New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women has issued a notice to State Bank of India for stopping women who are over three-month pregnant from joining work. State Bank of India, or SBI, has called these women “temporarily unfit”, the commission’s Chairperson Swati Maliwal tweeted. She said the bank’s...
Read MoreNew Delhi: India’s daily Covid curve showed marginal improvement today as the country reported 2.35 lakh cases, which is around 6% lower than yesterday. The country reported 871 deaths which included the 258 backlog deaths from Kerala and 613 fresh casualties. Some 4.93 lakh people have died in the country...
Read MoreNew Delhi: The government on Friday appointed Dr V Anantha Nageswaran as the new Chief Economic Advisor. The move comes just days ahead of the Union Budget’s presentation on February 1. The CEA, who is a secretary rank official attached to the finance ministry, is traditionally the main architect...
Read MoreNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today lauded National Cadet Corps for their contribution to the country and said that the government has created over one lakh new cadets in the border areas of the nation. “The training I got in NCC and the things I learned here have...
Read MoreNew Delhi: Vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech has received approval to conduct Phase-III clinical trials of an intranasal booster dose on people who have received both doses of Covaxin. The Drug Controller General of India today gave the go-ahead for the Phase-III trials. The trials will be conducted at nine...
Read MoreNew Delhi: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s granddaughter was found dead at her home in Bengaluru today. Soundarya, 30, is suspected to have died by suicide. The police have registered a case of “unnatural death”.
Read MoreNew Delhi: Daily Covid infections in India dropped by 12 per cent as the country reported 2.51 lakh new cases today. The positivity rate is down from 19.59% to 15.88% while the weekly positivity rate was recorded at 17.47 per cent.
Read MoreNew Delhi: Rahul Gandhi said today the Congress will soon announce a Chief Minister candidate in Punjab and the decision will be taken by workers. With a raging Navjot Sidhu versus Charanjit Singh Channi rivalry threatening to hurt the Congress campaign for next month’s Punjab election, he stressed that...
Read MoreNew 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....
Read MoreNew Delhi: On Wednesday, student protests flared up in Bihar, and a passenger train was set on fire in Gaya. Meanwhile, six police officers were suspended in Prayagraj after videos of them thrashing job aspirants in Uttar Pradesh went viral. The developments came as thousands of students across these two states burnt effigies of...
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