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...
Raipur: Five security personnel were killed and 30 others injured Saturday in an encounter with Naxals in a forest along the border between Bijapur and Sukma districts in Chhattisgarh, police officials said, adding some jawans are missing and efforts are on to trace them. The...
Bhubaneswar: In view of the rising COVID-19 cases in Odisha, the State government Saturday clamped night curfews in Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Bargarh, Bolangir, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Koraput and Malkangiri districts. The night curfew will be in force from April 5 onwards till further orders. Movement...
New Delhi: India Saturday recorded 89,129 new COVID-19 cases in a day, the highest daily rise in around six-and-half-months, taking the nationwide tally of infections to over 1.23 crore, according to the Union Health Ministry data Saturday. The death toll increased to 1,64,110 with 714...
Karimganj/Guwahati: Violence broke out in Karimganj district of Assam on Thursday night after a mob spotted a BJP candidate's vehicle being used to transport a polled EVM to the strong room, forcing the police to fire in the air to bring the situation under control....
New Delhi: India recorded the highest single-day rise in COVID-19 cases in six months with 81,466 new infections in a span of 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Friday. It also said that the COVID-19 tally of cases has gone up to 1,23,03,131 in India....
New Delhi: In a step to exponentially expand the nationwide vaccination drive, the Centre has decided to operationalise all the public and private sector COVID-19 Vaccination Centres (CVCs) throughout April, including on gazetted holidays. The central government has written to all the states and UTs...
New Delhi: India saw 72,330 new coronavirus infections being reported in a span of 24 hours, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,22,21,665, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. The single-day rise in cases is the highest recorded since October 11,...
Bhubaneswar: With the resurgence of coronavirus cases in some areas of the state, Odisha government Wednesday issued guidelines for the month of April keeping in view the ensuing by-elections at Pipili and a series of religious festivals next month. The guideline to be effective between...
New Delhi: After a record increase in rates, petrol, diesel and domestic cooking gas (LPG) prices are likely to fall in the near term as international oil prices have softened, a top official said Wednesday. While petrol and diesel prices have already been cut thrice...
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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