- India
Two booked for making indecent cartoon of Ramdev
Haridwar: Uttarakhand police on Tuesday registered a case against two Dehradun based cartoonists for allegedly making indecent and obscene posters of yoga guru Ramdev and making them viral on the social media.…
- Pakistan
Hostage crisis: Pakistan’s special forces storm counter-terrorism centre
Peshawar: Pakistan Army’s special forces Tuesday stormed a counter-terrorism centre in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and killed all 33 terrorists, ending a nearly two-day long hostage crisis that had gripped the nation.…
- India
Rajya Sabha: Opposition targets govt over inflation, unemployment, GST dues to states
New Delhi: Opposition parties Tuesday targeted the government on several issues, including inflation, unemployment, non-payment of GST dues to the state governments and the plight of farmers, while discussing the Appropriation Bills…
- India
Gas cylinder blast: Raj govt raises compensation for kin of deceased to Rs 5 lakh
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has decided to increase the compensation for the families of those killed in the gas cylinder blast in Bhungra in Jodhpur from Rs 2 lakh to…
- India
Kerala hospital successfully performs surgery on an eye of 104-year old woman
Idukki: Doctors at the Government Medical College here have successfully conducted cataract surgery on an eye of a 104-year old woman. Devaki Amma, hailing from Kanjikuzhi in this hilly district, was admitted…
- India
COVID: Centre asks states to increase genome sequencing of positive samples
New Delhi: Amid a sudden spurt in COVID-19 cases in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, China and the US, the central government on Tuesday urged all states and Union territories to gear up…
- Hyderabad
Punjab CM Mann, KCR discuss political situation in country in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday called on his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao here at Pragati Bhavan, the official residence of Rao and discussed the political situation in…
- India
How poorly equipped we are to support people with disabilities: Shashi Tharoor
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday highlighted the “poorly equipped” facilities for people with disabilities as he came to Parliament in a wheelchair after he sprained his left foot…
- India
Over 3 percent of 84,874 drug samples tested in 2020-21 were found substandard: Govt
New Delhi: More than three percent of the 84,874 drug samples tested in 2020-21 were declared not of standard quality and 263 of them were found to be spurious and adulterated, Minister…
- India
Patients’ health data is not shared with insurance, pharma firms without consent: Govt
New Delhi: The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) facilitates secure data exchange between intended stakeholders on its network after the patient’s consent and no data is shared with any other entity, including…
- India
Naxal violence reduced by 77 percent in 11 years: Govt tells Lok Sabha
New Delhi: The incidents of Naxal violence have reduced by 77 percent from the high of 2,213 in 2010 to 509 in 2021, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said…
- India
Stop favouring friends, start serving people reeling under inflation: Rahul to Modi
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop “favouring friends” and start serving people reeling under high inflation. He highlighted that the Congress government in Rajasthan…
- India
CDSCO approved recombinant nasal Covid vaccine on Sep 5: Govt in Rajya Sabha
New Delhi: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) approved the recombinant nasal COVID-19 vaccine on September 5 this year for those aged 18 years and above, Minister of State for Health…
- World
China: Only Covid-19 deaths from ‘respiratory failures’ will be counted
Beijing: China on Tuesday said only Covid-19 deaths from “respiratory failures” will be included in the official death toll, as the country witnessed a massive spike in infections fuelled by new variants…
- India
GST compensation of Rs 17,176 crore pending to states as on June: Govt in RS
New Delhi: The government on Tuesday informed Rajya Sabha that GST compensation of Rs 17,176 crore is pending to states as on June 2022. Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour, Minister of…
