Govt likely to make negative RT-PCR report mandatory: Sources
Arrivals from China, 5 other places
New Delhi: The government is likely to make it mandatory for passengers arriving from China and five other places to have negative RT-PCR reports from next week, official sources said on Wednesday. They also cautioned that the next 40 days will be crucial as India may see a Covid surge in January. Even if there […]
China to lift three-year-old COVID travel restrictions from January
Beijing: Come January, China will practically abandon its three-year-old zero covid policy and its international isolation, fully opening its airports and ports for travel and trade amid the massive coronavirus outbreak in the country. Starting from January 8, China will cancel nucleic acid tests for international arrivals, the need to obtain Covid green codes from […]
FM Sitharaman admitted to AIIMS
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Monday with symptoms of viral fever and is recovering, sources said. Sitharaman, 63, is in a private ward of the hospital, they said. She was taken to the hospital around 12 noon.
No amount of money, material compensation can erase trauma of accident victim: SC
New Delhi: While no amount of money or other material compensation can erase the trauma and suffering that a victim undergoes after a serious accident, monetary compensation assures restitution, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of justices Krishna Murari and S Ravindra Bhat said taking the type of disability into concern, just compensation should […]
Infra projects within 100 km from LAC
Plan afoot for single window clearance: Army
New Delhi: The Indian Army has identified 130 villages in border areas in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim for boosting infrastructure, Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen Rana Pratap Kalita said on Friday against the backdrop of increasing concerns over China’s expansion of civilian settlements close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Lt Gen Kalita, addressing […]
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj deported to France
He was released from Nepal jail on Friday
Kathmandu: Charles Sobhraj, the notorious French serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese parentage, was deported to France on Friday, hours after being released from a prison here where he served most of his sentence for a string of murders of backpackers across Asia in the 1970s. Sobhraj, 78, was released from the Central Jail in […]
Drone shot down by BSF along India-Pak border in Punjab
New Delhi/Amritsar: A drone that entered into India from Pakistan has been shot down near the international border in Punjab by the Border Security Force (BSF), an officer said Thursday. The unmanned aerial vehicle was downed by firing at 8 pm on Wednesday near the Harbhajan border post in the Ferozepur sector of Tarn Taran […]
Afghanistan no longer can be used as ‘strategic depth’ argument: India to UNSC
United Nations: The days when Afghanistan was used by others as so-called “strategic depth” are over, India said, asserting that such skewed approaches have only brought misery to the people of Afghanistan and mayhem in the region. Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs, Sanjay Verma addressed a UN Security Council briefing on Afghanistan […]
Govt keeping eye on inflation: Sitharaman in RS
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said the government is keeping an eye on inflation which is purely “extraneous” nowadays because of fuel and fertiliser prices. Replying to the debat on the Supplementary Demands for Grants in the Rajya Sabha, the minister said wholesale inflation has fallen to a 21-month low. Later, the […]
UN Chief to convene ‘no-nonsense’ climate summit in September
United Nations: Vowing to make 2023 a year for peace, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said he will convene a “no-nonsense” climate summit next year where countries will have to come up with credible and new action plans, with no room for “greenwashers” and “blame-shifters” or repackaging of announcements of previous years. Addressing journalists at […]
