Archive Detail
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| Trinamool MP kicks up a row by mocking c | New Delhi, Sep 18 (TIWN) The Trinamool Congress kicked up a row inside the Rajya Sabha on Friday as it mocked cow urine. It found itself in the minority as parties from across the nation vouched for homoeopathy, ayurveda and other alternate sources of medicine. | 18-Sep-2020 |
| Harsimrat Kaur Badal quits Modi govt to | NEW DELHI, Sep 17 : In a setback to the Modi government, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday resigned from the Union Cabinet in protest against the three farm bills tabled in Parliament by the Centre. | 17-Sep-2020 |
| Centre doesn't need HC consent to recogn | New Delhi, Sep 17 (TIWN) In a relief to the Centre and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), the Supreme Court on Thursday said the Centre need not seek the consent of Delhi High Court before granting recognition to various sports federations under the National Sports Code. | 17-Sep-2020 |
| Opposition submits memorandum to Prez fo | New Delhi, Sep 17 (TIWN) A delegation of opposition leaders met President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday and demanded a fair probe into the northeast Delhi riots while alleging that the investigation has been biased and many activists and political leaders have been wrongly named. | 17-Sep-2020 |
| 100-year-old Assam woman beats Covid-19 | Guwahati, Sep 17 (TIWN) A 100-year-old woman has been discharged from a hospital here after recovering from Covid-19 on Wednesday, officials said. | 16-Sep-2020 |
| Andhra to approach SC over HC gag order | Amaravati, Sep 17 (TIWN) The Andhra Pradesh government plans to challenge a state High Court gag order in the Supreme Court, which has restrained the media from reporting an Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) case, booking the former advocate general, his relatives and others for insider trading. | 16-Sep-2020 |
| Odisha reports highest spike of 4,270 Co | Bhubaneswar, Sep 16 (TIWN) Odisha has reported the highest single-day spike of 4,270 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the state's total tally to 1,62,920, informed the health department on Wednesday. | 16-Sep-2020 |
| How lockdown prevented lakhs of corona c | New Delhi, Sep 16 (TIWN) Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Wednesday questioned the Union government's claim that the nationwide lockdown prevented up to 29 lakh coronavirus cases and lack of data on assistance to and deaths of migrant labourers. | 16-Sep-2020 |
| Now, Delhi BJP Chief Adesh Gupta tests C | New Delhi, Sep 16 (TIWN) Delhi BJP Chief Adesh Gupta is the latest politician to have tested positive for coronavirus. He took to Twitter to announce this. | 16-Sep-2020 |
| Arunachal CM Pema Khandu tests Covid-19 | Itanagar/Shillong, Sep 15 (TIWN) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu tested positive for the Covid-19 while his Meghalaya counterpart Conrad K. Sangma, who last week visited Delhi and Manipur, tested negative for the virus, officials said on Tuesday. | 15-Sep-2020 |
| States have onus to engage pvt hospitals | New Delhi, Sep 15 (TIWN) The Central government has taken a series of actions to prevent, control and mitigate the impact of Covid-19, the Parliament was told on Tuesday. | 15-Sep-2020 |
| 'No Data available on migrant deaths, Jo | New Delhi, Sep 15 (TIWN): Migrant workers suffered the worst of the 68-day nationwide lockdown due to job losses that made them walk miles to reach their home states without shelter or any means of transportation. While scores of them died due to the restrictions imposed, the government has “no such data available†on the number of migrant deaths or the job losses. | 14-Sep-2020 |
| No coercive action against slum dwellers | New Delhi, Sep 15 (TIWN) The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that for the time being there will be no removal of 48,000 slums along railway tracks in Delhi. | 15-Sep-2020 |
| Farooq attends Parliament 1st time after | New Delhi, Sep 15 (TIWN): National Conference president Farooq Abdullah will attend the monsoon session of Parliament starting Monday, more than a year after the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 was abrogated on August 5, 2019, and local leaders were put into pre-emptive detention. | 15-Sep-2020 |
| Kolkata Metro resumes services after 176 | Kolkata, Sep 14 (TIWN) The Kolkata Metro Rail resumed its operations on Monday after a hiatus of 176 days due to the Covid-19 pandemic, officials said. | 14-Sep-2020 |
| BJD to support NDA nominee for RS Deputy | Bhubaneswar, Sep 14 (TIWN) Biju Janata Dal (BJD) President and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday announced his party's support to NDA candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh for the post of Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. | 14-Sep-2020 |
| Delhi Police arrests Umar Khalid in conn | New Delhi, Sep 14 (TIWN) Delhi Police arrested former Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in connection with northeast Delhi riots that broke out in February this year. | 14-Sep-2020 |
