Day: February 6, 2021

Akashvani Music Festival named after Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

11:57 pm February 6, 2021

New Delhi: The prestigious Akashvani Music Festival has been renamed after Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar announced Saturday. He made this announcement at a Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Centenary Commemorative function organised in Pune on Saturday, a statement from the Ministry of Culture said. The All India Radio, besides its regular music broadcasts, has endeared itself to its classical music listeners by organising the Akashvani Sangeet Sammelan in […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Riot aftermath: Still-shaken lawmakers, troops stand guard

11:54 pm February 6, 2021

Washington: On Jan 6, the US Capitol was besieged by supporters of Donald Trump angered by the then-president’s election loss. While lawmakers inside the building were voting to affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s win, Trump loyalists were marching to Capitol Hill and breaking in. Five people died in the violent melee, including a police officer. Trump’s impeachment trial begins Tuesday on a charge that he incited the […]

Two lakh jobs added in IT sector since 2019: Prasad

Ravi Shankar Prasad donates Rs 11 lakh for Ram Temple

11:42 pm February 6, 2021

Patna: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday contributed Rs 11 lakh for the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya. Prasad handed over the cheque to Mohan Singh and Rajesh Pandey, representatives of Sri Rama Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust. Singh, who is RSS regional general secretary (kshetra karyawan) of Bihar and Jharkhand and Pandey, the prant […]

Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

11:38 pm February 6, 2021

New Delhi : With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations programme, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal. Honduras “cannot wait on bureaucratic processes or misguided decisions” to give citizens “the peace of mind” offered by the COVID-19 vaccine, said Juan Carlos […]

R-Day violence: Man who climbed Red Fort tomb arrested

R-DAY violence: Notice served on gurdwara functionary in UP’s Pilibhit

11:23 pm February 6, 2021

Shahjahanpur : On the lookout for those responsible for the violence at the Red Fort during a farmers’ tractor parade on the Republic Day in the national capital, a team of the Delhi Police on Saturday served a notice on a functionary of a gurdwara in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit district. The police team arrived at Puranpur adjoining Shahjahanpur and served notice on granthi Gurtej […]

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