BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar on Thursday wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asking him to show courage to shut down the state- funded madrasas and prove his "Hindutva credentials". The BJP has escalated its attack on Thackeray fol...
Three migrants stranded aboard a tanker for over a month awaiting a port to disembark jumped into the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday in a sign of increasing despair on deck, the ship reported.
In a tweet on Monday, former President Pranab Mukherjee said he has tested positive for COVID-19.
The disengagement in Gogra is expected to be complete by Thursday. Sources said that even there, the PLA will move back 2 kilometres.
Heavy rains also lashed parts of Porbandar, Gir Somnath, Junagadh and Amreli districts in Saurashtra region, as well as Valsad and Navsari districts in south Gujarat throughout the day.
In April, COVID-19 cases across the country spiked after hundreds of many Tablighi Jamaat members, who had attended the religious congregation at Nizamuddin Markaz event, tested positive.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday had announced sealing of Delhi's borders for a week amid the rising coronavirus cases in the national capital and sought suggestions from Delhiites by Friday to reopen the same.
The home financier will give additional 10 basis points benefit to new homebuyers and will offer home loan at 7.4 per cent to customers who are linking their existing or new single term insurance policy to the loan availed from it.
Funds would be released to assist the labour force in the unorganized sector, chief minister Hemant Soren said, adding beneficiaries of the Public Distribution System would get grains for a whole month.
Brazilian football clubs like Bahia, Athletico Paranaense and Sao Paulo offered their stadiums and training grounds to the government to use for the fight against coronavirus.
Irfan Habib, a noted historian, said had Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan wanted to speak in favour of the amended Citizenship Act, he should have organised his own event.
The Union Home Minister said he wanted to ask minorities, especially Muslims, to look into the CAA, which was now available on the government website.
AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi said there is a need for 'new political alternative' as Assam limps back to normalcy after violent protests, curfews and a sense of betrayal.
Union minister Debashree Chaudhuri, who has been asked by PM Modi to visit the areas impacted by the cyclone in West Bengal, was on her way to Gosaba to assess the extent of damages caused by 'Bulbul'.
The BJP MP said Sonia Gandhi and Sharad Pawar have clarified that they have been mandated to sit in the opposition, and so Shiv Sena does not have an option but to be a part of the alliance with BJP.
