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Updated on Feb 19, 2022 10:34 PM IST
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Feb 19, 2022 10:31 PM IST
All members of SP patriarch Mulayam Yadav’s family to cast votes at Saifai’s booth number 239 tomorrow
All members of Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family will cast their votes at booth number 239 in Saifai tomorrow for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, reported ANI.
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Feb 19, 2022 09:43 PM IST
6 killed in alleged collision between passenger bus and car in Bihar
As many as six people allegedly died and several injured in a collision between a passenger bus and a car near Nuaon on NH-84 in Bihar, reported ANI. The injured were sent to a nearby hospital.
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Feb 19, 2022 08:53 PM IST
Maharashtra logs 1,635 new Covid cases, Mumbai’s tally dips to 201
Maharashtra on Saturday reported yet another dip in fresh Covid-19 cases after 1,635 people were found positive with the virus. Mumbai too reported a drop with 201 infections.
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Feb 19, 2022 08:08 PM IST
Germany asks its citizens to leave Ukraine ‘urgently’
Germany has asked its citizens to leave Ukraine ‘urgently’, AFP reported citing an official. This comes amid the Russia-Ukraine tensions.
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Feb 19, 2022 07:02 PM IST
Delhi logs 635 new Covid cases, fresh deaths drop to two
Delhi on Saturday reported a slight rise in daily Covid caseload after 635 infections were confirmed, up from 607 on Friday. The city logged two deaths, and the case positivity rate further dropped to 1.13%, according to the health bulletin data.
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Feb 19, 2022 06:52 PM IST
Covaxin to be evaluated as vaccine candidate in US: Bharat Biotech
Bharat Biotech said on Saturday in a statement that Covaxin will be evaluated as a Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the United States. It added that US-based biopharma firm Ocugen is co-developing Covaxin as vaccine candidate for the nation.
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Feb 19, 2022 06:07 PM IST
Centre gives Kumar Vishwas Y category security cover with the CRPF
Ex-AAP leader Kumar Vishwas gets Y-category security cover amid row over his ‘separatist’ allegation against Arvind Kejriwal, reports ANI.
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Feb 19, 2022 05:12 PM IST
Russia launches hypersonic missiles as part of nuclear drills amid Ukraine tensions
Russia launches hypersonic missiles as part of nuclear drills amid Ukraine tensions. In a statement, Kremlin said that the annual exercises featured launches of Kinzhal and Tsirkon hypersonic missiles and a number of other weapons. The country hit sea and land-based targets as part of the strategic nuclear exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin, Reuters reported.
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Feb 19, 2022 04:41 PM IST
‘Surprising’: Nitish Kumar on rolling back of Bhojpuri, Magahi languages in Jharkhand’s Bokaro and Dhanbad districts
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar says he finds it “surprising” that the Jharkhand government has rolled back Bhojpuri and Magahi as the regional languages of Bokaro and Dhanbad districts. “Bhojpuri is spoken in UP too. Bihar-Jharkhand was one. It (language) is for all. I find this surprising. If someone is doing this, I don’t think it is being done in the state’s interest. I don’t know why is this being done,” he told ANI.
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Feb 19, 2022 04:15 PM IST
India vs Sri Lanka: BCCI announces squad for Test and T20I series
The BCCI on Saturday announced the squad for Test and T20I series against Sri Lanka. Rohit Sharma has been named as India’s new Test captain, while Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane have been dropped.
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Feb 19, 2022 03:42 PM IST
Ration is good, govt must make people stand on their feet with education and employment: Priyanka in Rae Bareli
Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Saturday that “it’s good” that the BJP regime in Uttar Pradesh is providing the citizens of the state with ration, but they should “make people stand on their feet, with education and employment”. “We want to bring a law that will suspend officials who don’t file an FIR within 15 days of harassment complaint by a woman,” she added at a public rally in Rae Bareli.
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Feb 19, 2022 03:07 PM IST
CJI Ramana, SC judges along with family visit Mughal Gardens
Chief Justice of India Justice NV Ramana and Judges of Supreme Court along with their family members visited Mughal Gardens in Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi earlier in the day at the invitation of President Ramnath Kovind and the First Lady Savita Kovind.
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Feb 19, 2022 02:37 PM IST
Explosions could be heard in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk: Report
Multiple explosions could heard on Saturday morning in eastern Ukraine’s separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Reuters reported citing a witness. The origin of the explosions was not clear, the report added.
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Feb 19, 2022 01:49 PM IST
UP govt lifts night curfew amid decline in Covid cases
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Feb 19, 2022 01:39 PM IST
Watch: BJP poll worker hassles hijab-clad woman in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai, asked to leave booth
A Muslim woman in hijab was hassled by a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while entering a polling booth during the local body elections in Tamil Nadu on Saturday. She later managed to exercise her franchise after police and members of other political parties intervened. Read more
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Feb 19, 2022 01:08 PM IST
Man jumps off perimeter, heads towards runway at Mumbai airport; caught
An intruder has been caught by airport police at Mumbai. He jumped off the perimeter wall and started to run towards the runway when the CISF personnel on duty caught him. Mumbai officials say that he was caught within seconds after he jumped from the Kurla side of the runway. The man has been handed over to the airport police for investigation.
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Feb 19, 2022 11:40 AM IST
Delhi Police recovers bike, suspects link with IED recovered from Ghazipur flower market in Jan
The Special Cell of Delhi Police has recovered a bike, which was stolen in 2020, parked in the parking lot of Dilshad Garden metro station, which, they suspect, was used to take the IED recovered at Ghazipur flower market last month, reported ANI.
