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A person gives his sample for Covid testing. (PTI Photo)

Government may allow booster jabs for everyone above 18 soon

Only healthcare and frontline workers and those older than 60 years are now allowed to take booster doses in India

22 March 2022 7:21 AM IST

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh with Uttarakhand CM-designate Pushkar Singh Dhami, in Dehradun, Monday, March 21, 2022. (PTI)

Pushkar Singh Dhami, despite losing seat, stays as Uttarakhand CM,...

Under his leadership the BJP retained power in Uttarakhand

22 March 2022 3:41 AM IST

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

Sitharaman defends EPFO interest rate

Union finance minister was replying to a debate in the Rajya Sabha on the supplementary spending for the current fiscal

22 March 2022 12:12 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspecting the antiquities repatriated from Australia, in New Delhi. (PIB / AFP)

Modi, Morrison review Ladakh, Ukraine crisis

India, Australia vow closer ties, plan annual summits

22 March 2022 12:02 AM IST

Qatar Airways says no new planes in 2020 or 2021. (AFP Photo)

Qatar Airways diverts Delhi-Doha flight to Karachi after smoke...

The aircraft landed safely in Karachi where it was met by emergency services, and passengers disembarked in an orderly...

21 March 2022 11:51 AM IST

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote, during the first phase of Goa Assembly elections, at Kothambi in North Goa district, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022. (PTI)

BJP to announce name of next Goa CM, stake claim to form govt

BJP leader and caretaker chief minister Pramod Sawant is the clear favourite for the post of the CM but faces some...

21 March 2022 10:46 AM IST

Mortal remains of Naveen Shekharappa Gyangoudar, who was killed in Russian shelling in Ukraineï¸s Kharkiv on March 1, arrive in Bengaluru. (ANI)

Body of Karnataka medical student killed in Ukraine arrives in...

Gyanagaudar's family members, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai were among the others present at the airport to receive...

21 March 2022 10:29 AM IST

A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Single-day rise of 1,549 fresh COVID-19 cases, 31 fatalities in India

The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded...

21 March 2022 10:04 AM IST

Abhishek Banerjee (PTI)

Mamata nephew to face questioning by ED in Delhi today

Abhishek Banerjee mocked the Enforcement Directorate and Central Bureau of Investigation, accusing them of suffering...

21 March 2022 8:32 AM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett . (AP)

Israel PM Naftali Bennett to visit India, aims to strengthen ties

Bennett was elected the Prime Minister of Israel after a long rule by Benjamin Netanyahu

21 March 2022 2:30 AM IST

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh. (PTI)

BJP ends Manipur suspense; Biren Singh will be CM again

Biren Singh entered politics in 2002 and joined the Democratic Revolutionary People's Party

21 March 2022 1:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President J P Nadda during the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Ambedkar International Centre, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Dec 7, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Shah, Nadda, Dhami meet over new government in Uttarakhand

Legislature party meeting of the BJP, which retained the state in the recent elections, will be held later in the day

21 March 2022 12:12 AM IST