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Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu attends a function on International Mother Language Day, in Hyderabad, Sunday, February 21, 2021. (PTI)

Naidu bats for use of mother tongue as medium of instruction at...

He also wanted gradual increase in the use of indigenous languages in higher and technical education

21 Feb 2021 7:35 PM IST

Staff of Government ENT Hospital gets administered with COVID Vaccine during the vaccination drive at the Hospital premises in Visakhapatnam. (AA Image/P Narasimha Murthy)

Need to increase pace of vaccinations: Health Ministry tells states

While some states are carrying out vaccination twice a week some others are carrying out four or more than four times a...

21 Feb 2021 7:20 PM IST

A health worker collects swab samples of passengers for COVID-19 test at Dadar Railway platform, in Mumbai. (PTI)

New curbs announced in Pune amid rise in COVID-19 cases

Schools, colleges and private coaching classes will remain closed till February 28

21 Feb 2021 3:13 PM IST

Punes Serum Institute of Indias Covid vaccine to be out in the market by October, but only if human trials are successful . (Photo: Serum Institute of India)

Poonawalla urges countries to be patient as Serum directed to...

The vaccines are produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio (Republic of Korea) and the Serum Institute of India

21 Feb 2021 12:33 PM IST

Anita Katyal | BJP for Sourav as Bengal CM; Cong farmer cell has no...

The BJP has apparently put together a copious dossier on Ganguly and his family's business interests in its effort to...

21 Feb 2021 4:52 AM IST

Its not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI)

Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong

Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic

21 Feb 2021 4:37 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hands over 100,000 additional doses of COVID vaccine to Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid and Health Minister Kerafa Naseem. (PTI)

India gifts another 1 lakh COVID-19 vaccines to Maldives

This takes the overall gift of Covid vaccine doses for the Maldives to two lakh from India since New Delhi had gifted...

21 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar witnesses the exchange of agreements between India and Maldives on a wide range of domains. (PTI)

Indian tourists boost cash registers in Maldives

Foreign minister Jaishankar begins two-day visit to India's south-western maritime neighbour

21 Feb 2021 4:19 AM IST

A screen capture from virtual Jaiput Literary Festival (Image: Twitter@JaipurLitFest)

The Diggi dialogues: Conversations from JLF 2021, largest literary...

S. Hareesh's controversial novel, Moustache (original Meesha) has won the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

Dr Sudipta Sarangis The Economics of Small Things (Twitter@PenguinIndia)

Clever treatise marries economics, storytelling

Dr Sudipta Sarangi weaves anecdotes and economic incidents with fascinating studies in her book The Economics of Small...

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

It has been reported that stickers are put on the doors or entrances of those who have paid, thereby marking out those who have not. (Photo: PTI)

Pavan K Varma | Not much righteous about Ram temple funds drive

Fear and unlawful pressure cannot be a basis for religious or spiritual pursuits

21 Feb 2021 4:10 AM IST

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Bail plea of six accused in Gauri Lankesh murder case rejected

The bail plea filed by nine accused have been rejected including six on Saturday

21 Feb 2021 3:27 AM IST