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The Congress on Thursday announced that all class 12 pass girls in Uttar Pradesh will be given a smartphone while all graduate women will get an electronic scooty if the party is voted to power.   Party spokesperson Shuchi Biswas said the move will improve the digital and physical connectivity. …

Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, on Thursday, called former chief minister Amarinder Singh the “architect” of the Centre’s three farm laws against which farmers have been protesting at the Delhi borders. Sidhu’s remark came two days after Amarinder Singh said he would launch his own political party and that …

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday questioned a recent meeting between the father of student leader Umar Khalid, an accused in the Delhi violence case, and SP President Akhilesh Yadav, charging the main opposition party with crossing all limits.   “Opposition parties can go to any extent. You …

An Indian Air Force (IAF) plane crashed in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind district on Thursday morning, officials said. “An IAF Mirage 2000 aircraft experienced a technical malfunction during a training sortie in the central sector this morning. The pilot ejected safely. An inquiry has been ordered to ascertain the cause of …

Uttar Pradesh minister Upendra Tiwari, on Thursday, came out with a claim that 95 per cent of the people in the country do not need petrol. Tiwari, the minister of state for sports and youth affairs and panchayat raj, said only a handful of people use four-wheeler vehicles and need …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday heaped praise on Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, saying the state has after decades got a government under his leadership which works with absolute honesty and that it will be evaluated as the best in the last five decades.   Noting that he …

People standing in queues outside liquor outlets in the state are “egalitarian” with “no poverty” and no one is seeking any subsidy or reservation, the Kerala High Court said on Thursday and added customers can be seen lining up patiently and calmly at such shops. “There is no poverty outside …

After a brief lull, heavy rainfall, accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning, lashed several parts of Kerala on Thursday as the weathermen issued an orange alert for eight districts of the state indicating very heavy showers. The India Meteorological Department (IMD), in its latest update, put the districts- Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, …

Training his guns again on Narcotics Control Bureau’s (NCB) Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Thursday claimed the officer was specifically brought in to the agency by the central government after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput last year.    Malik also alleged …

Two doses of Covishield and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines may be 90 per cent effective at preventing deaths from the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Thursday.   The study, using data from the Scotland-wide EAVE II …