Kolkata: West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said Tuesday that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government will have to ‘pay a heavy price’ in the state polls for not budging on its decision to enforce lockdown August 5, despite requests by his party on account of...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha health department Tuesday said that record 1,409 persons who earlier tested positive for COVID-19 have recovered and are being discharged. Out of the 1,409 persons, 84 are from Koraput, 68 from Cuttack, 58 from Balasore, 34 from Nabarangpur, 30 from Kandhamal, 25 from...
New Delhi: Union petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan has tested positive for COVID-19. He has been admitted to Medanta Hospital in Haryana's Gurugram, a highly places source said Tuesday. Pradhan the second union minister to have tested positive for the deadly disease after...
Cuttack: Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) Tuesday said that 91 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the city in past 24 hours. While six of them were reported from institutional quarantine centres, 73 were from home quarantine case and the remaining 12 were local...
Bhubaneswar: COVID-19 cases have continued to rise in Odisha with over 1,000 new cases being reported daily since July 21. In such a situation, the state’s caseload may increase by 50,000 in August, a senior official of the health department said. However, the director of...
Ayodhya: Police barricades, yellow banners, walls with a fresh coat of paint and the sounds of bhajan mark parts of Ayodhya. The city is awaiting its big day Wednesday, when the first brick will be laid for the Ram temple. Ayodhya is decked up for...
Hyderabad: Noting that lockdown was a temporary measure to contain the spread of coronavirus, a senior official of the World Health Organisation said Tuesday that India has a low testing rate when compared to some of the countries that are successfully trying to curb the...
New Delhi: Chinese mobile phone company ‘Vivo’ is likely to pull out as the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) title sponsor for this year. The mobile phone company is in talks with the BCCI for an ‘amicable separation’ amid rising Sino-India diplomatic tensions. The one year...
Kolkata: The West Bengal Health Ministry has written to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) requesting it to change its guidelines on ‘immediate retest’ of a person who has tested negative in antigen test for COVID-19. This information was given by a West Bengal...
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar city reported 149 fresh COVID-19 cases in last 24 hours taking the tally to 3,217, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) said Tuesday. Among the fresh cases detected, 98 were reported from quarantine centres while 51 contracted the virus locally. Meanwhile, 145 patients were discharged...
Uttar Pradesh’s latest babu reshuffle, while seemingly routine, is difficult to view in isolation. The Yogi Adityanath government has moved...
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Two crucial developments – one in Maharashtra and the other in Gujarat – in quick succession show two opposing sides...
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The BJP and the Congress seem to believe that they are going to reap rich political dividends through their conflicting...
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What was considered India’s demographic dividend is beginning to appear less like an opportunity and more like a warning signal....
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