Two students from the Lohegaon School in Pune found six tentative asteroids at the Kalam Center Asteroid Discovery Campaign, coordinated by the Kalam Center and the International Astronomical Search Partnership (IASC). Vikhe Patil School announced that Arya Pula and Shreya Waghmare had discovered asteroids, adding that all 22 campaign participants had been chosen following a stringent screening process via a global event organised between November 9 and D. Two students from the Lohegaon School in Pune found six tentative asteroids at the Kalam Center Asteroid Discovery Campaign, coordinated by the Kalam Center and the International Astronomical Search Partnership (IASC). In…
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India has passed the bleak threshold of one crore of COVID-19 cases, even as the propagation of the virus slows down with almost a month taking 10 lakh new infections, compared to the duration from August to mid-November when they grew at a faster pace. According to the Union Ministry of Health’s revised statistics at 8 a.m. on Saturday were at 1,00,04,599, while the recoveries surged to over 95.50 lakh. India is ranked number one in terms of the number of coronavirus cases recovered, followed by Brazil, according to Johns Hopkins University, which collected global data for COVID-19. India is…
“Why are so many people leaving the Congress of Trinamool? Because of the misrule, exploitation and nepotism of Mamat Banerjee. Didi, this is just the beginning of it. By the time the polls arrive, you’ll be left behind,” he said. Nine MLAs from separate parties and Trinamool MP Sunil Mondal joined the BJP in the presence of Mr Shah. Former President of the BJP reiterated that the party will form the next state government with more than 200 seats. West Bengal is a 294-member legislature. Both Mr. Shah and Mr. Adhikari alluded to rising dissatisfaction among the people and the…
As the Compliance Directorate has attached properties worth Rs 11.86 crore to former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah in connection with the investigation of suspected financial violations in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association, Omar Abdullah said that his father is in communication with his lawyers and will fight against all these unfounded allegations. “The properties attached are largely ancestral dating from the 1970s with the most recent one built before 2003. There can be no justification for the seizures because they fail the very basic test of having been acquired as the proceeds of the ‘crime’ being…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had lunch at a farmer’s house in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Saturday as part of his exercise to improve ties with farmers in the run-up to the state elections. Shah’s decision assumes importance in the wake of continuing farmers’ demonstrations against the three farm laws in Delhi. S The Home Minister who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal to take stock of the BJP’s affairs in the state, arrived here on Saturday and offered puja at a local temple. The union minister went to the Sanatan Singh residence in Balijhuri and…
Mamata Banerjee’s most trusted aides and the face of the Bengal Nandigram movement that steered TMC to majority power 10 years ago, Suvendu Adhikari, joined BJP, putting an end to months of speculation. Suvendu Adhikari, along with a handful of other Trinamool Congress rebels, decided to join BJP in the presence of Party Chief and Union Minister Amit Shah at the Midnapore rally on Saturday. TMC MP Sunil Mondal, nine MLAs, along with five from Mamata Banerjee, joined the BJP on Saturday. Hitting out at Mamata Banerjee, Suvendu Adhikari said, “Tolabaaj bhaipo hatao (get rid of your extortionist nephew)” in…
The MEA said that India and China met virtually for the 20th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination. At the conference, the two countries decided to continue collaborating to ensure absolute disengagement at all tension points in the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Western Sector as soon as possible, added MEA. The Indian delegation was headed by the Joint Secretary (East Asia) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Naveen Srivastava. The Chinese delegation was headed by the Director-General of the Boundary & Oceanic Affairs Department of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hong Liang. According…
The Vishva Hindu Parishad said slammed Rahul Gandhi’s plot to defame Bajrang Dal, under the pretext of false allegations reported in the Wall Street Journal, had revealed his mind. VHP Secretary General Shri Milind Parande said today that a nationalist organisation like the Bajrang Dal is evidently poking in the eyes of Rahul Gandhi, who has been proactively standing by and standing up against a variety of anti-national elements, like the pro-China and pro-Pakistan Tukde-Tukde group, the anti-Tukde gang. The VHP Secretary General also asked the Wall Street Journal to apologise for misleading reporting. He said that the WSJ, under…
Affordable health insurance is a basic right, the Supreme Court said on Friday, in an important observation that also kept the State responsible for securing the right and acknowledged that the battle against COVID-19 was a “world war” “Right to health is a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. Right to Health includes affordable treatment. Therefore, it is the duty upon the State to make provisions for affordable treatment,” the court said. Judges Ashok Bhushan, R Subhash Reddy and MR Shah took up the issue of health care on their own during the time of…