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New Delhi, Jan 1: The daily new coronavirus infections in India remained below 30,000 for the 19th consecutive day taking the COVID-19 caseload to 1,02,86,709, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 98.83 lakh, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. A total of 20,035 new infections were reported in a day, while the death toll increased to

Mumbai, Jan 1: Equity benchmark indices began the first trading session of year 2021 on a positive note with the possibility of touching new heights. The stocks have surged since November on record inflows from foreign institutional investors, progress on Covid-19 vaccines globally and signs of a nascent economic recovery in the country. At 10:15 am, the BSE S&P Sensex was up by 148 points or 0.31

Barely, Jan 1: Barely hours before ushering in the New Year, the Yogi Adityanath government transferred 17 IAS officers, including the District Magistrate of Hathras who came under fire following the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras last year. According to the government spokesman, Hathras District Magistrate Parveen Kumar Laxar, who faced flak for the cremation of the

New Delhi, Jan 1: Ministry of Road Transport and Highways mandated fitment of FASTag with effect from Friday, in M and N categories of motor vehicles sold before December 1, 2017. Notably, category 'M' stands for a motor vehicle with at least four wheels used for carrying passengers, while category 'N' stands for a motor vehicle with at least four wheels used for carrying goods, which may also

Jaipur, Dec 31: The Haryana Police on Thursday used a water cannon and tear gas as farmers on tractor-trailers broke through barricades at the Shahjahanpur border with Rajasthan, trying to push towards the national capital. While farmers on around 25 tractor-trailers pushed past the Haryana Police barriers, others stayed behind on the Rajasthan side of the Shahjahanpur-Rewari border, police said

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 31: In an unprecedented move, BJP's lone member in the Kerala Assembly, O Rajagopal, on Thursday, supported the resolution seeking scrapping of the three contentious farm laws against which farmers have been agitating for over a month at the Delhi border. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had moved the resolution at a special session on Thursday which was unanimously passed

The NSE Nifty 50 benchmark crossed the 14,000-mark for the first time for a brief period on Thursday morning, reflecting the culmination of recovery in domestic markets in the past few months after a slump due to the coronavirus pandemic through most part of 2020. The benchmark rose to an all-time high of 14,010.5, while S&P BSE Sensex rose 119.34 points to touch a record high of 47,865.56 after a

Panaji, Dec 30: The law department of the Goa government has given approval to a proposal to allow cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a minister has said, a move which drew flak from opposition parties. Law Minister Nilesh Cabral told reporters on Tuesday evening that his department has vetted and cleared the proposal to allow cultivation of marijuana (ganja or grass) for medicinal

Chandigarh, Dec 30: In another humiliating defeat to Haryana's ruling BJP-JJP combine, it lost mayoral polls in two municipal corporations but won in one civic body on Wednesday. The opposition Congress won the post of Mayor for the Sonepat Municipal Corporation, while the BJP won the post in Panchkula Municipal Corporation. In the Ambala Municipal Corporation, Congress rebel Venod Sharma's

New Delhi, Dec 30: Kapil Gurjar, the man who shot to fame for opening fire near the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest site in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh almost a year ago, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Kapil Gurjar, also known as Kapil Baisla, was welcomed into the party by Ghaziabad BJP officials. After taking the political plunge, Gurjar said that he decided to join the BJP because the