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• Feb 09, 2022 02:00 PM IST

  UP election manifesto: Congress announces farm loan waiver, Godhan Nyay Yojana

  Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday announced the party’s election manifesto in which the party announced sops for farmers, covid warriors, teachers and medium scale enterprises. Read More 

• Feb 09, 2022 01:29 PM IST

  Congress launches its manifesto for UP elections

• Feb 09, 2022 01:07 PM IST

  Jaishankar’s Afghan agenda in Doha, Indo-Pacific in Manila

  Before heading to Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Australia on Friday, external affairs minister S Jaishankar today will be engaging with his Qatar counterpart on Afghanistan, bilateral investments, and comprehensive energy partnership. Read More

• Feb 09, 2022 12:24 PM IST

  Malayalam news channel MediaOne moves division bench against Kerala HC order upholding I&B ministry ban

  Madhyamam Broadcasting Ltd, parental company of Malayalam news channel ‘Media One’ files appeal to Kerala HC’s Division Bench against its order which upheld the order of IB Ministry to revoke license of the channel from the list of permitted news channels citing security reasons.

• Feb 09, 2022 11:53 AM IST

  SC notice to Future group on plea of Amazon

  The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Future group on an appeal of US e-commerce major Amazon against the January 5 order of the Delhi High Court staying the ongoing arbitration proceedings before an arbitral tribunal over Future Retail’s ₹24,500-crore merger deal with Reliance.

• Feb 09, 2022 10:54 AM IST

  First nasal spray for treating adult Covid-19 patients launched in India

  Mumbai based innovation-driven global pharma company Glenmark has launched Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (FabiSpray) in India, in partnership with SaNOtize, for treatment of adult patients suffering from Covid-19.

• Feb 09, 2022 10:27 AM IST

  Instagram reactivates Chinar Corps account after one week

  The Instagram account of the Indian Army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps has been activated today after being suspended for more than a week. Facebook and Instagram accounts of the Corps had been suspended more than a week ago: Army officials

• Feb 09, 2022 09:22 AM IST

  India’s Covid-19 tally rises by 71,365

  India adds 71,365 fresh cases to its Covid-19 tally. The daily positivity rate  is at 4.54 per cent, according to the Union ministry of health affairs. 

• Feb 09, 2022 09:17 AM IST

  Army rescue team reaches Kerala mountaineer trapped in a hill in Palakkad

  Army mountaineering team reaches 23-year-old R Babu finally. Given water. Officer said they crawled four hours to reach the trapped trekker.

• Feb 09, 2022 09:00 AM IST

  Rescuers 200m away from trapped Kerala trekker, para troopers could be deployed

  The Indian Army, Navy and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have launched one of the biggest operations to rescue a trapped trekker in Kerala’s Palakkad. The rescuers are just 200 metres away from 23-year-old R Babu, who is trapped in a hill cleft in Palakkad’s Malampuzha village since Monday. Read More

• Feb 09, 2022 08:11 AM IST

  Travelling to Canada? Read Indian embassy’s advisory on anti-mandate stir

  As protests against the Canadian government’s vaccine mandate continue in the country’s capital, Ottawa, the city-based High Commission of India has issued an advisory, as well as a helpline number, for Indian citizens who are in Canada or scheduled to visit the country. Read More

• Feb 09, 2022 07:36 AM IST

  Hijab row: Maintain peace, says Karnataka high court as tempers flare

  Observing that only a “mischievous section will keep the issue burning,” the Karnataka high court on Tuesday appealed to students and the public at large to maintain peace as the hijab row escalated in various parts of the state. Read More

• Feb 09, 2022 06:42 AM IST

  Quad focused on action, not talk, says O’Farrell on grouping meet in Melbourne

  The Quad is a permanent body “focused on action, not talk” and the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines across the Indo-Pacific is expected to be one of the key issues to be discussed when foreign ministers of the grouping meet in Melbourne this week, Australian high commissioner Barry O’Farrell has said. Read More

• Feb 09, 2022 06:33 AM IST

  Early morning showers in Delhi

  Rain lashed parts of the national capital in the early hours of Wednesday.

  Earlier in the day, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted thunderstorms with light to moderate intensity rain in the national capital and its adjoining areas.

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