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Northern India chokes on toxic smog day after Diwali festival

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI – Hundreds of millions of Indians in north India woke up on Sunday to toxic air following Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, after many revellers defied bans on using firecrackers to celebrate. The capital New Delhi was blanketed with a thick haze, with the average […]

Nitish unanimously elected as leader of NDA in Bihar; to return as CM

Patna, Nov 15: The NDA in Bihar on Sunday unanimously elected Nitish Kumar as its leader in the state legislature, paving the way for his return as Chief Minister for the fourth consecutive term. According to sources in the ruling coalition, an announcement to the effect was made at […]

High food prices hurting India’s poor, pain to persist

NEW DELHI – India’s retail inflation may stay elevated for at least three more months after hitting a six-year high in October, as excess rain has damaged standing crops and seedlings, while edible oils that the country imports have become expensive. The high prices are a particular cause […]

Diwali: Delhi’s air quality very poor, likely to become ‘severe’ by night

New Delhi, Nov 14:  Delhi’s air quality remained very poor on Saturday morning and emission from firecrackers and calm winds may push it to the severe zone, according to government agencies and weather experts. The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor, SAFAR, said the PM2.5 concentration in […]

Towering visionary who laid foundation of our country: Rahul’s tribute to Nehru

New Delhi, Nov 14: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday paid tributes to India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, saying he was a towering visionary who laid the foundation of the country with values of brotherhood, egalitarianism and modern outlook. Born in 1889, the Congress […]

COVID-19: 44,684 new cases take India’s virus tally to 87,73,479

New Delhi, Nov 14: India’s COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 87.73 lakh with 44,684 new infections in a day, while 81,63,572 people have recuperated from the disease so far, bringing the national recovery rate to 93.04 per cent on Saturday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The […]

India’s COVID-19 caseload reaches 87.28 lakh, recovery rate rises to 92.97 pc

New Delhi, Nov 13: India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 87.28 lakh on Friday with a single-day increase of 44,879 cases, while the recoveries surged to 81,15,580, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.97 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data. The death toll reached 1,28,668 after 547 […]

Biden moves forward without help from Trump’s intel team

WASHINGTON — The presidential race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Bill Clinton decided to let then-Gov. George W. Bush read the ultra-secret daily brief of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence. Clinton was a Democrat and his vice president, Al Gore, was running against Republican […]

ICU beds full as COVID surges in Indian capital, weekend festival a worry

NEW DELHI – After his 92-year-old grandmother started coughing and her blood oxygen levels plummeted, Varunn Kaushik took her to two top private hospitals in New Delhi on Monday. Neither took her in, even after one of them found her positive for COVID-19. Kaushik said several other hospitals […]

Akhilesh alleges irregularities in Bihar polls

Lucknow, Nov 12: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday alleged irregularities in the Bihar Assembly polls and claimed that the opposition Grand Alliance was poised to win the election but “could not do so at the last moment”. “We wanted to talk about the irregularities done with […]

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