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Global panic over new Covid variant Omicron
p The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Omicron...
Modi holds emergency meeting over new Covid strain
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a meeting, attended by top government officials, on the COVID-19 and vaccination situation in the country. The meeting comes amid concern over the B.1.1.529 strain of the coronavirus, renamed Omicron by the World Health Organization, which has been red flagged for...
Delhi HC junks plea to stop Khurshid’s book
Freedom of expressing ideas and opinions cannot be allowed to be overshadowed by the ominous cloud of being non-conformist, the Delhi High Court has said while dismissing a plea to stop the publication, circulation and sale of Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s new book. Former Union Minister Khurshid has sparked...
Akhilesh re-tunes Mamata’s Khela Hobe to take on BJP
New Delhi: If it worked in Bengal, it might just work in Uttar Pradesh – at least that’s what Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party seems to be thinking as it released a new election anthem on Friday to take on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and the BJP for polls due...
Nawab Malik alleges bid to frame him Anil Deshmukh
Mumbai: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik has alleged some people are trying to frame him in a false case. The Nationalist Congress Party, or NCP, leader yesterday tweeted photos of what he claimed were men who have been going on rounds near his Mumbai home for a recce on him....
Modi blasts ‘family’ in Constitutional Day speech
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an all-out attack on the Congress this morning after 14 opposition parties skipped the Constitution Day event at parliament as they present a united front ahead of the winter session that starts Monday. “Party for the family, by the family…do I...
Congress readies strategy to corner govt in winter session
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s residence was abuzz with leaders on Thursday who had come for a meeting of the party’s parliament strategy group to discuss the issues that the party will raise in the winter session beginning on November 29. Among those present at the meeting were AK Antony,...
Karnataka Medical College party turns super-spreader
Bengaluru: A medical college in Karnataka’s Dharwad has become a COVID-19 cluster after the number of students and staff infected with coronavirus went up to 182 today from 66 a day before, officials said. Most of the people infected at the SDM College of Medical Sciences in Dharwad were...
Channi spends a ‘commemorative’ night at gurdwara
Recalling his old days and to relive them again, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi decided to spend the Thursday night at the same gurdwara where he had stayed during his cycle yatra in 2016. Channi, who was the leader of opposition in Punjab Vidhan Sabha then, had...
Odisha ‘egg attacks’ against joblessness, price hike continue
A day after BJP supporters hurled eggs at the convoy of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Puri, Congress supporters targeted BJD MP Aparajita Sarangi in the same way near Bhubaneswar. Eggs were hurled at her vehicle and she was shown black flags at Banamalipur by Congress workers...
Behind-the-scenes story of Mukul Sangma’s switch to TMC
It was an afternoon two months ago when Mukul Sangma expressed his displeasure with staying in the Congress, a result of the growing distance between him and Pradesh Congress Committee chief Vincent Pala ever since the latter was appointed the new Meghalaya unit chief. As Sangma’s unrest grew, his...
Amarinder says Gehlot will be the next to go
As Captain Amarinder Singh awaits the registration of his new party, he says he wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to campaign for him in the 2022 Punjab elections and he will canvass for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand polls. In an exclusive interview to CNN-News18, the Captain...
Congress’s showcause notice to Amarinder’s wife
The Congress Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to its Patiala MP Preneet Kaur, the wife of former chief minister Amarinder Singh, seeking an explanation for her “anti-party activities”. Kaur has been asked to explain her stand within seven days. Issuing the notice to Kaur, Congress leader Harish Choudhary,...
Mamata calls on Modi, raises BSF jurisdiction issue
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and raised the issue of the jurisdiction of BSF. After the meeting, Banerjee said she urged the PM to preserve the federal structure. “The BSF is not our enemy. (There will be)...
SP ally Rajbhar says doors not closed for Owaisi’s AIMIM
Just a day after Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s assertion of there being a tacit understanding between Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav and All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi, the politics in the poll-bound state has been stirred up by SP ally Om Prakash Rajbhar’s claim of...
Ex-Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma joins TMC with 12 MLAs
In a huge setback for the Congress in Meghalaya, 12 of the 18 party MLAs joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday, top sources said. The 12 MLAs also include former Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma. Sangma, the Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, was reportedly unhappy with the...
With new entrants, Mamata finds toehold in Bihar, Haryana
Kolkata: In expansion mode ever since it fought off the BJP assault in the April-May Bengal Assembly elections, the Trinamool Congress today shifted gears in its acquisition of political leaders and made three new additions to the party from across the country — mostly at the cost of...
Jat reservation issue returns to haunt BJP in west UP
The issue of Jat reservation may once again heat up in Western Uttar Pradesh amidst the ongoing farmers’ protest. A meeting of two zones was held by the Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti in Meerut on Tuesday, which has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the promise of Jat...
