In a circular issued by aviation regulator DGCA, the Centre extended the ban on international commercial flights till March 31. The ban on scheduled overseas flights was to end on February 28 after an eleven-month gap. 'The competent authority has further extended the validity of circular issued on...

New Delhi, Feb 27: Union health ministry on Saturday said that the daily rise in coronavirus infections was registered above 16,000 for the third consecutive day, pushing India's case tally to 1,10,79,979, while the recoveries surged to 1,07,63,451. According to the health ministry, a total o...

RTicket holders of the Dear Bangasree Damodar Lottery can visit the official website of the West Bengal State Lottery Department by clicking on the link — www.lotterysambadresult.in to check the results of the lottery as it will be released on Saturday, February 27 at 4 pm. Every Saturday, th...

New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday (February 27, 2021) welcomed the ceasefire agreement and said that the 'onus lies with India'. Khan took to his official Twitter account and said, "I welcome restoration of the ceasefire along the LOC. The onus of creating an ...

New Delhi: India registered a single-day spike of over 16,000 COVID-19 cases for the third day in a row on Saturday (February 27), according to the data provided by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). A total of 16,488 novel coronavirus cases were reported in a day, while the death t...

Maghi Purnina, also known by the name of Magha Purnima, is known to be a day of the full moon that occurs during the Hindu calendar month of Magh. This day falls during the Gregorian calendar month of January or February....

Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad has announced that the Maharashtra class 10 and 12 board exams 2021 will not be cancelled, and students will have to appear for the exams this year, despite the ongoing pandemic. The education minister made this announcement to dismiss the reports...

A 59-year-old man from Ireland has been jailed for 16 years for filming himself raping his partner's baby niece. The accused, who cannot be named to protect his victims' identities, subjected the six-month-old child to a "violent and degrading sexual assault", a court heard. As per a repor...

Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) may have lost the Bihar assembly polls of October-November 2020 to the NDA, but not before giving incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a minor scare. He is now carrying the battle scars of that contest over to Assam, the northeastern state set to vot...

Super Spreader Events and Not Mutations May be Behind Surge in Covid-19 Cases in India, Say Experts The increase in Covid-19 cases in India in the last one week, especially in states of Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala, Chhattisgarh and Tamil Nadu, is raising concerns about whether the spurt in new ...

New Delhi, Feb 27: India is committed to sharing resources, experiences and knowledge for global good, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday after WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked him for supporting the COVAX scheme that distributes COVID-19 vaccines to developing coun...

February 27, 2021 is being celebrated as Guru Ravidas Jayanti all across India today. It is the 644th birth anniversary of the Bhakti movement saint, Guru Ravidas. His influence on Indian culture is immense, especially in North India (Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab), but his follo...

World NGO Day is marked on February 27 across the globe. The day, as the name suggests, is marked to make people aware of the importance of NGOs or Non-Governmental Organizations. Further, the day also celebrates the efforts of those social workers who have gone an extra mile to make the world a be...

Attukal Pongala 2021 is being celebrated on Saturday, February 27. It is a ten-day-long festival that is celebrated at Kerala's Attukal Bhagavathy Temple situated in Thiruvananthapuram. The all-women congregation was declared the largest gathering of women by Guinness World Records in 2009. There w...

Shruti Haasan took to Instagram on Friday (February 26) night to share some beautiful pictures with her father Kamal Haasan. She landed in Chennai yesterday along with her boyfriend Santanu Hazarika. Shruti revealed that she's meeting her dad after a long time as they were both busy with their work ...

India and China have agreed to establish a hotline for "timely" communication and exchange of views, officials said on Friday. The move comes just days after both the nations successfully carried out disengagement of frontline troops along the banks of Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh, last ...

A legislation has been introduced by a group of influential Republican senators to end China's access to 10-year multi-entry visas until it is certified that Beijing has ceased its campaign of "economic and industrial espionage" against the US....

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has released the answer key of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2021) on Friday, February 26, 2021. Candidates who have appeared for the IIT GATE 2021examination can now go to the official website by clicking on the link www.gate.iitb.a...

The Indian trio of Mairaj Ahmed Khan, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Gurjoat Khangura won the bronze medal in men’s skeet team event at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Egypt on Friday. The Indians beat the Kazakhstan team of David Pochivalov, Eduard Yechshenko and Alexandr Mukhamediyev 6-2 in the bro...

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Woakes left the bio-secure bubble on Thursday to leave for his home. England all-rounder Chris Woakes has left for England for his scheduled break, and will not be available for selection in the fourth and final Test of the series against England. According to ESPNCri...

New Delhi: A toy factory in Pratap Nagar area of Delhi burst into flames in the early hours of Saturday (February 27). The cause of the fire outbreak is not yet known but eye-witnesses suggest it may have been a LPG cylinder that exploded. ANI quoted a Fire Service official saying that they receive...

New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The second phase of COVID-19 vaccination, which involves inoculating those above 60 years of age or those over 45 years with co-morbidities, will begin in India from March 1. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that inoculation will be free at government ...

A sniffer dog, part of Nashik Police's bomb detection and disposal squad, received a warm farewell after 11 years of meritorious service....

A massive fire broke out at plastic and nail polish factory in Delhi's Pratap Nagar area in the wee hours of Saturday killing one person. As per sources, the fire was reported at around 3.47 AM following which at least 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot in an attempt to douse the fire. Accordi...

