India and the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday signed a framework for a strategic partnership to strengthen mutual trust and cooperation and to enhance global energy security, stability and sustainability. India and the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday signed a framew...

A farmer from Uttar Pradesh who on died in Delhi's ITO area while participating in Tuesday's tractor rally that descended into violence and chaos, was not shot as claimed by some of his fellow protesters yesterday, the UP police said today....

New Delhi |Jagran Business Desk: In the upcoming financial year, the government is likely to double the expenditure on health. The aim is to increase the budget on health by 4 percent of GDP in four years. The main reason for the expected big change is the ongoing coronavirus pandemic where India wa...

New Delhi | Jagran Business Desk: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be presenting the Union Budget 2021 on February 1. Almost every sector and industry is having a lot of expectations from this year's budget as this will be first after the country reeled under the havoc wrecked by the co...

PTI, IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will launch virtual intelligence tool Tejas and 'Work from Anywhere' portal at an event on Thursday, according to an official release. The National Informatics Centre Services Inc (NICSI), a public sector enterprise under the National Informat...

Chandigarh: Deploring the Republic Day violence in Delhi, especially at the Red Fort, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday termed it an insult to the nation and said it had brought shame to the country and weakened the farmers' agitation. But he made it clear that he continues to stand...

Akram Mohammed, Newly-appointed Minister for Infrastructure Development, Haj and Wakf Anand Singh is yet to come to terms with the portfolio that he has been given, it seems, as he is yet to take charge. "I have said already that I am not interested in any Cabinet berth," Singh told DH. S...

Bangladesh reported 528 new COVID-19 cases and 17 new deaths on Wednesday, making the tally at 533,444 and death toll at 8,072, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said. Bangladesh reported 528 new COVID-19 cases and 17 new deaths on Wednesday, making the tally at 533,444 and death...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said Wednesday that it had cleared the Boeing 737 MAX to fly again in European skies, 22 months after the plane was grounded following two fatal crashes....

PTI, A day after unprecedented violence in Delhi during the tractor parade, the government on Wednesday said it has never stated that the doors for dialogue with farmers are closed and stressed that it will inform whenever the decision is taken for fresh talks. "We have never said that the doo...

LONDON: Two Russian tennis players were banned from the sport for life on Wednesday for match-fixing, including incidents when they played together as doubles partners. The International Tennis Integrity Agency said Alija Merdeeva was found guilty of two counts of match-fixing. Sofia Dmitrieva was ...

Ongole: A woman dentist, who was administered COVID-19 vaccine a few days ago in a government hospital here, is critically ill and being treated at a corporate hospital in Chennai, a senior official of the health department said on Wednesday but ruled out vaccination being the cause. P Ratnavali, di...

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and his former industries minister Murugesh Nirani on Wednesday were granted protection from arrest by the Supreme Court, which took up their petition against the revival of a criminal case against them....

"I am not an idiot," said Purushottam Naidu as police officers went around his lavish three-storey home in Andhra Pradesh, taking in traces of what appeared to be gruesome ritual murders. His two daughters were dead, struck with a dumbbell and a trident, blood everywhere....

New Delhi: A day after violence and mayhem rocked national capital over three farm laws, farmers protest that ran for almost two months peacefully, today split down the middle as All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) leader VM Singh and Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu) called off pr...

Eight people were killed and four others injured after their jeep was hit by a trailer truck from behind in Rajasthan's Tonk district, police said on Wednesday. The accident took place on National Highway-12 at 2.15 am. A jeep full of passengers was hit by a trailer truck from behind. Eight people ...

A day after thousands of farmers stormed the national capital, laid siege to the Red Fort, and violently clashed with the Delhi police injuring over 100 security personnel, two unions withdrew from the protests on Wednesday. The Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangathan and the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Bhanu...

AP, AstraZeneca has pulled out of meeting with the European Union to discuss delayed vaccine commitments to the bloc, an EU official said. The official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the talks said the EU would 'insist on the' coming back to the negotiating table to e...

The release of 'Tandav' on OTT platform, faced a lot of backlash for hurting Hindu sentiments. Once again, it brought back the focus on the issue of censorship and how it affects artistic expression. Senior Advocate Pinky Anand speaks to Outlook's Lachmi Deb Roy on the censorship of OTT platforms a...

At least two people have been killed and six others injured in a bomb blast that occurred next to a bus station in the northern Philippines' municipality of Tulunan in the Cotabato Province, CCN Philippines reported on Wednesday, citing Tulunan Mayor Michael Limbungan. At least two people have b...

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has been hospitalised again on Wednesday after he complained of chest pain. According to media reports, the former captain of the Indian cricket team was taken to Apollo Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday after he complained of pain in chest. The 48-year-old former crick...

New Delhi | Jagran Business Desk: Marking the fourth straight session of loss, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Wednesday shed 938 points and dropped below 47,500-mark, while the NSE NIFTY dropped below the 14,000 level, mainly due to the widespread selling across counters and losses in index heavyweight...

All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee leader VM Singh on Wednesday launched a scathing attack against Rakesh Tikait and said they joined the protest from MSP and not hooliganism. " I can’t carry forward protest with someone whose direction is different. I wish them best but VM ...

