Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Stating that the Center is ensuring maximum oxygen production and is currently producing 110% of capacity and diverting all available resources from industrial use to medical use, Minister of Railroad and Consumer Affairs Piyush Goyal said That is sad to see Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray’s “tricks” on oxygen. Goyal said that Maharashtra is…
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of “doing politics with the dead,” calling it “an old habit” of hers. Mamata responded by accusing Modi of “intercepting” her phone calls and said it would be within the scope of a CID investigation that she had ordered. “Aren’t you…
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HARIDWAR / NEW DELHI / PRAYAGRAJ: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to his boss Avadheshanand Giri to liquidate the remainder of the Maha Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, Juna Akhada, the largest of the 13 sects of seers in the country, was withdrew from the religious holiday. Juna is the third akhada, after Niranjani…
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SRINAGAR: A woman suffered gunshot wounds on Saturday after the vehicle she was traveling in failed to stop at two checkpoints in the Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The woman, Jaisi Parvaiz Sheikh, a resident of Muran in Pulwama, was transferred by the police to a hospital in Awantipora, from where she…
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SRINAGAR: The National Investigative Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against seven narco-terrorists in a special NIA court in Jammu on Saturday. In issuing a statement, the NIA said that the seven against whom the charge sheet was filed were associated with the terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI). They are: Gurpartap Singh, Sham Lal,…
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NEW DELHI: Any commercial vehicle, regardless of age and even before it reaches 15 years of age, will be phased out if it fails the automated aptitude test after two chances, according to the draft rule issued by the Ministry of Transportation by Highway. Vehicle owners will have the last option to challenge the test…
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi mourned the passing of celebrated writer Narendra Kohli on Saturday and said he will always be remembered for his vivid portrayal of mythological and historical figures in literature. The eminent writer and literati of the Hindi world, Narendra Kohli, died here on Saturday. “Deeply saddened by the death of…
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting on Saturday to review the Covid-19 situation in India amid a rapid spread of infections across the country. During the meeting, which was attended by senior officials, the Prime Minister said there is no substitute for testing, monitoring and treating strategy when it comes to…
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NEW DELHI: As the country was reeling from a fierce wave of Covid-19, Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi alleged Saturday that the government“Arrogance and suppression of the truth is killing people.” He suggested that a clear vaccination strategy and income support are needed to contain the damage caused by the virus. We need humility, a clear…
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As the daily count of Covid-19 infections in India rises to a record of more than 200,000 cases for three consecutive days, public health experts worry that a new, possibly more virulent variant of the coronavirus may be undergoing the crowded nation of more than 1.3 billion people. The new variant, which has the so-called…
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