The Centre has banned 54 Chinese apps over privacy, security, and espionage concerns, saying they were clones of previously taken down applications and obtained critical permissions to collect sensitive user data. As many as 267 apps were earlier blocked in 2020 citing privacy and security threats amid border tensions between India and China. Ravi Shankar […]
Polling to the 70 Assembly seats spread over 13 districts of Uttarakhand began amid tight security on Monday morning. This is the fifth Assembly poll being held in the hill state since its creation in 2000.A public holiday has been declared by the administration for the single-day polling in the state.The ruling BJP is seeking […]
The Indian Army and other security forces paid homage to the fallen soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on the third anniversary of the Pulwama terror attack. As many as 40 CRPF personnel were killed when a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a bus carrying them on February 14, 2019 […]
India on Monday added 34,113 fresh infections of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), taking the nationwide tally to 4,26,65,534, while the active case count dropped below 5 lakh after around 37 days, according to data shared by the Union health ministry. A total of 346 new fatalities pushed the country’s death toll to 5,09,011, the data […]
Voting is currently underway for the second phase of elections in UP. In this phase, two crore voters will decide the fate of 586 candidates. The assembly constituencies are spread across nine districts- Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Amroha, Budaun, Bareilly, and Shahjahanpur.Among these 55 seats, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 38 in […]
Isro’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C52 blasted off from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota at the scheduled time of 5:59am on Monday morning. The launch vehicle carrying earth observation satellite EOS-04 along with two co-passenger payloads – INSPIREsat-1 and INS-2TD – lifted off from the spaceport at the end of […]
Equity indices opened in red on Monday with Sensex down by 1,256.48 points and Nifty down by 373.10 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 1,256.48 points or trading at 56,896.44 and down by 2.16 per cent at 9.27 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17,001.70 at 9.27 am, down by 373.10 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged voters of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Goa to turn up in record numbers for the second phase of polling to strengthen the festival of democracy. He reminded the voters to first vote and do any other work with the message “pehle matdaan, fir anya koi kaam”. Polling for […]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath exuded confidence of the BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh with an overwhelming majority after the first phase of the Assembly election in the state. In an interview to news agency ANI that was broadcast on a day when the state was voting in the second phase along with elections […]
The fate of 632 candidates for Uttarakhand assembly elections will be sealed today as the state votes in a single phase. Uttarakhand, which has seen 11 chief ministers in the last two decades, has voted out the incumbent government in every assembly election since the state’s formation in 2000. The Bharatiya Janata Party has the […]