Xi warns against foreign bullying as China marks party centenary
China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday warned that foreign forces attempting to bully the nation will “get their heads bashed”, and hailed a “new world” created by its people as the ruling Communist Party marked the centenary of its founding. In an hour-long address from Tiananmen Square, Xi pledged to build up China’s military, committed […]
Punjab reels under long, unscheduled power cuts
Despite the Punjab Government paying Rs 20,000 crore fixed charges to three private thermal plants and CM Capt Amarinder Singh asking the Finance Department to spare Rs 500 crore to buy additional power, the electricity supply situation has been erratic in the state, leading to unscheduled cuts lasting several hours. Not only villages and agriculture […]
Protests as Israel begins demolition in Jerusalem’s Silwan
JERUSALEM: Israel demolished a Palestinian shop in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan on Tuesday, triggering scuffles between police and protesters who accused authorities of discriminatory enforcement of building permits in the holy city. Palestinians seek East Jerusalem, which Israel captured in a 1967 war, for a future state. Israel deems all of Jerusalem as […]
Covid: India Logs 45,951 Fresh Cases, 22% Higher Than Yesterday
India reported 45,951 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s cumulative Covid-19 infection tally to 30,362,848, the Union ministry of health and family welfare’s (MoHFW) dashboard showed. In the same period, 817 people succumbed due to the viral disease, taking the death toll to 398,454 or 1.31 % […]
Monsoon Session of Parliament likely from July 19
The Monsoon Session of Parliament is likely to commence on July 19 and conclude on August 13, sources said on Tuesday. The nearly month-long session is likely to have around 20 sittings, sources said. The Monsoon Session of Parliament usually commences in the third week of July and concludes ahead of Independence Day. A recommendation […]
Seven killed, 50 injured in Dhaka blast
DHAKA: Seven people were killed and more than 50 injured in an explosion in the Bangladeshi capital late on Sunday. The cause of the blast, which occurred on the ground floor of a three-storey building on a busy street in Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, was not immediately known. “We have information so far that seven people […]
Covid Delta Plus Variant: Be Cautious, But Don’t Panic, Say Doctors
Dr Raman Gangakhedkar, former ICMR chief, has said that the delta-plus variant of coronavirus is highly infectious but there is no need to panic. As per the ICMR data, over 70 per cent of people have managed to develop immunity against Covid-19, however, the country appears to be heading towards herd immunity but the Delta-plus […]
To Tackle Spread Of Delta Plus Covid Variant, Centre Asks 8 States, UTs To Increase Testing
Amid concerns of the Delta plus Covid variant spreading across India, the Centre on Friday directed eight states and Union Territories to increase vaccine coverage on apriority basis in districts where the new variant has been detected. The Union health ministry has asked Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and […]
Turkish, US officials discuss security plans for Kabul airport
ANKARA: Turkish and US military officials met in Ankara on Thursday to discuss plans for Turkish troops to continue securing Kabul’s airport after the withdrawal of US and other Nato troops from Afghanistan. Turkey, Nato’s only majority-Muslim member, has offered to protect and run the Hamid Karzai airport. the main gateway into Afghanistan after the […]
Five Cases Of Covid ‘Delta Plus’ Variant In Madhya Prasdesh; 1 Dead
The state Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang on Thursday informed that five persons have so far been found infected with the ‘Delta Plus’ variant of coronavirus in Madhya Pradesh and one of them has died. He said, the other four persons, who were vaccinated against Covid, are fine. “One person from Ujjain, who died, was […]