New Delhi, Feb 23 Amid no end to the coronavirus outbreak, Indian aviation watchdog DGCA has decided to expand screening operations for passengers arriving from Nepal, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.Releasing a statement, the Directorate General of Civil..

New Delhi, Feb 17 The four men convicted of rape and murder of the 23-year-old paramedic will be hanged on March 3 at 6 am, a Delhi Court said on Monday. This is the third black warrant issued by the Court in this case.“The death warrant would be now executed on March 3 at 6 am,” judge Dharmender Rana said in a one-line order pronounced on Monday afternoon. The Judge had earlier in the day reserved his order after arguments by both sides.As soon as the Judge announced the new death warrant, ..

MUMBAI, Feb 15Chaos ensued in Chembur society of Mumbai after a local resident shot a video of a 23-year-old Naga woman suspecting her to be a Chinese suffering from novel coronavirus and circulated it online.According to a Times of India report, the woma..

New Delhi, Feb 14 : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya are likely to receive isolated rain or snow between February 14 and February 18, predicted India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Friday.Dry weather is very likely to prevail over the rest of th..

New Delhi, Feb 11 Arvind Kejriwal, jubilant after a huge victory in Delhi, today began his thank-you speech with a declaration: "Dilliwalon, ghazab kar diya aapne (You have done the impossible). I love you."The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said the victory marked a new kind of politics, that of "work". He also called it a "win for Bharat Mata (mother India)".Kejriwal's credits also included Lord Hanuman. "Today is Tuesday, the day of Hanuman-ji. Hanuman-ji has showered Delhi with blessings. Thank ..

NEW DELHI, Feb 10 The votes for the Delhi Assembly elections 2020 will be counted tomorrow. In order to count votes, 21 centres have been set up across the city. The Chief Electoral Officer of Delhi, Ranveer Singh, told AIR that the counting of votes will..

New Delhi, Feb 9 India ranks 17th among the list of countries most likely to import cases of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), a global import risk assessment model has found.Researchers from the Humboldt University and Robert Koch Institute in Berlin ha..

NEW DELHI, Feb 9 Aviation regulator DGCA has said that foreigners who went to China on or after January 15 will not be allowed to enter India.In a circular to airlines, DGCA said, foreigners who have been to China on or after January 15 are not allowed to..

NEW DELHI, Feb 8: Germany is willing to invest more in northeastern states. This was conveyed by a six-member Parliamentary dele- gation from Germany to DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday.The German delegation is headed by Jürgen Hard, who curre..

NEW DELHI, Feb 7Voting in single-phase Assembly elections in Delhi is set to be held on February 8 (Saturday), while counting of votes will take place on February 11, (Tuesday). This year, the 70- membered Assembly polls in the National Capital will see a triangular contest between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (APP) is set to make a determined bid to return to power while the BJP seeks for a win after losing to AAP in the 2013 ..

NEW DELHI, Feb 6 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said for years the North Eastern region was ignored but things changed under his Government, and it has now become a growth engine.Replying to a debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in Lok Sabha, Modi also said many problems in the North East were resolved only for meeting political reasons and remained confined to papers."Let us talk about the Bodo accord. Despite many efforts, the issue was unsolved for years. The Bodo ..

New Delhi, Feb 5Bhutan for long has been an idyllic destination for Indian travellers. With its mesmerising beauty, stunning landscapes and the fact that it is just a stone's throw away, Bhutan has been a favourite destination among Indian tourists. And m..

NEW DELHI, Feb 4: Aam Aadmi Party National con-vener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday dared BJP to name its Chief Minister candidate for the February 8 Assembly elections, saying he is ready for a debate with the saffron party's CM face.Speaking to the media after releasing the party manifesto, Kejriwal said it is the people in a democracy who elect a Government. "Amit Shah is saying people should vote for the BJP and he will select the Chief Minister after the elections. In a democracy, people elect their ..

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2Even as India is carrying out a massive evacuation of its citizens from Wuhan in China, a second positive case of Novel Coronavirus has been detected in Kerala.“Second positive case of Novel Coronavirus patient, has been reported in Kerala. The patient has a travel history from China. The patient has tested positive for Novel Coronavirus and is in isolation in the hospital. The patient is stable and is being closely monitored,” the Union Health Ministry said in ..

Lucknow, Feb 2A Vishwa Hindu Mahasabha leader was shot dead by two bike-borne assailants in Lucknow’s posh Hazratganj police station area on Sunday morning in Uttar Pradesh. Gorakhpur resident Ranjeet Bachchan, who is the foun-ding head of the fringe outfit, was out on a morning walk with his cousin brother Aditya Srivastava  when the two unidentified men stop-ped them and shot near the Globe Park ahead of Luck-now’s Parivartan Chowk.While Bachchan died at the spot, his cousin was ..

New Delhi, Feb 2Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani addresses rallies in the National capital on Sunday ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections slated for next week.BJP National president JP Nadda will also hold rallies in the city. Also, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will also address two public gatherings.On the other hand, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) National convenor Arvind Kejriwal held roadshows at Kirari, Mundka, Vishwas Nagar, Laxmi Nagar ..

New Delhi, Feb 1The first batch of 324 Indians who arrived in Air India special flight from Wuhan (China) in Delhi Saturday morning are being taken to Indo-Tibetan Border Police Chhawla camp in Delhi and an army camp at Manesar in Haryana for medical obser-vation, ANI reported.Two hundred and eleven of the evacuees are students. Most of the evacuees are from Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and 22 are from Maharashtra.The Air India Boeing 747 had reached Wuhan on Friday evening with a team of doctors to ..

