Taipei: China sent 39 warplanes — mostly fighter jets — into Taiwan’s air defence zone on Sunday, the island’s government said, in the second-largest daily incursion on record. Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which sees the self-ruled, democratic island as part of its territory...
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New Delhi: India reported over three lakh new COVID-19 infections for the fifth straight day even though the caseload over the last 24 hours was eight per cent lower than a day before, data released by the government showed. With the addition of 3.06 lakh cases reported today, the Covid tally...
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati took a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and said that he should tell the people of the state that the monastery where he lives most of the time in Gorakhpur, his constituency where he is set to...
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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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