Indian equity market delivers stronger returns than China

New Delhi: Indian equity markets have delivered...

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Man cycles around India to make villages ecologically sustainable

New Delhi: Ankit, a 32-year-old former journalist from Jaipur, has set out on a cycle mission to transform India’s villages into ecologically sustainable villages...

Refurbished Rajpath will host Republic Day parade

The work to complete the Central Vista Avenue is progressing fast, given that it has to be reopened before the 26 January Republic Day...

TMC hoping to be in alliance with SP in UP, fight 10-15 seats

New Delhi: s part of its national adventure, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is hoping to contest the Uttar Pradesh elections scheduled to be held...

Traffic cops keep Delhi moving despite many challenges

New Delhi: With the ever increasing population and fleet of cars, the national capital is often seen choked with long traffic snarls at almost...

Post BJP’s KMC poll debacle, Nadda Kolkata-bound to take stock

New Delhi: After the BJP faced a massive drubbing at the recently concluded Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections held earlier last week, BJP national...

Rising air traffic, fog, delays lead to crowding at Delhi airport

Covid-19 protocols are not being followed and volunteers are not present at the airport to manage the crowds. The increased scheduled flight capacity, winter rush...

‘Talibani mentality on women won’t be tolerated in India’

New Delhi: “Talibani mentality” on women’s liberty, dignity, empowerment and constitutional equality will not be tolerated in India, Union Minister for Minority Affairs and...

‘50% of those arrested under UAPA below 30 years’

Centre has no plan to amend the UAPA law, says junior Home Minister Nityanand Rai.   New Delhi: Over 50% of the total people arrested under...

Mamata trying to kill Congress politically, say Congress leaders

Bengal Congress had informed the Congress high command about Mamata’s ‘brutal nature’, but the Congress high command ignored.   New Delhi: As West Bengal Chief Minister...

Mamata rebukes Mahua Moitra for indulging in factionalism

New Delhi: In a bid to rein in the Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) Krishnanagar MP Mohua Moitra for fuelling factionalism within the party, West Bengal...

BJP in a tough spot in Kolkata Municipal polls

At least two BJP candidates have withdrawn their nominations.   New Delhi: As the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) elections are due to be held next week,...

Over Rs 25,000 crore loss for India’s Covid-hit aviation sector

More than 20,000 people in the aviation sector lost their jobs in the last two years. New Delhi: The Covid 19 pandemic has dealt a...

Parliament saw 25 repeal bills in 20 years

New Delhi: With the repealing of the three farm laws by the Parliament earlier last week, India has witnessed the 25 repeal bills passed...

Asthana turns Delhi Police into a people-centric, modern force

New Delhi: The Delhi Police is undergoing a transformation of sorts under new Commissioner of Delhi Police Rakesh Asthana, in order to make the...

‘Cornitos caters to a newer, healthier India’

New Delhi: Vikram Agarwal, Managing Director of Cornitos, one of India’s leading snacking brands that had hit the market with their Mexican Nachos crisps,...

BJP wants all municipal polls held simultaneously in Bengal

‘Ruling TMC is scared of holding polls together for fear of being defeated in the local body elections’. New Delhi: With the date for Kolkata...

New TMC entrants see Mamata as a formidable PM candidate

Kirti Azad, Ashok Tanwar and Pavan Varma say that the Trinamool Congress has a strategic pan-India plan for 2024 Lok Sabha elections. New Delhi: Following...

BJP’s Bengal unit undergoes churning

New Delhi: Ever since 2014 when the BJP for the first time had bagged over 17% vote share in Bengal in the then concluded...

Huge demand, no supply: Global chip crisis hits India’s car market

New Delhi: The global shortage of semiconductor chips used in the manufacturing of new cars has led to a long queue of customers across...

Hunar Haat fest showcases art, crafts from across nation

New Delhi: In a bid to provide economic empowerment to thousands of poor artisans and showcase some of the most unique and dying indigenous...

Liquor shortage in Delhi leads to black marketeering

New Delhi: As Delhi transits into the new excise regime, a shortage of liquor across the city has led to a rush in the...

Rs 5,000 crore spent by Delhi in 27 years, but Yamuna continues to die

New Delhi: Twenty-seven years have passed, several promises made, multiple deadlines missed, three Yamuna Action Plans devised and “implemented”, over Rs 5,000 crore spent,...

PM Modi’s intervention saves IRCTC from tanking

PM had to intervene to salvage the situation after bureaucrats made a faulty policy announcement.   New Delhi: Timely intervention by Prime Minister Narendra Modi helped...

Sahara Warriors lift Indri India Open polo trophy

The tournament, organised by the Piccadily Group, was held in the national capital’s Jaipur Polo Ground on Sunday. New Delhi: The Indri Indian Open polo...