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Feb 19, 2022 10:46 AM IST
Hijab row: 10 girls booked for violating Section 144, staging protest in Karnataka’s Tumkur
Police have registered an FIR against at least 10 girls for violating prohibitory orders issued under Section 144 of CrPC by staging a protest against the hijab rule outside Girls Empress Govt PU College in Tumkur, Karnataka, on February 17, under Sections 143, 145, 188 and 149 of IPC.
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Feb 19, 2022 10:16 AM IST
Fire at Bihar’s Madhubani railway station doused; no casualties
The fire in the empty carriages of Swatantra Senani Superfast Express train at Madhubani railway station was doused at 9:50am, news agency ANI reported quoting East Central Railway CPRO. There were no casualties in the incident, the railways said.
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Feb 19, 2022 10:12 AM IST
Fire breaks out at Bihar’s Madhubani railway station
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Feb 19, 2022 08:51 AM IST
India reports decline in daily infections with 22,270 new cases, 325 deaths in last 24 hours
India registered a further decline in daily infections with 22,270 new cases and 325 deaths in last 24 hours. Active cases stood at 2,53,739, accounting for 0.59 per cent of the total infections.
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Feb 19, 2022 07:43 AM IST
Jharkhand govt rolls back Bhojpuri, Magahi as regional languages
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Feb 19, 2022 06:28 AM IST
President Kovind to visit Odisha today
President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Odisha and Andhra Pradesh from February 19 to February 22. He is expected to be in Puri, Odisha today.
Modi launches 100 agricultural drones across the country
The drone blitz is said to be, by far, the largest collective agricultural drone exercise in the country. The prime minister said new technologies would bring a “world of opportunities for farmers and youth”.
Published on Feb 19, 2022 11:51 PM IST
One has to look at ways of reconciling, says Jaishankar on Ukraine situation
The EAM said, ‘it’s very different. We are far more globalized, inter-penetrable.. situation calls for a very different kind of approach… At the end of the day, diplomacy is the answer. One has to look at ways of reconciling’
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:28 AM IST
Agencies, New Delhi
Political circles abuzz after Nitish meets Prashant Kishor
Prashant Kishor, who was expelled from the JD (U) for his anti-party stance in 2020, met with Nitish Kumar for close to two hours at the chief minister’s official residence in the capital.
Updated on Feb 19, 2022 11:49 PM IST
Haryana: Four held for links with Khalistani groups; arms recovered
SP Sharma said that the Sonepat crime investigation agency (CIA) team received inputs regarding Sagar’s links with Khalistani terrorists, and conducted a raid at his residence in Junaon Saturday.
Published on Feb 19, 2022 11:47 PM IST
Four fall from Ferris wheel in Ambala, teacher dies
Garg was on a trip to H20 Fun Park-cum-Amusement Park in Manka Manki village with fellow teachers and nearly 135 students, out of whom three students — Abhika (11), Kanika (12) and Himani (12) — were on the same ride and received injuries
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:29 AM IST
Bhavey Nagpal, Ambala
Illegal constructions on Kaziranga animal corridors still remain
On November 3 last year, Assam had sought three months’ time from Supreme Court’s central empowered committee to remove the encroachments and constructions from the animal corridors. But it failed to keep to the deadline.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:36 AM IST
Report wary of large-scale switch to zero-budget natural farming
A 16-member expert committee of the state-run Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), which was mandated to look into various aspects of ZBNF in 2019, submitted its report recently, the panel’s head Praveen Rao Velchala said.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:34 AM IST
Modi unveils India’s largest Bio-CNG plant
The plant, set up on 15 acres of land in Devguradiya through a public-private partnership, is expected to produce 17,000 tonnes of biogas in a day from 550 tonnes of organic household waste such as fruit and vegetable peels and leaves generated in Indore city.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:21 AM IST
Shopian gunfight: Two soldiers, terrorist killed
The Army identified the deceased soldiers as sepoys Santosh Yadav and Chavan Romit Tanaji of 1 Rashtriya Rifles.
Updated on Feb 19, 2022 11:37 PM IST
HT Correspondent
Received nod to hold Covaxin clinical trials in US: Bharat Biotech
In October 2021 Ocugen, the US partner of the Hyderabad-based vaccine maker, submitted an investigational new drug application to the FDA to conduct clinical trials.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:52 AM IST
AICTE eyes awarenessdrive on engg coursesin regional languages
To align with the National Education Policy 2020 that proposes introducing regional languages as a medium of instruction, the AICTE in 2021 granted permission to 19 technical colleges to offer select engineering courses in regional languages.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:54 AM IST
Oil firms to set up 22k EV charging stations, says power ministry
The number of public charging stations has grown by 2.5 times in a little over a year in nine major cities with a population of over 4 million each, albeit on a low base, according to the ministry.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:12 AM IST
No levy on 99% of exports to UAE after FTA inking: Commerce secy
India will reciprocate by allowing duty free access to 80% of the goods imported from the Middle East nation immediately and 90% eventually, while keeping certain sensitive items such as diary products, sugar, tobacco, some petroleum products and those produced by sectors under the country’s production-linked incentive scheme in a negative list, he said.
Updated on Feb 20, 2022 12:11 AM IST
Rajeev Jayaswal, New Delhi
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