Winds of political dubiety in Kerala
What adds spice to this year’s Assembly poll is whether the State would see an incumbent Government returning to power? Though Kerala has seen many electoral battles in the past, no election has generated the kind of heat and dust which we saw during the Legislative Assembly poll held on April...
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Vaccinate on war footing
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The Sanskrit legacy of Kashmiri literature decoded
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A lesson in the Gyanvapi case
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Mayday! Mayday!
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The real heroes
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Poll-related violence was reported from Sitapur, Bahriach and Farrukhabad
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Global tender for vaccine
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Yogi Adityanath announced to increase the weekend curfew by 24 hours
| As the number of deaths and fresh cases touched a record number in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday announced to increase the weekend curfew by 24 hours as it will now commence from 2000 hrs of Friday and will end at 0700 hours on Tuesday. Earlier, the curfew...
Cinema halls, shopping complexes, gyms closed
| In the wake of the relentless onslaught of coronavirus across the state, the Uttar Pradesh government issued fresh guidelines banning any kind of social, cultural or religious gatherings and ordering closure of cinema halls, gyms, spas and shopping complexes from Thursday. The new restrictions will remain in force for the...
PGV seeks Rs 50L for kin of teachers who died on panchayat poll duty
| Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed concern over the number of deaths of teachers on panchayat poll duties in Uttar Pradesh and demanded a compensation of Rs 50 lakh for kin of the deceased. Amid the unprecedented surge of corona infection, the state was witness to a four-phase panchayat elections...
Senior IAS officer, SP leader succumb to Covid-19
| Senior IAS officer & chairman of Board of Revenue (UP) Deepak Trivedi (59) and senior Samajwadi Party leader & former minister Haji Riyaz died of Covid-19 in Lucknow on Thursday. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath condoled the demise of both, saying it is an irreparable loss to the society and administration. SP...
‘Waive charges for Central forces deployment in State’
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to waive the charges towards deployment of Central Armed Police Forces(CAPFs) in Odisha. In a letter, Patnaik requested Modi to direct the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to waive an amount of Rs 4561.23 crore of the State Government towards...
Rs 5.24-crore fine collected in April, says DGP
In view of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, the State Government made masking in public places mandatory and also announced a hefty fine of Rs 2,000 for violations. But it seems it has no effect on some people. This was known from DGP Abhay’s disclosures on Thursday on the amount...
‘Ensure more beds, medical equipments’
Lokshakti Aviyan State president Prafulla Samantara has appealed to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to arrange extended hospitals with equipments and doctors to see that not a single patient is deprived of getting right to health service. Samantara has sent a letter to the CM in this context. He explained that let...