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According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) data, the unemployment rate was recorded at 6.9 per cent in February 2021 which is slightly better than 7.8 per cent in the same month last year and 8.8 per cent in March 2020, during which lockdown was imposed. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

One year since COVID-19 lockdown: India still recovering from...

The CMIE data showed that the unemployment rate had risen to 9.1 per cent in December 2020 and improved in January to...

24 March 2021 1:41 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves at the crowd during a public meeting ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Bankura on March 21, 2021. (PTI)

No Indian is outsider in Bengal, BJP CM will be son of soil: Modi

Modi's comments came amid an 'insider vs outsider' debate with Mamata asserting that she won't allow Bengal to be ruled...

24 March 2021 1:17 PM IST

The second India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in Washington DC in 2013, between Napolitano and the then Home Minister Sushil Kumar. (Representational image: AFP file photo)

India, US agree to re-establish Homeland Security Dialogue

An initiative of the Obama administration, the first India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in May 2011

24 March 2021 11:48 AM IST

Health workers prepare to takes swab samples to test for COVID-19 at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai, on March 23, 2021. (AP/Rajanish Kakade)

India records highest single-day spike with 47,262 fresh COVID-19...

The daily rise in infections was the highest recorded in 132 days, while the country's COVID-19 death toll increased to...

24 March 2021 10:57 AM IST

BJP wrote a letter to home minister Anil Deshmukh urging him to roll out a more aggressive action plan to protect Mumbai police. (PTI Photo)

Reshuffle among Mumbai police, 86 cops transferred

API Riyazuddin Kaazi, who was Waze's colleague at the the Crime Intelligence Unit, was transferred to the Local Arms...

24 March 2021 10:31 AM IST

Union Home Minister Amit Shah (Twitter@AmitShah)

'Bhatija & Co' looted Rs 10K crore, will go jail after we win: Amit...

Mr Shah, in remarks aimed at the Hindu migrants' votebank in the district, touched on the BJP's key electoral promise

24 March 2021 2:10 AM IST

Wang Yi, Chinas foreign minister. (http://in.china-embassy.org)

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | India should not fall for China's charm...

Why do we forget humiliation and treachery when the adversary puts on its benign mask and pretend to place all...

23 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

As Indias largest private sector port developer and operator, we will accelerate Indias and APs industrialisation, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani said in a tweet. (Image credit: Twitter/@Adaniports)

Adani Ports to acquire controlling stake in Gangavaram Port for Rs...

Through APSEZ's 89.6 per cent stake in Gangavaram port, the Adani Group will greatly expand its pan-India cargo presence

23 March 2021 1:28 PM IST

A man driving a vehicle in an ethnic Uighur neighbourhood in Aksu in the region of Xinjiang. (AFP)

West sanctions China over Xinjiang abuses, Beijing hits back at EU

Western governments are seeking to hold Beijing accountable for mass detentions of Muslim Uighurs in northwestern China

23 March 2021 1:03 PM IST

The electoral discourse in Bengal, where poll battles are fought on ideological lines, had in the past mostly steered clear of sub-nationalism like identity politics. (Representational Image/PTI)

Bengali pride, sub-nationalism emerge as rallying points in WB polls

The ruling TMC has embraced it as its main poll plank to counter the rise of the BJP's Hindutva narrative in the state

23 March 2021 12:48 PM IST

A health worker collects swab to test for COVID- 19 at a government hospital, in New Delhi on Monday, March 22, 2021. (AP/Manish Swarup)

India sees 40,715 fresh COVID-19 cases, 199 fatalities

The active caseload now comprises 2.96 per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to...

23 March 2021 12:10 PM IST

Police used armored vehicles to smash windows and walls to gain access as a gunman opened fire at a King Soopers grocery store on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. (Chet Strange/Getty Images/AFP)

Colorado supermarket shooter kills 10, including police officer

Police said the suspected gunman was believed to be the only individual with serious injuries who survived the bloodshed

23 March 2021 11:20 AM IST