N Delhi/Kohima, Jul 16 The Nagaland Government headed by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio on Saturday inched ahead making a concrete attempt to materialise or finalise a solution for final peace pact.The State legislators also reiterated their stance to step as..

NEW DELHI, Jul 13 People in the 18-59 age group will get free precaution doses of the Covid vaccine at Government vaccination centres under a 75-day special drive likely to begin from July 15, official sources said on Wednesday.The drive, aimed at boostin..

NEW DELHI, Jul 10 : The Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE is going to announce the results for classes 10th and 12th soon. As per the speculations and several media reports, the CBSE Board results 2022 for classes 10th and 12th students will be d..

PATNA, Jul 7 An Assistant Professor of Nitisheswar College, in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, has returned nearly Rs 24 lakh — his total earnings since joining the job in September 2019 — as no student turned up for a single class in these 33 mont..

NEW DELHI, Jul 2 Amarinder Singh, who quit the Congress last year, is likely to be NDA’s Vice Presidential candidate, former CM’s office said on Saturday. The 80-year-old former Chief Minister of Punjab is in London for a back surgery. Prime M..

NEW DELHI, Jun 29: The election for the post of Vice President will be held on August 6, the Election Commission said on Wednesday.The notification for the election to decide the successor of M Venkaiah Naidu will be issued on July 5 and the last date for..

NEW DELHI, Jun 28The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has condemned in the strongest of terms the arrest of Muhammad Zubair, co-founder of fact checking website AltNews. His arrest by the Delhi police smacks of malafide as it comes for his post in 2018, cla..

New Delhi, Jun 24 India recorded 17,336 fresh COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours. This is the biggest spike in daily COVID-19 cases since February 19 when the country had reported 19,968 infections. According to the Union Health Ministry data o..

New Delhi, Jun 21  Yashwant Sinha, a former Union Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA Government, was today named the joint Opposition candidate for President polls. The BJP is yet to announce its pick for the July polls."In the forthcoming ..

NEW DELHI, Jun 19India on Sunday recorded 12,899 fresh COVID-19 cases that pushed its infection tally to 4,32,96,692, while the number of active cases increased to 72,474, according to Union health ministry data.The death count climbed to 5,24,855 with 15..

New Delhi, Jun 18 States and Union territories have been asked to submit "larger number" of samples for whole genome sequencing from districts and areas which have seen a surge in COVID-19 cases over a period of seven days, official sources said on Saturd..

New Delhi/Kohima, Jun 16 : It's not a bizarre thing to happen elsewhere. Two rival political parties or different organisations could definitely end up at a same hotel for respective conclaves. But in the context of Nagaland, it has been billed as rare. S..

New Delhi, Jun 14Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that his Government would be recruiting 10 lakh personnel within the next 18 months, "on a mission mode", a major drive after recruit-ment to Government jobs was derailed following the COV..

New Delhi, Jun 12Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda and Union Minister Rajnath Singh will hold consultations on behalf of the party with allies and those in the Opposition on the upcoming Presidential election.In a statement, the BJP said the..

New Delhi, Jun 9 : Amid fears of a fourth wave of COVID-19, India recorded 7,240 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.The active cases rose to 28,857, while the active cases stand at 0.08 per cent of the t..

New Delhi, Jun 3 : There can be no mining or factories in a 1-km buffer zone of at least 1 km around wildlife sanctuaries and National parks, the Supreme Court ordered on Friday, issuing a slew of directives on regulating activities in and around eco-sens..

New Delhi, May 27 India logged 2,710 new coronavirus infections in a day taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,47,530, while the active cases rose to 15,814, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated today.The number of deaths climbed..

New Delhi, May 25As things move towards a possible realisation that there has been enough delay and now time to settle for a pragmatic solution and peace, a key Naga legislator Kuzholuzo Azo Nienu says by inking the 2015 Framework Agreement, the potent NS..

NEW DELHI, May 21In a step to bring down the fuel prices, the Centre on Saturday reduced the Central excise duty on petrol by Rs 8 per litre and that on diesel by Rs 6 per litre. “We are reducing the Central excise duty on petrol by Rs 8 per litre a..

NEW DELHI, May 20 Underlining the urgent need for an intensive push to Covid vaccination across the country to accelerate the recent placid momentum, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on Friday advised all States and Union Territories to plan for a tw..

New Delhi, May 16The maximum temperature recorded in the National capital on Sunday reached 49 degree Celsius, said the India Meteorological Department.While the National capital's Mungeshpur station recorded a temperature of 49.2 degrees, Najafgarh recor..

NEW DELHI, May 15 The Nagaland Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) collective leadership is none too pleased with the Central Government after two days of talks—on May 12 and 13.   The Centre’s Interlocutor did not yield any ..

NEW DELHI, May 13 The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Union of India to file a status report with regard to investigation into the alleged extra judicial killings in Manipur.The investigation is being carried out by a Special Investigation Team consti..

New Delhi, May 11: Even though India’s overall decline of fertility rate has been encouraging, there are wide inter-regional variations with five States still not having achieved replacement-level of fertility of 2.1 — the rate at which a popu..

New Delhi, May 8 Amid all the speculations and names doing the rounds for its presidential nominee, the BJP may nominate a candidate either belonging to the Other Backward Class (OBC) or a woman to win their support in the run-up to the 2024 general elect..

