MUMBAI: leader of Congress Sanjay nirupam on Friday he claimed that there is a grand plan to end Congress and the “shigufa” on doing NCP Leader Sharad Pawar as president of the UPA he is part of the “Delhi to Mumbai” campaign against Rahul gandhi. “The campaign that is being …
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NEW DELHI: After Islamabad reclaimed the EU’s DisInfoLab claim citing a disinformation campaign from India, the government attacked on Friday Pakistan saying that disinformation is not practiced by responsible democracies, but by those who have a history of harboring international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden. “As a responsible democracy, …
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Minister of food and consumption Piyush Goyal tells TOI that the government is open to addressing farmers’ concerns, but adds that the amendments are intended to benefit growers across the country. He also says that the movement appears to have been infiltrated by ultra-leftists. Excerpts from a conversation with Sidhartha, …
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NEW DELHI: Although protesting farmers had previously announced that they would intensify their agitation against the three December 14 farm laws, they are likely to do so two days earlier, on Saturday, blocking the Delhi-Jaipur highway. This, even as the government said there was no need for farmers to announce …
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NEW DELHI: In a new diplomatic outburst with China, India claimed on Friday that the situation in LAC was the result of BeijingEfforts to unilaterally change the status quo along the border in eastern Ladakh with actions that violated bilateral agreements aimed at ensuring peace and tranquility in the border …
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NEW DELHI: The drug regulator has allowed human trials of the first local Covid mRNA vaccine candidate and preliminary results are likely to be available in March. It assumes importance as Covid-19 vaccines based on this platform, such as those from Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna, are expected to have better efficacy, …
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CHENNAI: More than 103 kg of gold worth at least 45 million rupees seized in a raid by the CBI and kept in his “safe custody” has disappeared. This was made public on Friday when the Madras High Court ordered an investigation into Tamil naduCB-CID. The missing gold is part …
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CALCUTTA / NEW DELHI: The Ministry of the Interior of the Union convened on Friday the chief secretary and the DGP of west bengal for a meeting with Interior Secretary Ajay Bhalla next Monday on law and order in the TMC-ruled state in the context of Thursday’s attack on the …
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NEW DELHI: In the final part of his memoirs that were published after his death, the late former president and leader of Congress Pranab Mukherjee can leave your party’s leadership squirming. In the book, he has blamed the head of Congress Sonia Gandhi and UPAPM Manmohan Singh for the massive …
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BENGALURU: Unlike regular immunization campaigns in which hundreds of people are vaccinated in one day, government plans for Covid-19 vaccination indicate that each site will be able to administer anti-corona injections at only 100 per day. Community halls and makeshift tents can be used for vaccination at a later stage. …
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