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Modi, Mamata, Adar Poonawalla on TIME 100 list
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla have been named among the world’s 100 most influential people of 2021 by TIME magazine. TIME on Wednesday unveiled its annual list of ‘The 100 Most Influential People of...
BJP lines up star campaigners for Didi’s constituency
As Bhabanipur gears up to witness high-voltage polling on September 30, the BJP has lined up dozens of star campaigners who will conduct door-to-door interactions, open air meetings and street plays from September 20-27 to ‘highlight the misrule, post poll violence’ of TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee. The bypoll will...
Rain alert again in Delhi after record showers
New Delhi: An orange alert has been issued in Delhi for today, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicting heavy rain and strong winds in the national capital, days after the city witnessed a record spell that helped it breach the 1,000 mm mark for the first time in...
Yash Dasgupta named as Nusrat Jahan’s newborn son’s father
The birth certificate of TMC leader Nusrat Jahan’s new-born son names her rumoured partner Debashish Dasgupta, also known as Yash Dasgupta, as the father amid speculation over the child’s paternity. The certificate of Yishaan J Dasgupta lists Yash as the father and Nusrat as the mother and his date...
Supreme Court slams Centre for ‘cherry picking’ tribunal names
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today criticised the government for “cherry picking” from its recommendations for tribunals across the country. The government has been given two weeks to complete tribunal appointments with the Supreme Court sternly saying: “Return with the appointment letters.” “We are a democratic country. You...
Diwali firecrackers banned in Delhi again
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday banned the storage, sale and use of firecrackers in the national capital due to concerns over hazardous air pollution levels during Diwali. The move mirrors that announced by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party last year, when the horrendous pollution levels were also linked...
India criticises talk about Quad’s limited agenda
New Delhi: Ahead of a meeting called by US President Joe Biden in Washington later this month, India said Quad should not be perceived as a grouping with limited agenda as it has a broad and substantive agenda. Speaking to US-based academician Ashley Tellis on the Indian Ocean and...
Indian organic eggs to cost more in US after trade spat
Americans could soon be paying more for organic eggs, and it’s largely because of a trade spat the U.S. is having with India. The U.S., which relies on the South Asian nation for more than 40% of its organic soy meal used to feed chickens, is investigating claims that...
Punjab AAP denies remote-control from Delhi
In 2017, they had a strong start on their debut run but faltered at the finishing line. In the last four-and-a-half years, the AAP has witnessed some turbulent times, grappling with factionalism and absence of a strong local leadership. But as the 2022 assembly elections close in, the party...
Cycle yatras key part of Akhilesh’s poll campaign
Free Azam Khan campaign, cycle yatras across the state, nominating two women party workers on each booth, increasing voters on each booth and bringing them on the party’s side, a sustained reach-out to traders, backward class meetings and attempting a union of youth and farmers in its favour —...
Modi to attend Biden’s Quad Summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be part of the first-ever in-person Quad summit hosted by US President Joe Biden on September 24. Other invitees include Modi’s Australian counterpart Scott Morrison and Japanese premier Yoshihide Suga. The White House said that the four leaders would discuss deepening their ties and...
AAP launching its poll campaign in Ayodhya today
: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh will kick-start their fourth ‘Tiranga Yatra’ in Ayodhya on Tuesday. The party, which has declared its intention to contest all seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2022 on its own, said that...
Yogi makes slaughter house closures big poll plank
Yogi Adityanath government’s ‘strong action’ against cow slaughter and smuggling is set to become a major poll plank of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh to impress upon the voters that the Samajwadi Party had done nothing to check the illegal activities. This was a major poll promise of the...
Tripura TMC rally denied permission again
In the recent development of the ongoing tussle between TMC and BJP, the state administration of Tripura has denied permission to TMC rally for September 15. The reason that was stated in the police letter was that another political party also has a rally that day, so apprehending clash...
Amarinder asks farmers to move protest to Delhi
Chandigarh: Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today, for the first time since the farmers’ protest began last year, expressed serious concern over how it was adversely affecting Punjab’s economy. He asked those taking part in the agitation to focus on the “Union government” in New Delhi and leave the...
Govt cites national security to refuse Pegasus affidavit
New Delhi: The government on Monday said “it had nothing to hide” but cited national security reasons to tell the Supreme Court that it would not file a detailed affidavit in response to multiple petitions seeking a formal inquiry into the Pegasus spyware scandal. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told...
Oscar Fernandes was a Yoga enthusiast
Oscar Fernandes, a veteran Congress leader and former union minister, passed away in Mangalore on Monday at the age of 80. Fernandes, a sitting member of the Rajya Sabha, was critically injured after he fell accidentally while doing his regular exercise on July 20 this year and was admitted...
Khurshid says Cong to fight UP polls under Priyanka
The Congress will be fighting for the crucial 2022 UP assembly elections under the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, said senior party leader and former union minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday. When asked about the probable chief ministerial face for grand old-party in the state, Khurshid referred to Priyanka,...
