Category: India News

DU admissions: Some colleges release third cut-off list

New Delhi, Oct 16:  Some Delhi University colleges released their third cut-off list on Saturday with the required marks to get admissions in undergraduate courses seeing a decline in the range of 0.25 per cent to 1.5 per cent. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College released its third cut-off list […]

I’m full-time, hands-on Congress president: Sonia Gandhi’s message to G23 at CWC meet

New Delhi, Oct 16:  Days after some sections within the Congress questioned the absence of an elected party chief, Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asserted that she is a full-time, hands-on party president and leaders need not speak to her through the media Without naming anyone, Gandhi, in a […]

Made in India virus kits boost testing, and local industry

NEW DELHI — As the first wave of the pandemic began to take hold in India, Sanchi Jawa and her 59-year-old father, Harish Jawa, realized that they had the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection. They decided to isolate and get tested — but this was no easy task […]

Court to pass order on Aryan Khan’s bail plea on October 20

Mumbai, Oct 14: A special NDPS court here would pronounce its orders on bail applications filed by Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, and two others on October 20 in a case of alleged seizure of drugs from a cruise ship off Mumbai. After hearing extensive […]

Dussehra celebrated across Punjab, Haryana

Chandigarh, Oct 15: Huge effigies of demon king Ravana went up in flames as Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh joined the nation on Friday in celebrating Dussehra, marking the triumph of good over evil. Effigies of Ravana, his son Meghnad and brother Kumbhakaran were set on fire and crackers burst […]

J&K records 51 new COVID-19 cases

Srinagar, Oct 15: Jammu and Kashmir recorded 51 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Friday, taking the number of infected persons to 3,30,885 while no fresh death was reported in the past 24 hours, officials said. Of the 51 fresh cases, four were from the Jammu division and 47 […]

India’s wholesale price inflation in double digits for 6th month

NEW DELHI, Oct 14 – India’s annual wholesale price-based inflation, a proxy for producers’ prices, loitered in the double digits for the sixth month in a row in September, fuelling concerns of inflationary pressures as energy and raw material costs surge for companies. The gap between retail and […]

Midnight vigils, snaking queues as some Indians await COVID vaccines

SILIGURI, India, Oct 14 – Residents of a city in northeast India are spending nights in snaking queues outside vaccination centres awaiting their turn for a COVID-19 shot, an anomaly in a country with a surplus of vaccines. In Siliguri, a city in West Bengal state close to […]

Rahul slams govt over petrol, diesel prices hike

New Delhi, Oct 14:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked the government over the rise in prices of petrol and diesel and accused the Centre of “tax extortion”. The former Congress president’s attack came after petrol and diesel prices were hiked again by 35 paise per litre, […]

J-K: Huge quantity of contraband seized; four held

Srinagar, Oct 14:  Four drug peddlers were arrested and a huge quantity of contraband was seized in Pulwama and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, police said. Police station Zainapora received specific information that two persons — Abdul Hameed Sheikh and Bilal Ahmad Sheikh, both residents […]

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