Ballia (UP), Mar 13: BSP MP Afzal Ansari has accused the BJP of indulging in politics of hatred and pushing the country backwards by five decades by “destroying” social harmony. Ansari claimed that after the upcoming assembly elections to five states were over, the BJP government would divide Uttar […]
India’s Enforcement Directorate has recently asked Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) for information related to its operations in the country, as the agency continues to investigate the U.S. e-commerce giant, a senior agency source told Reuters on Friday. Last month, the source at the country’s federal financial-crime fighting agency said the Directorate […]
About 3,000 police will be deployed to enforce a week-long curfew and lockdown in the central Indian city of Nagpur from Monday after a 60% jump in coronavirus cases there, officials said. The commercial and logistics hub in Maharashtra state will be the first Indian city to go […]
New Delhi, Mar 11: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said India is now an electoral autocracy in response to media reports on Swedish Institute’s democracy report that downgraded India. Modi-led government in India has used laws on sedition, defamation and counter terrorism to silence critics. India’s level […]
New Delhi, Mar 12: Retail inflation rose to 5.03 per cent in February mainly on account of higher food prices, government data showed on Friday. The consumer price index (CPI) based retail inflation was at 4.06 per cent in January. The rate of price rise in the food […]
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New Delhi, Mar 12: ?India recorded 23,285 cases of coronavirus infection in a day, the highest in around 78 days, taking the?total?tally of COVID-19 cases to?1,13,08,846, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday The?death toll increased to?1,58,306 with 117 daily new fatalities, the data updated […]
Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees plunged into India’s Ganges river on Thursday as the country kicked off one of the world’s largest religious festivals, even as officials reported the biggest spike in coronavirus cases for three months. Hindu ascetics known as Naga sadhus, many naked apart from […]
India reported its worst single-day increase in COVID-19 cases since late December on Thursday, as the western state of Maharashtra battled a fresh wave of infections and imposed a lockdown in one of its most densely populated cities. A total of 22,854 new coronavirus cases were reported in […]
India is likely to block its mobile carriers from using telecom equipment made by China’s Huawei, two government officials said, under procurement rules due to come into force in June. New Delhi is wary about awarding new technology business to Chinese firms both because of security fears and […]
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