New Delhi: The weekend curfew has been lifted in Delhi, odd-even curbs for markets have been removed and restaurants and cinemas can reopen at 50 per cent capacity, the government said today, as Covid cases continued to drop in the capital. Schools and colleges will remain shut for now....
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New Delhi: A teen from Arunachal Pradesh who went missing along the Line of Actual Control with China has been handed over to the Indian Army, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju tweeted today. “The Chinese PLA has handed over the young boy from Arunachal Pradesh Shri Miram Taron to Indian...
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Budget 2022: All about ‘halwa ceremony’ and its significance Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present the Budget for fiscal year 2022-23 on February 1, the tone of which will be set with the “halwa ceremony” – a tradition that marks the final stage of the Budget-making process. The...
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New Delhi: A former Uttarakhand Congress chief, expelled by the party yesterday, joined the BJP today just days before the February 14 election in the state. Kishore Upadhyay, expelled for “anti-party activities”, is likely to contest the Uttarakhand polls as a BJP candidate. “I have joined the BJP with...
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New Delhi: The coronavirus situation in Delhi is under control and the city is expected to report less than 5,000 cases of the infection today, said city health minister Satyendar Jain. Speaking to news agency ANI, he also said the positivity rate in the national capital will also decline from the...
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Lucknow: The BJP’s focus today in the Uttar Pradesh campaign is Mathura, one of the three key temple towns after Ayodhya and Varanasi. Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are covering western UP today, which has over 100 assembly seats and will...
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New Delhi: A day after Congress leader RPN Singh joined the BJP, his former party colleague Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday took a dig at the ruling party with a rhyme and a quip on the BJP’s catchphrase of ‘Congress-mukt Bharat‘ (Congress-free India), saying it was now “Congress-yukt BJP” (Congress-powered BJP)....
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New Delhi: Twitter has been “unwittingly complicit” in curbing free speech in India, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote to the company’s CEO Parag Agrawal last month, alleging a government campaign to suppress his reach on the platform, according to a letter seen by NDTV. In a letter dated...
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In another setback to the Congress ahead of the assembly elections, former chief of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee Kishore Upadhyay may join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday, said sources The Congress on Wednesday had dismissed Kishore Upadhyay from its primary membership for six years, accusing him of...
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Patna: A passenger train was set on fire and another was attacked with stones in Bihar in violent protests by students against a railway jobs exam on a day the country celebrated Republic Day. The government has suspended the exam and has set up a committee to tackle the grievances of the...
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