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Punjab CM-designate Bhagwant Mann receives AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal at Amritsar airport. (Photo: PTI)

Punjab cabinet: Cheema, Sandhwan lead race, women ministers likely,...

According to the sources, the party high-command has given a free hand to Mann to decide his Cabinet colleagues

13 March 2022 12:38 PM IST

Indias GDP to contract 16.5 pc in Q1 as pandemic spreads, says SBI report. (Representative Image)

India's GDP growth forecast cut to 7.9 per cent: Morgan Stanley

The report saw upside risks of 0.5 per cent of GDP to the fiscal deficit target of 6.4 per cent of GDP for FY23

13 March 2022 12:10 PM IST

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant flashes the victory sign as BJP leads, during counting day of Goa elections, in Panaji. (Photo: PTI)

Goa Congress yet to decide its legislature party leader

The Congress got 11 seats, its ally Goa Forward Party (GFP) secured one seat, while the BJP bagged 20 seats

13 March 2022 12:02 PM IST

A person wears a designed helmet and holds a placard to raise awareness against COVID-19 virus spread, at Visakhapatnam beach road on Sunday. (DC Image/Murali Krishna)

With 3,116 new infections, India's daily COVID cases lowest in 676...

The active cases comprise 0.09 per cent of the total infections and the national COVID-19 recovery rate further improved...

13 March 2022 10:26 AM IST

Punjab chief minister-designate Bhagwant Mann(L) and Governor Banwarilal Purohit. (Twitter)

AAP's Bhagwant Mann withdraws security for VIPs, stakes claim

Mann said the swearing-in ceremony will be held at 12:30 pm on March 16 at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village Bhagat...

13 March 2022 7:50 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 1st convocation ceremony of Rashtriya Raksha University at Lavad, in Gandhinagar, Saturday, March 12, 2022. (PTI Photo)

PM Modi: No reforms in security apparatus since Independence

During British rule internal security revolved around instilling fear among the masses, which needed to be changed, PM...

13 March 2022 7:38 AM IST

The rickshawwallah pedals us to the arcade where Maa finds her shop, meets her lady friend and conducts her business. (Representational Image/ Pexels.com.)

Sucheta Dasgupta | Why can't we be friends?

Why is women's safety' a bugbear? Is slut-shaming and middle-class paranoia not its effect but its cause?

13 March 2022 2:46 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves towards supporters during his road show in Ahmedabad, Saturday, March 12, 2022. (PTI)

PM Modi holds roadshow in Gujarat for second day in row

Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel accompanied him in the open jeep

13 March 2022 2:29 AM IST

EPFO settles 1.37 lakh withdrawal claims amid covid19. (ANI- Photo)

EPFO interest rates cut to 8.1 per cent, lowest in 40 years

This is the lowest since 1977-78, when the EPF interest rate stood at 8 per cent

13 March 2022 1:56 AM IST

The post World War-II rivalry between the United States and the erstwhile USSR inaugurated a Cold War or rather an icy peace in Europe that became the principal battleground of this confrontation that soon enveloped the rest of the world as well. (representataional image/ AFP)

Manish Tewari | How the West obtusely midwifed a world order

The North Atlantic Treaty organisation (Nato) brought into existence in April 1949 with the United States as its...

13 March 2022 1:31 AM IST

A file photo of the doctors from Osmania General Hospital who were vaccinated ( Image Source: DC Image)

Neet-PG cut-off lowered

The decision was reportedly taken as about 8,000 seats in PG medical courses are vacant after two rounds of counselling

13 March 2022 1:23 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (PTI)

BJP governments to take charge after Holi

Yogi Adityanath is likely to meet the BJP top brass, including Narendra Modi, party president J.P. Nadda and Amit Shah...

13 March 2022 1:19 AM IST