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For the first time since July 1, India’s daily Covid-19 case count fell below 20,000 on Monday, even as the country’s dwindling active case count slipped below the 3 lakh mark later. 163 days. India recorded 18,588 new cases on Monday, the lowest single-day count since June 30, according to …

JAMMU: The fate of 2,178 candidates, including 450 women, who vied for 280 seats in the District Development Council (DDC) in Jammu and Kashmir will be decided on Tuesday. J&K State Elections Commissioner KK Sharma told reporters Monday that the count will begin at 9 am and the results will …

NEW DELHI: Farmers unions will meet Tuesday to decide by consensus whether to accept or reject the Center’s new offer of talks, even as its coordinating body planned to protest in Mumbai as part of its ongoing agitation against central farm laws. The meeting is also expected to finalize a …

NEW DELHI: India’s leopard population saw an encouraging 62% increase in four years, from 7,910 in 2014 to 12,852 in 2018, according to the latest estimates of big cat numbers released Monday. Madhya pradesh has the highest number of leopards (3,421), followed by Karnataka (1,783) and Maharashtra (1,690). These three …

CALCUTTA: Poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Monday he broke his silence on the Bengal assembly elections and took to social media to claim that BJP he will have a “hard time crossing double digits” in 2021. He promised to leave Twitter if he was proven wrong. The saffron party, which …

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday introduced the prestigious legion Credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his leadership in elevating the strategic partnership of the two countries and India’s emergence as a world power. The Indian Ambassador to the United States, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, accepted the award on …

NEW DELHI: Votes will be counted for the major District Development Council (DDC) elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, and the contest was held primarily between the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration and the BJP. The results of the DDC elections are important to …

KANCHEEPURAM: actor-politician Kamal haasan On Monday he assured housewives ‘payment’ for their work at home, computer with high-speed internet to all homes and transformation of farmers into agribusiness if his MNM party won power in 2021 Tamil nadu assembly elections. Revealing his party’s seven-point “Economic and Governance Agenda”, he also …

NEW DELHI: India on Monday suspended all scheduled passenger flights to and from the UK between December 23 and December 31, joining dozens of countries that have restricted limited or outright travel bans in a global fight to prevent the new strain of coronavirus from rapidly spreading across Britain. Travelers …

NEW DELHI: As a threat to US sanctions looms over countries that buy advanced military equipment from Russia, Moscow It has backed its impending supply of the S-400 surface-to-air missile system to India, saying both India and Russia consider all sanctions other than those imposed by the UN Security Council …