DESPITE AN INTENSE CAMPAIGN, PUNJAB VOTER TURNOUT ONLY 65% Punjab voted to elect MLAs to its 117-member legislative assembly on Sunday. The state recorded 65.32 per cent voter turnout compared to 77.36 per cent in 2017.
ASSEMBLY POLLS TURNOUT: GOA 79%, U’KHAND’S 65%, UP 2ND PHASE 63% Goa’s Valentine’s Day date at the hustings yielded the highest voter turnout of nearly 79% among the three states that went to polls on Monday, but Uttarakhand was the only one that marg
PHILIPPINES BACK TO LOW RISK FOR COVID-19 MANILA — The risk level of the Philippines for COVID-19 has returned to low after a record-breaking surge in infections last month, the Department of Health said.
UTTARAKHAND, GOA GO TO POLLS TODAY; PHASE 2 IN U.P. The stage is set for single-phase elections in Uttarakhand and Goa and the second phase polling in UP toda.. In the high-stakes battle, the Congress, reduced to power in Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan on its ow
COVID RULES EASED FOR INTL ARRIVALS Travellers arriving in India won't have to undergo a mandatory seven-day home quarantine or an RT-PCR test on the eighth day from February 14, according to revised guidelines for international arrivals issued on Thursday.
IN RAJYA SABHA TOO, MODI SLAMS CONGRESS Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched another blistering attack on the Congress Tuesday as he accused the opposition party of destabilising state governments, corruption, putting a family’s interests over everyone else’s an
PM MODI SINGLES OUT CONGRESS IN LOK SABHA SPEECH Replying in Lok Sabha to the debate on Motion of Thanks to President Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress.
INDIA TO BOYCOTT BEIJING WINTER OLYMPICS CEREMONIES India on Thursday announced that its top diplomat in China will skip the opening or closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics while describing as "regrettable" the Chinese side fielding a military officer involved in
RAHUL GANDHI IN LOK SABHA, SLAMS GOVT PERFORMANCE ON ALL FRONTS India faces a challenge that is the creation of two Indias—one extremely wealthy and the other is being pushed deeper into poverty, said Rahul Gandhi as he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of behaving
BUDGET AIMS TO GIVE PUSH FOR CAPEX TO REVIVE DEMAND, CREATE JOBS First, on the Personal Income Tax front – there’s been no change at all in 2022-23 union budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Lok Sabha yesterday. While she left personal i
