LIVE: Farm laws were brought and withdrawn in interest of nation, says PM
Wherever BJP has been given the opportunity to work with stability, there you will find an atmosphere of pro-incumbency and not anti-incumbency, says PM Modi
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PM Narendra Modi | Photo: ANI
India has summoned the South Korean ambassador over the "unacceptable" social media post by Hyundai Pakistan on the so-called Kashmir solidarity day and bluntly conveyed to him that there could be no compromise on the matter as it concerned the country's territorial integrity.
South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong spoke to his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar this morning and the Korean side regretted the offence caused to the people and government of India by the social media post.
On the education front, Delhi University's academic council will hold a meeting today to discuss the implementation of the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework based on the National Education Policy (NEP).
On January 21, the university had released a draft Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 2022 (UGCF-2022) formulated in accordance with the NEP and sought feedback from stakeholders.
The bodies of the seven soldiers, who went missing after their patrol along the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district was hit by an avalanche, have been found, the Indian Army said on Tuesday.
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Delhi records 1,317 fresh Covid cases, 13 deaths
Delhi on Wednesday reported 1,317 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.11 per cent, while 13 more people succumbed to the viral disease, according to data shared by the city health department. With this, the national capital's case count increased to 18,47,515 and the death toll climbed to 26,023, the latest bulletin stated.
As many as 62,556 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city the previous day, it said. Delhi had on Tuesday reported 1,114 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.28 per cent and 12 deaths.
The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28,867 on January 13. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic.
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Kerala govt's new 100-day programme aims at more workdays in construction, farm sectors
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday announced the State government's second 100-day action plan to help tide over the economic slowdown triggered by the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Chief Minister said the plan would be generating more workdays based on the activities, including construction and agriculture, to provide more jobs and hand over 20,000 houses for the poor that were built under the government's Life Mission project, among other things, and would be implemented between February 10 and May 20.
May 20 marks one year of the Left government came to power.
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GMR Infrastructure narrows loss to Rs 515 cr in Oct-Dec
GMR Infrastructure Ltd on Wednesday reported narrowing of its consolidated net loss to Rs 515.34 crore for the quarter ended in December 2021 against that of Rs 1,120.51 crore in the year-ago period, according to a regulatory filing.
The consolidated income from operations in the quarter under review rose to Rs 1,437.84 crore from Rs 963 crore in the same period a year ago.
The company's total expenses climbed to Rs 1,387.10 crore in the December quarter as against Rs 1,370.37 crore in the year-ago period.
GMR Infrastructure said the operations of the group were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and while the management believes that such impacts are short-term in nature and does not anticipate any long-term impact on business prospects considering the recovery was seen in past as well as during the current quarter.
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Coronavirus: MP sees 3,226 new cases, five deaths
The COVID-19 tally in Madhya Pradesh rose to 10,16,007 on Wednesday with the detection of 3,226 cases, while the death toll increased to 10,673 after five patients succumbed to the infection, a health department official said.
A total of 6,980 people recovered during the day, taking the count of such people in the state to 9,71,950.
There are now 33,384 active cases in the state, the official said. The positivity rate of Madhya Pradesh marginally came down to 4.5 per cent from 4.6 per cent registered the previous day, he said. Bhopal and Indore, the two worst-hit cities in the state in terms of the spread of the pandemic, registered 574 and 365 cases, respectively, in the past 24 hours.
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Farm laws were brought for benefit of farmers and withdrawn in the interest of nation: PM Modi
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PM Modi hits back at Rahul Gandhi
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Supreme Court is looking into the matter seriously: PM Modi on his security breach in Punjab’s Ferozepur
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Yogi ji prioritised security and didn't compromise with it: PM Narendra Modi
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Govt has no business to do business: PM Modi
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PM Modi says 'atmosphere of pro-incumbency, BJP will win all 5 states'
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Probe agencies recovering national wealth in corruption cases, government should be lauded: PM Modi
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PM Modi takes dig at Akhilesh, says we saw 'game of two boys' earlier too
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We did what we promised: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Goa
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CBSE term-2 board exams for Class 10 and 12 from Apr 26
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Delhi University to resume offline classes from Feb 17
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First Published: Feb 09 2022 | 7:12 AM IST
