Mumbai, Delhi and Gujarat on Wednesday recorded a big spike in fresh COVID-19 cases–their highest since the May-June period–while Punjab reported the first case of the Omicron variant to take the country-wide tally of the new strain past 900. According to data from the Centre and the states, the total number of COVID-19 cases in […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first half of next month has been postponed, people familiar with the development said on Wednesday. The prime minister was scheduled to visit the strategically important Gulf nation around January 6, they said.The people cited above said the visit has been […]
On the first day of the New Year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the 10th installment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), transferring an amount of over Rs 20,000 crore to more than 10 crore beneficiary farmer families. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the money transfer is in line […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a ride of Kanpur metro after launching a new section of the Rs 11,000 crore metro project in the city today. The prime minister was accompanied by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri as he undertook the ride from the IIT metro station to Geeta Nagar. […]
Sahdev Dirdo, whose song ‘Bachpan ka Pyaar’ went viral on the internet and catapulted him to fame overnight, met with an accident when the motorcycle he was riding pillion on skidded in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, the police said. The accident took place at around 6:30 pm and Sahdev Dirdo, who was not wearing a helmet, […]
A day after his arrest, perfume trader Piyush Jain was sent to judicial custody for 14 days in a tax evasion case by a district court here on Monday, a senior prosecution official said.Jain was arrested on Sunday after raids at his residence in Kanpur and residence and factory in Kannauj by the Directorate General […]
Intensifying their stir over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling, scores of resident doctors in Delhi on Monday symbolically “returned their lab coats”, and took out a march in the streets. As the protest continued, patient care remained affected at three Centre-run facilities — Safdarjung, RML and Lady Hardinge hospitals — and some of the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reviewed the Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning System developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi during his visit to Himachal Pradesh. Developed by IIT Mandi’s Associate Professor, School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Dr Varun Dutt and Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Dr K.V. Uday, the device is […]
Children aged between 15 and 18 years would be able to register on the CoWIN portal from January 1 and the vaccine option for them would only be Covaxin, officials said on Monday as preparations are underway to start inoculating children against COVID-19 from January 3. “Children aged between 15 and 18 years would be […]
Kerala has again emerged as the top performer in terms of overall health performance among larger states, while Uttar Pradesh is the worst, according to the fourth Health Index launched by Niti Aayog. The fourth round of the Health Index took into account the 2019-20 period. The report by the government think tank said Tamil […]