| No cooking in Parliament, only packed fo | New Delhi, Sep 13 (TIWN) Indian Parliament's much-publicised canteen will not prepare mouth-watering dishes inside the premises in the Monsoon Session beginning on Monday, with only packed breakfast, sweets, lunch, combo meals and other items to be served. | 13-Sep-2020 |
| Yechury's name in riots case: Cong to ra | New Delhi, Sep 13 (TIWN) The Congress has flayed the naming of Left leader Sitaram Yechury and others in a Delhi Police supplementary charge sheet in a Delhi riots case and said it will raise the issue in Parliament. | 13-Sep-2020 |
| Union ex-Minister Raghuvansh Prasad dies | New Delhi, Sep 13 (TIWN) Former Union Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh succumbed to post-COVID illness at AIIMS here on Sunday. He was 74. | 13-Sep-2020 |
| Shah readmitted for medical check-up: AI | New Delhi, Sep 13 (TIWN) Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been readmitted to AIIMS here for a complete medical check-up ahead of Parliament's Monsoon Session beginning from Monday, the hospital said on Sunday. | 13-Sep-2020 |
| Sonia, Rahul to miss Monsoon Session for | New Delhi, Sep 12 (TIWN) Even as the crucial Monsoon Session of the Parliament is set to commence from September 14, Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi will miss the session for few days as she has left for abroad with her son Rahul Gandhi for her annual medical treatment. | 12-Sep-2020 |
| Lok Sabha Business Advisory Committee me | New Delhi, Sep 12 (TIWN) A meeting of the Lok Sabha Business Advisory Committee (BAC) will be held on Sunday to discuss the issues and the list of Bills to be introduced in the Monsoon Session beginning from Monday. | 12-Sep-2020 |
| BJP demands probe into Tollywood's drug | Hyderabad, Sep 12 (TIWN) The Bharatiya Janata Party's Telangana unit has demanded a thorough probe into the drug nexus of Tollywood in the wake of reports that a Tollywood actress figures in the list of actors allegedly named by Rhea Chakraborty during interrogation by the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB). | 12-Sep-2020 |
| Modi govt acting like 'East India Compan | New Delhi, Sep 12 (TIWN) The Congress on Saturday slammed the Modi government over the three central laws promulgated through ordinances on June 5, saying it is acting like the "East India Company" to enslave the farmers. | 12-Sep-2020 |
| Works worth Rs 23K cr done under Garib K | New Delhi, Sep 12 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the government had completed works worth Rs 23,000 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY) and that the number of days to build a house under the PM Awas Yojana (Gramin) had gone sown from 125 days to between 45 and 60 days. | 12-Sep-2020 |
| Modi to announce 3 more gifts for Bihar | New Delhi, Sep 11 (TIWN) Staying with his emphasis on gifting an array of developmental projects for poll-bound Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation three key projects related to the Petroleum sector in the state this Sunday. | 11-Sep-2020 |
| Parliamentary panel for indigenous appli | New Delhi, Sep 11 (TIWN) The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a paradigm shift with technology stepping in in every field, and the judiciary was no different -- the typical physical courtrooms were replaced by virtual ones where proceedings were conducted through videoconference. | 11-Sep-2020 |
| Corona is over, says Bengal BJP chief | Kolkata, Sep 11 (TIWN) In a shocking statement, West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party President Dilip Ghosh has said that the coronavirus pandemic is over and the Mamata Banerjee-led state government is unnecessarily imposing lockdown to stop the saffron brigade from holding public rallies. | 11-Sep-2020 |
| 'Refrain from violence': SC grants bail | New Delhi, Sep 11 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to 21 anti CAA-NPR-NRC protesters of Karnataka's Mangaluru with a condition that they will not participate in any violent activities or meetings. | 11-Sep-2020 |
| Congress wants Dy Speaker in LS, writes | New Delhi, Sep 11 (TIWN) After the Rajya Sabha set into motion the process for the election of the Deputy Chairman, the Congress demanded that the Lok Sabha should also elect a Deputy Speaker. The post has been lying vacant since the 2019 general elections. | 11-Sep-2020 |
| 4,442 cases pending against sitting, for | New Delhi, Sep 9 (TIWN) Data provided by all the High Courts to the Supreme Court has revealed that 4,442 cases are pending against sitting and former MPs and MLAs in different courts, including special courts designated to try these cases. | 09-Sep-2020 |
| 1 dead, 4 hurt as World War II-era bomb | Kohima, Sep 10 (TIWN) A scrap picker was killed and four others were seriously wounded on Tuesday when a suspected World War II-era bomb exploded in Nagaland's commercial city Dimapur, police said. | 10-Sep-2020 |
| Govt to bear medical expenses of Anandap | Kolkata, Sep 9 (TIWN) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday appreciated Nilanjana Chatterjee, the lady who tried to rescue a woman screaming for help on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass on Saturday night and got hit by the offending vehicle, for her act of bravery. | 09-Sep-2020 |
