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India becoming a global force in renewable energy

The country stands fifth globally in terms of installed renewable energy capacity.   NEW DELHI: India is slowly inching towards becoming a major force in the...

Job, salary cuts hit formal sector employees hard

‘19 million people from the formal sector have lost jobs between April-August 2020’.   New Delhi: As jobs in the informal sector are slowly coming back...

Some Bengal Villages issue fatwa on TV, music

The minority dominated villages have set up kangaroo courts.   New Delhi: At least three minority dominated villages in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal have...

End of loan moratorium looms, adds to Covid woes

As per CMIE, over 18.9 million people have lost their jobs in the last six months.   New Delhi: The temporary respite provided by the Reserve...

AAP to contest Uttarakhand polls based on Delhi model

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which earlier this week announced to contest all the seats from the hill state of Uttarakhand in...

‘BJP must have CM face in Bengal if it wants to win’

‘A chief ministerial face is also needed to put brakes on the infighting among BJP leaders’.   New Delhi: If the BJP wants to win the...

Crime rate in Delhi dropped during lockdown

An alert Delhi Police and fear of the pandemic led to drop in crimes.   New Delhi: Delhi has witnessed a drop in the crime rate...

Six months on, doctors handling Covid cases are wiser, confident

The use of a combination of drugs, steroids and therapies instilled confidence in doctors.   New Delhi: Even as India crosses the 2 million mark of...

‘Digital India’s internet speed among the slowest’

This is as per a recent report published by world data speed monitoring platform Ookla.   At a time when the Ministry of Telecommunication is trying...

Delhi’s tangled overhead wires endanger lives

Many lives have been lost due to electrocution and fire.   New Delhi: The tangled and loose hanging high-tension electrical wires running across almost all residential...

India increasingly using Advanced Digital Production technologies: UN report

New Delhi: India is the only “lower middle-income” country which has made it to the second group of leading economies in the field of...

Government widens scope of Air India’s sale

The Centre is allowing 100% Foreign Direct Investment by NRIs in Air India.   New Delhi: The scope for the sale of the debt-ridden national carrier...

Amit Shah helps arrest Covid surge in Delhi

New Delhi: After around 40 days of Union Home Minister Amit Shah taking direct charge of the Covid-19 situation in Delhi, the virus’ rate...

‘We will have more of a Covid plateau than a peak’

India will have sustained transmission in different areas at different points in time, says leading epidemiologist Giridhar R. Babu.     New Delhi: Giridhar R. Babu, a...

Delhi Metro faces Rs 1,200 crore loss, ready for operations

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro, which has remained shut for the last four months, has drawn up an elaborate plan to resume operations and...

Ahead of Assembly polls, three Mamata Cabinet ministers unhappy

Ministers are upset with the way the Covid crisis and aftermath of cyclone Amphan have been handled.   New Delhi: Ahead of the May 2021 Assembly...

In seven years, 30 key Congress leaders deserted party

New Delhi: More than two dozen senior Congress leaders have deserted the Congress in the last seven years and have joined the BJP since...

Global brands employ Uyghur Muslims as ‘forced labour’

New Delhi: The Chinese government is forcing thousands of its Uyghur Muslim citizens to work as “forced labour” in hundreds of factories across Chinese...

LS denies information on agencies’ request to probe MPs

CBI has been seeking Speaker’s nod to prosecute four TMC MPs in Narada sting operation issue.   New Delhi: The Lok Sabha secretariat has refused to...

BSF bid to stop cow smuggling on Indo-Bangla border

Cattle smuggling gangs have become active ahead of the rainy season.   New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) in West Bengal has drawn up...

Pandemic leaves restaurants bleeding

New Delhi: The Covid-19 pandemic has left the restaurant industry bleeding with an estimated loss of about Rs 1 lakh crore in the last...

India develops indigenous attack, defence systems

New Delhi: India in the recent past has developed several indigenous missiles, attack and defence systems to counter threats from China, Pakistan and other...

Government bodies owe over Rs 526 cr to Air India

This is as per an RTI reply received by this newspaper from Air India.   New Delhi: Different government agencies and departments  owe more than Rs...

Mamata not allowing imports from Bangladesh

New Delhi: Bilateral trade relations between India and Bangladesh have taken a hit due to the West Bengal government’s decision not to allow imports...

Aviation sector wants full capacity domestic operations

New Delhi: The Indian aviation sector, which is among the worst-hit sectors in the Covid-19 pandemic, is seeking to restart domestic operations in full...

