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Chinese being ‘locked up’ in homes amid Covid surge
Taipei: Numerous videos have surfaced on social media appearing to show Chinese officials locking residents inside their homes as China grapples with a nationwide surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19. Keoni Everington, writing in Taiwan News, said that the move was a repeat of the extreme tactics seen...
Maharashtra cancels decision to reopen schools
Mumbai: The Maharashtra education department has put on hold its decision to reopen schools after objections from its task force on Covid. The government had announced on August 10 that schools can reopen from August 17 — a resolution was made and detailed SOPs were formulated on restarting classes...
Opposition alleges outsider involvement in assault on MPs
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and nearly a dozen other opposition leaders gathered outside Parliament today to protest an abrupt end to the monsoon session and the alleged assault on women MPs. They also called on Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu to lodge a complaint, and alleged “outsiders who were not...
PM, Sonia attend Speaker’s meet on parliament disruption
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president Sonia Gandhi were both in Speaker Om Birla’s room in parliament when he met with leaders of various parties after the monsoon session ended on Wednesday morning, two days early. PM Modi and Sonia Gandhi sat on adjoining sofas in the meeting....
9 parties fined in Supreme Court’s big move In decriminalising politics
Nine political parties including the BJP and Congress were held guilty of contempt and fined today by the Supreme Court for not making public criminal records of their poll candidates. The Congress, BJP and five other parties have been fined Rs 1 lakh each. The CPM and the Nationalist...
Amarinder to meet Sonia as Sidhu barbs continue
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is scheduled to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday ahead of a much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle in the state. It also comes amid strong indications that his long-running feud with Navjot Singh Sidhu, the new head of the party’s state unit, hasn’t...
BJP leader, 5 others held for anti-Muslim slogans
New Delhi: BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay and five others have been arrested over violent anti-Muslim slogans raised at a protest held at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Sunday. Ashwini Upadhyay, who organised the protest, was questioned till late last night along with other accused. The arrests followed outrage over videos...
Nitish Kumar hints at state-level caste census
Patna: If the Central government does not hold a caste-based Census, then a discussion may be initiated on carrying out an exercise to enumerate caste data at the state level in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today. He took the stance days after failing to elicit any response...
Supreme Court refuses to stop probe against Flipkart, Amazon
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt an inquiry into Amazon and Flipkart’s business practices, rejecting their demands to pause a Competition Commission of India (CCI) probe. The CCI had ordered the investigation last year – for allegedly promoting select sellers on their e-commerce platforms and using...
FIR over viral video of anti-Muslim slogans at Jantar Mantar
A video allegedly from a march held at Jantar Mantar in the heart of Delhi on Sunday has gone viral over egregiously communal slogans raised at the event that the police say was held without permission. The march was reportedly organised by Supreme Court lawyer and former Delhi...
Modi to chair UN Security Council meet today for first time
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to become the first Indian Prime Minister to chair a United Nations Security Council open debate that is scheduled to take place later this evening. The debate will shine a spotlight on enhancing maritime security. Taking over from France, India assumed...
Ganga, Yamuna above danger-mark in UP
Lucknow: At least 357 villages across 21 districts in Uttar Pradesh have been inundated with floodwater due to heavy rainfall in the state. Hamirpur and Jalun districts in Bundelkhand region are the worst affected. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will take an aerial survey of the flood-affected regions today to...
Chief Justice: biggest human right violations in police stations
New Delhi: The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the “highest in police stations”, Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function today, expressing concern about custodial torture. Calling human rights and dignity “sacrosanct”, he said, “custodial torture and other police atrocities are...
Delhi starts colour-coded Covid alert levels 1 To 4
New Delhi: Amid fears of a possible third wave of Covid infections, Delhi has put into force a graded action plan to tackle any surge in cases in the coming days. The national capital is the first city to enforce such a plan. The action plan, which lays down...
Tight security at Delhi airport after terrorist threat
New Delhi: Security has been increased at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after a bomb threat email to Delhi Police cautioned about terrorist outfit Al Qaeda planning to attack the airport. As per an official statement by the airport, after investigation the threat was found “non-specific” and Bomb Threat...
Trinamool alleges leaders hurt in Tripura attack
Agartala/Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Saturday alleged that two of its youth leaders from West Bengal were injured when their vehicle was allegedly attacked by BJP activists in Tripura’s Dhalai district. Following the incident, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew...
Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account temporarily blocked
The Congress on Saturday said its leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account had been “temporarily locked” after the social media platform countered the party’s claim that his handle had been “temporarily suspended” amid a controversy over the removal of an image posted by the MP a day ago. Rahul Gandhi’s...
Modi’s 3-day conclave to chart future course
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new council of ministers will hold a three-day conclave next week to chalk out an agenda for the remaining three years of the government’s term, sources said on Friday, as the government looks for ways to tackle simmering public resentment. For the first time since...
