February 2021

Bengaluru (Karnataka) , February 21   Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to approve 6 proposals worth Rs 6,673 crores under modernisation of canals project. During the 6th meeting…

Tehran , February 21  Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to take part in Sunday talks with Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organisation of…

New Delhi , February 21   BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda on Saturday held a meeting with the party's national general secretaries over Assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. BJP leaders…

Beijing , February 21 Contrary to what population experts had expected, birth rates declined in China during the COVID-19 lockdown even though the communist nation has ended the one-child policy and given incentives to couples to have…

Kathua (Jammu and Kashmir) , February 21  Over 400 girls from border areas of Jammu and Kashmir took part in a recruitment drive organised in Kathua on Saturday for the appointment of Special Police Officers (SPOs). Additional…

Washington, Feb 20 (Sputnik) The Biden administration granted 25 asylum-seeking migrants entry into the United States with assistance from rights groups and attorneys who saw it as a historic moment in ending Trump-era restrictions.…

New Delhi , February 20  Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday dedicated to the nation a series of projects for the development of Railway infrastructure in West Bengal. He inaugurated second foot over bridge at Santragachi,…

Berlin, Feb 20: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told the special virtual edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) that multilateralism provided the basis for all political activities and that multilateral organisations should be…

Naypyidaw, Feb 20 (UNI) The access to Wikipedia in all languages has been blocked in Myanmar, the traffic monitoring service of NetBlocks said. "Confirmed: #Myanmar has blocked all language editions of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia,…

Shantiniketan, Feb 19 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said Gurudev Ravindra Nath Tagore was proud of Bengal, he was equally proud of India's diversity. Mr Modi addressed the Convocation Ceremony of Visva-Bharati University…

New Delhi , February 20   Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the sixth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Saturday via video conferencing. According to the Prime Minister's Office, the agenda of the meeting includes…

Paris, Feb 20   The "best possible involvement" of Europe within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is to be "more in charge of its own security and its strategic autonomy," French President Emmanuel Macron told participants in a…

New Delhi , February 20  Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush 3.0 which will be conducted in two rounds starting from February 22 and March 22 across 250 districts/urban areas…

Last yr, growers needed to face many odds to develop tobacco, which was solely aggravated by rains in a number of spells, together with the cyclonic storm ‘Nivar’, that broken the standing crops in Prakasam and Nellore, requiring…

A lot of devotees had a hassle-free darshan of Lord Sri Suryanarayana Swamy within the historic temple at Arasavalli within the district on Ratha Sapthami on Friday. With the arrival of hundreds of devotees from completely different…

Cleaning cars and doing such odd jobs in the morning would fetch Jadhav just Rs.150, and he would train later in the day. When Jadhav's father was alive, they would earn between Rs.500 and Rs.600 a day. Besides, Jadhav's mother, too, would…

New Delhi , February 19  There have been regular meetings and engagements between India and Maldives even during the time of COVID-19 pandemic. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar is visiting the island nation this Saturday.…