Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accepted India’s invitation to be the chief guest at Republic Day on January 26 – the second UK prime minister to attend the event after John Major in 1993 – and has invited India to join the UK’s G7 summit next year. Downing Street announced […]
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Pune schools suspend online classes over non-payment of fees
Schools affiliated to an association in Maharashtra have decided to suspend online classes for three days in Pune as well as in adjoining Pimpri- Chinchwad for three days from Tuesday following non-receipt of fees from a section of students, an official said on Monday. Federation of Schools Association in Maharashtra […]
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Australian Prime Minister says China’s coal ban would breach WTO rules
Australia’s Prime Minister said Tuesday that China would be in breach of World Trade Organization rules as well as a bilateral free trade agreement if it banned Australian coal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was responding to a report in the Chinese state-owned Global Times newspaper that the Chinese National Development […]
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Parties not in favour of Parliament session, says Centre; Opposition denies
The opposition parties on Tuesday alleged that they were not consulted by the government over its move to scrap the winter session, insisting that Parliament should meet to discuss the ongoing farmers’ protests over the three controversial agriculture laws. Senior Congress leader and former union minister Jairam Ramesh took to […]
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Maharashtra House panel to decide on Arnab and Kangana by 2nd week of February
Maharashtra assembly has given about two months’ extension to the privilege committee to decide if Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami and Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut are guilty of breach of privilege. If found guilty, they can both face punishment, ranging from a warning to imprisonment. The panel will also ask […]
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India will grow to be among top 3 economies in 2 decades: Mukesh Ambani
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday said India will grow to be among the top three economies in the world in the next two decades and per capita income would more than double. At a fireside chat with Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, he said India’s middle-class, which is about 50 per […]
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Two Punjab farmers killed in road accident on Delhi-Chandigarh highway
Two farmers returning from Delhi’s Singhu border were killed in a road accident as a light commercial vehicle hit their tractor-trailer on NH-44 (Delhi-Chandigarh highway) near Taraori town of Karnal district of Haryana on Tuesday morning. The deceased have been identified as Gurpreet Singh (24) and Labh Singh (65), residents of Saphera […]
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Indian Navy senior-most submariner passes away due to Covid complications
Seniormost submariner of the Indian Navy, Vice Admiral Srikant, passed away due to Covid-19 related complications at Base Hospital in New Delhi on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday. He was the Director General of Project Seabird. Earlier, he had held the titles including Inspector General of Nuclear Safety […]
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Boko Haram claims kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian students
Jihadist group Boko Haram on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of school students in northwest Nigeria. “I am Abubakar Shekau and our brothers are behind the kidnapping in Katsina,” said the leader of the group behind the 2014 abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in Chibok, in a […]
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Samajwadi Party will ally with smaller parties in Assembly polls, says Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that his party will form the alliance with smaller parties in the upcoming Assembly polls. Speaking to media when asked about the party’s alliance in the upcoming Assembly election in the state to stop the BJP, Yadav said, “Samajwadi Party will forge an […]
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‘Just the beginning,’ says Arvind Kejriwal after AAP’s maiden win in Goa
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hailed his party’s maiden win in Goa Zilla Panchayat elections, which marked the first electoral history of the party in the coastal state. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa has made big gains in the Zilla Panchayat elections, […]
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Centre plans push for Ayurvedic, allopathic tourism in country
The ministry of tourism is planning to boost Ayurvedic and allopathic centres registered with the ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy) as hubs of medical tourism, officials familiar “Post Covid-19, a lot of people will be looking to plan wellness tours,” said an official on […]
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Padma Vibhushan awardee and eminent aerospace scientist Roddam Narasimha dies
Eminent aerospace scientist and Padma Vibhushan awardee Roddam Narasimha died at a private hospital here on Monday, doctors said. He was 87. He was admitted to the hospital on December 8 after he suffered a brain haemorrhage. The scientist, who served at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science (IISc), breathed […]
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India’s daily Covid-19 count drops to lowest since July 6
India recorded 22,065 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, Union health ministry’s dashboard showed on Tuesday morning. With this, the nationwide tally has reached 99,06,165. This is the lowest daily count of Covid-19 cases since July 6. The number of active cases went down further […]
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Women’s WC 2022 schedule announced, India to face a qualifier in 1st match
India will open their campaign against a qualifier on March 6 at the Bay Oval in Tauranga in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2022, which begins a couple of days earlier on March 4, announced the International Cricket Council on Tuesday. The opening match of the Women’s World Cup 2022 will […]