New Delhi: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to keep the policy repo and reverse repo rates unchanged. While the repo rate continues to be 4 per cent, the reverse repo rate is 3.35 per cent. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced the decisions of the MPC on...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh kicked off election season with the first phase of the state Assembly polls on Thursday. Voters were seen lining up outside polling booths since morning. The first phase covers 58 constituencies across 11 districts. By 9 am, the voter turnout was nearly 8 per cent. Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party alleged that poor...

New Delhi: The country recorded 67,084 new cases of Covid-19 in last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday morning. A total of 1,241 patients succumbed to the infection during this period. The overall death toll has reached 5,06,520. The daily positivity rate was 4.44 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate was 6.58...

Lucknow: The Congress party’s pre-poll promises to the people of Uttar Pradesh now include an assurance to waive farm loans within 10 days of coming to power. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra released the third manifesto of the party for the UP Assembly elections that are scheduled to begin from Thursday. The party had...

Bengaluru: The single-judge bench of Karnataka High Court on Wednesday referred the case regarding the ongoing hijab controversy to a larger bench. Earlier in the day, several Muslim women had taken out a massive protest rally against the Karnataka government’s ban on headscarves at educational institutes. They demanded that the ban be withdrawn. The court...

Mumbai: Social activist Anna Hazare has decided to take forward his fight against the Maharashtra government’s decision to allow sale of wine at supermarkets and walk-in stores. He announced on Wednesday that he would go on an indefinite strike  starting February 14. It may be recalled that the Maharashtra Cabinet had cleared a proposal on...

New Delhi: The country witnessed an increase in number of Covid-19 cases as well as deaths in last 24 hours. A total of 71,365 persons tested positive for the infection, the health ministry said on Wednesday morning. As many as 1,217 patients succumbed to the infection during this period. There were 67,597  cases and 1,188...

Colombo: The Sri Lankan navy captured as many as 11 fishermen, along with their trawlers, after they allegedly ventured in the Lankan waters. As per a statement by the Sri Lankan navy, they had taken “hold” of 3 Indian trawlers that were “poaching” in their territory. The statement said that on the night of February...

New Delhi: Praveen Kumar Sobti, the actor best known for his role as Bheem in BR Chopra’s magnum opus Mahabharat, passed away in Delhi on Tuesday. He was 74. He will be cremated at a crematorium ground in Punjabi Bagh. According to reports, Pravin Kumar Sobti had been ailing for some time. He had also...

New Delhi/Agartala: In a setback to the BJP in Tripura, two of its MLAs who had quit the party on Monday joined the Congress on Tuesday morning. The duo, Sudip Roy Barman and Ashish Kumar Saha, had resigned from the party as well as their posts as MLAs in the Tripura Assembly. After joining Congress,...

New Delhi: The country recorded 67,597 fresh cases of Covid-19 in last 24 hours, the health ministry said on Tuesday morning. The daily death toll rose to 1,188 during this period. The overall death toll has reached 5,04,062. The daily positivity rate has declined to 5.02 per cent, while the weekly positivity rate has reached...

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah issued a statement in the Parliament on Monday regarding the recent attack on AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s vehicle. Owaisi, an MP from Hyderabad, had a narrow escape when three gunshots were fired at his car in Hapur in Uttar Pradesh on February 3. He was returning to Delhi...