NEW DELHI: The CBI has requested sanction to prosecute the former Secretary of Defense Shashi Kant Sharma, who later became Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in connection with the alleged corruption at Rs 3,600 crore Agusta Westland VVIP helicopter offerauthorities said Friday. The agency is likely to submit a supplemental …
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MOSCOW: China is willing to take “conciliatory measures” to prevent further violations of obligations on the India-China border, the Chinese foreign minister said. Wang Yi on Friday, a day after holding a crucial meeting with Foreign Minister S Jaishankar about the current standoff in Ladakh. Speaking during a joint press …
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Devendra Fadnavis (File photo) NEW DELHI: Falling hard on Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray as an actress Kangana Ranautoffice demolition problem, its predecessor Devendra Fadnavis asked why Mafia don Dawood IbrahimThe house was saved and Kangana’s was razed. Before leaving for Bihar on Friday, Fadnavis interacted with journalists in Delhi, where …
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NEW DELHI: Leader of Congress Rahul gandhi on Friday he asked the Government of India if it has any plans to reclaim ‘lands taken by China’ or ‘if that too is going to be left to an’ act of God ‘. “The Chinese have taken over our land. When exactly …
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NEW DELHI: Long-awaited results from the ICMR’s first national serosurvey, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, indicated that 0.73 percent of adults in India were exposed to SARS-CoV-2, which equates to a total of 6.4 million infections at the beginning of May. The survey was conducted from May …
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NEW DELHI: With the highest peak in a single day of 96,551 new cases and 1,209 deaths reported in the past 24 hours, India’s Covid-19 count crossed the 45 lakh mark on Friday. According to the Union Ministry of Family Welfare and Health, the Covid-19 case count is 45,62,415 in …
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NEW DELHI: India strongly raised the deployment of large numbers of troops and military equipment by China along the Royal Line of Control (ALC) in eastern Ladakh and expressed concern during talks between the foreign minister . S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Xi in Moscow, government sources said …
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AYODHYA: Scammers have targeted Ayodhya Temple Trust for the second time in four months, using a pair of cloned checks with forged signatures to divert Rs 6 lakh in a span of 10 days before a third forged check hit a firewall at the Lucknow SBI clearinghouse. In April, a …
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BJP President JP Nadda (File photo) KOLKATA: President of BJP JP Nadda on Thursday he called the Trinamool congressional government “anti-Hindu”, marking for the first time in Bengal politics the issue of discrimination on the grounds of religion. Nadda reinforced his argument by pointing to Trinamool’s “minority appeasement policy”, portraying …
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Representative image NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Serum Institute of India stopped the Covishield trials, Oxford University-AstraZenecaCandidate for the Covid-19 vaccine, after a notice issued by the central drug regulator. “We are reviewing the situation and stopping the trials in India until AstraZeneca restarts them. We are following the instructions of the …
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