A fight or a sweep? Assessing the electoral map of Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: The BJP aims to win every seat...

Modi versus Rahul again

The Bharatiya Janata Party appears to have...

Bareilly set to witness a sharp BJP-SP contest

NEW DELHI: BJP replaces incumbent MP, facing...

Navtan Kumar

Western pharma lobby attempts to discredit India

‘The enviable position India enjoys in the pharmaceutical sector has made Western drug firms restless’.   New Delhi: As India emerges as a production hub of...

India asks Pakistan to jointly tackle menace of locusts

Since the locusts are also coming from Iran, India is looking at a trilateral response to deal with the problem.   New Delhi: What even coronavirus...

Acute funds crunch affects Spic Macay’s work

New Delhi: A voluntary movement for promoting Indian culture and heritage, that touched the lives of millions of youths of many generations across the...

‘Temples were not meant to become cash-cows’

Anuraag Saxena, founder, India Pride Project, spoke to The Sunday Guardian on a host of issues. Excerpts:   Q: Do you think the proposal of appropriating...

Demand to free temples from government control

‘If churches and mosques are not under government control, why only temples?’   New Delhi: Amidst controversy over the use of temple gold to deal with...

‘Labour migration won’t hit functioning of SAIL plants’

SAIL chairman Anil Kumar Chaudhary says during lockdown, SAIL kept its essential equipment in running condition.   The nationwide lockdown in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic...

Congress state units not keen on paying migrants’ railway fare

Party president Sonia Gandhi had said that her party’s state units would come to the rescue of migrant workers.   New Delhi: State Congress units are...

Focus on states with high Covid cases

73% of confirmed cases are from Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi and Rajasthan.   New Delhi: As the country gears up for the fourth phase of...

Hard for Covid-hit employers to retain full workforce: Survey

Respondents said payment of staff salaries and working capital would be tough. New Delhi: Worried over the mass exodus of migrant workers to respective home...

Congress state units not keen on paying migrants’ railway fare

Party president Sonia Gandhi had said that her party’s state units would come to the rescue of migrant workers. New Delhi:State Congress units are cold...

Manpower crunch as migrant workers leave for home

New Delhi: As the country gears up for relaxation in lockdown, which was enforced to contain the spread of Covid-19, the fear of a...

Gujarat tops in ferrying migrants in special trains

While Gujarat was one of the top originating stations, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh remained among the top receiving states.   The Indian Railways have run 220...

Steel demand to contract 7.7% in 2020 on steps to check virus

The Indian Steel Association (ISA) which represents major public and private sector steel companies has forecast that steel demand would contract 7.7% in 2020...

‘Online Yoga classes, Ayurveda products help boost immunity’

It is only recently that Yoga has been recognised all over the world. New Delhi: As the country battles the Covid-19 pandemic on a war-footing, India’s...

Covid pall on Bihar polls, EC studying South Korea model

 The tenure of the Bihar Assembly is set to expire in November.   New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) is studying the South Korea model for holding...

Second only to China in manufacturing PPEs, India ramps up procurement of key medical equipment

NEW DELHI: After procuring sufficient quantities of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and ramping up health infrastructure, the Centre has shifted its focus on increasing the procurement of...

India battling virus at home, helping others

New Delhi: India is offering a helping hand to different countries fighting the Covid-19 pandemic with medicines as well as medical professionals, while simultaneously...

‘Swift action let taiwan manage covid crisis’

James C.F. Huang, Chairman of Taiwan External Trade Development Council says that this global fight against Covid-19 should go beyond political disagreements. New Delhi: Covid-19 pandemic...

Corrupt babus block action in sports injury hub scam

New Delhi: Corrupt officials in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare are delaying action in a case related to massive irregularities and...

‘India now has 672 dedicated Covid hospitals’

‘There are over 1.07 lakh isolation beds and over 14,700 ICU beds’. New Delhi: The Centre’s pre-emptive and graded approach has helped India gradually ramp...

India’s Muslims join other citizens in backing lockdown

Muslim scholars question the way a narrative is being built linking Covid to Muslims.   New Delhi: Muslim scholars are coming out in the open asking...

Indian firms raise anti-malarial HCQ production

NEW DELHI: Indian pharmaceutical companies have set in motion the process to increase production of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the wake of increasing demand...

‘The lockdown is being fully implemented in JNU’

JNU V-C Jagdesh Kumar says he sees no option other than completing the remaining syllabus through online mode. New Delhi: The corona outbreak has brought...

‘PM has motivated every citizen to become a soldier in the war against corona’ 

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assumed the role of the captain of Team India in the country’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic,...