NEW DELHI, Jan 31 : India on Friday banned the export of personal protection equipment such as masks and clothing amid a global coronavirus outbreak.It did not give a reason for the ban but it reported its first case of the new coronavirus on Thursday, a ..

New Delhi, Jan 31 The Government on Thursday released frequently asked questions (FAQs) and useful information on coronavirus that has claimed 213 lives so far. The virus has infected more than 7700 people and is spreading rapidly.In a series of tweets on..

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 30India has reported its first confirmed case of novel coronavirus in Thrissur district of Kerala. The patient is a student studying in Wuhan University, China and had recently returned to India.In a statement, the Press Information Bureau (PIB) of India said the student is from Kerala. "The patient has tested positive for novel coronavirus and is in isolation in the hospital. The patient is stable and is being closely monitored," the statement said.The 2019-novel corona-virus ..

Berhampore, Jan 29Two people were killed and at least three others sustained bullet injuries when some locals opened fire and hurled crude bombs on a group of protesters demonstrating against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.The deceased have been identified as Anarul Biswas (55), who died on the spot, and Salauddin Sheikh (17), who succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital. The three injured have been admitted ..

NEW DELHI, Jan 28  Controversial JNU student and activist Sharjeel Imam, who is facing sedition charges for his allegedly inflammatory speeches during the anti-CAA protests in Shaheen Bagh, was on Tuesday arrested from Kako village of Bihar's Jehanab..

NEW DELHI, Jan 28: Stating that available funds under code head 01 salary is hardly sufficient to clear the regular  salary bills for the month of January and February this year, the Force HQs, SSB New Delhi, has intimated that all available funds un..

New Delhi, Jan 27A day after sedition charges were slapped against Sharjeel Imam, activist and PhD student at JNU, by the Assam and Uttar Pradesh police, fresh charges under the same offence were issued against him in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Delhi,..

Mumbai, Jan 27  A 36-year-old resident of Tardeo, who had visited China recently, was quarantined at Mumbai’s Kasturba Gandhi Hospital on Sunday after he developed cold and fever, symptoms of the coronavirus. He is the fourth person in Mumbai to be quarantined in the hospital’s isolation ward.The man had travelled to China on January 3, 2020, and returned on January 11, 2020 through Hong Kong. During his stay, he visited Shanghai and Guangzhou which is almost 1,000 km away from Wuhan ..

New Delhi, Jan 22The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted four-week time to the Centre to reply to the 144-odd petitions challenging the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA. While most of the petitions challenge the Constitutional validity of CAA..

Hyderabad, Jan 19 As many as 150 people have tested positive for Swine Flu in Telangana so far and experts fear that the number may increase in coming days. "So far, we have tested around 370 people for Swine Flu, out of which 150 have reported posit..

New Delhi, Jan 17Fresh death warrants were issued this evening for the four men convicted of the gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi in 2012. The four will now be executed at 6 am on February 1, Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora said today, while also turning down a plea by Mukesh Singh, one of the convicts, to postpone the execution. The warrants were issued mere hours after President Ram Nath Kovind rejected a mercy plea filed by the same convict.The new death ..

New Delhi, Jan 15Despite the opposition against National Population Register (NPR) - a biometric database of ordinary residents of India - preparations are on in full swing to update it. Enumerators are being trained to collect data and a “pre-test&..

NEW DELHI, Jan 13The Republic Day celebrations will commence with an homage ceremony at the National War Memorial, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lead the nation in paying tribute to the martyrs."This year the Inter-Service Guard will be commanded by Wing Commander Vipul Goyal," Indian Air Force Spokesperson Group Captain Anupam Banerjee said.The proceedings of the parade at the Rajpath will commence with the unfurling of national flag and presenting of 'Rashtriya Salute' to the President ..

NEW DELHI, Jan 13A meeting of Opposition parties convened by Cong-ress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday deliberated on the current political situation following widespread protests against the amended Citizenship Act and the violence on campuses.Significantly, the BSP, the AAP, and the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, stayed away from the meeting attended by representatives of 20 parties in all.NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Left leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja, JMM leader and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant ..

New Delhi, Jan 10 Home Minister Amit Shah met Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and State Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday and he is learnt to have assured them that the Assam Accord would be respected and that the Union Government would consider the idea of giving the State Constitutional safeguards in the wake of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).The passage of the Act has heightened anxieties among the people in the State regarding its effect on their demography, ethnic integrity ..

NE NOWNEW DELHI, Jan 10 : Eight North Eastern States will showcase its culture, tradition and foods in a seven-day Madhavpur Mela scheduled to be held in Gujarat from April 2.The week-long festival will see a vibrant cultural trail of art, dance, music, p..

Thane, Jan 8 (PTI) Cases have been registered against Editors and staff concerned of seven newspapers for allegedly violating provisions of the POCSO Act by publishing photograph and other details of a minor rape and murder victim, police said on Wednesda..

New Delhi, Jan 7 A Delhi Court on Tuesday issued a death warrant for the four convicts in the December 2012 gangrape case. The verdict came after the parents of the victim moved the Court seeking to expedite the procedure to hang all the four convicted in the case and also demanded issuance of death warrant against them.During the hearing, the prosecution said there was no application pending before any Court or the President by any of the convicts and the review petition of all the convicts was dismissed ..