"Birthday wishes to Rashtrapati Ji. His rich insights and wise understanding of policy matters are great assets for our nation. He is extremely compassionate towards serving the vulnerable. I pray for his good health and long life," PM Modi tweeted.
From no need to carry copies of driving licence, to health insurance to credit cards, there will be many changes in the rules for products and transactions impacting the daily lives of the people from October 1.
Had he been alive, the Babri case verdict that the demolition was not “pre-planned” would have brought a wry smile to the face of P V Narasimha Rao who faced severe criticism for the December 6,1992 event, with some alleging that he was complicit in the mosque’s destruction.
Acquitted of conspiracy charges in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case, BJP veteran L K Advani on Wednesday welcomed the court verdict, saying the judgment vindicated his and his party’s commitment towards the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
The acquittal of senior BJP and other Hindutva faces in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case on Wednesday was welcomed by BJP functionaries named in the case, but the party did not issue any formal response even as there was a sense of vindication that saffron seniors had not been held guilty by the court.
Average weekly Covid-19 cases are declining in most high-burden states, including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, but the situation is different in Kerala and Chhattisgarh where cases have been increasing steadily over the past few weeks, the health ministry said.
India has recorded more than 2.5 million Covid cases in September alone, accounting for 41% of its total caseload since the pandemic hit the country. The grim milestone was reached on Tuesday, when fresh cases climbed back to over 80,000 after a big drop the previous day.
The Election Commission on Tuesday announced byolls to Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat in Bihar and 56 assembly seats across 11 states while deciding not to hold assembly bypolls due in Kerala, Assam, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal in view of specific requests from the four states.
In a move to ensure accessibility and transparency of Covid-19 related clinical and laboratory data, the Centre on Monday rolled out a ‘vaccine web portal’ and national clinical registry for the pandemic.
The growth of Covid-19 cases in India appears to have slowed down over the last three weeks, helped by lesser number of new cases detected, particularly during the last week (September 20-26), with growth rate in the 1.37-1.61% range as compared to 1.8-2.25% during September 4-10.
No woman, after being sexually assaulted at knife-point, would write amorous love letters to the accused and share a live-in relationship for four years, the Supreme Court said on Monday while acquitting a man of 20-year-old charges of rape and cheating, for which he was convicted by the trial court and the Jharkhand High Court.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Wipro GE Healthcare today announced the inauguration of an advanced center for innovation and research — ‘WIPRO GE Healthcare – Computational and Data Sciences Collaborative Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence in Medical and Healthcare Imaging — at the IISc campus here.
Total recoveries from Covid-19 in India crossed the 50 lakh milestone on Monday with recovered cases outpacing active cases by more than five times, the Union health ministry said. In a statement, the ministry said the rise in the number of total recovered cases from 1 lakh in June 2020 has been steep and the last 10 lakh recoveries were added in just 11 days.
As many as 76,768 police personnel all over the country including paramilitary forces such as CRPF, CISF, BSF and NSG tested positive for COVID-19 while 401 succumbed to the killer virus, according to a report by the Bureau of Police Research and Development.
Newly-appointed BJP national secretary Anupam Hazra has said that he would hug chief minister Mamata Banerjee if he is infected by the coronavirus to make her feel the pain of the families of Covid-19 patients. A police complaint was filed by the Trinamool Congress in Siliguri for the comments Hazra made at a party programme in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas on Sunday evening.
Days after agriculture Bills were passed in the Parliament leading to protests by a number of farmer organisations and political parties in various states, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called it 'a death sentence'. "The agriculture laws are a death sentence to our farmers. Their voice is crushed in Parliament and outside. Here is proof that democracy in India is dead," he said.
Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in the year he was elected US president and also in his first year in the White House, according to a media report, which also said that he or his companies paid $ 145,400 taxes in India in 2017. Trump paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made, the report said. The US president immediately dismissed the report as "totally fake news".
Punjab Congress leaders, led by CM Amarinder Singh, launched a sit-in agitation against the contentious agricultural laws at Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr, the birthplace of Bhagat Singh. Besides legal recourse, the Punjab government was looking at other options to scuttle the Centre's new agriculture laws "that are designed to ruin Punjab's farmers and economy", said the CM.
With the Shiromani Akali Dal walking out of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over farm bills, the Shiv Sena on Monday wondered if the BJP-led alliance really exists and asked who are in the coalition now. An editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said it was surprising that NDA's "last pillar" Shiromani Akali Dal was not stopped from severing ties with the alliance.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to iconic playback singer Lata Mangeshkar to wish her on her 91st birthday and said that he considered himself fortunate to have always received her affection and blessings.
The private WhatsApp chats of Rhea Chakraborty, Deepika Padukone and a few other Bollywood stars known to them are now subject to formal investigations, besides providing fodder to drawing room gossip
India's Covid-19 tally galloped past 60 lakh on Monday with 82,170 new cases, while the recoveries have surged to 50.17 lakh with 74,893 more people having recuperated. The death toll from the pathogen climbed to 95,542 with 1,039 more deaths. There are 9,62,640 active cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the country, comprising 15.85 per cent of the total caseload.
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