No lockdown, trains will continue to run: Railway Minister

New Delhi (IANS) Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said that there is no lockdown in the country and people do not need to panic about how they will reach home. Trains will continue to run as before and people will be able to go anywhere by booking…

American export controls risk Indian vaccine production

New Delhi (IANS) Production lines in India, making at least 160 million doses of Covid vaccine a month, will come to a halt in the coming weeks unless America supplies 37 critical items, The Economist reported.

A report in The Economist said…

Mamata cancels all 'big rallies' in Kolkata amid Covid surge

Kolkata (IANS) Considering the steep rise of Covid cases in the city, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has cancelled all 'big rallies' in Kolkata and has slashed the timing of the rallies in the districts.

She will be restricting herself…

Boris Johnson cancels India visit

London (IANS) UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cancelled his trip to India in the wake of the severity of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, a Downing Street spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

The spokesperson said…

Indian Navy seizes drugs worth Rs 3K cr from Pakistani boat, meant to fund terror

New Delhi (IANS) The Indian Navy seized a Pakistani fishing boat with contraband worth approximately Rs 3,000 crore in the Arabian Sea on Monday.

The fishing boat with contraband was coming from Pakistan's Makran Coastal region and initial…

BJP, Trinamool spar over Mamata's purported audio clip

Kolkata (IANS) On the day of the fifth phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal, a purported audio clip of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee released by the IT cell of the BJP triggered a major war of words with both the Trinamool Congress and the…

DoT gave many warnings to e-commerce firms on selling mobile signal boosters

New Delhi (IANS) The Department of Telecommunications had repeatedly warned e-commerce companies in 2016 and 2019 for sale of unauthorised mobile signal boosters and illegal facilitation.

The matter has heated up once again as Cellular Operators…

CM directs to provide medical kits to Covid patients in home isolation

Ranchi: Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday directed to provide medical kits to Coronavirus patients who are living in home isolation.

Chairing a high-level review meeting at his residence here he said that the medical kits should consist…

Hurdles cleared for Lalu Yadav for coming out of jail as HC gives bail in Dumka Treasury case

Ranchi: After spending more than three years behind the bars former Bihar Chief Minister and RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav will be soon out of the jail as on Friday in a major reprieve the Jharkhand High Court granted him bail in connection with Dumka…

Corruption allegations: Anil Deshmukh being grilled by CBI

Mumbai (IANS) Ex-home minister of Maharashtra Anil Deshmukh reached the CBI office on Wednesday morning for questioning into the allegations of corruption levelled by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh, officials said.

Deshmukh's…