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Over a month after the December 8 chopper crash that killed India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 others, the Tri-Services Court of Inquiry has ruled out sabotage, technical snag or negligence as the cause of the accident. The Tri-Services Court of Inquiry has found that the crash of […]
Former cricketers and media persons have reacted after Virat Kohli and his teammates were seen commenting into the stump microphone over an overturned lbw decision. Former England captain Michael Vaughan has said that the International Cricket Council (ICC) needs to step in and suspend Indian captain, Virat Kohli, after a controversial ending to Day 3 […]
Over the past five days, three ministers have defected from the BJP and joined the Samajwadi Party in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, under the rule of the Yogi Adityanath government — Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan, and Dharam Singh Saini. More MLAs from the party have followed suit. The number is only expected to increase. […]
I had never met Kamal Khan of NDTV India, yet I mourn his sudden passing as a deep personal loss. In these unscrupulously fallen times when news reporting has come to be a coloured, raucous and expedient nuisance, Khan clearly saw his vocation as a sacred trust bestowed upon him by the fundamental values of […]
The Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society (GMERS) has written to the state Health Minister, demanding the replacement of the current Chief Executive Officer. In a four-page letter, the GMERS Faculty Association has held the CEO, Mr Bipin Nayak responsible for complete mismanagement and inability to redress grievances. The association has alleged that Mr Nayak […]
Keeping in mind the expanding city limits, the Ahmedabad Municipal Transport Services (AMTS), with a draft budget of Rs 529 crore, plans to start bus operations on circular and anti-circular routes on the outer ring road. While ticketing through a mobile app is under testing, a business intelligence system and 50 electric vehicles are also […]
Dr S Somanath, the director of ISRO’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, has been named the next chairman of ISRO. “The immediate milestone is to put a man in orbit by 2022, and to see how we can do that with current levels of knowledge and the new knowledge that has to be created,” the top […]
When the chips are down, and at the bottom, you have all the time and opportunity to start from the scratch and experiment. And who would know this better than the could-have-been-Indira Gandhi-touch but lost it, Priyanka Gandhi, reluctantly Vadra. And so, as promised, Priyanka has fielded 40% women candidates in a Congress list of […]
Uttar Pradesh is proving to be the central piece in the current round of five state assembly polls but the principal opposition party, the Congress, is nowhere in contention in the country’s most populous and politically significant state. It can be argued that the ill fortunes of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh precede the emergence […]
Clapping is proving to be a sure-shot way of improving heart health and managing stress. As the world has entered the third year of the pandemic, people are looking for effective remedies to beat stress. There are many traditional ways to reduce stress by taking proper rest and sleep. Healthy eating and physical activity are […]
“Our list sends a new message that if you have been a victim of harassment and torture, the Congress will support you,” said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. The Congress on Thursday released its list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2002. Forty per cent of the tickets have been reserved for women, Ms Gandhi said. […]
The government has put on hold the letter of intent for privatisation of the Central Electronics Ltd (CEL) and an inter-ministerial group is examining certain allegations, a top official said Wednesday. The valuation of CEL has been done by two different sets of advisors – transaction advisor and asset valuer as per prescribed valuation methodologies, […]
The more it spreads, the more Omicron will surge till the third week peaks. And that is the fear. Easy transmissibility and milder symptoms can be the silver lining but a sudden swell of cases, with even a minuscule landing up in the hospital, could mean crushing down health services. More infections also give the […]
Celebrated in the northern states of Punjab, Jammu, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana and the Union Territory of Delhi, the crop-cutting festival of Lohri is literally the first festival of the year; a festival full of zest, dancing, singing and joy. Traditionally, people put on their festive best and come together to dance the bhangra and […]
Defections and cross-over are par for the course before an election and more so in a state like Uttar Pradesh where politics is the lifeblood of survival of a large, extended community that depends on it in one way or another. However, the turn-around rarely added up to a revolt. Individuals left the parties they […]
Amidst political heat in Uttar Pradesh in view of the forthcoming elections, the Bhartiya Janata Party through multiple leaders have said that the Congress should apologise to the country for this pre planned conspiracy. Punjab authorities did not follow appropriate protocols and highly ignored PM Modi’s security, BJP leaders across the country said. A sting […]
Pic credit: Hanif Sindhi A study conducted at Emory University states that a booster shot of Covaxin given six months after getting two doses of the vaccine successfully neutralises both the Omicron and Delta variants of SARS-CoV-2. Bharat Biotech said the study conducted using a live virus neutralisation assay showed the booster dose generated robust […]
Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Kumar Jain today said that restrictions in the national capital would be lifted if Covid-19 cases decrease in the next couple of days. No fresh cases of Omicron were recorded in Delhi on Wednesday. The total number of Omicron cases detected so far in Delhi is 546 which is the third-highest […]
Known for her unflinching reserve where it comes to an impartial trial, retired Supreme Court judge Indu Malhotra has been chosen to probe the alleged security lapse which led to a 15-minute holdup for the Prime Minister’s cavalcade in Punjab. Among the many notable cases that she adjudged over, the Sabarimala verdict remains at the […]
The Supreme Court has taken cognisance of the open call for genocide to wipe out Muslims. The hate speech delivered at the Haridwar Dharam Sansad on December 17 was followed by a similar hate-spewing event in Delhi on Dec 21. At Haridwar, Yati Narsinghanand organised the gathering while in Delhi, Hindu Yuva Vahini led the […]
