Worst Hit Maharashtra, Kerala at Slowest Recovery Pace after Second Wave of Covid-19: Report
Indicative of the intensity of infection, Kerala and Maharashtra are the slowest to come out of its deadly second wave of coronavirus that jolted India. According to a report by Times of India, in the week ended Sunday, fresh cases in...
Germany lifts ban on travellers from India, 4 other countries
Germany is lifting a ban on most travellers from five countries hit by 'Delta' variant of COVID-19, including India and the UK from Wednesday, said German envoy Walter J Lindner. "From tomorrow, Germany is removing the entry ban and easing travel...
IAF to acquire 10 anti-drone systems
Days after terrorists used armed drones to attack its airbase in Jammu, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has initiated a process of acquiring 10 counter unmanned aircraft systems (CUAS). As per the Request for Information (RFI) issued on Monday for the...
Govt allows airlines to operate at 65% capacity
Airlines can now operate a maximum of 65 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic flights instead of the 50 per cent allowed till date, the civil aviation ministry said on Monday. The carriers have been operating only 50 per...
Bombay HC: Who are these unknown accused in CBI case against Anil Deshmukh?
The Bombay High Court has sought to know who the unknown accused are in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) case against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. The court has sought a progress report in a sealed cover from the...
Maharashtra reports 6,740 new COVID-19 cases, 51 deaths; 13,027 recover
Mumbai: Maharashtra reported 6,740 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, taking the infection tally to 61,04,917, while the death toll increased to 1,23,136 with the addition of 51 fresh fatalities, a health department official said. The state reported a sharp...
Bangladesh PM gifts 2,600 kg mangoes to Modi as ‘memento of friendship’
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has gifted 2,600 kg of the Haribhanga variety of mangoes to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as a "memento of friendship". A truck carrying 260 cartons of mangoes crossed the Bangladesh-India border through the...
Johnson: UK must live with virus but restrictions can ease
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says people in England will no longer be required by law to wear face masks in indoor public spaces and to keep at least 1 metre (3 feet) apart as soon as later this month,...
PM holds meeting with Shah amid Cabinet buzz
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has held marathon meetings with Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh in what is being seen as the final touches being given to the details of a likely expansion of...
PM, Kamala Harris to be invited for tech summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice-President Kamala Harris will be invited to the Karnataka government's flagship annual event Bengaluru TechSummit-2021 (BTS-2021) from November 17-19. Announcing this on Monday, Deputy Chief Minister C N Ashwath Narayan said the summit would be...
Mamata urges PM to reduce tax charged by Centre on petrol, diesel
Expressing concern over the rising fuel prices, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to lower the taxes charged by the Centre on petrol and diesel "to check the overall inflation"...
Maharashtra directs MPSC to complete recruitment with EWS/general category option for SEBC candidates
MUMBAI: Candidates belonging to Educationally and Socially Backward Class (ESBC) category who were given a temporary appointment of eleven months in 2014 by the Maharashtra government before the Bombay High Court stayed the quota will be regularised, state PWD Minister...
Cong questions PM’s silence over probe in Rafale deal
The Congress on Monday asserted that the government has no option but to order a JPC probe into the allegations of corruption in the purchase of Rafale fighter jets and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi's silence even 48 hours after...
Twitter failed to comply with new IT Rules: Centre tells HC
The Centre Monday told the Delhi high court that social media giant Twitter Inc has failed to comply with India's new IT Rules, which is law of the land and is mandatorily required to be complied with. The Centre,...
Lalu makes 1st public appearance after coming out of jail
A frail-looking Rastriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad on Monday addressed his first political meeting in a long time and castigated the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and Nitish Kumar administration in Bihar for their "many failures" and predicted...
12 BJP MLAs suspended by Speaker for one year over unruly behaviour
Leader of Opposition Fadnavis termed the allegations made against the 12 BJP MLAs as "false". A story is being created… no one from the party abused the Speaker. Nagpur/Mumbai: In a major development that is likely to have strong political ramifications,...
12 Maha BJP MLAs disqualified for abusing Speaker
12 BJP MLAs suspended from Maharashtra Assembly for one year for misbehaving with presiding officer Bhaskar Jadhav. Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Devendra Fadnavis, says "allegations false". The MLAs were disqualified for abusing and manhandling the Speaker-in-chair of...
OBC quota: Maha seeks 2011 census data from Centre
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a resolution urging the Centre to provide the 2011 census data to enable the State Backward Class Commission to prepare an empirical data of the OBC population, in a bid to restore political...
Activist Stan Swamy, accused in Elgar case, dead
Father Stan Swamy, a tribal rights activist arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case last year, died in on Monday. The 84-year-old Jesuit priest was put on ventilator after his health deteriorated further early Sunday. Swamy was admitted to a private hospital...
Shocking that people still booked under scrapped section 66A of IT Act: SC
The Supreme Court on Monday termed as "amazing" and "shocking" that people are still being booked under the Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, which was scrapped by the apext court verdict in 2015. A bench of Justices R F...
Ajit Pawar: MPSC vacanct posts to be filled by July 31
A day after the sucide of an MPSC aspirant in Pune, deputy CM Ajit Pawar on the first day of two-day monsoon session announced that the posts for which MPSC exams are completed will be filled up by July 31,...