Uddhav Thackeray, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, held a meeting and press conference on Wednesday 27 January 2021 in Mumbai, raising the topic of the demand for inclusion of Marathi majority district Belagavi or Belgaum that lies in Karnataka. On the occasion, after the publishing ceremony of a ...

PTI, A 16-year-old Singaporean boy, a Protestant Christian of Indian ethnicity, was detained last month under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after planning to use a machete to attack Muslims at two mosques in March, on the anniversary of New Zealand's Christchurch attacks. The teenager, who was no...

He had returned from Australia to his hometown in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur to celebrate his recent wedding. And there was a gathering indeed at his home at Dibdiba village in Bilaspur on Wednesday. But no celebration. Navreet Singh's family and friends were mourning his death a day earlier. The 27-ye...

Chloride-rich particles resulting from plastic burning may be primarily responsible for haze and fog formation in Northern India, including Delhi, during the winter months, according to an international study led by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras....

Patna, Jan 27: The Bihar government will guide four poll-bound states and a Union territory on conducting elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said on Wednesday. The state's Health Department had won accolades for conducting the elections to the 243-member assembly amid the coronav...

While Oxfam's global report exposed the widening gap between the poor and rich amid the pandemic, a closer look showed that women in India were more likely to bear job losses and work in informal arrangements during the period. The Indian supplement of the report titled 'the Inequality Virus' said ...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Weeks after other Latin American countries began inoculating their citizens against coronavirus, Brazil finally administered its first shot on Jan. 17 using China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd vaccine. With efficacy of just over 50% - barely above Brazil's threshold for regulatory approval ...

Image Source : ANI Withdraw support from farmers protest, says farmers leader VM Singh day after Delhi violence. In a major development, the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee and farmer leader Sardar VM Singh have withdrawn support from the ongoing farmers protests against the 3 new...

An FIR has been registered against the son of a BJP MLA and two others for allegedly beating a liquor shop owner in Puwayan area in Shahjahanpur, police said on Wednesday....

Union Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Patel who visited the Red Fort to take stock of the damage by agitating farmers during the tractor rally, on Wednesday said that he has directed officials to register an FIR regarding the vandalism immediately....

Image Source : AP BREAKING: Twitter suspends over 550 accounts after violence during tractor rally violence on R-Day BREAKING: Micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday suspended over 550 accounts after violence during farmers' Republic Day tractor rally in Delhi on January 26. The national ca...

A day after farmers' tractor rally turned violent in Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday took stock of the security situation and measures taken to ensure peace in the city, officials said. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla and senior officers of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Delhi ...

Dehradun: 32-year-old Jyoti Nainwal, wife of Kulgam martyr Naik Deepak Nainwal, is all set to join as an officer in the Indian Army, thus fulfilling the dying wish of her husband. Notably, in April 2018, Indian Army jawan named Nayak Deepak Nainwal was injured fighting off terrorists in Kulgam, Kash...

After a disappointing quarterfinal exit in Thailand a week back, Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu could not bounce back against familiar rival, World No 1 Tai Tzu Ying of Taiwan in the opening Group ‘B’ women’s singles match of the USD 1.5 million HSBC BWF World Tour Finals here ...

Image Source : ANI JDU is keen to expand its base outside Bihar and the party will contest assembly elections in other states too, says KC Tyagi. The Janata Dal (United) has decided to contest the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls independently. JD(U) national General Secretary KC Tyagi has been ...

COVID-19 vaccination programmes in China and India will stretch until late 2022 due to the sheer size of population, and more than 85 poor countries will not have widespread access to vaccines before 2023, a study showed on Wednesday....

Citing insufficient price offered by the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, the owner of Indian film legend Raj Kapoor's ancestral home in Peshawar has refused to sell the property. He said that the prime-location property has been severely undervalued. Raj Kapoor's ancestral home, known as ...

A dentist who recently received the Covid-19 vaccine in Andhra Pradesh's Ongole has been hospitalised in Chennai after she fell ill, health department officials said on Wednesday. However, officials have ruled out any link between her illness and the vaccine. P Ratnavali, district medical and hea...

Abhay Singh Chautala, the lone MLA from his party Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), resigned from the Haryana Assembly on Wednesday, two weeks after announcing that he would quit if the centre did not withdraw its controversial agriculture laws by Republic Day....

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said areas dominated by Marathi-speaking people on the state's border with Karnataka should be declared as a Union Territory till the Supreme Court gives its final verdict on the issue....

New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday (January 27, 2021) said that it has filed FIRs against people involved in the violence in the national capital during farmers' tractor rally on January 26. Delhi Police has also held over 200 people in this connection and has so far registered 22 FIRs. ...

Myanmar launched a COVID-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday, with healthcare staff and volunteer medical workers the first to receive shots of the AstraZeneca and Oxford University vaccine donated by India....

The US Senate signalled on Tuesday that there are not nearly enough votes to convict ex-President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial when five Republican senators rejected an effort by Senator Rand Paul to declare the looming trial as unconstitutional. The US Senate signalled on Tuesday that t...

Seoul, Jan 27 South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Wednesday said that the country is planning to ... Seoul, Jan 27 South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun on Wednesday said that the country is planning to help microbusiness owners, who were forced to stop or halt business under the t...

Skardu, Jan 27 After his party's victory in the elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's government ... Skardu, Jan 27 After his party's victory in the elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's government plans to open a Special Economic Zone i...