Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a virtual summit of the seven-nation BIMSTEC grouping on March 30, which is expected to focus on expanding economic engagement among its member countries. The summit is being hosted by Sri Lanka in its capacity as the chair of the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and […]
In the first major decision of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, the state cabinet on Saturday decided to extend the free ration scheme initiated during the Covid pandemic by three more months. The programme was supposed to expire in March.A total of 15 crore people are benefiting from the programme in the state, […]
A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) reached Bogtui village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Saturday and started its investigation into the violence that claimed eight lives earlier this week. Unidentified people had on March 21 set 10 houses on fire in the village, killing at least eight people, including women and […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India is honoured to be home to World Health Organization’s Global Centre for Traditional Medicine. A day earlier, the ministry of Ayush signed an agreement with the UN health agency for the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India at Jamnagar, Gujarat. Its […]
India’s Covid death toll climbed to 5,20,855 with 4,100 deaths recorded in a day and Maharashtra reconciling the number of deaths caused by the viral disease in the state, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. A total of 1,660 fresh cases have pushed the country’s Covid tally to 4,30,18,032, while the number of active […]
Yogi Adityanath on Friday took oath as Uttar Pradesh chief minister for the second term in a mega ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders. Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak were also sworn in as deputy chief ministers.Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath to Adityanath in a ceremony […]
After demolishing the citadels of all major political parties in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is now preparing to conquer the hills of Himachal Pradesh in the November Assembly polls. The conditions, on the face of it, are not averse for the party that swept away the traditional political outfits of the Akalis, the […]
The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a CBI investigation into Birbhum violence that claimed eight lives earlier this week. The court directed an SIT formed by the West Bengal government to hand over case papers and accused persons arrested by it to the central probe agency.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and […]
The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to merge the three municipal corporations in the national capital, was on Friday introduced in the Lok Sabha amid objections by opposition parties. As per the Bill, the unified municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be “a single, integrated and well-equipped entity”, and will not have […]