Third Covid wave inevitable: GOI
K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Centre: -- A phase three is inevitable, given the higher levels of circulating virus but it is not clear on what time scale this phase three will occur. We should prepare for new...
On Delhi Oxygen, Supreme Court’s “10:30 am Tomorrow” Deadline To Centre
New Delhi: The Centre and state governments are doing their best amid the oxygen crisis and it is pointless to jail officials for contempt, the Supreme Court said today while hearing the central government's plea against a Delhi High Court...
SC decision on Maratha quota unfortunate: Uddhav Thackeray
Terming the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Maharashtra law granting quota to Marathas in admissions and government jobs as unfortunate, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the legal battle for the reservations to that community will continue...
“Relying on PMO is useless”: Subramanian Swamy wants ‘conduct of this war’ delegated to Nitin Gadkari; says Harsh Vardhan will ‘bloom’
BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has said that the Prime Minister’s Office was useless in the current pandemic as he urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assign his cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari the responsibility to manage the current pandemic....
Manish Soni appointed as Joint Secretary of Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) Nagpur Chapter
Nagpur : Initation ceremony of Manish Soni to Public Relations Council of India, as Joint Secretary, Nagpur Chapter was held on auspicious day of Gudipadwa at Nagpur Office of PRCI. Shri. Soni is a well-known journalist & public relations...
Supreme Court strikes down Maratha Reservation law for exceeding 50 percent cap, upholds Indra Sawhney
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC) Act, 2018 which extends reservation to the Maratha community in public education and employment (Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil v. Chief Minister). The Court said...
Mamata sworn-in as Bengal CM for third time
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was on Wednesday sworn-in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the third consecutive term after a massive win in the state assembly elections. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar administered her the oath of office and secrecy...
Deshmukh seeks to link ex-Mumbai police chief to SUV case
Mumbai/Nagpur: Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday alleged a "very suspicious" role of ex-Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh in the case related to the placing of an explosives-laden SUV near Mukesh Ambani''s residence in Mumbai. The NCP...
Mamata swearing-in to be low-key due to Covid
The swearing-in of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee as chief minister at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday morning will be a low-key programme given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a government official said. Invitations for the programme have been sent to her...
RBI Guv to make unscheduled speech today at 10 am
Reserve Bank of India said Governor Shaktikanta Das will make a speech on Wednesday, an unscheduled appearance as ferocious new coronavirus wave devastates the country. The address will be broadcast at 10 am local time, the RBI said on Twitter, without...
RSS Joins Effort With Local Organisations To Provide Relief To Maharashtra
Amidst India battling an unprecedented viral apocalypse, the Konkan Prant unit of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has joined efforts with 11 other organisations to provide relief to COVID patients, their relatives and frontline workers in the state of Maharashtra. The...
Lions in Hyderabad zoo test +ve for Covid
In perhaps the first such reported incident, eight Asiatic lions in the zoo here have tested positive for COVID-19 after their saliva samples were thoroughly examined by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, Rakesh Mishra, advisor of the...
Bengal burning due to state-sponsored violence
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday attacked the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC over the alleged killing of its party workers in West Bengal, and charged that the state is burning due to state-sponsored violence. Comparing the TMC with Nazis, the BJP dubbed...
PM calls guv on post-poll violence in Bengal
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi called him and expressed his "serious anguish and concern" at the alarmingly worrisome law and order situation in the state following the culmination of the assembly elections. "PM...
Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account suspended permanently
Twitter has permanently suspended actor Kangana Ranaut's account for repeated violations of rules, specifically its "Hateful Conduct and Abusive Behaviour policy”, the microblogging site said in a statement on Tuesday. The 34-year-old actor's handle @KanganaTeam now displays the message: account suspended. Ranaut,...
Whites enslaving brown person: Kangana reacts
Kangana Ranaut reacts to Twitter permanently blocking her account for 'hateful and abusive behaviour'. "Twitter has only proved my point they're Americans and by birth, a white person feels entitled to enslave a brown person, they want to tell you what...
Maha: In a first in 30 days, daily cases fall below 50,000
Mumbai/Nagpur: Daily COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra dropped below 50,000 to 48,621 on Monday for the first time in the last 30 days, taking the tally to 47,71,022. With 567 more patients succumbing to the viral infection, the overall toll mounted to...
IMA calls for lockdown to break chain of Covid
New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association has demanded an immediate national lockdown to break the chain of Covid-19 infections after 13,534 new infections and 97 deaths during the last 24 hours took Bihars cumulative Covid-19 tally to 4.97 lakh cases...
MHA asks WB to submit report on poll violence
The Centre on Monday sought a report from the West Bengal government on post-poll violence targeting opposition workers in the state. Political workers, including from BJP, were allegedly targeted by opponents since the announcement of results for the 292-member...
HC to Maha govt: Build electric crematoriums
The Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government and municipal authorities in Aurangabad to make an appeal to industrialists and local corporates to donate and help construct electric and LPG crematoriums in the district. When told about...
Mamata Banerjee to be sworn in on May 5
Mamata Banerjee's swearing-in ceremony to take place on May 5. The West Bengal CM designate addressed a presser a while ago and urged her supporters to maintain peace amid reports of violence from some areas, asking them not to fall...
