Month: February 2021

A Navy seaman from Jharkhand who died in Maharashtra’s Palghar district after allegedly being set on fire by his kidnappers had apparently concocted the whole story of abduction, police said.

The disengagement of armies of India and China from north and south banks of Pangong Tso is a ‘very good end result’ and a win-win situation for both the sides, Army Chief Gen M M Naravane said, stressing that there are strategies in place to address other pending issues in eastern Ladakh.

Bharatiya Kisan Union president Naresh Tikait called Defence Minister Rajnath Singh a caged parrot and said the farmers’ issues could be resolved if he is given the freedom to talk with them.

Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik said there is no concept of ‘mixopathy’, as claimed by a section of allopathic doctors, and asserted that ayurvedic practitioners are also trained to perform surgeries.

The Supreme Court said India resiliently fought back the unprecedented situation created by the Covid-19 pandemic and the economy as also life of the common man is on the path towards normalcy in a shorter period of time than expected.

Former Indian cricketer Ashok Dinda joined Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Kolkata.

India slammed Pakistan for misusing international platforms for ‘baseless and malicious propaganda’ against it and said Islamabad would do well to put its own house in order, before venturing to point a finger at New Delhi.

Opposition DMK hit out at the AIADMK government after a top cop was accused of sexual harassment by a female IPS officer.

With 16,738 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 1,10,46,914 today.

More than 7,000 SARS-CoV-2 mutations have been documented but that doesn’t translate to variants, say, scientists, emphasising the distinction between the two and cautioning that the spike in cases in some states is likely due to non-adherence of Covid-19 appropriate behaviour.