The Delhi Police has heightened security outside BJP MP Gautam Gambhir’s house after an alleged death threat from a terror group. The cricketer-turned-politician filed a complaint with the Police on Tuesday night alleging that he and his family got death threats from the terror group – ISIS-Kashmir – in an email. Also watch | UP […]
US President Joe Biden has invited around 110 countries, including India, to a virtual summit on democracy in December. Apart from major Western allies, the Biden administration has also sent invitations to Pakistan and Iraq, as per the invitees list on US State Department’s website. China, the main adversary of the US, has not been […]
Two doses of Covaxin are 50 per cent effective against the symptomatic disease, according to the first real-world assessment of India’s indigenous Covid-19 vaccine published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. Results of an interim study recently published in The Lancet showed that two doses of Covaxin, also known as BBV152, had 77.8 per cent […]
The Narendra Modi government to regulate cryptocurrency will introduce a bill in the upcoming Winter Session of the Parliament . The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021, is among 26 bills listed for introduction in the Parliament in the Winter Session, which begins on November 29. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last week said […]
Three Opposition leaders joined the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday with the Mamata Banerjee party saying their inclusion will strengthen the West Bengal-based political group. The development comes amid the West Bengal chief minister’s visit to the national capital ahead of Parliament’s Winter Session on November 29. Among the new enterants is former JD(U) MP Pavan […]
After freight and passenger segments, the railways is set to begin a third segment dedicated to the tourism sector and launch a set of around 190 theme-based trains called Bharat Gaurav trains, minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, the railways minister said these trains could be run both by the private […]
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Jayant Chaudhary on Tuesday tweeted photos of their meeting with the Western Uttar Pradesh-based leader telling NDTV that an alliance has been sealed. Chaudhary told NDTV there was no question of going with the BJP. There were speculations that both the parties are firming up to form an alliance ahead […]
In the Marijuana bust case in which Amazon India executives have been booked, police say the accused have so far confessed to having transported over 800kg of ‘ganja’ in 384 consignments via the e-commerce platform. Reports in India Today on Tuesday said that eight persons have been arrested so far in the case of marijuana […]
Ahead of the civic body polls in Tripura, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Biplab Deb government to make a detailed statement on steps being taken to ensure security during the polls. The apex court’s order came in response to a contempt plea by the Trinamool Congress that claimed that the law-and-order situation in […]
