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New Delhi, Dec 9: India will keep its scheduled international passenger flights suspended till January 31 next year, aviation regulator DGCA said on Thursday. Amid rising concerns over the coronavirus variant Omicron, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had on December 1 decided not to resume scheduled international flights from December 15, less than a week after announcing that it

New Delhi, Dec 9: The Samyukata Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Thursday called off one of the country's longest agitations after the farmers' leaders accepted the Centre's fresh proposals. They will vacate protest sites by December 11. The farmers' body, an umbrella body of 40 farmer organisations, on Wednesday had flagged certain objections to the government’s written proposal that talked about

New Delhi, Dec 8: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which has been at the forefront of farmer protests at Delhi's borders for over a year now, this evening released a statement saying that they have arrived at a consensus to "accept the Centre's proposal." An urgent meeting of the SKM 's five-member committee was held at the All India Kisan Sabha office at Delhi's KG Marg at 10 am on 8 December

New Delhi, Dec 8: India stands out as a poor and very unequal country, with the top 1 per cent of the population holding more than one-fifth of the total national income in 2021 and the bottom half just 13 per cent, according to a report. The report, titled 'World Inequality Report 2022', has been authored by Lucas Chancel, co-director of the World Inequality Lab, and coordinated by several

New Delhi, Dec 7: Protesting farmers' unions reached a consensus on the future course of the agitation as nearly all their demands have been met, but a formal announcement of their decision will be made Wednesday, farmer leader Kulwant Singh Sandhu said Tuesday. "Nearly all demands raised by us have been met...Letter (from government with assurances on farmers' demands) has been received. A

New Delhi, Dec 5: India reported 17 more cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 on Sunday - nine persons in Rajasthan capital Jaipur, seven in Maharashtra's Pune district and a 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania - taking the tally to 21 in the country. Most of those who tested positive either recently arrived from African countries or were in contact with such

Mobile internet and SMS services have been snapped in Mon district of Nagaland, following a counter-insurgency operation in which 13 civilians were killed by the security forces on Saturday night. Ordering a Court of Inquiry into the incident, Army said that one of its personnel was also killed and several others were seriously injured. It said that the incident and its aftermath is "deeply

At least 13 persons were killed by security forces and several injured at Oting in Nagaland's Mon district on Saturday evening during an anti-insurgency operation. One army personnel was also reportedly killed in the attack by angry locals, sources said. Although the army has not yet made any official statement, local officials said the army team opened fire on a group of men, who were returning

Veteran journalist Vinod Dua on Saturday passed away, confirmed his daughter Mallika Dua on social media. The 67-year-old journalist, a Hindi broadcast journalism pioneer with stints in Doordarshan and NDTV, was last recently moved to the Intensive Care Unit of Apollo Hospital on the advice of doctors. Vinod Dua and his wife were in a hospital in Gurgaon when the second Covid wave was at its peak

Palakkad, Dec 3: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the murder of local leader RSS Sanjith of Elappuly, on late night Thursday arrested Popular Front of India (PFI) Chunangad unit President Nishadh alias Nizar (37) in connection with the murder, police said on Friday. Police said he was allegedly involved in the conspiracy and also helped the criminals to escape in his vehicle after