Chaos prevailed outside NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence here on Friday afternoon as over a hundred striking workers of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) staged angry protests, accusing the veteran leader of not doing anything to help them. Police seemed to have been taken by surprise as protesters gathered outside ‘Silver Oak’, Pawar’s […]
Union health secretary Rakesh Bhushan on Friday warned Haryana, Delhi, Kerala, Maharashtra and Mizoram about recent weekly surges in Covid 19 cases in these states despite sustained and declining national trends. In a letter to Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Health, Haryana today, Bhushan said nationally Covid-19 cases had been plummeting for two […]
Karnataka home minister Araga Jnanendra on Friday suspected there “might be some communication” from India that has prompted praise from Al-Qaeda chief Ayman Al Zawahiri for a girl who had confronted a mob over hijab controversy earlier this year, reported news agency ANI. Noting Al-Qaeda’s absence in India, the minister said that the terrorist organisation […]
Bengaluru police are conducting searches in at least six schools after they received a bomb threat on Friday morning. City Police and Bomb Detection and Disposal Squads have evacuated these schools and combing operations are underway. Police, who have cleared two schools so far, said the threat prima facie appears to be a hoax. Additional […]
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 per cent and decided to continue with its accommodative stance despite rising inflation. This is the 11th time in a row that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has maintained the status quo. RBI had […]
On the occasion of World Health Day, the Ayush Ministry on Thursday organised the ‘Yog Utsav’ at Red Fort. Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal, Meenakshi Lekhi, G Kishan Reddy and others attended the mega yoga event. The Yog Utsav is being organised ahead of the International Yoga Day in view of […]
India has almost eradicated extreme poverty and brought down consumption inequality to its lowest levels in 40 years through state-provided food handouts, according to a new working paper published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF working paper — authored by economists Surjit Bhalla, Arvind Virmani and Karan Bhasin — said that the proportion […]
Amid war of words between former allies Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on crowd-funding drive to save INS Vikrant, the Trombay Police have registered an FIR against BJP leader Kirit Somaiya and his son, Neil, for allegedly siphoning off ₹57 crore that were collected through the campaign to save the country’s first […]
India on Thursday reported over thousand fresh cases of coronavirus for the second straight day. The country recorded 1,033 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the coronavirus tally over 4.3 crore. India recorded 43 deaths due to the virus in the last 24-hours, taking the total death toll to 5,21,530, as per […]