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Even as India has shown the sings of becoming the new global epicentre of novel coronavirus, the country’s economy has been served a knock-out punch amid the pandemic. The arbitrary and unplanned lockdown imposed by the Narendra Modi led government mainly weighed on the already-declining consumer demand and investment in the country. With the data showing contraction in India’s GDP by 23.9 per

Dubai, Sep 1: Budget carrier Flydubai on Tuesday announced that passengers booking for travel between September 1 and November 30, 2020 will automatically receive free global cover for Covid-19. The new service covers passengers' health expenses and quarantine costs if diagnosed with Covid-19 during their trip and is valid for 31 days from the time they take their first flight on their itinerary

Chennai, Sept 1: Two days after former Karnataka IPS officer K Annamalai was appointed as the vice president of the Tamil Nadu state unit of Bharatiya Janata Party, a notorious gangster too was inducted into the saffron party. Gangster ‘Red Hills’ Surya on August 31 had come to join the party at an event attended by State president L. Murugan at Vandalur. However, he fled on seeing the local

Bengaluru, Sep 1: Filmmaker and journalist Indrajit Lankesh on Tuesday claimed that at least 15 people in the Kannada film industry were involved in drug trafficking. He made the claim a day after deposing before the police to share the information about the alleged drug racket operating in the film industry. "I have given (names of) around 15 people whom I know are into the drug business. I

New Delhi, Sept 1: Rajeev Kumar assumed charge as the Election Commissioner of India on Tuesday. He joined the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra. Kumar, a Former Finance Secretary was appointed as Election Commissioner following the resignation of Ashok Lavasa. "The President is pleased to appoint Rajiv Kumar, IAS

New Delhi, Sep 1: Former President Pranab Mukherjee was cremated with full state honours at the Lodhi road electric crematorium on Tuesday afternoon. His son performed his last rites. Mukherjee's family and relatives paid their last respects clad in PPE kits while conforming to Covid-19 safeguards. An Army contingent gave a guard of honour and a gun salute to the former President. Mukherjee (84)

New Delhi, Sept 1: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted telecom companies, including Airtel Bharti and Vodafone Idea, a period of 10 years to clear their pending adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues to the Central government. A three-judge bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, passing the order through video conferencing, asked the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to decide on spectrum trading as

New Delhi, Sept 1: Intelligence inputs provided to the Centre have suggested that about 1,000 square kilometres of area in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is now under Chinese control. China has been amassing troops and fortifying its presence along the LAC since April-May. Twenty Indian soldiers were killed on June 15 in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh in violent clashes with

Facebook has threatened to block Australian publishers from sharing news on its platform as well as Instagram as the country wants the social network to pay media companies for using their content. Facebook said that the new regulation would force it to pay news organisations for content that the publishers voluntarily place on its platforms "and at a price that ignores the financial value it

Allahabad, Sept 1: The High Court of Allahabad today observed that Dr Kafeel Khan’s speech at the Aligarh Muslim University on December 13, 2019, amidst the anti-CAA protests, that led to his arrest and subsequent detention under the stringent provisions of the National Security Act, "does not disclose any effort to promote hatred or violence." The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Govind