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NEW DELHI: West Bengal government on Monday extended the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions in the state till July 1.Essential services will continue operating following protocols, the chief minister Mamata Banerjee said.West Bengal’s Covid-19 tally rose to 14,61,257 on Sunday as 3,984 more people tested positive for the infection, while 84 fresh fatalities pushed the state’s coronavirus…

HYDERABAD: A single dose of Covid-19 vaccine is sufficient for an infected person as there was a greater antibody response when compared with those who have had no prior infection, according to a study released by AIG Hospitals on Monday.The city-based AIG Hospitals recently published a study conducted on 260 healthcare workers, who got vaccinated…

CHENNAI: The AIADMK on Monday warned of disciplinary action against those in the party if they interacted with ousted party leader V K Sasikala, even as it expelled 17 members including party spokesman V Pugazhendhi.Most of those expelled were said to have spoken to ousted former interim general secretary V K Sasikala.The AIADMK legislators’ meeting,…

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of a journalist, who had recently run a story on the liquor mafia and was killed in what police said was a road accident. The Congress general secretary accused the Yogi Adityanath dispensation of “nurturing jungle…

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan failed to meet Pashupati Kumar Paras at his house in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: In a surprise turn of events, Chirag Paswan, the president of Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) founded by his father late Ram Vilas Paswan, was on Monday unceremoniusly unseated as the leader of the party…

Union home minister Amit Shah (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday said Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, with his tireless efforts and iron will, stitched together 562 fragmented, princely Indian states into one united nation post-Independence, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed his unfinished task by fully integrating of J&K with India by…

NEW DELHI: Twenty Jammu and Kashmir Police officers — including IG Kashmir Vidhi Kumar Birdi, DIG Central Kashmir Pande Rajiv Omprakash and SSP Srinagar Sundeep Chakravarthy — have been awarded the ‘Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak’ for avenging the Pahalgam terror attack, news agency PTI reported. The Union home ministry announced on Friday that 1,466 police…

The voting for the 243-seat Bihar assembly will be held in two phases on November 6 and 11. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by grim statistics, especially when it comes to Bihar. It’s at the bottom of most development indicators when compared with other states. But what if we look at the data not just…

NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist) central committee (CC) member in charge of the banned outfit’s Odisha state committee, Ganesh Uike, has criticised his CC colleague Chandranna over his recent surrender before the Telangana police, and claimed that efforts to take the “Naxal movement” forward will continue notwithstanding the reverses over the last two years.Uike also disowned Chandranna’s…

New Delhi: In an unprecedentedly swift process, Union govt completed the formalities for appointment of Chief Justice of India within seven days of initiating the process as on Thursday President Droupadi Murmu designated Justice Surya Kant as the next CJI. He will take oath on Nov 24.Union law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal had sent a…