Dantewada, May 7Responding to the Chhattis-garh Government’s propo- sal, the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoists) has shown willingness to hold peace talks with the Bhupesh Baghel-led dispensation, but also set several conditions, including t..

New Delhi, May 5A year after the deadly Delta wave of Covid devastated India, Adar Poonawala, the chief of the Serum Institute of India, has told NDTV that while things may be better, "we are not out of the woods yet" and boosters will be essential to tak..

NEW DELHI, May 2Just when we thought Covid was almost over and life could get back to normal after two years of pandemic, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued a new warning to the world. Gates has warned that there could still be a variant "even more tr..

New Delhi, Apr 30 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while advocating use of local languages in Courts, said on Saturday that the Government is working towards simplifying laws passed in the Parliament for the common man to understand them.“Along with th..

NEW DELHI, Apr 29 India logged 3,377 new COVID-19 infections taking the country's total tally of cases to 4,30,72,176, while the active cases rose to 17,801, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.The death toll climbed to 5,23..

NEW DELHI, Apr 28India on Thursday reported another Covid-19 spike with 3,303 new infections in the last 24 hours and 39 fatalities, the Union Health Ministry reported. With this, the active caseload spiked to 16,980 while the total infections count reach..

NEW DELHI, Apr 26 India has reported 1,399 deaths and 2,483 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) informed on Tuesday morning.There has been a decline of 2.28 per cent in the new cases of COVID-19 re..

NEW DELHI, Apr 26  Covid-19 cases in India have seen an upward surge in the past two weeks. National capital Delhi registered above 1000 cases for two straight days. Maharashtra's capital Mumbai recorded 144 new cases on Sunday.In view of this rising..

PUNE, Apr 24A study of vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 variants has found that Covishield recipients with no history of Covid had the lowest levels of neutralizing activity against Omicron’s BA.1 sub-lineage, when compared to recovered pati..

New Delhi, Apr 23 Amid the rising Covid-19 cases in Delhi, an analysis by IIT-Madras has revealed that every infected person is infecting two others in the National capital.According to the PTI news agency, Delhi's R-value or reproductive value, which ind..

New Delhi, Apr 20 The Centre has extended the ceasefire agreement with three different Naga groups for one more year. The groups are National Socialist Council of Nagaland/NK (NSCN/NK), National Socialist Council of Nagaland/Reformation (NSCN/R) and Natio..

New Delhi, Apr 18  India today recorded a massive jump in its daily Covid counts, raising fears of another spike in infections. As many as 2,183 new Covid cases have been recorded over the past 24 hours, an 89.8 per cent jump from yesterday's case co..

New Delhi, Apr 17 The Supreme Court has commented on the nature of the Indian Union in several judgments, and plays a significant role in establishing and evolving “Indian federalism”, say experts.The Central Government and the State Governmen..

NEW DELHI, Apr 16 With new Covid variants being detected, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials again asserted that it is extremely essential for all to get vaccinated against the virus and continue all the efforts to stop the virus from circulating. ..

Bengaluru, Apr 13 Predictive studies opine that the 4th wave of the Covid-19 will start in June-July and last till September, stated Karnataka Health Minister K Sudhakar on Tuesday. “Karnataka is prepared to face it,” he added.He said that the..

NEW DELHI, Apr 10Several North East-based organisations—including Assam’s apex literary body, the Asom Sahitya Sabha—have urged the Centre to roll back its decision to make Hindi compulsory till Class X in the region.In a statement on Sa..

NEW DELHI, Apr 9A day before Covid vaccine booster shots become available to all Indian adults, the prices of Covishield and Covaxin at private hospitals have been slashed by more than half.  Both the vaccine doses will now cost Rs 225. While Covishi..

NEW DELHI, Apr 8 The third wave of the virus had ebbed in the country in March and while the chances of avoiding another surge seem unavoidable, the only thing we can do to protect ourselves is to stay vigilant, remain prepared and understand the symptoms..

NEW DELHI, Mar 4India on Monday logged less than 1,000 new Covid cases for the first time since April 2020. The country reported 913 fresh cases in the last 24-hours, the Health Ministry data showed, in the lowest daily Covid tally in 715 days. The drop i..

NEW DELHI, Mar 29 Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on Monday won the BBC Indian Sportswoman of The Year award. Chanu created history last year when she became the first Indian weightlifter to clinch a silver medal at the Summer Olympics..

NEW DELHI, Mar 23 As COVID-19 cases show a steady decline in the country, the Centre asked States and Union Territories to end all Covid containment measures from March 31. The decision to end all the Covid-related curbs came two years after the Disaster ..

NEW DELHI, Mar 15Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked the PCC presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur to put in their resignations, party leader Randeep Surjewala informed on Tuesday.The resignations have been asked in order..

New Delhi, Mar 14 India will start vaccinating children aged 12 to 14 years from March 16 as it expands its COVID-19 vaccination coverage, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on Monday. The condition of co-morbidity for people aged 60 and ab..

New Delhi, Mar 14 The BJP will form Governments in the four States it won in the recently concluded elections after Holi (March 18), sources said today. Chief Ministers for Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur will reportedly be chosen after the fe..

New Delhi, Mar 12The Congress's top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee or CWC, will meet at 4 pm tomorrow, three days after a huge defeat in State polls, and is likely to advance internal elections scheduled in Sep-tember amid renewed qu..