Category: India News

India slams Twitter for not complying with new IT rules

NEW DELHI, June 16 (Reuters) – India’s technology minister said on Tuesday that Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) had deliberately defied and failed to comply with the country’s new IT rules, which became effective in late May. The new rules or the so-called Intermediary Guidelines, announced in February, are aimed at regulating […]

COVID-19: India reports 62,224 fresh cases

New Delhi, June 16: A single day rise of 62,224 new coronavirus infections were reported taking India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,96,33,105, while the active cases were recorded below nine lakh after 70 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The COVID-19 death […]

Delhi defies social distancing norms, doctors say brace for COVID-19 ‘explosion’

In India’s capital, Delhi, thousands of commuters crowded into underground train stations and shopping malls on Tuesday, prompting some doctors to warn it could lead to a resurgence in COVID-19 infections. Major Indian cities have begun lifting strict lockdowns as the nationwide tally of new infections has dropped […]

Mayawati demands impartial probe into death of Pratapgarh journalist

Lucknow, Jun 15: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday demanded a swift, impartial and credible probe into the death of a journalist of a private news channel in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh, who had recently reported on the liquor mafia. The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday registered a […]

India’s Adani group says report on freeze on foreign funds wrong

India’s Adani Enterprises Ltd (ADEL.NS) said on Monday that media reports about freezing of accounts of three foreign funds which had invested in the group companies were “blatantly erroneous.” The company said it had an e-mail from the “Registrar and Transfer Agent” dated 14th June saying “that the Demat Account […]

Man with 39 wives, head of ‘world’s largest family’, dies in India

A 76-year-old man who had 39 wives and 94 children and was said to be the head of the world’s largest family has died in north east India, the chief minister of his home state said. Ziona Chana, the head of a local Christian sect that allows polygamy, […]

Ayodhya land purchase: Trust must clarify if money collected in name of faith misused, says Sanjay Raut

Mumbai, Jun 14: Amid charges of corruption in the land purchased by the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust in Ayodhya, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Monday demanded “clarification” from the Trust and other leaders, saying the construction of the temple is a matter of faith for the saffron party […]

Chirag Paswan has reaped what he had sown: JD(U)

Patna, Jun 14 :  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), which bore the brunt of Chirag Paswan’s brinkmanship in the assembly polls last year, on Monday said the LJP president was reaping what he had sown. JD(U) national president RCP Singh reacted with a sense of vindication to […]

LJP MPs join hands against Chirag Paswan

New Delhi, Jun 14:  Five of the six Lok Janshakti Party MPs in the Lok Sabha have joined hands against their leader Chirag Paswan and elected his paternal uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras in his place, causing a big churn in Bihar politics. Paras on Monday lauded Bihar Chief […]

Indian medical workers scale mountains to bring vaccines to remote corners

As India rushes to vaccinate its people against the coronavirus, medical workers often have to trek to perilous heights and across treacherous terrain to reach those in remote areas. In the northern region of Lidderwat, more than 100 km (60 miles) from the capital of India-administered Kashmir, medical […]

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