IIT report on Delhi pollution had suggested remedies

Environmentalists say the public transport system must be improved to reduce the load of private vehicles on Delhi roads.   New Delhi: Five years have passed...

Mass induction of turncoats in party irks TMC leaders

New Delhi: The induction of several turncoats into the Trinamool Congress (TMC) following the electoral victory of the party in May this year, is...

BJP’s Bengal unit set to see a major reshuffle

40% of sitting members may be replaced; many new and young faces may be inducted.   New Delhi: The Bengal unit of the BJP is likely...

Disenchantment brewing within Bengal BJP

Many MLAs and MPs are unhappy with the way Dilip Ghosh has been running the affairs of the party.   New Delhi: Major disenchantment is brewing...

4 ministers from Bengal show BJP planning for 2024 polls

‘The party has handpicked the four names from Bengal after a lot of deliberations’.   New Delhi: Despite the BJP losing the recently concluded Assembly polls...

Suvendu is BJP’s tallest leader in Bengal

‘His commands are directly coming from the top bosses in Delhi’.   New Delhi: Following the election results in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari has cemented his...

AAP to go national, contest six Assembly elections next year

The party’s main focus will be on Goa, Gujarat, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. New Delhi: After tasting a thumping electoral victory in Delhi...

Over 11,000 incidents of post poll violence in Bengal, says BJP

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal continues its protest against the ongoing post-poll violence perpetrated on BJP workers on the ground...

Minority Affairs Ministry will launch massive vaccination awareness campaign

New Delhi: Union Ministry for Minority Affairs is set to launch a nationwide awareness campaign against Covid-19. The campaign will be called “Jaan Hai...

In five months, 6% of India fully vaccinated, mainly with Covishield

New Delhi: As India completes five months into its massive vaccination drive against the deadly Covid-19, the country so far has been able to...

TMC aims to expand in Northeast

‘The responsibility for this is going to be handed over to Mukul Roy’.   New Delhi: With the electoral victory of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for...

Over 140 air ambulances flew in and out of Delhi, Mumbai during second wave

New Delhi: During the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, between April and May when the cases were at their peak, the...

‘Matuas fully backed BJP, CAA will be implemented’

If TMC opposes CAA, it will prove what the BJP has been saying: Shantanu Thakur.   New Delhi: Bongaon Lok Sabha MP, senior BJP leader and...

Abhishek set to become Mamata’s political heir

New Delhi: With the Trinamool Congress securing a third term in West Bengal after the recently concluded Assembly elections, Abhishek Banerjee, the second-in-command in...

‘Health insurance firms refusing cover to Covid-recovered patients’

New Delhi: At a time when the country is reeling under a health crisis triggered by the Covid-19 virus, many health insurance companies are...

Sporadic post-poll violence IS on in Bengal

‘BJP workers from the ground say they are still hiding in different locations’.   New Delhi: With more than a month having passed since results of...

Covid-19 vaccination causes very few adverse reactions

Covid-19 vaccination causes very few adverse reactions   New Delhi: 10 deaths related to Covid 19 vaccination have been confirmed between January and March first week,...

TMC organisational rejig may happen soon

CM Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee may be given a larger role.   New Delhi: Following its electoral victory in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress is...

‘Two variants responsible for second wave’

‘The variants B.1.617.1 and B.1.617.2 were first identified in India’.   New Delhi: The deadly outbreak of the second wave of Covid-19 in India is associated...

TMC turncoats paving way to return to parent party

‘Some BJP MLAs who have won the elections are likely to switch their allegiance’.   New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who had joined the BJP...

Seven years on, CBI still silent on Saradha chit fund scam

New Delhi: As the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) cracks its whip on the Narada sting operation case of 2016, questions are being raised...

Key BJP leaders face the axe for Bengal debacle

New Delhi: The “unexpected” poll loss for the BJP in West Bengal is likely to result in the replacement of key leaders from the...

Sangh, BJP had helped, say friends of RSS worker who died of Covid-19

Amit Jaiswal’s sister and brother-in-law had claimed initially that they had got no help.   New Delhi: Friends and close associates of Amit Jaiswal, an RSS...

Young civil servants, doctors set up Covid care facility in Delhi

NEW DELHI: In wake of the crisis in oxygen, medicines and beds that the national capital witnessed in the last few weeks, a group...

India exploring options to bring more Covid vaccines

India exploring options to bring more Covid vaccines   NEW DELHI: As of today, 15 vaccines against Coronavirus are available across the world and while India...

EC’s booth-wise results used to perpetrate violence on BJP supporters

This is happening not just in the villages but also in Kolkata. New Delhi: The booth-wise results shared by the Election Commission of India (ECI)...

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