New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Gangwar on Saturday said that the new farm laws and labour reform codes will benefit farmers and workers immensely. Elaborating on farmer-friendly initiatives of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, the minister informed that the budget of the agriculture[Read More…]
Chennai, Oct 3 (IANS) As many as 5,622 more persons tested positive for coronavirus in Tamil Nadu over the past 24 hours, taking its total tally to 614,507 and active cases to 46,255. The Covid-19 patients cured and discharged from various hospitals in the southern state went up by 5,596[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) To improve public service delivery in Delhi, including for lactating women, a new initiative of the Chief Minister’s Aanganwadi Monitoring Committees has been started online. On this occasion, 233 ward-level members of newly-formed Chief Minister’s Aanganwadi Monitoring Committees gathered for discussion for an online webinar.[Read More…]
Abu Dhabi, Oct 3 (IANS) Captain Virat Kohli finally ended his run of low scores with an unbeaten 72 off 53 balls as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) beat Rajasthan Royals (RR) by eight wickets at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. RCB ended their innings on 158/2[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 3 (IANS) Congress veteran MM Hassan on Saturday took over as the new convenor of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala. He replaced Congress MP Benny Behanan. Hassan,73, is a former legislator, ex-Minister and former Congress state unit chief. Before taking over, Hassan called on former[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (IANS) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday donated blood plasma for the treatment of serious Covid-19 patients at SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack. After recovering from the disease, he donated plasma at SCB plasma bank. “Donated plasma at SCB Medical College and Hospital at[Read More…]
Amaravati, Oct 3 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh has registered 6,224 new Covid positive cases, increasing the state’s tally to 7.13 lakh, even as 7,798 more recoveries outnumbered infections on Saturday. West Godavari district logged the highest number of cases on Saturday, 890, raising the district’s tally to 69,280 cases, just 700[Read More…]
Kathmandu, Oct 3 (IANS) Four key aides of Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday. Another 70 security personal deployed in the Prime Minister’s residence have also tested positive. This was found during a routine testing conducted at the PM’s residence on Friday. Now concerns[Read More…]
BY ARUNDHUTI BANERJEE Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) Filmmaker R. Balki has recalled the time when Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar had to wear a sanitary pad. The actor wore a sanitary pad for a scene in Balki’s 2018 release, “Pad Man”. The director spoke about the incident during an interaction after[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) As educational institutes adapted to online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Delhi Tamil Education Association (DTEA) has distributed 110 tablets to underprivileged students in its seven schools to help them study. According to DTEA, many impoverished students across India have been deprived of[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 3 (IANS) A day after senior Trinamool Congress leaders were stopped from entering Hathras to meet a gang rape-murder victim’s family and were manhandled by police, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday condemned the crime and led a march here in protest while dubbing the BJP[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (IANS) Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, on Saturday said that the minimum support price (MSP) will never be discontinued as long as Narendra Modi remains the Prime Minister of the country. He said that farmers will hugely benefit from the new farm laws[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying its “conspiracy to defame the Maharashtra government” has been exposed in the AIIMS forensic report into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. The forensic department of the All India Institute of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Data tariffs and the number of broadband subscribers continue to move northwards, showing that the Indian telecom industry is on its way towards a higher ARPU (average revenue per user) regime, according to a report by India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra). The report noted that[Read More…]
Sharjah, Oct 3 (IANS/GloFans) Reigning champions Mumbai Indians (MI) and a confident SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) will look to maintain their winning form when they clash in an IPL match at the Sharjah Cricket stadium here on Sunday. Both teams have four points from four games, but the Rohit Sharma-led MI[Read More…]
By Anand Singh New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Dramatic scenes erupted at the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) flyway after the police resorted to mild lathi charge over hundreds of Congress workers, compelling party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to come out and shield a party worker who was being baton charged by[Read More…]
By Vivek Tripathi Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 3 (IANS) Women will no longer be wearing ornaments only to enhance their beauty but also to ensure their safety. The fear associated with protecting ornaments will now be put to rest as in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency, a special[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Oct 3 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Saturday asked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to tell Punjabis why he had played a “fixed match” to facilitate the passage of the three “anti-farmer” agricultural Bills in Parliament. He also asked the Congress leader if he supported the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Delhi police special cell has arrested four Kashmiri youths and recovered over 120 rounds of ammunition and four sophisticated pistols from their possession. Police said that one of the arrested persons Ishfaq Majeed Koka is the elder brother of slain terrorist Burhan Koka, ex-chief[Read More…]
By Sumit Kumar Singh New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) : For over a month soldiers are perched on peaks rising to 17000 ft as a turn-around of all troops is yet to happen because of the terrain and logistics. On August 29, in a sudden stealth operation carried out mostly[Read More…]
Srinagar, Oct 3 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday reported 975 new Covid-19 cases, taking the Union Territory’s coronavirus tally to 78,228, while 19 deaths in the past 24 hours took the UT’s Covid death toll to 1,231. A statement issued by the Information and Public Relations Department said that[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted a drug syndicate with the arrest of four Afghan nationals who were smuggling a consignment of 380 gm of “premium quality Afghan heroin” concealed in a special cavity made inside a metal piston. The syndicate was unearthed on[Read More…]
Chennai, Oct 3 (IANS) Three small old generation private sector banks — two based in Tamil Nadu and one in Kerala — hit the headlines for the wrong reasons last month. Interestingly, the shareholders of two banks showed to the world that they can vote out Directors, Auditors and even[Read More…]
Gurugram, Oct 3 (IANS) Haryana Agriculture Minister Jayaprakash Dalal, who visited the Pataudi Grain Market in Gurugram on Saturday to take stock of the ongoing millet purchase, criticised former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and said he should “apologise” to the farmers of Haryana as the Congress party during its 60[Read More…]
Agra, Oct 3 (IANS) A five-foot-long Cobra snake created quite a stir at the Inner Ring Road toll plaza on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. The snake was safely rescued by Wildlife SOS on Friday. Guards at the toll plaza had spotted a large cobra near a booth which had later made[Read More…]
