Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a high-level virtual meeting with chief ministers and health ministers of seven high-burden states on Wednesday to review the COVID-19 situation. These states are Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Punjab, an official statement said, noting that more than 63 per of the active cases in the country are concentrated in these seven states. They also account for 65.5 per cent of the total confirmed cases and 77 per cent of the total deaths. “Along with the other five states, Punjab and Delhi have reported an increase in the number…
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Actress Rhea Chakraborty will be in jail till October 6, a court in Mumbai said today as her judicial custody extended for another two weeks. She and her brother Showik Chakraborty have requested bail from the Bombay High Court, which will take it up tomorrow. Rhea Chakraborty was arrested on September 8 on drugs charges linked to the Sushant Singh Rajput death investigation. Meanwhile, Sushant Singh Rajput’s former talent manager Jaya Saha, in her questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), reportedly admitted to having chats over drugs with top actors in Bollywood. Jaya is an employee of KWAN Talent…
Actor Deepika Padukone’s manager Karishma Prakash has been summoned for questioning by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) as the anti-drugs agency widens its probe into the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus in the Sushant Singh Rajput case. Dhurv Chitgopekar, CEO of KWAN talent management where Ms Prakash works, has also been summoned to the NCB office today. While Karishma Prakash has sought time from the agency, Mr Chitgopekar has joined the probe, officials said. Along with these two, Sushant Rajput’s manager Shruti Modi and former talent manager Jaya Saha have also been summoned, officials added. Ms Saha was questioned for four hours…
https://twitter.com/AmitShah/status/1308042302565175300?s=20 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday hailed the centre’s decision to increase the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for buying six Rabi crops and said those opposing the Narendra Modi government’s agricultural reform initiatives are actually opposed to the happiness of farmers. https://twitter.com/AmitShah/status/1308042302565175300?s=20 “Every day and every moment of the Modi government has been devoted to the welfare of farmers and poor. Today, by increasing the MSP of six Rabi crops, the central government, under the leadership of the Prime Minister has reiterated its same resolve. I express my heartfelt gratitude to Shri Narendra Modi and Shri Narendra Singh…
NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at $28 billion, $16 billions of which would be spent on the lunar landing module. Congress, which faces elections on November 3, will have to sign off on the financing for a project that has been set by US President Donald Trump as a top priority. The $28 billion would cover the budgetary years of 2021-25. In a phone briefing with journalists Monday on the Artemis mission to return human beings to the Moon, NASA administrator Jim…
One of the IAF’s 10 current active woman fighter pilots is undergoing conversion training and will begin active duties flying Rafale jets with the 17 Squadron soon. The IAF’s first 5 Rafale fighters were ceremonially inducted into the Golden Arrows squadron on September 10 in Ambala. Since late August, the jets have flown familiarisation sorties over Ladakh, even landing in Leh on occasion as part of an operational work-up ahead of full operational readiness. More Rafales will be arriving in October and December, with all 36 on order to be inducted by late 2021. The woman pilot has been through…
Delhi Court has denied bail in two separate orders to two persons accused of being a part of a riotous mob that killed a Delhi Police Head Constable Ratan Lal. Lal was murdered while on duty on February 24 during a communal riot in North-East Delhi. While one accused Mohammad Ibrahim was caught on CCTV camera flashing sword, the other one Badrul Hasan was seen holding a stick (lathi). “I fail to understand as to what kind of right of freedom of speech and expression was being exercised by the applicant with a “sword” in his hand,” Vinod Yadav, Additional…
Digital media is uncontrolled and spreads hatred, regulation of digital media is the need of the hour: Centre tells SCDigital media is “completely uncontrolled” and “remains unregulated”, print and electronic media “rarely cross the line” due to the very nature of their composition, Centre tells SC According to reports, in a fresh affidavit filed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, the Centre has told the apex court that if it considers it necessary to lay down guidelines for mainstream electronic and print media, it is the “need of the hour” that the exercise should start first with web based…
A complete of 2 ,120 Pakistanis, 188 Afghans and 99 Bangladeshis were granted Indian citizenship within the last four years, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said a complete of two ,729 people of 44 nationalities were granted Indian citizenship from 2017 till Citizenship Day , 2020. Apart from 2,120 Pakistani, 188 Afghanistan and 99 Bangladeshi nationals, as many as 60 American, 58 Sri Lankan, 31 Nepali, 20 British, 19 Malaysian, 14 Canadian and 13 Singapore nationals were also granted Indian citizenship during an equivalent period, he said during a written…
Demanding Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s immediate resignation, the country’s major Opposition parties have launched an alliance to carry a state protest movement to oust his government. A 26-point resolution was adopted on Sunday by the All Parties Conference (APC), which was hosted by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and attended by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) and a number of other other parties. At a joint news conference after the top of the multi-party meeting, JUI-F chief Mualana Fazl ur Rehman read out the resolution and said that the Opposition parties have agreed to launch an…