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Fraud by Covid labs led to TPR error during Kumbh Mela
The Enforcement Directorate today searched the homes and offices of the top executives of five diagnostics firms for alleged money laundering in connection with a fake COVID-19 testing scam during the Kumbh Mela in Uttarakhand. The Enforcement Directorate started investigation after a case was filed by the Uttarakhand Police....
Son says Mukul Roy suffering from depression
Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy’s son in conversation with News18 defended his father’s comment and said that he is forgetting things due to a chemical imbalance in his body and is suffering from depression after his wife’s death. “There is immense sodium potassium imbalance in my father’s body, that...
India, China disengage in Gogra in Eastern Ladakh
India and China have agreed to disengage in eastern Ladakh’s Gogra region, restoring the Line of Actual Control in the area, the Indian Army said on Friday, in a major breakthrough after the latest round of talks between the two neighbours. After nearly 15 months of a face-off,...
Mayawati demands separate Census for OBCs
Political parties in Uttar Pradesh have begun to play their cards as the assembly elections approach. Meanwhile, Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party and former Chief Minister of the state, urged a separate census of the OBC castes and stated that if the central government takes any...
Rahul Gandhi, others join Jantar Mantar farmers protest
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders from 14 opposition parties staged a joint protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Friday to underline support for farmers agitating against the centre’s farm laws. Visuals from news agency ANI showed Mr Gandhi and the other leaders standing in a tight-knit group...
TMC team to meet EC to demand bypolls
A delegation of Mamata Banerjee‘s party will meet the Election Commission on Friday afternoon to demand bypolls. Trinamool Congress general secretary said that the West Bengal byelections have been pending, and they had approached the EC last month too. Among the seven seats due for bypolls, the chief minister...
RBI keeps key lending rate unchanged
The Reserve Bank kept the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent and retained the GDP growth target at 9.5 per cent as the country was “in a much better position compared to June 2021”. The RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das made the announcement at the end of the bi-monthly Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)...
Johnson & Johnson seeks approval of its single-dose Covid vaccine
Global healthcare major Johnson & Johnson on Friday said it has applied for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine in India. Earlier on Monday, the company had said that it remained committed to bringing its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to India and looks forward to ongoing discussions...
IT Act amended to end retrospective tax demand
: The Union government on Thursday amended the Income Tax Act to end controversial retrospective tax demand. The move came after back-to-back setbacks in Cairn energy and Vodafone Group tax dispute cases. An Ordinance was introduced in Lok Sabha to scrap the dreaded retrospective changes made in Finance Act,...
Nitish to meet PM Modi on SC, ST Census
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said that he has sought an appointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the tricky issue of caste-based census which the Centre has proposed to hold only for SCs and STs, triggering protests in the state. The Union government had informed...
Supreme Court hearing crucial Pegasus petitions
The Supreme Court is hearing today a batch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India, seeking a special probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal involving allegations that opposition leaders, journalists and others were targets. A two-member bench, headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, will hear...
Prashant Kishor quits as adviser to Punjab CM for a ‘break’
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Thursday quit as adviser to Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh, saying he had decided to take a temporary break from active role in public life. “As you are aware, in view of my decision to take a temporary break from active role in...
Akhilesh’s ‘cycle yatra’ across UP against inflation, farm laws
Lucknow: Ahead of the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party will kick off its ‘Cycle Yatra’ from across state on Thursday. Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will paddle for six kilometres — from Samajwadi Party Headquarters at 19 Vikramaditya Marg in Lucknow to Janeshwar Mishra Park at...
A day that will be etched in every Indian’s memory
Indian Men’s Team win over Germany to clinch Bronze at the Tokyo Olympics, thereby ending the long 41-year-wait for a podium finish, will be etched in the memory of every Indian, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he led the nation in congratulating the Hockey team over the...
India builds world’s highest road In eastern Ladakh
The Border Roads Organisation has constructed the world’s highest road in eastern Ladakh at an altitude of 19,300 feet, the government said in a statement today. The road has been constructed at an altitude higher than the Mount Everest base camps – the south base camp in Nepal is...
No berth to Yeddyurappa’s son in 29-member Bommai ministry
Basavaraj Bommai, who took charge as the Chief Minister of Karnataka a week ago, expanded his cabinet by inducting 29 ministers on Wednesday. It seems he is trying to strike a fine balance between both pro and anti BS Yediyurappa factions by keeping an equidistant from both. The new...
6 TMC Rajya Sabha MPs ordered to leave house
Six Trinamool Congress MPs were ordered to leave the Rajya Sabha for rest of the day over “grossly disorderly” conduct, after they entered the well of the house and displayed placards while protesting over the Pegasus scandal. The Rajya Sabha members are Dola Sen, Nadimul Haque, Abir Ranjan Biswas,...
Gloves off between Centre and Opposition
It may not have been a productive week in Parliament but the gloves are off between the Centre and the Opposition, albeit with a delectable twist. A day after Trinamool Congress’ Derek O’Brien compared the passage of bills to “making papri chaat”, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the...