Shimla, Feb 27: Himachal Pradesh Speaker Vipin Parmar is examining the Assembly rules to file an FIR or police case against the five Congress MLAs suspended for the remainder of the Budget session for allegedly manhandling Governor Bandaru Dattatraya. The Speaker told news agency Press Trust of In...

Image Source : PTI Experts warn against non-adherence to safety norms amid rising COVID-19 cases in Delhi Just as the Delhi government had asserted that the coronavirus pandemic had been "defeated" in the national capital, cases are on the rise again dramatically, as doctors on Friday war...

The Indian Space Research Organisation is lining up the launch of its geo-imaging satellite GISAT-1 close on the heels of tomorrow's PSLV-C51 mission....

Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the CERAWeek global energy and environment leadership award during an annual international energy conference next week. Prime Minister Modi will also deliver the keynote address at the CERAWeek Conference-2021, which will be held virtually from ...

Prince Harry made a rare appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden recently and talked about Netflix's The Crown. The Duke said that even though the show was fictional, it is 'loosely based on the truth'. He also revealed the actor that he would like to play his role in the series. PRINCE H...

New Delhi, Feb 27: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday announced the Assembly poll dates for Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry in a press conference. It can be seen that the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) that is laid down by the ECI comes into effect soon as the date...

New Delhi: After getting bail from Punjab and Haryana High Court, trade Union activist Nodeep Kaur has said she will go to the Singhu border and once again to stand with farmers and labourers for their rights. Kaur, 23, who hails from Punjab, was released from Karnal jail on Friday. She was arrested...

Lucknow, Feb 27: Senior RSS leader Dattatreya Hosabale on Friday said there is only one "DNA in Bharat" and that is "Hindu". "In the Sangh, Hindu is a "rashtravachak" word. There is one DNA in Bharat and the name of that DNA is Hindu. Hindutva has an identity and...

World NGO Day is annually observed on February 27 to celebrate, commemorate and collaborate with various NGOs around the world....

One person has died in a massive fire at a plastic and nail polish factory in Delhi's Pratap Nagar area. 28 fire engines have been sent to the spot for the firefighting operation....

US President Joe Biden said on Friday that Iran should view his decision to authorize US airstrikes in Syria as a warning that it (Iran) should expect consequences for its support of militia groups that threaten US interests or personnel. 'You can't act with impunity. Be careful,' Biden said when a...

Haitian authorities on Friday announced that more than 400 inmates escaped and 25 people died in a prison breakout, making it the country's largest and deadliest one in a decade, with the prison director and a powerful gang leader among those killed. Some believe Thursday's jailbreak at the Croix-d...

Expressing hope for an 'equitable solution" to the farmers' "crisis", UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said the farmers' protests highlight the need for governments to consult all stakeholders before introducing any new legislations. Bachelet made the comments while updating t...

A spurt in coronavirus cases in India for the past few days has raised concerns about whether it was linked to a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 but the experts have rejected the theories, saying there was no evidence to suggest that. While viruses mutate all the time, the spike in cases in states of ...

Lady Gaga's two French bulldogs, which were stolen by thieves who shot and wounded the dogwalker, were recovered unharmed Friday, Los Angeles police said. A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD's Olympic Community Police Station, just northwest of downtown, around 6 p.m, said Capt. Jonathan Tippett, c...

15-time major champion Tiger Woods "is recovering and in good spirits" after a second day of treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The legendary golfer suffered serious leg injuries and was ""luck to survive" a rollover crash on Tuesday morning. Woods was...

India's Aviation regulator DGCA on Friday allowed airlines to provide concessions in air fares to customers travelling with no check-in baggage. The move comes days after the Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) provided greater flexibility to domestic carriers on fixing ticket prices by incre...

New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has said that no COVID-19 vaccination sessions will be held on February 27 and February 28 across India. The country will witness a two-day halt as the Co-Win digital platform, a software used to coordinate India's COVID-19 vaccinat...

As India gears up to vaccinate people above 60 years of age and those over 45 years with comorbidities against COVID-19 from March 1, the Union Health Ministry on Friday said the facility of on-site registrations will be available so that eligible beneficiaries can walk into identified vaccination c...

The pitch for the third Test between India and England at the newly-built Motera stadium, now renamed Narendra Modi Stadium, continues to remain the center of every cricket-related debate. India defeated England by 10 wickets inside two days to take a 2-1 lead in the four-match series. In the post-W...

Washington, Feb 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the CERAWeek global energy and environment leadership award during an annual international energy conference next week. The prime minister will also deliver the keynote address at the CERAWeek Conference-2021, which will be held virtual...

New Delhi: February 27, 2021, marks the 90th death anniversary of the Indian revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad. Azad was killed on this day in 1931 in Alfred Park, Allahabad after an associate betrayed him. For quite some time, he held the well-armed police that circled him at bay, single-handedly...

The restrictions on international flights have been extended till March 31, aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation or DGCA said in a statement on Saturday....

New Delhi, Feb 27: India has told the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that it has shown utmost respect to the protesting farmers. High Commissioner at the 46th Session of Human Rights Council, Ambassador Indra Mani Pandey, Permanent Representative of India, said that the India has set ...