Chandigarh, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh reported their first Omicron case on Sunday, while Maharashtra and Karnataka each recorded one more case of the COVID-19 variant, taking the tally in the country to 38. All the five persons in the cases reported on Sunday had arrived from foreign countries. According to state health officials, a 20-year-old […]
Farmers from Punjab and Haryana were accorded a rousing welcome with sweets and garlands at several points on their return journey on Saturday for the “victory” of their protests after the suspension of the agitation against the repealed farm laws. Families of farmers along with fellow villagers at many places on the Delhi-Karnal-Ambala and Delhi-Hisar […]
Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat were cremated with full military honours at the Brar Square crematorium in Delhi on Friday. The last rites were performed by their daughters, Kritika and Tarini.The bodies of General Rawat and his wife had been laid side by side on the same pyre. The bodies of General Rawat […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid his last respects to chief of defence staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and others who died in an Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash a day ago in Tamil Nadu’s Coonoor area. Mortal remains of the CDS, his wife Madhulika Rawat, Brig LS Lidder and other personnel who […]
General Bipin Rawat, India’s Chief of Defence Staff, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others have been killed in the chopper crash near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu. General Rawat was 63. The last rites of General Rawat will be performed in New Delhi. Indian Air Force confirmed the news on Twitter and said, “With deep […]
No decision has been taken yet on calling off the farmers’ protest, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha, which is spearheading the stir, said on Tuesday and demanded clarification on certain points, in the government’s proposal, including on the precondition set for withdrawal of “fake” cases against farmers. Farmer leaders, who are members of the Samyukta Kisan […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Monday as India and Russia kicked off their first ‘2+2’ ministerial dialogue to elevate the age-old ties between the two nations. PM Modi, who hosted the Russian president in New Delhi’s Hyderabad House, said the coronavirus pandemic could not dent the relationship between both […]
India’s Omicron tally is steadily rising with fresh cases of the variant in Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Delhi. Seven in Maharashtra, nine in Jaipur and a man in Delhi were found positive with the variant, taking the total count in the country to 21.A woman and her two daughters who travelled from Nigeria, her brother and […]
India has confirmed its fourth case of Omicron variant of coronavirus (Covid-19), hours after a senior citizen from Gujarat was found infected with the highly transmissible variant. The infection has been reported in a 33-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Kalyan-Dombivli who has a travel history to Cape Town in South Africa, people familiar with the development […]
Ahead of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections, Chandigarh Congress Committee and BJP Chandigarh issued list of their candidates today. While the Congress released a list of 30 candidates, BJP announced seven more candidates in addition to their 23 contenders, whose names were announced yesterday. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation elections are slated to be held on December […]