Sitalkuchi (WB): Four persons were killed as CISF personnel allegedly opened fire after coming under attack from locals, who ‘attempted to snatch their rifles’, in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district Saturday, police said. The incident took place in Sitalkuchi area when voting was underway, a...
Cooch Behar (WB): A first-time voter was allegedly shot dead on Saturday in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, where 15.85 per cent polling was recorded till 9 am in the fourth phase of assembly elections amid sporadic incidents of violence, officials said. Voting is...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Saturday registered 1,374 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,48,182. Out of the 1,374 new cases, 812 were reported from quarantine centres while 562 contracted the virus locally. Sundargarh district reported the highest number of cases with 355,...
New Delhi: Top Indian and Chinese military officials met at Chushul Friday to discuss the next phase of disengagement on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, and the dialogue that started at 10.30 am is still on. The 11th round of Corps...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday said persons above 18 years of age are free to choose their religion as it refused to entertain a plea seeking directions to the Centre and states to control black magic and religious conversion. A bench of Justices RF...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Friday registered 1,282 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,46,808. Out of the 1,282 new cases, 755 were reported from quarantine centres while 527 contracted the virus locally. Sundargarh district reported he highest number of cases with 224...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Health and Family Welfare Department Minister Naba Kishore Das Thursday said that it has been made mandatory for people coming to Odisha from other states to produce RT-PCR negative test reports. Those arriving without test reports will have to undergo a seven-day quarantine,...
Bhubaneswar: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Thursday sealed the main branch of SBI in Unit-1 for 96 hours after the detection of more COVID-19 cases. Notably, after seven employees of the branch tested positive for COVID-19, the BMC authorities had Sunday sealed the office. Also...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Thursday registered 879 new coronavirus cases, taking the total tally in the state to 3,45,526. Out of the 879 new cases, 518 were reported from quarantine centres while 361 contracted the virus locally. Khurda district reported the highest number of new cases with...
New Delhi: The government will allow COVID-19 vaccination at public and private workplaces having about 100 eligible beneficiaries from April 11 across states and Union territories. Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a letter to the chief secretaries said a substantial proportion of population aged 45...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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