Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted the ‘bhoomi poojan’ of Phase II of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project and Surat Subway Rail Project via video conference on Monday. The two Metro projects will provide a ‘Mass Rapid Transit System’ (MRTS) to Ahmedabad and Surat that does not harm the environment. The online event was…
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NEW DELHI: India reported 13,788 new Covid-19 cases and 145 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry on Monday. New daily cases have been below 20,000 for the past 11 days. The number of accumulated cases in the country reached 1,05,71,773, including 2,08,012 active cases. With 14,457 new recoveries, the…
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NEW DELHI: The National Student Union of India (NSUI) has filed a complaint against Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami accusing him of treason against the country. The complaint was filed by NSUI National Secretary Roshan Lal Bittu in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. NSUI raised questions about how Arnab Goswami knew about the government’s plan to…
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NEW DELHI: For the first time ever, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has issued a policy of graduated penalties, including a high fine and a ban on contractors bidding for future projects for accidents and fatalities caused due to structural collapse or design defects, construction or maintenance of the sections. These agencies are…
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BHOPAL: Residents of the capital of Madhya Pradesh woke up on Sunday to the news of the curfew in three areas of the police station – Teela Jamalpura, Hanumanganj and Gautam Nagar – and the prohibition orders under CrPC 144 in another 11 localities. . DM Avinash Lavania imposed curfew and prohibition orders as a…
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RAJKOT: Riots broke out between mobs from two communities in villages near Gandhidham in Kutch, when a rally organized to raise funds for the construction of the great Ram temple in Ayodhya turned violent on Sunday. While the situation was tense for the first time in the village of Sadau, the waves spread to the…
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BHOPAL: Mukesh Kirar, the main defendant in the Morena Hooch tragedy that claimed 24 lives and blinded three people, was arrested in Chennai on Sunday. The police had been searching for him for the past five days and had announced a 10,000 rupee reward for his arrest. DGP Vivek Johri confirmed the arrest and said…
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Bill based on privacy principles to which most modern democracies subscribeI try to avoid debates, like this one, about the pros and cons of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PPD Bill, 2019), because right now it is just that: a draft. Having witnessed the failure of our two previous attempts to create a data…
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NEW DELHI: A total of 447 adverse events were reported following immunization against Covid-19 during the first two days of the vaccination campaign. While only three cases were initially hospitalized, two have already been discharged from AIIMS, New Delhi and Northern Railway Hospital, respectively, the health ministry said. “One case is still under observation at…
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NEW DELHI: A day after India implemented what purports to be the world’s largest mass Covid-19 vaccination program, random glitches in the Co-WIN application on Sunday forced several states to reschedule their sessions or temporarily disconnect the process at the cost of operational efficiency. Maharashtra, which had decided on the first day to postpone its…
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