The Canadian government’s announcement it is dropping the requirement for vaccinated travellers to show a negative Covid test result to enter the country was greeted with relief by tourism and business groups on both sides of the border. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said tests would no longer be needed beginning April 1.Currently, fully vaccinated travellers […]
Amid a fresh surge in coronavirus cases in southeast Asia, the government has written to states to ensure an “agressive and sustained genome sequencing, intensified surveillance and (to) keep an overall vigil” on the Covid-19 situation. The five fold strategy of ‘Test-Track- Treat-Vaccination and adherence to Covid appropriate behaviour’ has yet again been reiterated by […]
A bipartisan group of United States lawmakers have urged India to ‘speak out against Putin’s targeting of civilians in Ukraine’ and help end a war that has potentially killed thousands and left over three million homeless. Congressmen Joe Wilson (R) and Indian-origin Ro Khanna (D) spoke to India’s US ambassador, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, and asked […]
The Centre has decided to provide ‘Y’ category security cover of CRPF to Vivek Agnihotri, director of The Kashmir Files. He will be protected by CRPF during his stay and travel all over India, people familiar with the development said. The Y category cover involves deployment of four to five armed commandos in close proximity […]
The Kashmir Files has collected ₹97.30 crore at the box office within a week of its release. Directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, the film features Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumaar, Chinmay Mandlekar, and Bhasha Sumbli. The Kashmir Files is based on the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir valley in the 1990s. […]
Visuals of civilians being dug out of rubble amid rescuing operations were some of the defining images of survival a day after an iconic theatre in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol was targeted in Russian strikes, according to Kyiv. More than 50 people were reported dead as soon as the news broke – an overall […]
As India celebrates Holi amid a drop in Covid cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sent out festival greetings. “Wishing you all a very happy Holi. May this festival of colours, which is a symbol of mutual love, affection and brotherhood, bring every colour of happiness in your life,” the prime minister wrote in […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday exhorted the top brass of state Civil and Police Administration to discharge their duties as public servant in the letter and spirit, thus respecting the massive mandate got by AAP in the recently concluded assembly polls. Addressing a maiden meeting after assuming charge as Chief Minister here at […]
Miffed with the delay in announcement of schedule for Delhi civic polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday approched the Supreme Court, seeking directions from the top court to the State Election Commission (SEC) to conduct these elections in a ‘free and fair’ manner. “AAP moves Supreme Court seeking directions to the SEC to […]
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi met leader of Opposition in the Haryana Assembly and party veteran Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday. The meeting comes a day after Hooda attended a meeting of dissenting Congress leaders at the residence of Ghulam Nabi Azad where they discussed the Congress’ disastrous performance in the recently concluded Assembly elections […]