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Sidhu’s jibe at PM’s 15-minute ‘trouble’
New Delhi: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu aimed a jibe at the BJP over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s security breach, saying he was “troubled” only by a 15-minute wait. The farmers, he said, had to wait for more than a year to get the farm laws scrapped. The...
13 Covid +ve passengers from Italy flee from Amritsar hospital
New Delhi: 13 passengers who tested positive for Covid after landing in Amritsar earlier today have run away from the hospital, authorities said. They allegedly tricked the health officials and fled, they said this evening. The patients were admitted to Amritsar’s Guru Nanak Dev Hospital. “We will initiate proceedings...
Home ministry panel to probe PM security lapses
New Delhi: A three-member committee will probe the “serious lapses in the security arrangements” during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab on Wednesday, the Union Home Ministry said today. The lapses in PM’s security “led to the exposure of the VVIP to grave security risk,” the Home Ministry...
Pakistan gets its first female Supreme Court judge
Islamabad: Pakistan has confirmed the appointment of the first female Supreme Court judge in the Muslim-majority nation’s history, members of the ruling party said on Thursday. A commission that decides on the promotion of judges on Thursday voted to make 55-year-old Justice Ayesha Malik the first female judge on...
SC hearing tomorrow on plea in PM security breach
New Delhi: Controversy over security lapses surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab reached the Supreme Court, with the matter likely to be heard tomorrow. The state has set up a high-level team that will file a report in three days. A senior advocate, Maninder Singh, filed a...
Akhilesh cancels Ayodhya Vijay Rath Yatra over Covid spike
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party’s Vijay Rath Yatra in Ayodhya, scheduled for January 9, has been cancelled as Covid cases continue to rise fuelled by the Omicron variant. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has also called off his other rallies in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda and Basti on January 7 and January...
220 Mumbai resident doctors test Covid positive in 3 days
Mumbai: At least 220 resident doctors at government hospitals in Mumbai have tested positive for coronavirus in the last three days, a senior office-bearer of their association said on Wednesday. Ganesh Solunke, president of the J J Hospital chapter of the Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD), said 73...
Hundreds stranded as heavy snowfall lashes Kashmir
Srinagar: Air and road traffic has been badly affected for the second consecutive day on Wednesday due to inclement weather in Kashmir as intermittent snowfall was reported from most parts of the valley over the past 24 hours. The suspension of air traffic due to snowfall and poor visibility...
Jharkhand man lynched as retribution for cutting tree
Simdega: A man was lynched in Jharkhand’s Simdega by a mob on Tuesday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments by cutting a tree. The incident took place in Kolebira Police Station area on Tuesday afternoon. The victim has been identified as Sanju Pradhan. According to police, around 100 to 150...
UK fears hospital crisis as Covid cases cross 200,000
London: British hospitals have switched to a “war footing” due to staff shortages caused by a wave of Omicron infections, the government said Tuesday, as the country’s daily Covid caseload breached 200,000 for the first time. The 24-hour tally, after chalking up multiple records in the run-up to New...
More curbs in Delhi likely amid Covid surge, Kejriwal tests +ve
New Delhi: Amid rising coronavirus cases in the national capital, the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) is expected to consider more restrictions — to check the spread of the infection — in its meeting scheduled on Tuesday, official sources said. Delhi added 4,099 new COVID-19 cases with positivity rate...
60,000 daily hospitalisaiton due to Omicron predicted
New Delhi: India is going through an Omicron wave – one we don’t seem to be acknowledging. While official figures suggest that Omicron cases are less than 2 per cent of India’s total Covid cases, this could be a massive underestimate. While the official number of Omicron cases...
Delhi Covid cases up 15% in one day
New Delhi: Delhi logged 3,194 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, 15 per cent higher than Saturday. One person has died. The city logged 2,176 cases on New Year’s day — a 50 per cent spike. The positivity rate rose to 4.59 per cent, according to data...
Hospitalisation low despite spike in Covid, says Kejriwal
New Delhi: Do not panic. This was the major focus of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s address today as the national capital saw a sharp spike in COVID-19 cases. The city has also reported the second-highest cases of the highly transmissible Omicron strain after Maharashtra. “COVID-19 cases are...
Oxfam says charity work will be hampered
New Delhi: The government’s decision to refuse renewal of its FCRA licence – needed to receive funding from abroad – will severely affect ongoing humanitarian and social work in 16 states, Oxfam India said in a statement issued Sunday. “As per the list released by the Ministry of Home...
Gurgaon, 4 other Haryana cities close cinemas, sports centres
New Delhi: Cinema halls and sports complexes will be closed in Gurgaon and four other cities in Haryana as part of restrictions imposed on Saturday by the state government in view of a surge in coronavirus cases and the emergence of Omicron variant. Besides, both government and private offices, except...
Oxfam among 12,000 NGOs losing foreign funding licence
New Delhi: FCRA licences – required to be able to receive funding from abroad – of over 6,000 NGOs and other organisations expired overnight, the Home Ministry said Saturday morning, days after it refused to renew such a licence for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. Home Ministry sources said...
Armed Forces ex-chiefs write to President, PM on hate speeches
New Delhi: Five former chiefs of staff of the armed forces and over a hundred other people including veterans, bureaucrats, and prominent citizens have written to President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding “open call of the genocide of Indian Muslims” at various events, most...
