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Kolkata, Feb 20: BJP youth wing leader Pamela Goswami was on Friday arrested with cocaine worth lakhs of rupees from south Kolkata's upscale New Alipore area, police said. Goswami, the state secretary of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), was along with a friend, identified as Prabir Kumar Dey, in her car when both of them were nabbed, they said. Around 100 gm of cocaine "worth a few lakh of

New Delhi, Feb 20: As many as 13,993 new COVID-19 cases and 101 deaths were reported in the country in the last 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Saturday. With the new cases, the coronavirus tally in the country has reached 1,09,77,387 including 1,43,127 active cases and 1,06,78,048 discharges. The death toll has mounted to 1,56,212 with the loss of 101

Patna, Feb 20: Bihar Tourism Minister Narayan Prasad on Friday said that common people have become habituated to fuel price rise and inflation in the country. His statement, which could spark a row, came after end of proceedings on the first day of the Bihar Assembly's budget session. Asked about the hike in petrol and diesel prices affecting common people, Prasad said that common people travel by

New Delhi, Feb 19: Climate activist Disha Ravi has been sent to three days in judicial custody by a Delhi court on Friday in connection with the 'toolkit' case on the farmers' protest that the police is investigating. Disha, whose five-day police custody ended today, was produced before Patiala House Court by the Special cell of Delhi Police. This morning Disha had been produced before a

Kolkata, Feb 19: A designated MP/MLA court in West Bengal issued summons to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday to appear either personally or through a lawyer before it on February 22 in connection with a defamation case lodged against him by Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee. The special judge of MP/MLA court at Bidhannagar directed that Shah is "required to appear in person/by pleader

New Delhi, Feb 19: After completing the withdrawal of troops and weapons from the north and south banks of Pangong lake, India and China will hold a fresh round of high-level military talks on Saturday to take forward the disengagement process in Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang in eastern Ladakh, official sources said on Friday. The tenth round of Corps Commander-level talks are scheduled to start

Over 100 million workers in eight of the world’s largest economies may need to switch occupation by 2030 as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerates changes to the labor force, according to research by McKinsey & Co. One-in-16 workers in China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Spain, the UK and US will likely need to change profession, a report published Thursday found. The less educated, women, ethnic

New Delhi, Feb 17: Even as the petrol crossed the Rs 100 mark today Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to hold his predecessors responsible by saying that middle-class would not have been burdened if the previous governments had focussed on reducing India's energy import dependence. Without referring to the relentless increase in retail fuel prices he said India imported over 85 per cent of its

New Delhi, Feb 17: A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a defamation complaint filed by former Union Minister and BJP leader M J Akbar against sexual harassment charges levelled against him by the former during the #MeToo campaign. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey let off Ramani in a judgment, saying the right of reputation can't be

Mumbai, Feb 17: Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Mumbai civic body has caught over 15 lakh people without face masks at public places in the city since April last year and collected more than Rs 30 crore as fine from them, officials said on Wednesday. Out of these offenders, 13,008 were caught on Monday and a fine of Rs 26,01,600 was collected from them, a Brihnamumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)