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The Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday said that travellers from India will not be allowed to disembark in Sri Lanka. (AFP)

Sri Lanka bans travellers from India with immediate effect

Several countries like UK, UAE, Australia and Singapore have already banned travellers from India as well as other South...

6 May 2021 1:01 PM IST

Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ch Ajit Singh. (Photo: PTI)

RLD chief Ajit Singh dies of COVID-19

Ajit Singh, the son of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, was diagnosed positive for COVID-19 on April 20,...

6 May 2021 10:39 AM IST

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar

Two members of Indian delegation in London test +ve for Corona ahead...

Sources said that the health condition of EAM Jaishankar as well as other members of the Indian delegation was normal

6 May 2021 8:24 AM IST

A patient struggles to breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurudwara (Sikh Temple) under a tent installed along a roadside amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic in Ghaziabad on May 4, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | Inequity & privilege in the time of a pandemic

Even in these traumatic times, those of us who can work from home, for instance, are massively better positioned than...

6 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Dilip Cherian | Tripura DM who cracked whip at a wedding faces storm...

A video that recorded the incident went viral on the social media and political parties are gunning for him

6 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Supreme Court of India (PTI)

SC quashes Maharashtra law granting quota to Marathas, refuses to...

The court said that to change the 50 per cent limit is to have a society which is not founded on equality but based on...

5 May 2021 11:05 PM IST

Prime Minister Modis inability to defend India against the second Covid-19 wave, and his inability to cajole the Chinese from withdrawing from areas they occupied in Ladakh now make him an easy target. (Photo: AP)

Modi speaks to West Bengal Governor on post-poll violence

Death toll in violence crosses 14 in Bengal

5 May 2021 7:23 AM IST

TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee flashes the victory sign during interaction with media after trends show her partys wins in the State Assembly Election 2021, in Kolkata, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (PTI)

Opposition parties likely to form Federal Front following poll results

CPI(ML) leader Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the victory of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal had a 'major national...

5 May 2021 1:39 AM IST

The bench also said just because the Delhi government earlier demanded less oxygen, therefore the people of this city should suffer and the Centre will ignore the revised requirement and will let people die. Twitter

HC asks Centre why it should not face contempt for failing to supply...

There is Supreme Court order and now we are also saying that you will have to supply 700 MT oxygen daily to Delhi right...

5 May 2021 1:26 AM IST

Senior leaders of 21 opposition parties including the Congress, Trinamool Congress, TDP, AAP, NCP and the DMK. (Representational Image/PTI)

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | After Bengal, Opposition must devise national...

Opposition parties have to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each party and leader and allocate responsibility...

5 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

File photo of Congress President Rahul Gandhi with senior party leader Sonia Gandhi during Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, at AICC HQ in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Anita Katyal | Cong intra-party democracy is first casualty of poor...

The Congress was originally scheduled to elect its new president in May but it was deferred till June on the pretext of...

5 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his principal operative, Union home minister Amit Shah, the saffron partys new sutra is to form a government in a state through any means. (Photo: PTI)

Blame game begins in West Bengal BJP unit

Asked about women voters, the West Bengal BJP leaders said regardless of what we claimed, Mamata had done a lot for...

4 May 2021 9:19 AM IST