Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Congressional spokesman and well-known television face Rajiv Tyagi passed away Wednesday after a massive heart attack, sparking shock among colleagues who knew him as a militant supporter of the party in debates. He will be cremated at the Hindon crematorium on Thursday morning. Tyagi, 53, was in a television conversation from his Ghaziabad…
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NEW DELHI: Trains to be operated by private players can have stylish features like those of the Metro or Vande Bharat Express trains, including electronic sliding doors, passenger surveillance system, public address announcement system, information display and destination boards . The Ministry of Railways has submitted the draft specification for the trains that would operate…
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NEW DELHI: Shelter-type accommodation facilities, to be secured by CRPF, are being identified in all Kashmir districts to accommodate and protect grassroots popular representatives and political workers from terrorist threats. The greatest protection comes as a result of the selective killing of some sarpanches, members of the panchayat and lower-level political workers, particularly those affiliated…
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NEW DELHI: In response to reports that the LAC standoff may not be resolved anytime soon, China on Wednesday expressed hope that “the Indian side can meet the Chinese side halfway” and do nothing to further complicate the situation. The spokesman for the Chinese embassy tweeted late Wednesday that China hopes India will refrain from…
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BENGALURU: The riots that rocked parts of Bengaluru on Tuesday night stem from a small gathering of members of the local minority community in the Kavalbyrasandra area. The agenda was to discuss a derogatory post on Facebook by a relative of local MLA Akhanda Srinivasamurthy and the members decided to discuss the matter with the…
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NEW DELHI: The Public Companies Selection Board recommended Soma Mondal as the next president of the country’s largest steelmaker, SAIL, making her the first woman to head the state-owned steel giant. The appointment of Mondal, current (commercial) director of the company, has not yet been ratified by the Cabinet appointments committee and, if approved, she…
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NEW DELHI: State oil companies have decided to stop chartering tankers owned or operated by Chinese companies, even if the vessels are registered with third country flags. The move follows regulations issued last month to curb trade deals with China in retaliation against the Chinese army’s border transgressions in Ladakh and the deaths of 20…
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala, whose scientific contact tracing strategy in the first weeks of the pandemic became a role model for others, has now created an ethical and legal storm with a controversial police decision to collect call detail records (CDR ) of Covid-positive citizens and develop “road maps” to track those who came into contact with…
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NEW DELHI: Three people were killed Wednesday after police opened fire to quell a mob that broke out in Bengaluru’s Pulakeshi Nagar following a derogatory post on social media allegedly posted by a relative of a congressional lawmaker. Dozens, including about 50 policemen, were injured in the violence It erupted Tuesday night and continued until…
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NEW DELHI: The death toll in the landslide in Kerala’s Idukki district rose to 55 on Wednesday when three more bodies were recovered from under rubble as the flood situation worsened in Bihar but slightly improved in Assam. While 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh were also affected by the floods, several parts of the country…
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