New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu broke down today in the house while reading out a statement condemning what he called “sacrilege” and violation of the “temple of democracy” by the opposition. Opposition MPs on Tuesday climbed the officials’ table at the centre of the…
One person has died and around 30 people are feared buried after a landslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur left many vehicles trapped under debris this afternoon. The landslide took place on the Reckong Peo-Shimla Highway in Kinnaur at around 12.45 pm. A truck, a state-run bus and other vehicles are believed to…
The financial health of Vodafone Idea Ltd. is a concern for lenders, although the government is expected to find a solution to prevent the collapse of the loss-making Indian telecommunications company, according to Axis Bank Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Chaudhry. “If this company survives, which I believe the…
Britain’s Prince Andrew is likely to do anything he can to avoid giving evidence in a U.S. lawsuit filed by an American woman who alleges that he sexually assaulted her when she was 17, lawyers on both sides of the Atlantic say. Andrew may contest the U.S. court’s jurisdiction, or ignore the civil lawsuit…
A woman in Kerala’s Wayanad who fell into a 50-feet deep well was rescued by the Fire Department officials and locals on Tuesday. A video of the woman being pulled out from the well was shared by news agency ANI and has gone viral since. In the 1.05-minute clip, the officials and locals are seen using a rope and…
The ongoing Parliament session has seen the acrimonious exchange between treasury and opposition benches. NCP Rajya Sabha MP Fauzia Khan urges the government to listen to the opposition when it raises issues like inflation, the rising rate of unemployment, national security and so on. Excerpts from an interview. Most…
New Delhi: An unspecified number of COVID-19 patients died due to “insufficient oxygen being available” at a hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Tirupati during the second wave, the centre told Parliament on Tuesday. Responding to a question from Telugu Desam Party MP K Ravindra Kumar, junior Health…
Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif Wednesday to rally his beleaguered forces, with Taliban fighters having now taken more than a quarter of the country’s provincial capitals in less than a week. Ghani arrived in Mazar as the Taliban…
New Delhi: Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal welcomed on Tuesday a Supreme Court decision that Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart should face investigations into alleged anti-competitive behaviour, saying their trading practices would be looked into. Piyush Goyal’s comments are the latest sign of New…
New Delhi: A study on mixing Covishield and Covaxin, the two main vaccines used in India’s COVID-19 vaccination programme, has been given the go-ahead by the Drugs Controller General Of India (DCGI), say sources. This study and its clinical trials, sources add, will be conducted by Vellore’s Christian…