Bhubaneswar: Odisha registered 791 new COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours, taking the total tally in the state to 3,44,647. Out of the 791 cases, 459 were reported from quarantine centres while 332 are local contacts. With the fresh additions, the total number of...
New Delhi: India Tuesday recorded the highest one-day spike of COVID-19 cases at 1.07 lakh even as the Centre cautioned that the next four weeks are "very very critical" and sought people's participation to control the second wave of the pandemic. As the Centre warned...
Mumbai: India's economic recovery is still ‘shallow’ and a month's national lockdown to curb the rising pace of COVID-19 infections can dent the GDP by up to 2 per cent, an American brokerage warned Tuesday. Analysts at BofA Securities said there has been a six-times...
Assam: Third phase polling largely peaceful Guwahati: The third and last phase of the state election in Assam which is underway amidst tight security in 40 constituencies spread across 12 districts Tuesday is largely peaceful despite sporadic incidents of violence and disturbances in some areas,...
Jammu: “Please, release my father,” pleaded five-year-old Shragvi, the daughter of a CoBRA commando held hostage by Naxals after an ambush in Chhattisgarh. This is all a sobbing Shragvi could utter as she wiped away her tears. The family of Commando Rakeshwar Singh Minhas was...
Gangtok/Kolkata: An earthquake of 5.4 magnitude hit Sikkim Monday night, an official of the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said. Tremors were also felt in parts of West Bengal and Bihar, he said. The quake occurred at 8.49 pm at a depth of 10 km...
New Delhi: Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with chief ministers Thursday. He will discuss the COVID-19 situation and the ongoing vaccination drive, sources said Monday. The last time Narendra Modi had interacted with chief ministers was March 17....
Jeypore: After successfully conducting panchayat polls in the disputed Kotia region of Koraput district, the Andhra Pradesh government issued a fresh notification Sunday to conduct elections for the post of Panchayat Samiti as well as Zilla Parishad members in the region. The southern-state will hold the...
New Delhi: India registered 1,03,558 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the highest ever single-day spike since the onset of the pandemic last year, taking the total tally to 1,25,89,067 Monday. Daily cases in India had peaked on September 16, 2020, with 97,894...
Raipur: Bodies of 17 of the 18 jawans missing after an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh were recovered from the site of the skirmish Sunday, police said. The number of security personnel killed in the encounter has gone up to 22, police said. Eighteen jawans...
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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