- India
Minimum 6 airbags to be made mandatory in vehicles: Gadkari
New Delhi: The Centre will make it mandatory for carmakers to provide a minimum of six airbags in motor vehicles that can carry up to 8 passengers for enhanced safety of occupants,…
- India
India-China trade grows to record USD 125 billion in 2021 despite tensions
Beijing: The India-China bilateral trade touched a record high of over USD 125 billion in 2021, crossing the USD 100 billion-mark in a year when the relations hit a new low due…
- Andhra Pradesh
AP’s revenue up by 9 percent, but deficit balloons to 803.72 percent
Amravati: Andhra Pradesh’s own tax revenue was Rs 16,372.97 crore higher in the first eight months of the 2021-22 financial year, as compared to the corresponding period in 2020-21, but the state’s…
- Photos
UP polls: OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya joins Samajwadi Party
Lucknow: Former Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and prominent OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Friday joined the Samajwadi Party along with another rebel minister Dharam Singh Saini. Five BJP MLAs and Apna…
- Sports
South Africa beat India by seven wickets, win series 2-1
Cape Town: South Africa beat India by seven wickets to win the third Test and secure the series 2-1. Resuming the day 101 for two, South Africa go the job done in…
- India
IMD: 2021 fifth warmest year in India since 1901
New Delhi: The year 2021 was the fifth warmest in India since 1901, with the country recording its annual mean surface air temperature at 0.44 degrees Celsius above normal, the India Meteorological…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh registers 4,528 more Covid-19 cases
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh reported 4,528 fresh cases of Covid-19, 418 recoveries and one death in 24 hours ending 9 AM on Friday. The latest bulletin said the number of active cases went…
- India
Is a British Indian in line to be UK’s next Prime Minister?
London: As Boris Johnson’s partygate troubles mount and members of his own Conservative Party demand he step down as the British Prime Minister, one name is doing the rounds as a frontrunner…
- India
Political, religious groups condemn J&K govt’s order on ‘surya namaskar’
Srinagar: Various political and religious groups on Friday criticised the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s order directing college heads in the union territory to organise large-scale ‘surya namaskar’ on the occasion of Makar…
- India
PM Modi to virtually address WEF’s Davos Agenda summit on Monday
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the online Davos Agenda summit of the World Economic Forum on the first day of the five-day event beginning January 17, joining a host…
- India
Blind faith among Gangasagar pilgrims sees Covid safety norms given a go-by
Kolkata: Blind faith of the thousands of pilgrims thronging the city’s Babu-Ghat (Steps leading to the river Ganges named after its builder Baboo Raj Chandra ) en-route to Sagar Island for the…
- India
Media reports claiming under-reporting of Covid deaths ill-informed, baseless & misleading: Govt
New Delhi: The Health Ministry has refuted media reports alleging a “significant undercount” of COVID-19 deaths in the first two waves in India, saying these are fallacious, ill-informed and mischievous in nature.…
- India
India may see rise in deaths, economic disruption in ‘near future’: UN report
United Nations: A United Nations report said on Thursday that the deadly wave of COVID-19 Delta variant stole 240,000 lives in India between April and June in 2021 and disrupted economic recovery,…
- Pakistan
Imran Khan launches Pakistan’s first-ever National Security Policy
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the country’s first-ever National Security Policy, which articulates a citizen-centric framework, placing economic security at its core unlike the previous one-dimensional security policy…
- India
Budget session of Parliament from Jan 31 to Apr 8: Sources
New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament will commence on January 31 with the address of the president to both the Houses, and conclude on April 8, sources said on Friday citing…
