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Modi will lay the foundation stone of the second Catalytic Dewaxing Unit, at the Haldia Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation, built at Rs 1019 crores to help augment the lubricant production. (Photo:PTI)

Modi to launch 3 big ticket plans in West Bengal

PM will also also launch LPG Import Terminal, built by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited at an investment of Rs 1100...

1 Feb 2021 4:28 AM IST

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. The German government says specialist labs in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP File)

Navalny, Thunberg among nominees for Nobel Peace Prize

Other nominees include former U.S. President Donald Trump, NATO and the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR)

31 Jan 2021 11:25 PM IST

PM Narendra Modi (AFP)

India's Modi vows to pursue reforms after deadly farmer riot

Modi called the farmers' assault on a historic fort an "insult" to the national flag

31 Jan 2021 4:54 PM IST

A cold wave swept the national capital on Sunday morning, with the minimum temperature dipping to 3.1 degrees Celsius. (Representational Photo: DC)

Delhi records maximum cold wave days in January in 13 years: IMD

Only one 'cold wave' day each was recorded in 2020 and 2019, compared to seven days this year

31 Jan 2021 1:29 PM IST

Former TMC leaders Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti and Rudranil Ghosh meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah as they join BJP. (PTI/Twitter)

Rajib Banerjee, 4 other TMC leaders join BJP ahead of assembly polls

Ruling TMC rocked by fresh bout of desertions with Banerjee quitting the party and several other leaders rallying behind...

31 Jan 2021 12:30 PM IST

A worker in protective overall disinfects a vehicle from the World Health Organization convoy while they were visiting the Baishazhou wholesale market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP)

WHO teams visits Wuhan food market in search of virus clues

WHO said on Twitter last Thursday that the team plans to visit Wuhan Institute of Virology and laboratories at...

31 Jan 2021 12:16 PM IST

Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait addresses a protest over Centres farmlaws at Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Saturday. PTI

More farmers flock to agitation sites

'People in large numbers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand are reaching the protest sites,'...

31 Jan 2021 1:29 AM IST

Virtually addressing the party leaders, Narendra Modi told them that agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar was just a phone call away for protesting farmers and the agriculture minister himself had conveyed the same to farmer leaders earlier this month. (Photo:PTI)

PM: Promise to suspend 3 farm laws still stands

Talks with agriculture minister only a phone call away: Modi

31 Jan 2021 1:11 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Modi's eighth Budget looms, there's still no grand...

Unemployment has naturally followed the opposite trajectory, going from about 4% before Modi became PM to 6% and then to...

31 Jan 2021 12:37 AM IST

The Centre has purchased 11 million doses of Covishield vaccine for the ongoing inoculation drive. (Photo: AP)

Serum Institute applies for trials of another Covid-19 vaccine

The firm has already produced Covishield vaccine, co-developed by the University of Oxford and British-Swedish company...

31 Jan 2021 12:27 AM IST

Manish Tewari | A New Deal for India

Our new deal must push demand by both putting money both into the economy and directly into the hands of the people

31 Jan 2021 12:23 AM IST

Sharon Lowen | View from the Covid cocoon

The inspiration came from an idea to scan my daughter's childhood photos for a digital birthday gift as I couldn't give...

31 Jan 2021 12:19 AM IST