New Delhi: India’s Covid curve showed marginal improvement today as the country recorded 2,38,018 new cases in the last 24 hours — 7 per cent lower than Monday’s reported 2.58 lakh daily cases, according to the Health Ministry. 310 people have died due to Covid during the past 24-hour...
Read MoreNew Delhi: “I began to hear the chilling screams of a woman next door”, wrote Moazzem Begg in his memoirs of his time in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison, on terrorism charges that were later dropped. “For two days and nights I heard the sound of the screaming. I felt my mind...
Read MoreChandigarh: Assembly elections in Punjab will be held on February 20, the Election Commission said today. The date has been changed from February 14 after political parties requested the Election Commission to factor in Guru Ravidas Jayanti celebrations. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi in a letter to the...
Read MoreDehradun/New Delhi: Merely a month before the Assembly elections, Uttarakhand cabinet minister Harak Singh Rawat was on Sunday sacked from the state council of ministers and also expelled from the BJP for six years. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has also apprised the governor about the removal of Rawat...
Read MoreNew Delhi: The number of COVID-19 cases has started falling in a few cities in India, but it is still unclear whether the country is under-reporting the cases or if there has been a fall in testing. The number of cases had been on the rise since late last...
Read MoreOmicron Live Updates: Daily Covid-19 cases dropped sharply in Delhi and Mumbai on Friday as India recorded a slight dip in tally with 2.70 infections. However, testing across the nation saw a sudden drop from 18.86 lajh to 17.87 lakh tests conducted in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the Jammu...
Read MoreValsad: The Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express train hit a cement pillar, which some people allegedly placed on the railway track near Valsad in south Gujarat. No one was injured, the police said today. The police suspect that the incident, which took place around 7.10 pm on Friday, was an attempt...
Read MoreNew Delhi: A 3-kg bomb, aimed at “causing maximum damage”, was found in an abandoned bag left at a busy flower market in east Delhi this morning. A controlled explosion was carried out by the police to defuse the bomb planted at the Ghazipur market, which usually draws huge...
Read MoreNew Delhi: In a span of 72 hours, between 11 and 13 January, 10 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in Uttar Pradesh — including three ministers in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet — quit the party. There was one common thread linking them: None of them had had any ideological grooming in the...
Read MoreNew Delhi: India witnessed a 6.7 per cent jump in new Covid cases as it added 2.64 new infections over the last 24 hours, the highest in 239 days. Deaths from Covid rose by 315, with total fatalities now at 485,350, the Health Ministry said.
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