| Four more added to Priyanka's advisory c | Lucknow, Sep 8 (TIWN) Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi has appointed four additional members to the advisory council of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, party General Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. | 08-Sep-2020 |
| Senior BJP leader in MP joins Congress | Bhopal, Sep 8 (TIWN) The Bharatiya Janata Party received a jolt in the Gwalior-Chambal region of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday with senior party leader Satish Singh Sikarwar, who contested the last assembly polls from the region, joining the Congress along with hundreds of supporters. | 08-Sep-2020 |
| Education for all is Modi govt's mission | New Delhi, Sep 8 (TIWN) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said that the Central government has been working tirelessly to achieve the goal set by Prime Minister's "Education for All" mission. | 08-Sep-2020 |
| Plea in SC to postpone Bihar polls to Ma | New Delhi, Sep 7 (TIWN) The Rashtravadi Janata Party (RJP) has moved a plea in the Supreme Court seeking postponement of the Bihar assembly elections scheduled for October-November to March next year in the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the floods that are ravaging the state. | 07-Sep-2020 |
| SC seeks detailed reply on plea for elde | New Delhi, Sep 7 (TIWN) The Supreme Court Monday asked states to file a detailed affidavit within four weeks on a plea seeking directions to provide masks and sanitisers for senior citizens, who are living alone, amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. | 07-Sep-2020 |
| Covid-19 woman patient abused in Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram, Sep 7 (TIWN) A day after the shocking news of an ambulance driver raping a young Covid-19 female patient inside an ambulance on Saturday night in Pathanamthitta district, another case of abuse surfaced on Monday. A junior Health Inspector in the state capital was arrested after he abused a female Covid patient who went to him for a Covid negative certificate. | 07-Sep-2020 |
| Intel alert in Punjab after SFJ's Sep 13 | New Delhi, Sep 7 (TIWN) Security agencies have issued alert to law enforcement agencies and police in Punjab after the banned Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) group in its letter to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has announced 'Rail Roko' (stop trains) call on September 13. | 07-Sep-2020 |
| Delhi riots: Tahir Hussain's ED custody | New Delhi, Sep 7 (TIWN) A Delhi court on Monday extended the Enforcement Directorate custody of ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain till September 10 in a money laundering case against him in connection with the riots in northeast Delhi. | 07-Sep-2020 |
| Delhi riots: 2 declared POs in Head Cons | New Delhi, Sep 6 (TIWN) Two persons named in the case of fatal shooting of Delhi Police Head Constable Rattan Lal during the February riots here have been declared Proclaimed Offenders by a city court for intentionally avoiding trial proceedings. | 06-Sep-2020 |
| Odisha: BSF saves ailing woman's life in | Bhubaneswar, Sep 6 (TIWN) Stepping beyond their mandated duty responsibilities, troops of India's border guarding force BSF saved the life of an ailing woman in Maoist-hit Malkangiri district in Odisha by facilitating ambulance and other necessary services to get her hospitalised around 75 kms away at the district hospital. | 06-Sep-2020 |
| Man held for Rahul Solanki's murder duri | New Delhi, Sep 6 (TIWN) The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested Mustaqeem alias Sameer Saifi for the murder of one Rahul Solanki in the Shiv Vihar area during the February north-east Delhi riots, an officer said on Sunday. | 06-Sep-2020 |
| Yogi to develop Bundelkhand as hub for o | Lucknow, Sep 6 (TIWN) UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wants Bundelkhand to be developed as a role model of organic farming. | 06-Sep-2020 |
| Soldier killed, 2 injured in LoC ceasefi | Srinagar, Sep 6 (TIWN) An Indian soldier was killed and two others injured on Saturday in firing on the LoC in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistan troops, which indulged in repeated ceasefire violations in several sectors. | 06-Sep-2020 |
| President awards 47 teachers on Teacher' | New Delhi, Sep 5 (TIWN) A total of 47 teachers from across the country, including women, were on Saturday conferred the National Award by President Ram Nath Kovind on the occasion of Teacher's Day. This was the first ever virtual award ceremony held on the occasion due to the Covid-19 pandemic which so far has infected over 4 million people across the country. | 05-Sep-2020 |
| Appointments to over 20K govt jobs in ne | Gandhinagar, Sep 5 (TIWN) Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Saturday announced that all candidates selected for government posts will be immediately given appointment letters while new recruitments for vacant positions will be announced soon. He said that in the next 5 months, appointments will be made to more than 20,000 government jobs in the state. | 05-Sep-2020 |
| How to decide who should get the Covid-1 | New York, Sep 5 (TIWN) At least 19 global health experts have proposed a new, three-phase plan for vaccine distribution -- called the Fair Priority Model -- which aims to reduce premature deaths and other irreversible health consequences from Covid-19. | 05-Sep-2020 |