TMC launches BJP-style social media campaign

Party tells its MLAs to be active on social media and publicise Bengal government’s work in the last nine years.   New Delhi: West Bengal’s ruling...

Health ministry working to de-stigmatise Covid-19

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has its task cut out to ensure de-stigmatisation of the Covid-19 issue in India. Officials...

Auto sector shows slow recovery, but long road ahead

‘Most buyers don’t want to invest in a vehicle, given the fragile condition of the Indian economy’.   New Delhi: The automobile sector, one of the...

‘MP salary cuts won’t boost funds to fight Covid’

This is according to a report published by PRS Legislative Research.   New Delhi: The reduction of salaries of Members of Parliament (MPs) and that of...

Chinese investments are deep-rooted in India

Such investments have mostly taken the route of Foreign Direct Investment.   New Delhi: Chinese investments are deep-rooted in the Indian economy with $6.2 billion of...

Rapid testing for Covid-19 antibody may begin from July

New Delhi: After almost two months of halting rapid antibody testing for Covid-19 in India, mass-scale testing for Covid-19 antibody is likely to begin...

Test positivity rate is up, spread getting wider

Epidemiologists, doctors say that states showing a rising TPR should test more.   New Delhi: As India crosses 3 lakh positive Covid-19 cases, the Test Positivity...

Mamata govt ‘muzzling’ press freedom in Bengal

New Delhi: Media organisations who have been critical of the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government are receiving legal notices and this has raised concerns...

BSF thwarts smuggling bids along India-Bangladesh border

Notorious smugglers tried to smuggle drugs, gold, arms and cattle across the border.   New Delhi: Despite the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and a nationwide lockdown, Border...

Political storm in TMC over post cyclone mismanagement

New Delhi: Widespread protests across Kolkata and in some parts of Bengal over the mismanagement of the crisis left behind by Cyclone Amphan have...

New flight security protocols for passengers from Monday

Aircraft will take to the skies once again after being grounded for nearly 60 days.     New Delhi: Security protocols at all airports in India are going...

Cyclone Amphan leaves behind unseen devastation in Bengal

“We have never experienced something like this in our entire life, it was like total doomsday. Everything was pitch dark—trees falling, light posts clanging...

Shops open, but liquor sells in black in Delhi

People are selling liquor bottles at double and sometimes triple the price.   Despite the government of Delhi opening up several liquor shops in the national...

Mamata ‘illegally’ selects KMC board of administrators

A plea has been filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the appointment.   The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has, in an “illegal, arbitrary, capricious...

Mamata’s ‘mishandling’ of Covid crisis dents image

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections in Bengal, the “mishandling” of the Covid-19 crisis in the state has dented the image of Chief...

Bengal’s COVID underreporting ‘exposed’ in letter to centre

Letter was to protest against the number of Bengal zones marked red by Centre. New Delhi: A letter from the West Bengal government’s health department to...

Bengal is not anyone’s fiefdom: Governor Dhankar

In a candid conversation with The Sunday Guardian, Governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar flagged several issues ranging from a possible scam in the...

Work from home could hit aviation, hospitality, realty sectors

Firms can save money on office space rents, as employees need to travel less. New Delhi: The aviation, hospitality and real estate sectors could face...

With humanitarian touch, Delhi Police turns ‘Dil Ki Police’

They are going beyond their call of duty to provide humanitarian relief to Delhiites. New Delhi :As the entire nation under a lockdown to battle...

Bengal doctors raise alarm over corona handling

NEW DELHI: Doctors in West Bengal have raised concerns about the way the entire coronavirus crisis is being handled by the Bengal administration.  Doctors say that...

DELHI’S CONTAINMENT PLANS MANAGE TO REAP RESULTS

Three hotspots have been declared corona free in the last few days. NEW DELHI:Delhi’s extensive modelling of hotspot areas, coupled with the Delhi government’s operation...

Attackers using fake Covid-19 links to steal users’ data

Amidst the outbreak of the Covid-19 global pandemic, hackers and cyber threat actors have increased their notorious activities, targeting vulnerable individuals. The cyber attackers have...

‘Community transmission of Covid-19 is definitely happening in India’

Dr Arvinder Singh Soin says that thankfully, India is seeing a flatter curve than many other countries. New Delhi:India ranks one of the lowest in...

‘India may reach peak of Covid-19 cases by 20 April’

Even as India sees a steep rise in cases of coronavirus with the number of positive cases doubling every 3.5 days, epidemiologists say that...

DRDO at the forefront of fighting Covid-19

New Delhi: In a bid to fight against the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation), using its scientific endeavour, has developed...

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