The air quality in Delhi on the morning after Diwali was recorded in the ‘very poor’ category but the situation was relatively better than previous years due to favourable meteorological conditions which diluted the effect of firecrackers and stubble burning.The capital’s air quality index (AQI) stood at 326 at 8 am on Tuesday. The neighbouring […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping was on Sunday re-elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China for a record third five-year term, a privilege only accorded to party founder Mao Zedong. Xi, 69, was elected to the powerful Central Committee a day earlier by a once-in-a-five-year Congress despite crossing the official retirement […]
A 26-year-old software engineer was allegedly raped by around 10 men in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said on Saturday.The woman, who is here as she is working from home, was out with her boyfriend on a two-wheeler on Thursday evening when the incident took place near the old aerodrome in Chaibasa, they said. A […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered rudrabhishek (first prayers) at Uttarakhand’s Kedarnath shrine and laid the foundation stone for a ropeway to be built at a cost of ₹1267 crore for the pilgrims. The 9.7 km ropeway to Kedarnath will cut the time pilgrims take to reach the shrine from Gaurikund. Dressed in traditional […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said most of the “hotspots” in the country are almost free from anti-national activities now and the situation in major security theatres has improved over the last eight years of the Narendra Modi government. He said more than 70 per cent decline has been recorded in incidents of […]
A private hospital here has been sealed for allegedly transfusing fruit juice instead of blood platelets to a dengue patient who later died, police said. After a video of the alleged incident went viral on social media, the district administration swung into action and the hospital was sealed on Thursday on the direction of Uttar […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a petition seeking urgent hearing of a plea challenging the blanket ban on firecrackers in Delhi. “Let people breathe clean air… spend your money on sweets,” the apex court said. Earlier in the day, the Delhi high court refused to entertain a petition challenging Delhi Pollution Control Committee’s […]
India’s Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Anurag Thakur, reacted to the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) strongly-worded letter in response to BCCI secretary Jay Shah’s announcement of India’s unwillingness to travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup there in 2023. PCB said cricketing ties with India may suffer if the Asia Cup is shifted to […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of a new airbase coming up in north Gujarat near India-Pakistan border and said it will emerge as an effective centre for the country’s security.Speaking after inaugurating the Defence Expo 2022 in Gujarat capital Gandhinagar, Modi also said that defence forces will release a list […]
India’s first case of Omicron subvariant BQ.1 has been detected during genome sequencing of a Pune resident’s sample, the Maharashtra health department said on Monday amid a spike in infections in the state. State surveillance officer said Pradeep Awate cited the detection and added that high-risk patients should follow precautions. BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 are the […]