicting the role of Netaji in the country’s freedom struggle highlighting the indifferent attitude of the Centre’s towards the state. “Why...
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When Julian Barnes, author of A History of the World in10½ Chapters, wrote that “history isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us”, he was telling the truth, but only half of it. The reality is historians tell what their political masters/patrons often want us to be told....
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NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed that their sources have apprised them that the Enforcement Department (ED) may arrest his cabinet minister Satyendar Jain in the coming days ahead of Punjab polls on February 20. Kejriwal said that previously too, the Centre had conducted raids at Satyendar Jain but got nothing,...
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The active cases now comprise 5.57 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has decreased to 93.18 per cent. The daily positivity rate – the share of coronavirus tests that return positive and considered a key marker of the pandemic’s status – is slightly...
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The Indian economy has “some bright spots and a number of very dark stains” and the government should target its spending “carefully” so that there are no huge deficits, noted economist and former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Sunday. Known for his frank views, Rajan also said the government needs...
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New Delhi: The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is in the community transmission stage in the country and has become dominant in several metros where new cases have been spiking exponentially, INSACOG said in its latest bulletin. Short for Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium, INSACOG checks variations in coronavirus across...
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