India

Kolkata: The corona pandemic claimed 1,54,486 persons as on Tuesday. Relatives of many, whom COVID took away in the early months after the virus struck, are still going through the...

New Delhi: Oxford Languages has selected ‘Aatmanirbharta’ (self-reliance) as its Hindi word of the year 2020. The Oxford Hindi word of the year is a word or expression that reflects...

Yavatmal: In a major goof-up, as many as 12 kids were given hand sanitisers instead of  oral polio vaccine drops at a Primary Health Centre in Ghatanji’s Kapsi-Kopari village here...

Bathinda: Terming the budget a “bitter harvest”, farm groups said that to double the farmers’ income by 2022 is an implausible target. They accused finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman of making...

New Delhi: Hours after blocking nearly 250 Twitter accounts in India for spreading hate, the microblogging website restored the accounts. The decision to restore the accounts was taken after a...

Pune: Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla gave a thumbs up to the ₹35,000 crore allocated for COVID-19 vaccination by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union...

New Delhi: The Mumbai-bound Punjab Mail was on Monday diverted from Rohtak to Rewari, thus skipping Delhi. Since around 1000 farmers were on board that train, there was widespread speculation...

New Delhi: Any Union Budget, presented by whichever Finance Minister, never pleases all sections of the society and evokes mixed reactions. It was no different with Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech...

New Delhi: Health emerged as the topmost priority for the Narendra Modi government as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed more than doubling of healthcare spending in the Union Budget she...

New Delhi: The government will introduce pre-filled Income Tax Return (ITR) forms for individual taxpayers. During her Budget speech in Pariliament on Monday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the...