Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon all citizens to turn the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign into a mass movement by hoisting or displaying the national flag at their homes and using the tricolour as display picture of their social media accounts, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of India’s Independence.
In a suspected case of monkeypox infection, a 22-year-old man from Kuranjiyur near Guruvayur in Kerala died on Saturday morning. He had returned from the UAE a couple of days ago, and had no external symptoms commonly associated with monkeypox. He was admitted to a hospital in Thrissur on July 27.
Monkeypox symptoms being seen in the current outbreak are significantly different from those reported during the previous outbreaks in African regions, a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has claimed. It says rectal pain and penile swelling (oedema) are being commonly seen in the current outbreak as compared to the previous outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007-11 and Nigeria in 2017-18.
Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday tried to broker peace during a meeting with Opposition leaders, assuring them that a discussion on price rise is likely next week. It came a day after the unprecedented suspension of 19 Opposition MPs from the upper House on Tuesday. The Opposition leaders sought revocation of the suspension and a specific date for discussion on price rise.
The cumulative number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country crossed the 203.17 crore-mark on Wednesday with over 36 lakh vaccine doses being administered till 7 pm, the Union health ministry said. More than 32 lakh vaccine doses have been administered till 7 pm on Wednesday.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday made new appointments for the Shiv Sena faction led by him.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has expressed her inability to explain the transactions that facilitated the takeover of the assets of AJL, the publisher of National Herald and other party publications, by Young Indian in which she and son Rahul hold a controlling stake. She said that Motilal Vora, the late former party treasurer, alone knew about the details of the transactions between Congress, AJL and Young Indian, ED sources said.
Law minister Kiren Rijiju in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday said that the government subscribes to the BJP's demand for the promulgation of Uniform Civil Code. "Let me tell you uniform civil code is our party ideology and it should be considered as the ideology of the country,” Rijiju said.
The Rajya Sabha functioned on Monday for the first time since the start of this monsoon session, even as the Opposition continued to disrupt the proceedings with noisy protests and sloganeering, forcing three adjournments.
The children of unwed mothers and rape victims can live in this country with the fundamental rights of privacy, liberty, and dignity, the Kerala high court has said and allowed a person to include his mother’s name alone in the birth certificate, identity certificates and other documents.
UP stole a march over the rest of the country with seven of 18 toppers in the CISCE Class XII examination, the results of which were declared Sunday. Eighteen students shared the top rank with a score of 99.75%. Bengal came second with six toppers (three from Kolkata), Tamil Nadu third with three—all of them from Chennai. A student each from Maharashtra’s Thane and Haryana’s Gurugram made it to the top rankings.
After the detection of a monkeypox case in the national capital on Sunday, which took the nation’s case tally to four, the Centre called a high-level meeting to discuss the situation in the country. The meeting was chaired by the directorate general of health sciences (DGHS), Dr Atul Goel, and attended by officials from the health ministry, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), among others.
Delhi reported its first case of monkeypox, and India’s fourth, on Sunday with a 34-year-old man testing positive for the disease that is spreading across the world for the first time. The man is a resident of Paschim Vihar in west Delhi and has no history of travel to countries affected by the disease, unlike the other three cases reported from Kerala, officials said.
As the nation gets ready to usher in the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence with ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’, as part of which 20 crore houses and 100 crore people will unfurl the national flag between August 13 and 15, the Centre has amended the Flag Code of India to allow the tricolour to be displayed in the open and on individual houses/buildings through “day and night”. The provision earlier allowed the flag, when displayed in the open, to be flown from sunrise to sunset “as far as possible”.
Voluntary recall of vehicles by manufacturers saw a nearly four-fold increase in 2021-22 compared to 2020-21, according to data provided by the road transport ministry to Parliament. The spike was recorded after the stringent norm kicked in from April 1, 2021.
In a move that is expected to bring relief to many patients by bringing down cost of healthcare, the Centre may announce a crucial decision on August 15 to significantly bring down prices of some critical medicines such as those for cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, official sources said.
A 20-hour interrogation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) culminated in the arrest of Bengal cabinet minister and TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee at 2.10am on Saturday and his alleged “close associate” Arpita Mukherjee later in the day, capping a run of events starting with Friday’s swoop on the latter’s south Kolkata apartment that yielded a cash stash of Rs 21.9 crore.
Airlines can no longer deny boarding to a person with disabilities on its own, without a doctor examining the person and stating that the said passenger’s health may deteriorate during the journey. Following an uproar over IndiGo’s recent denial of boarding to one such young passenger in Ranchi, Union aviation minister J M Scindia had ordered a review of the entire process.
The number of high scorers continues to rise in the CBSE Class XII Board exams, the results of which were released on Friday. While the number has reduced from the pandemic years (2020 and 2021) when the exams were disrupted, compared to 1.3% of the total candidates who scored 95% and above in aggregate in 2019, this year the figure has zoomed to 2.3%. The pass percentage has also jumped 9.3 percentage points from 2019 and breached 90% for the first time, excluding the pandemic-hit years.
An estimated four crore eligible people are yet to initiate Covid vaccination in the country as on July 18, even as the government has made vaccination, including booster shots, available for free to cover all. “As on 18th July, an estimated 4 crore eligible beneficiaries have not taken even a single dose of Covid vaccine,” junior health minister Bharati Pravin Pawar informed Lok Sabha on Friday.
Amid protests by party workers in the capital and other parts of the country, ED officials questioned Congress chief Sonia Gandhi for two hours on Thursday in connection with a money laundering case, better known as the National Herald case. Sonia was questioned on 28 points related to takeover of Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), the publishers of National Herald and other Congress organs, along with its properties by Young Indian, a company in which Sonia and her son Rahul hold majority stake.
NDA’s presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu on Thursday became the first tribal woman to be elected as President of India by defeating her rival, opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, by a margin of 947 votes, bagging 64.03% of the electoral college votes against Sinha’s share of 35.97%.
TMC will abstain from the August 6 vice-presidential polls, saying the party wasn’t consulted before the opposition bloc proposed Margaret Alva’s candidature and there is “no question” of supporting NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar either. TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee announced the party’s first official reaction to the VP polls after Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs at her residence in Kalighat.
After 30 hours and an equal number of raids, Haryana Police teams tracked down the prime accused in the murder of a 59-year-old DSP to a village in Rajasthan's Bharatpur on Wednesday evening.
Fifty-two days after the daylight murder of singer-rapper Sidhu Moose Wala near his home in Mansa district, a Punjab Police team Wednesday shot and killed two sharpshooters involved in the crime during a gunfight that raged for four-and-a-half hours at a village near Attari on the India-Pakistan border.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday released Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair on interim bail in all FIRs lodged in UP and elsewhere on furnishing a personal bail bond of Rs 20,000, transferred the UP FIRs to the special cell of Delhi Police for a comprehensive probe, disbanded the SIT set up by UP, and refused to restrain him from tweeting.
For the first time, social scientists from Mumbai have mapped India's maternal deaths to district-level precision, and found 70% of the 640 districts are "hot spots" reporting higher pregnancy-related deaths than the UN development goals.
In a fresh jolt to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has recognised Rahul Shewale of the Sena faction led by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde as leader of the party in Lok Sabha. Acting on a representation signed by 12 of the 19 Sena members in the LS, Birla also recognised Bhawna Gawli as the party’s chief whip.
A 59-year-old deputy superintendent of Haryana Police was mowed down by a truck carrying stones from an illegal mining site in the Aravalis when he intercepted the vehicle and asked the driver to stop in Pachgaon village of Nuh around noon on Tuesday.Top opposition figures, including Congress's Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar and Le...
