India’s estimated cumulative excess deaths due to COVID-19 between January 2020 and December 2021 were the highest in the world at 4.07 million, around eight times higher than reported, according to a new analysis in the Lancet. Responding to the findings, the Union Health ministry on Friday termed the analysis “speculative and misinformed” and said […]
A day after BJP recorded a major victory in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami submitted his resignation and that of his Cabinet to Governor Lt Gen (retd) Gurmit Singh. “Since we’ve got a new mandate and this tenure is complete, I have tendered my resignation, along with that of the Cabinet, to the Governor. […]
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday released the date sheet for Class 10 and 12 term-II board papers, both category of exams to commence from April 26. Last year, the CBSE had announced that board examinations for 2022 will be conducted in two terms.Term I exams have already been held, while the […]
The government has said that at present, there is no security reason for Indian students in Russia to leave. The response by the Indian Embassy in Moscow came after it began receiving messages from anxious Indian students in universities in Russia seeking advice on their continued stay in the country amid the Russia-Ukraine War. “The […]
An Army Cheetah helicopter on its way to pick up sick BSF personnel crashed near the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Gurez Sector on Friday, killing its pilot and injuring the co-pilot, officials said. The injured co-pilot was rushed to a medical facility, they said, adding that his condition was stated to be […]
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesman Rakesh Tikait has said the BJP worked only to garner the maximum votes and has been successful in doing that. “We held farmer agitation successfully for 13 months. We are ‘andolankari’ and BJP is ‘votekaari’. This time, all political parties took farmers seriously and included their welfare in their manifestos. […]
Mulayam Singh Yadav’s grand-daughter was seen welcoming Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow in a video tweeted by news agency ANI. Aparna Yadav, Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh’s younger daughter-in-law, quit the party and joined the BJP on January 19 – a month before the UP Assembly election.Aparna Yadav and her daughter reached […]
Punjab chief minister-elect Bhagwant Mann said on Friday he will announce the date of his swearing-in by evening, as he left for Delhi to meet Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal after the party emerged victorious in the Punjab assembly elections, the polling for which took place on February 20, followed by Thursday’s […]
India logged 4,194 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of Covid cases to 4,29,84,261, while the active cases dipped to 42,219, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,15,714 with 255 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.The active cases comprise 0.1 per cent […]