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Mulayam’s daughter-in-law joins BJP in high profile poaching
Aparna Yadav, married to Akhilesh Yadav’s brother, joined the BJP today, in a huge blow to the Samajwadi Party just weeks before the Uttar Pradesh election. Aparna Yadav is the wife of Akhilesh Yadav’s brother Pratik Yadav, the younger son of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. BJP leaders,...
Akhilesh to contest in UP assembly election
Akhilesh Yadav, after much dilly-dallying, has likely decided to contest the Uttar Pradesh election, sources said today. He had earlier said he would not contest the polls and would prefer to focus on every seat in the state. Akhilesh Yadav is the Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh in eastern...
India covid cases up 18% in one day
Over 2.82 lakh new Covid cases were reported in India over the past 24 hours, a rise of 18 per cent from yesterday’s case count. The positivity rate, which is an indicator of the spread of the infection, has climbed marginally from 14.43 per cent to 15.13 per cent....
Cong video projects Channi as CM face
A video shared by the Congress party on its Twitter handle has triggered speculation as to who will be the Chief Ministerial face of the party in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections. In what is being seen as a snub to state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has...
UK to freeze BBC funding for 2 years in ‘cultural vandalism’
Britain said on Monday it would freeze funding for the BBC for two years and begin a debate on whether a universal licence fee should continue in the modern television age, drawing opposition complaints of “cultural vandalism”. Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries told the parliament that the corporation, at the...
Uttarakhand Minister Sacked Amid BJP Infighting Ahead Of Polls
Just weeks ahead of the Uttarakhand assembly elections, the BJP on Sunday expelled Harak Singh Rawat, a minister in the state government, from the party. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Dhami has also written to the governor about removing Mr Rawat from the cabinet, party leaders said. The BJP has...
Severe cold in Delhi, temperature dips to season’s lowest
Delhi shivered under “cold day” conditions for a second consecutive day on Saturday, recording the season’s lowest maximum temperature at 14.8 degrees Celsius, with thick fog blotting out the sun. The minimum temperature at the Safdarjung Observatory, which is considered the official marker for the city, settled at 6.1...
Bhim Army chief says no alliance with SP
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad said Saturday that his political outfit – the Azad Samaj Party – would not ally with the Samajwadi Party for next month’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Samajwadi chief Akhilesh Yadav “does not want the support of Dalits”, Mr Azad told reporters. “Yesterday Akhileshji humiliated...
Bishop accused of nun’s rape acquitted
Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun several times between 2014 and 2016, has been acquitted by a court in Kerala. Franco Mulakkal was the first Catholic bishop in India to be arrested for assaulting a nun. A court in Kottayam acquitted him of all charges after a...
Outreach for votes lands BJP MLA in voter’s bathroom
With the Election Commission banning rallies over Covid and candidates resorting to door-to-door visits, a widely-circulated video from Kanpur shows a leader’s campaign taking an amusing turn as he interrupts a voter’s bath-time. Surendra Maithani, the BJP MLA from Kanpur, has posted several photos showing his interaction with people,...
Khattar claims Punjab govt told farmers to block PM’s convoy
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday accused the Charanjit Singh Channi government of Punjab of endangering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s life by asking farmer leaders to block the rout of his convoy to Ferozepur. Mr Khattar made the allegation in the wake of a sting operation of...
2.47 lakh new Covid cases; positivity up to 13%
India reported 2.47 lakh coronavirus cases today, the highest single-day rise in the ongoing wave. The country’s tally now stands at 3.63 crore, which includes 5,488 cases of Omicron variant reported across 28 states and union territories. The active cases comprise 3.08 per cent of the total infections,...
Case against actor Siddharth over comment against Saina Nehwal
Hyderabad Police on Wednesday filed a case actor Siddharth for allegedly making derogatory comments against Olympic bronze medalist Saina Nehwal on Twitter. In a telephonic conversation, KVM Prasad, Additional DCP, Cyber Crime Wing, Detective Department, Hyderabad said, ” A woman named Prerna approached Cyber Crime Wing and lodged a...
Delhi health minister hints at relaxation of Covid curbs
If Covid cases in Delhi come down in the next two to three days, restrictions will be lifted, minister Satyendar Jain said today. Delhi is likely to report around 25,000 cases in the last 24 hours, the minister said, adding that positivity rate cannot determine whether cases have peaked....
Every 4th Covid test in Delhi is now positive
Delhi today reported 19,166 cases, slightly lower than yesterday’s number (22,751) in the last 24 hours. Every fourth person getting tested for Covid in the city is being found positive. The positivity rate in the national capital stood at 25 per cent, the highest since May 5. The city...
MP to install Rs 2,000-cr Shankaracharya statue
The Madhya Pradesh government has said that a Rs 2,000 crore project to set up a 108-feet tall statue of religious leader and philosopher Adi Shankara, or Shankaracharya, and an international museum in the state will connect it to the rest of the world. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan last...
Hospitalisation rate much higher than in second wave
India is witnessing a hospitalisation rate of 5-10 per cent in the third Covid wave, the government said today, adding that the situation is “dynamic and evolving and the need of hospital care may change rapidly”. In the second wave, the official data says, the hospitalisation rate was...
PM photo to be off vax certificates in poll-bound states
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph has been taken off vaccine certificates in five states where elections will be held next month, sources have said. Official sources said filters have been applied on the CoWIN platform to exclude PM Modi’s photo in the five states as the model code of...
