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Modi’s new Cabinet to be ‘youngest’ ever
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet will be the youngest ever in India’s history after big changes likely anytime now, top government sources have told NDTV. The average age will be the lowest ever and the educational qualification will also be higher, with “PhDs, MBAs, post-graduates and professionals”, the sources...
New Ministry Of Cooperation created ahead of reshuffle
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government today created new ‘Ministry of Cooperation’, looking to provide more heft to the cooperative movement in the country. The move came a day before the Union cabinet was scheduled for a reshuffle, with some new faces expected to join the Centre in key positions....
Germany lifts ban on travellers from India, UK, Portugal
Germany’s health agency said on Monday five so-called virus variant countries would be reclassified as “high incidence areas”, lifting a ban on entry for travellers from those nations who were not German residents or citizens. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said India, Nepal, Russia, Portugal and Britain would be...
An intercontinental effort to bring ailing student home
New Delhi: In a rare humanitarian gesture, authorities in India and Australia came together to help repatriate a 25-year-old Arshdeep Singh, suffering from a chronic renal ailment, to India. He was airlifted from Melbourne in a special flight that is being flown by Qantas – Australia’s largest airline by...
Stan Swamy dies of cardiac arrest
IPA Webdesk Jailed Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist Stan Swamy died of a cardiac arrest in a Mumbai hospital. He was 84. The oldest person to be accused of terrorism, he was arrested in October 2020. Stan Swamy was suffering from Parkinson’s disease and was moved to the...
SC shocked at use of banned law to arrest online activists
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed shock and displeasure on being told that over 1,000 cases had been filed under Section 66A of the IT Act – a controversial law that allowed police to arrest people for posting “offensive” content online – since it was struck down seven years...
CBI files new case in Akhilesh’s Gomti river project
The CBI today filed a fresh case in connection with the alleged irregularities in the 1,500 crore Gomti riverfront development project in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. The project was carried out by the previous Samajwadi Party government but the then Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is not named as...
Cong blasts Govt silence over Rafale probe
New Delhi: The Congress today lashed out at the Narendra Modi government’s alleged silence over recent developments around India’s Rs 59,000-crore Rafale jet deal. It said huge amounts of money were paid to middlemen in the deal, according to documents available now. With inputs from NDTV
Karnataka relaxes Covid curbs; no weekend curfew from next week
Karnataka today announced the lifting of weekend curfew starting next week as it treads cautiously even as daily Covid cases continue to drop. The night curfew will, however, continue to be in place from 9 pm to 5 am across the state, a government order said. Karnataka, which reported...
Pushkar Singh Dhami to be youngest Uttarakhand CM
Dehradun: Pushkar Singh Dhami, the 45-year-old new Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, is the hill state’s youngest ever Chief Minister. Previously, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank became the youngest leader in the top job when he became Chief Minister at age 49. Dhami is a two-time BJP MLA who represents Khatima constituency...
New French probe into Rafale deal ‘gift’ to Reliance
IPA Webdesk A judicial probe into suspected corruption has been opened in France over the 7.8-billion-euro sale to India in 2016 of 36 Dassault-built Rafale fighter aircraft, French news website Mediapart reported. In this latest of a series of investigations about the secret dealings behind the contract, Mediapart revealed...
Impressive BJP show in UP local body polls
Lucknow: The BJP is surging ahead in the Uttar Pradesh local body elections, with a projection of winning over 60 seats in the zila panchayat chairperson election where 75 seats are at stake. Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, which was expected to make a big show, is forecast to win only...
Pushkar Singh Dhami to be new Uttarakhand CM
Pushkar Singh Dhami was today chosen by the Uttarakhand BJP legislative party to be the eleventh Chief Minister of the state. The change of guard came a day after Tirat Singh Rawat resigned from the post amid infighting and fading chances of his getting elected to the state Legislative...
Shashi Tharoor discovers Modi doing ‘pogonotrophy’
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used English words, sent the Twitterati running for their dictionaries on Friday with another head scratcher — pogonotrophy. Mr Tharoor said he learnt of the new word pogonotrophy, which means the growing or cultivation of a beard, from a...
Modi Cabinet expansion in a couple of days
IPA Webdesk Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-awaited cabinet expansion is likely to take place in a couple of days and his selection of names is seen greatly influenced by the polls in five states next year and the 2024 national election. This is the first cabinet expansion in his...
TMC links fake vaccination scam with Governor
Kolkata: In a new twist to its running battle with the West Bengal governor, the Trinamool Congress has trained its guns on him afresh with ammunition linked to the fake vaccination scam in Kolkata. Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy on Thursday displayed two photographs at a news conference...
J&J says its vaccine effective against Delta variant
Johnson & Johnson said that its single-shot coronavirus vaccine neutralizes the fast-spreading delta variant and provides durable protection against infection more broadly. The company said in a statement Thursday that recipients of its vaccine produced strong neutralizing antibodies over the course of at least eight months against all variants...
Near-stampede at MP vaccination centre
Bhopal: A vaccination centre in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district saw a stampede-like situation yesterday as people turned out in large numbers for vaccination. As soon as the centre opened for the day at Sausar, scores of people from various age groups were seen rushing in, apparently to reserve...
