COVID

Schools not opening for now in Delhi: Kejriwal

11:03 pm October 24, 2020

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday ruled out reopening of schools in the national capital for now. “Schools are not reopening for now,” Kejriwal told reporters on sidelines of an event. The government had earlier announced that schools will continue to remain closed till October 31 in view of COVID-19 pandemic. Universities […]

Encounter on between security forces, terrorists in Poonch

Spain 1st in western Europe to hit 1 million virus cases

11:56 pm October 21, 2020

Madrid: Spain became the first country in western Europe to accumulate more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 infections on Wednesday as the nation of 47 million struggles to contain a resurgence of the virus. The health ministry said that its accumulative case load since the start of the pandemic reached 1,005,295 after reporting 16,973 more […]

India at doorstep of economic revival, says RBI Governor

11:16 pm October 21, 2020

New Delhi: Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday said the country is at the doorstep of economic revival on the back of accommodative monetary and fiscal policies being pursued by the central bank and the government. Das was speaking at the launch of the book ‘Portraits of Power: Half a Century of Being at […]

Biden admin rolls back Trump-era citizenship test, reverts to 2008 version

Trump tends to his electoral map, Biden prepping for debate

12:47 pm October 21, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump is hopping from one must-win stop on the electoral map to the next in the leadup to a final presidential debate that may be his last, best chance to alter the trajectory of the 2020 campaign. Democrat Joe Biden has been taking the opposite approach, holing up for debate prep in […]

PM Modi to interact with CMs on Thursday over COVID situation, vaccination drive

Why is Modi still so popular even as India ‘fails’ to fight coronavirus

12:40 pm October 21, 2020

New Delhi: India is battling one of the world’s highest coronavirus caseloads, its worst-ever economic slump, shuttered factories, farmer protests and the deadliest border fighting with China in decades. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears to remain as popular as ever. Opinion polls in Bihar, where from Oct. 28 to Nov. 7 he faces his […]