The former home minister said that on a day when the prime minister exhorted people to recall the teachings of Jesus Christ, miscreants disrupted a Christmas programme in a private school in Haryana. Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over miscreants reportedly disrupting Christmas-related events in Haryana and Assam, … Read more
The decisions came amid rising Covid cases linked to the Omicron variant of the virus. Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin is likely to be the only COVID-19 vaccine available, for now, for children in the age group of 15-18 years, who will be inoculated from January 3, official sources said. Also, healthcare and frontline workers and citizens … Read more
Today, the total number vaccinated with the first dose comprises 85.71 per cent of the population and the second dose 57.85 per cent. Tamil Nadu inoculated 17,31,277 people against the Covid-19 in the 16th mega vaccination exercise in the State on Sunday, the Health Department has said. A total of 5,17,126 people received the first … Read more
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sold Rs 8,710 crore worth of government securities in the secondary market in just four weeks to drain excess liquidity. The move will likely end unwarranted volatility in interest rates, helping North block borrow cheaply despite increasing likelihood of the rate cycle turning. Between November 10 and December … Read more
Pramote Polyamate/Getty Images Not every solar power system has a solar battery attached. In fact, only about 4% of residential solar installations had a battery backup in 2020, though the numbers are climbing quickly. Many solar power systems instead send electricity into a home without any on-site solar energy storage. At that point, through a … Read more
Senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta on Sunday hit back at veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad for dubbing the autocratic rule of maharajas “far better” than the current dispensation in Jammu and Kashmir. Azad had made the remark in a veiled attack at the BJP, after the traditional practice of … Read more
Half a century ago, the Supreme Court settled the matter of when a court can stop a newspaper from publishing. In 1971, the Nixon administration attempted to block The Times and The Washington Post from publishing classified Defense Department documents detailing the history of the Vietnam War — the so-called Pentagon Papers. Faced with an … Read more
The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday declared 15 more candidates for next year’s Punjab Assembly polls. It is the fourth list of the party and with this the total number of candidates announced by it so far reached 73. Punjab has 117 Assembly seats The announcement was made by party leader Raghav Chadha on his … Read more
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StackCommerce We live in an increasingly noisy world, and it can interfere with our sleep, our studying, our leisure, and our peace of mind. White noise can help us rest, breaking up the noise pollution around us. A white noise machine can also bring the sounds of nature into any space, and the Letsfit builds … Read more