NEW DELHI: India has become the second country in the world after the United States to record 5 million cases of Covid-19, with the last million occurring in a world record time of 11 days. The grim milestone was reached on Tuesday, when more than 90,000 new infections were reported, …
Read More »1st phase of the census postponed due to the Covid outbreak: Government | India News
NEW DELHI: The Home Office said on Wednesday that a multi-layered security approach had been taken to the security and protection of Census 2021 data, with data to be encrypted during transmission and also in storage on servers. The data collection will be carried out in registered devices of the …
Read More »Farmers’ interest is paramount for SAD, to vote against bills listed for Wednesday in Parliament: Sukhbir Badal | India News
NEW DELHI: In a veiled warning to your ally BJP, Shiromani Akali Dal (Sad) boss Sukhbir Badal said on Wednesday that his party can sacrifice anything for the interests of farmers, as it came out strongly against three bills related to the agricultural sector presented by the government in the …
Read More »Rajnath to make a statement on RS on the India-China showdown on Thursday | India News
NEW DELHI: Minister of Defense Rajnath singh will make a statement in the Rajya sabha Thursday in the border row with China in the east Ladakhsources said. After his statement, the opposition leaders will speak and, if necessary, Singh can provide clarification, the sources said. This was decided at a …
Read More »September Rise: India # 1 in Covid Cases and Deaths in First 15 Days | India News
NEW DELHI: September is proving to be a bleak month for India in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the number of people who contracted the infection in the first half of the month was more than double the number of new infections …
Read More »Chinese troops fired warning shots into the air on the north shore of Lake Pangong in eastern Ladakh: Sources | India News
NEW DELHI: The Chinese army fired a barrage of “warning shots” into the air on the north shore of Pangong lake in the East Ladakh last week to “intimidate” Indian troops ahead of talks between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Moscow, official sources said Wednesday. The incident took place …
Read More »Record of 82,961 recoveries in one day, a quarter of Maharashtra alone; recovery rate 78.53% | India News
NEW DELHI: A record 82,961 new Covid-19 recoveries were reported on Wednesday, nearly a quarter of them in Maharashtra alone, pushing the overall figures to close to 39.5 lakh and the recovery rate to 78.53 percent, showed data from the Ministry of Health. In its figures updated at 8 a.m. …
Read More »Pakistan “epicenter of terrorism”; persecutes Hindus, Sikhs, Christians: India in Geneva | India News
GENEVA: Describing Pakistan as an “epicenter of terrorism”, India has said that no one deserves an unsolicited human rights conference from Islamabad that has systematically persecuted its ethnic and religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs and Christians. Exercising the right of reply to statements made by Pakistan at the 45th session …
Read More »Indian Army fully prepared to fight a full-blown war in eastern Ladakh: Northern Command | India News
JAMMU: Claiming that you are fully prepared to wage a full-blown war even in the winters in eastern Ladakh, the Indian army On Wednesday he said that if China creates the conditions for war, they will face better trained, better prepared, fully rested and psychologically hardened Indian troops. In a …
Read More »What is Covid-19 reinfection? India News
NEW DELHI: Two healthcare workers from a Noida hospital could be the first genetically proven cases of Covid reinfection in India, according to a preprint of a research paper presented by the prestigious Institute for Genomics and Integrative Biology, a laboratory of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research located …
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