Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:38:08
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday interacted with chief ministers over the COVID-19 situation in the country amid a surge in coronavirus cases due to its Omicron variant.
The interaction has been held via video-conferencing.
The meeting came on a day India logged 2,47,417 new infections, the highest in 236 days, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,63,17,927, which included 5
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:36:08
The Congress has turned over a new leaf by bringing into electoral politics those who have struggled for justice, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Thursday after releasing the party's first list of 125 candidates, including 50 women, for the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
She said the Congress has brought women to centre stage of politics in Uttar Pradesh and no party can ignore them anymore
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:34:13
AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal asked people on Thursday who should be the party’s chief ministerial face in the February 14 Punjab Assembly polls, even as he stated that his own preference for the post is Bhagwant Mann.
Kejriwal, however, ruled himself out of the race as the AAP launched its “Janta Chunegi Apna CM” drive and said the name of the candidate for the top post will be announc
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:28:12
The BJP on Thursday finalised its candidates for 172 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh and is likely to field both Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who are currently members of the Legislative Council, party leaders said.
Polling in most of these 172 seats will be held in the initial phases beginning February 10 and the party is also considering fieldi
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:20:13
A top Sri Lankan court here has sentenced to death a former prisons commissioner over the Welikada Prison riot in 2012 which killed at least 27 inmates.
The Colombo High Court trial on Wednesday found the former superintendent Emil Ranjan Lamahewa guilty and passed the death sentence.
The first defendant in the case, the then Inspector of the Police Narcotics Bureau, Neomal Rangajeewa was ac
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:13:20
Shiv Sena on Thursday reached out to prominent farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait as it seeks to make an electoral foray in Uttar Pradesh to dent the prospects of its former ally BJP.
Shiv Sena leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut met Tikait, who had emerged as the face of the year-long farmers' agitation against the now-repealed three farm laws, at Muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh.
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:10:15
With the ruling BJP fiercely defending its throne and the opposition Congress desperate to avenge its 2017 humilation, a do-or-die battle is on the cards on February 14, when the two parties grapple with each other yet again in the Uttarakhand Assembly polls.
The largely bipolar politics of the state involving the two national parties, which have been alternately in power, has got a new twist t
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:08:12
Two-time Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy advanced to the quarterfinals but Sania Nehwal's campaign ended at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open here on Thursday.
Former champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Saina suffered a 17-21 9-21 straight game loss to compatriot Malvika Bansod.
Malvika, ranked 111th, took 34 minutes to see off the former world number 1.
Earlier, th
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Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:06:11
Karnataka Congress has decided to temporarily halt its Mekedatu padayatra, due to COVID-19 concerns and in the interest of public health, Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Siddaramaiah said on Thursday.
Asserting that the Congress party was not halting its padayatra fearing cases being booked against its leaders or because of the BJP government's orders prohibiting it, he said, they w
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