October 9, 2021

A day after the UK announced lifting of its quarantine rule for Indian travellers, Union Minster of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, on Friday spoke to his British counterpart Liz Truss with a focus on issues related to travel between the…

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday pushed for linking farmers directly to the market and removing intermediaries, with the objective to improve the income of farmers. Speaking at the inauguration of the Odisha Agri Conclave…

Bahriach, Oct 8(UNI)Samajwadi Party's National President and former Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav on Friday met the families members of two farmers who were killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on Sunday last. Mr Yadav consoled the…

Try they did, and win they did by a margin of 42 runs, but in the end, it was always a bridge too far for Mumbai Indians, even by their penchant for shocks and surprises, to cross. They posted the highest total of an unusually low-scoring…

The Chennai Super Kings management is confident that the 2021 IPL is not going to be MS Dhoni’s swansong as a cricketer and the team captain would play at least one more season before waving goodbye in front of ‘home’ fans at Chepauk. “I…

Barcelona will play at another stadium for up to a year when the club starts its planned modernization of Camp Nou stadium, president Joan Laporta said Friday. Laporta said that he wants to begin the long-delayed overhaul of Camp Nou in…

Srinagar, Oct 8 (UNI) Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Friday e-inaugurated 15 projects and laid e-foundation of same number of new projects of Jal Shakti Department, Jammu and Kashmir, here at Banquet Hall…

NEW DELHI: Air India's sale to the Tata Group marks a new dawn for the airline, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday as he hoped that the carrier would continue to bring people closer through successful operations.…

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet against the then managing director & CEO of Yes Bank Ltd – Rana Kapoor -- and his wife Bindu Kapoor in a loan fraud case also involving promoter of Avantha…

NEW DELHI: Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) K V Subramanian on Friday said he has decided to return to academia after completion of his three-year term in the finance ministry. The government had appointed Subramanian, a ISB Hyderabad…

NEW DELHI: The winning bidder Tata Group will have to retain all employees for at least a year. The government on Friday, October 8, 2021, asserted that employees’ interest has been protected and the new owner will have to offer VRS to…

Deputy Commissioner directs updating data of beneficiaries under National Food Security Act, 2013 across state

Hamirpur (HP), Oct 9 (UNI) The mountaineering team of the 10th Corps of Home Guards Hamirpur has succeeded in climbing the Moon Peak, about 15,250 feet high in the Dhauladhar mountain range. Commandant Sushil Kumar Kaundal, who led this…

New Delhi, Oct 8(UNI) The Prime Minister of Denmark Mette Frederiksen reached here on  a three-day state visit to India for holding bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during which the two sides will review the progress in…

Oslo, Oct 8 (UNI/Sputnik) The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is…

Rome, Oct 8 (UNI) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday said India is working with a wider global vision to build a world order based on energy justice, climate justice and economic justice. Birla stated this while addressing the…

Washington, Oct 8 (UNI/Sputnik) US Deputy State Secretary Sherman and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi have discussed the issue of Afghanistan, as well as the US-Pakistani relations in Islamabad, State Department spokesperson…

Washington, Oct 8 (UNI/Sputnik) The Troika nations of the US, UK, and Norway expressed their support of the Sudanese government on Friday and urged to end the blockade of port and transportation infrastructure in the eastern part of the…

Kabul, Oct 8 (UNI) The Islamic State-Khorasan has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that targeted worshippers during Friday prayers at a Shiite mosque in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, leaving over 300 people dead and an…

Washington, Oct 8 (UNI/Sputnik) Social media site Facebook says that it is aware of reports of users having trouble accessing their apps and products and is working to restore service in the second major outage for the platform this week,…