Plea seeks ‘consecutive sentence’ for graft, terror convicts

A consecutive sentence is harsher than a concurrent one.   New Delhi: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues his crusade against corruption by making laws...

Railway coaches being modified for quarantine, isolation

New Delhi: The Indian Railways has swung into action to modify coaches into quarantine / isolation coaches to house Covid-19 patients. As part of...

PM ensuring food grains supply to remotest areas

New Delhi: India has a sufficient stock of food grains—rice and wheat—in the country and Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, under...

Railways on overdrive to ensure availability of essential commodities

New Delhi: Indian Railways carried more than 1.6 lakh wagons in four days this week in order to keep the supply chain functional at...

Nod to bill on registering marriages with NRIs in 30 days

Bill empowers authorities to impound or revoke passport or travel documents of NRIs. New Delhi: A Parliamentary Standing Committee has approved a Bill which calls...

Jails parole inmates to protect health

The move, following the SC’s order, has been widely welcomed. New Delhi: As the Covid-19 outbreak spreads across India, many jails in the country have...

For now, govt won’t go for large-scale tests for virus

If a person is asymptomatic, the viral load is not likely to be very high in the beginning. New Delhi: The government has decided to...

‘No need to hoard, no shortage of food grains’

New Delhi: The Centre is making all out efforts to ensure that there is no shortage of essential commodities like food grains in the...

Trains with flexi fares saw 14% vacant berths

‘Reduced passengers in Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto is indicative of falling popularity of these premium trains’.   NEW DELHI: More than 28 lakh berths, about 14%...

India treads with caution on Iran’s take on riots

‘For Iran, India appears to have a tilt toward Saudi Arabia, and it has given a message to India not to ignore Iran’s interests’.   New...

Sharp drop in inbound Indians from abroad

There has been a 40% decline in the last 20 days, as per official data.   New Delhi: There has been a sharp 40% decline in...

India watching Scenario in Kabul after US-Taliban deal

‘Majority in Afghan are against the deal, which may lead to a civil war-like situation’.   NEW DELHI: India, which was hardly kept in the loop...

Bengal tops in snakebite deaths

NEW DELHI: West Bengal accounted for the maximum number of snakebite deaths in India in the last few years, followed by Uttar Pradesh, Madhya...

‘Saptarishis’ to help BJP mobilise voters in Bihar

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to adopt the “Saptarishi” strategy to mobilise its voters even as it starts preparing for...

Railways’ high-speed track needs being met by Bhilai Steel Plant

Bhilai, Chhattisgarh: The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is ramping up its production facilities to meet Indian Railways’ requirement of running high-speed trains, metro trains,...

Bhilai Steel providing equipment for ‘Gaganyaan’ mission

The plant has dispatched special steel plates rolled in BSP which would be used in the satellite launch vehicle. Bhilai, Chhattisgarh: The Bhilai Steel Plant...

Bid to start interim mining in Rowghat

This will help the Bhilai Steel Plant get a footprint in the area. Rajhara, Chhattisgarh: The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is working hard to start...

Two-year freeze on new engineering colleges

NEW DELHI: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has put a blanket ban on opening of new engineering colleges for the next...

Saryu firm on ‘exposing’ Raghubar Das in graft case

Roy said he would resurrect the Meinhardt deal, allegedly involving Das.   New Delhi: Former BJP leader Saryu Roy, who came to the limelight after defeating...

Over 18,000 from Pak, Bangla, Afghanistan given Indian citizenship in five years

New Delhi: Even as uproar over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) within a section fails to subside, fresh data from the Ministry of Home...

‘Trump visit will help India and US counter the axis of Russia, China, Pak’

New Delhi: As US President Donald Trump awaits a warm welcome to India, foreign policy experts in both the United States and India hope...

AIIMS to sensitise people on incurable Celiac

The institute is already carrying out research and it is the main centre not only in India, but in entire Asia. New Delhi: The country’s premier...

‘Nearly 20% of madrasas are unrecognised’

Uttar Pradesh tops the list of states with the most number of such unrecognised madrasas. New Delhi: Around 20% of madrasas in the country are...

Flop population control plans led to ‘unwanted kids’

Due to failure by successive governments, over 23 lakh ‘unwanted births’ happened. New Delhi: As demand for a stringent law to check the menace of...

BJP hopes Marandi’s return will help party gain tribals’ trust

There is excitement among BJP workers over Marandi’s move to re-join the BJP. New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes to win the trust...

Unique card provides fast medical loan

NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from the government’s successful “Ayushman Bharat” scheme, which provides medical insurance to people, a Delhi-based entrepreneur has come out...

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