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Owing to the COVID-19 crisis across the country, Congress on Monday decided to temporarily defer organizational elections for electing a new party chief. The Congress Working Committee (CWC), which had a meeting over the results of recent assembly polls, adopted a resolution and said energies of party workers should be…

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will keep the portfolios of Home and Hill Affairs, Personnel and Administration, Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms and Refugee and Rehabilitation, Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development. After as many as 43 Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were sworn in…

New Delhi: Amid the chaos due to the second wave of coronavirus, the number of people registering for getting the COVID-19 vaccine is rising every day. However, the number of people who are actually getting vaccinated is very less. In such a situation, the difference between these two figures is…

Amid the deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, a study by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has shown that Karnataka’s COVID graph will start flattening after May 17. For the unversed, Karnataka, currently is the second worst-hit COVID hit state in the country, second only to Maharashtra. Karnataka…

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has returned to power with a landslide victory in the Assembly elections. Amidst all the speculations and discussions, 52-year old, Senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma has taken oath as the 15th Chief Minister of Assam, today at noon.  Sarma is known to be…

As coronavirus COVID-19 cases are slowly declining in Maharashtra, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope has hinted that Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led government in Maharashtra may etend the COVID-19 lockdown till May 31. It is to be noted that Maharashtra government had imposed lockdown-like restrictions in the state from April 22…

The BJP’s lead strategist in northeastern states and senior leader Himanta Biswa Sarma, who was on Sunday elected as the leader of the newly-elected MLAs of the party, has taken his oath as the 15th Chief Minister of Assam at noon today at the Srimanta Sankardeva Kalakshetra. He will be…

The Centre has refuted reports that claimed the government has approved Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for children above the age of 12.  In ongoing India’s vaccination drive, Covaxin is among the vaccines approved by India’s drug regulator for emergency use and is being administered to the public. Busting the rumour, the…

The Mamata Banerjee government ministry will be expanded on Monday morning, with the induction of 24 cabinet ministers, 10 ministers of state with independent charge, and another 9 ministers of state, as per the list released on Sunday. The swearing-in ceremony is due to be held at 10.45 a.m. today.…

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the total quota of oxygen to 300 metric tonnes (MT), and ensure urgent supplies of vaccine for the state, which has been facing shortage on both counts. The Chief Minister raised these issues when PM Modi…