New Delhi: The legal drinking age in Delhi has been lowered from 25 to 21, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia reported on Monday. In announcing a new alcoholic beverages policy, he said the Delhi government expects an increase of at least 20 percent in its annual excise tax revenue with …
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Uttarakhand disaster: The NDRF, state authorities, the Army and the IAF are involved in the rescue efforts. New Delhi: 14 people died and more than 170 are still missing, after a part of a glacier erupted in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Sunday, causing an avalanche and a deluge …
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A special investigation team from the Delhi Police Crimes Division is likely to investigate the incident. New Delhi: A policeman was attacked with a sword in Delhi in clashes during a farmers’ tractor protest that fell apart on Tuesday. The farmers were led by Nihangs equipped with swords and kirpans …
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New Delhi: Air traffic between India and the United Kingdom, which was suspended last month by the center due to the detection of a highly contagious strain of coronavirus in the European country, will resume from January 8, the Minister of Civil Aviation reported this Friday. the Union, Hardeep Singh …
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New Delhi: Congressional leaders led by Rahul Gandhi, who were marching towards Rashtrapati Bhavan, were detained by the police before a small delegation was allowed to enter the presidential palace to present President Ram Nath Kovind with a memorandum requesting their intervention for the withdrawal of the agricultural laws against …
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The prime minister is “very concerned” about the violence, Prime Minister BS Yediyurappa said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “very concerned” about the violence at the Wistron iPhone factory near Bengaluru, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said today. Hundreds of workers vandalized the facilities of Taiwan-based Apple supplier Wistron in …
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New Delhi: Gmail, one of the world’s most popular email providers, and several other services offered by the Internet giant Google, including the Hangouts messaging service, were offline and unavailable to thousands of users around the world on Monday night. Services that were offline included the video-sharing platform YouTube and …
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Center said it is against forced family planning. (Figurative) New Delhi: The Center has told the Supreme Court that India is unequivocally against imposing family planning on its people and that any coercion to have a certain number of children is counterproductive and leads to demographic distortions. In an affidavit …
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New Delhi: A vaccine being developed by Pune-based Gennova has become India’s first household mRNA candidate to gain permission for a human clinical trial, the government said today. MRNA vaccines do not use the conventional model to produce an immune response. “The mRNA vaccine carries the molecular instructions to make …
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Lalu Yadav is serving a four-year prison sentence in Jharkhand for corruption. Ranchi: The bail hearing of former Bihar chief minister Lalu Yadav in a fodder scam case, to be addressed today, has been postponed for another six weeks. Reports suggest that the hearing was postponed because Lalu Yadav has …
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