NEW DELHI, Feb 24 Around 57% of the people from the North East who had migrated to Delhi lost their jobs during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, highlighted a study conducted by a doctoral scholar of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The research also showed tha..

DIMAPUR, Feb 19  : Reacting to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio's statement that the Naga political issue would be his Government’s “top priority” and continue to be the core issue in the 14th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), All Indi..

NEW DELHI, Feb 19 : Students of Central universities can now pursue two courses concurrently as of the new academic year. The provision of two courses simultaneously from Central universities has been provided under the National Education Policy. Under th..

New Delhi, Feb 12Justice N Kotiswar is among four Judges who have elevated to Chief Justices of different High Courts and he has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. The four Judges elevated as Chief Justi..

NEW DELHI, Feb 10Supreme Court Collegium has recommended names of 5 Judges for elevation as Chief Justices of the respective High Courts as follows:Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur - Manipur High Court [PHC: High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh]Justice..

New Delhi, Feb 5 The Government has blocked 232 apps operated by overseas entities, including Chinese for being involved in betting, gambling and unauthorised loan service, according to an official source.The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has iss..

New Delhi, Feb 1 The Central Government today made a much-awaited mega announcement on increasing the income level up to which no income tax is payable: Rs 7 lakh a year from the 2023-24 financial year. It was Rs 5 lakh so far. But there is a caveat: This..

NEW DELHI, Feb 1 Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her fifth straight Budget on Wednesday in Lok Sabha. A large number of commonly used items will become more expensive and certain goods will become cheaper as the Government has slashed ..

NEW DELHI, Jan 29 The Meghalaya-Mizoram border is emerging as the preferred route for smuggling gold into the country, with increased vigilance across the Nepal and West Bengal borders, which were the hot spots in the past.An estimated 100 tonne of gold h..

NEW DELHI, Jan 4 For the second week running, India recorded a marginal rise in Covid-19 cases although the numbers remained very low. In the week ending Sunday, 1,526 fresh cases were recorded in the country, up 25% from the previous week’s tally o..

NEW DELHI, Jan 2The coronavirus has evolved significantly since it was first traced in late 2019. From being a considerably deadly virus, it has now become less fatal - thanks to the vaccination initiatives across the world.However, former World Health Or..

NEW DELHI, Dec 31India has reported its first case of Omicron variant ‘XXB 1.5’ which is responsible for the surge in coronavirus cases in New York. The first case of XXB 1.5 has been confirmed in Gujarat, as per reports in Timesnow and Mint. ..

New Delhi, Dec 28Thirty-nine people arriving in India from abroad have tested positive for Covid in airports across the country over the last two days, sources have told NDTV. In that backdrop, Union Health Minister Mansukh Man-daviya will visit Delhi's I..

New Delhi, Dec 28 India's nasal vaccine cannot be administered to those who have taken a precaution or booster dose, the head of the country's vaccine task force told NDTV on Tuesday in an exclusive interview.The nasal vaccine, iNCOVACC, was introduced on..

NEW DELHI, Dec 23 The Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has advised States to strengthen Covid-19 surveillance system, ramp up testing and ensure readiness of hospital infrastructure on Friday.Mandaviya chaired a meeting with all State Health Minist..

New Delhi, Dec 21 : The Delhi Police has arrested six people, including a Manipur-based woman, in separate operations and recovered nine kgs of drugs worth more than Rs 24 crore, officials said on Wednesday.The accused have been identified as Rahul Gupta ..

NEW DELHI, Dec 20 Amid a sudden spurt in COVID-19 cases in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, China and the US, the Central Government on Tuesday urged all States and Union Territories to gear up the whole genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of e..

DELHI, Dec 17 A Delhi Court has dismissed the bail application of Alemla Jamir, a self-styled "cabinet minister" of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah, in a case of alleged terror funding, saying there was evidence that the insurgent g..

NEW DELHI, Dec 13 The clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh is set to rock Parliament on Tuesday with several Congress MPs demanding a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the situation at the border.The..

GANDHINAGAR, Dec 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bhupendra Patel on Monday took oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term in Gandhinagar in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Sixteen other Ministers, including eight..

Shimla, Dec 10The Congress's Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, who headed the party's campaign committee in Himachal Pradesh, has been appointed the next Chief Minister. Mr Sukhu, 58, is an MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district. He will take oath tomorrow at 11 am.F..

New Delhi, Nov 12 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said the BJP is committed to implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act and it is a matter of time that its rules are framed.It is a Hindu’s legitimate right to become a citizen ..

NEW DELHI, Nov 9 : An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 occurred in Nepal and Manipur at around 1.57 am on November 9, informed National Center for Seismology.As per the National Center for Seismology, the depth of the earthquake was 10 km below the ground.Stro..

NEW DELHI, Nov 8 The Union Ministry of Home Affairs in its 2021-22 annual report has said that there was a need to update the National Population Register (NPR).The Union Home Ministry also said that insurgency in the North East has gone down by 74 percen..

BHOPAL, Oct 29 Police have seized 1.5 Kilograms of smack worth about Rs 1.5 crore from a hidden chamber of a garlic-laden truck in Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh and arrested two alleged drug traffickers, an official said on Saturday.The drug was sou..