New Delhi, June 10 India hit out at Pakistan on Thursday for making an unverified claim that some material seized recently in Jharkhand’s Bokaro was uranium and described it as an attempt by Islamabad to malign the country. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the material seized was notRead More

Fourteen-year-old Hateem Amin was determined to attend the outdoor vigil in London, Ont., to honour her 15-year old friend Yumna Afzaal and three family members who were run down and killed by a truck Sunday evening in what police say was a hate-motivated attack. “I want to support her. SheRead More

New Delhi, June 9 Protesting farmer leaders on Wednesday reiterated that a complete repeal of three farm laws and legal guarantee on MSP are their main demands, after the government said it was ready to resume talks and asked them to point out their objections to the provisions of legislation.Read More

Chandigarh, June 8 In Punjab, 53 Covid patients have died due to mucormycosis (black fungus) in the past 20 days. As per data collected by the Health Department, around 350 cases have been reported in various government and private hospitals. Last month, the state had notified black fungus under theRead More

Washington, June 8 The US Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology. The desire for a hard line in dealings with China is one of the few bipartisan sentiments in the deeply divided USRead More

New Delhi, June 9 The number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 24 crore, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said that in the 18-44 age group, 19,24,924 beneficiaries received the first dose of vaccine and 86,450 got the second dose on Wednesday.Read More

New Delhi, June 9 The Centre on Wednesday increased the Minimum Support Price of all mandated Kharif crops for marketing season 2021-22. The price of common grade paddy has been increased from Rs 1,868 a quintal to Rs 1,940 a quintal, a rise of Rs 72 a quintal. For gradeRead More

New Delhi, June 8 Stepping up the attack, the BJP on Tuesday accused Punjab’s Congress government of indulging in “corruption and profiteering” by selling kits meant for the treatment of Covid-19 at higher prices than procurement rates, and questioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi over their “silence onRead More

Chandigarh, June 7 As the number of cases and deaths have come down, the casualty rate seems to have emerged as a new problem for the state. The case fatality rate (CFR) in the last seven days remained at 4.2 per cent. Apart from that the overall CFR of theRead More

Toronto, June 8 A driver plowed a pickup truck into a family of five, killing four of them and seriously injuring the other in a deliberate attack that targeted the victims because they were Muslims, Canadian police said Monday. Authorities said a young man was arrested in the parking lotRead More