While Ukrainians are being welcomed in their thousands, the government is trying to reduce the number of non-European refugees.
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Covid: Just over a lakh out of 66 lakh eligible people in 18-44 age group have taken third shot
Hospitals say though 18-59 years is a large cohort and opening up of the booster dose for this segment was seen as a major positive decision, the demand has been subdued. "It could be a sum of both complacency and ignorance. Since a majority have been double-vaccinated and with fewer Covid cases, many in this age group are complacent to take time out and go to a vaccination centre.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/64WUG7s
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April 29, 2022
Coal shortage, heatwave and dry spell spark power crisis
An energy crisis is looming over a vast swathe of land from the northern states to southern India as low coal supplies across the majority of thermal power plants have set off blackouts in several urban and rural areas where domestic demand for electricity has spiked manifold because of an unusually early and record-shattering heatwave and dry weather.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/soS5NEg
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Thursday 28 April 2022
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PM: Centre wants AFSPA removed from entire northeast
The Centre is working "speedily" towards revoking the contentious Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from the entire northeast in acknowledgement of a 75% decline in militant violence in the region over the past eight years, PM Narendra Modi said during a whistle-stop tour of Assam on Thursday that saw him inaugurate seven cancer hospitals and lay the foundation for another seven.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/lizYKR4
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April 28, 2022
Heat wave for next 4 days, April set to be among hottest ever
The current month is on course to be among the hottest months of April ever experienced in India, with the met department on Thursday issuing another heat wave warning for northwest and central India for the next four days. IMD data provides a glimpse into the sweltering conditions in north and central India. In Punjab, maximum temperatures were on average 5.4°C above normal. In Haryana, these were 5.1°C over the normal mark.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5UD82sE
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Wednesday 27 April 2022
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Must be confident, not pale imitation of others: Jaishankar
Following his strong pushback against Europe on India's ties with Russia, foreign minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday once again justified India's position on Ukraine, saying India's choices and positions are best placed to advance the goal of ending the conflict and returning to the dialogue table.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/39Bnwkt
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Since when is reciting Chalisa treason? BJP attacks MVA
Coming out in defence of the lawmaker couple from Maharashtra — independent MP wife Navneet Rana and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, also an independent — BJP on Sunday accused Maharashtra’s MVA government of having hatred for Hindu faith and asked since when reciting the Hanuman Chalisa has become seditious.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ReqFjoC
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India Covid cases up nearly 2x in a week
Covid-19 cases have begun inching up in at least 12 states, rising from three last week, even as the country reported nearly twice as many cases in the week ending Sunday as in the previous seven days.indiafrom India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/q15fJcz
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April 24, 2022
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J&K’s youth won’t face hardships their parents, grandparents suffered: PM Modi
J&K’s youth won’t face hardships their parents and grandparents suffered for want of opportunities and infrastructure, PM Narendra Modi assured on Sunday as he called the Union territory a new example of “democracy and determination” because of all-round development initiatives, private investment worth Rs 38,000 crore over the past couple of years and the return of tourists in droves.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/MINx0UF
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Saturday 23 April 2022
April 23, 2022
6 minor boys held for rape of 11-year-old girl in Jharkhand
Khunti police have detained six minor boys for allegedly gang-raping an 11-year-old girl in the district on Tuesday night, reports Sanjay Sahay. Police said the culprits are aged between 10 and 15 years. The girl is an acquaintance of those detained, they said.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/olvDs8S
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April 23, 2022
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Defence PRO deletes tweet on Army’s J&K iftar after trolling
A tweet by an official handle of the defence ministry in Jammu and Kashmir about the Army hosting an iftar in Doda district was deleted after it came under attack from some anti-minority forces on social media, raising concerns about the abject capitulation in military and veteran circles.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/myjNpU7
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April 23, 2022
2 Jaish men killed in south Kashmir; slain Jammu fidayeen duo may be Afghanis
Security forces gunned down a Pakistani terrorist and a local operative of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group within hours of each other in a shootout in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Saturday, while two more members of the outlawed Pakistan-backed outfit were holding out in a house where their associates were killed.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/9S3A8JW
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April 23, 2022
April 23, 2022
Rural India, J&K to get booster shots in PM Modi’s address from Jammu on Panchayati Raj Diwas
Thousands of elected rural representatives from across J&K made their way to Palli panchayat in the frontier district of Jammu’s Samba, where PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to address the nation on Panchayati Raj Diwas on Sunday and launch development projects amounting to more than Rs 20,000 crore for the Union territory.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/X4imJUz
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2 Pakistan Jaish terrorists on suicide mission killed ahead of PM’s visit to Jammu
Two Pakistani terrorists of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammad group and a CISF officer were killed while nine more security personnel suffered bullet and splinter wounds in a four-hour gunfight following an ambush on a paramilitary bus early Friday near Sunjuwan military camp, 8km from Jammu city.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/WJ0cPMe
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April 22, 2022
After 2-year break, Haj pilgrimage to start from May 31
After a two-year break due to restrictions in view of the pandemic, Indian Muslims will be able to travel for Haj this year as Saudi Arabia has allowed entry of international pilgrims. Given that the pandemic is still on and strict protocols are expected to be in place, India has been permitted to send up to 79,237 pilgrims for Haj this year.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/9RtfIKY
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Focus on Indo-Pacific, BoJo won't 'lecture' India on Ukraine
UK PM Boris Johnson will discuss the Ukraine issue with his counterpart Narendra Modi in their meeting on Friday but without losing sight of the Indo-Pacific and also without "lecturing" India on how to go about its ties with Russia. Laying out the agenda for the summit, sources said an Indo-Pacific that's free from coercion will be central to Johnson's conversations here.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/ctApw2J
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Sunday 17 April 2022
April 17, 2022
Mob attacks thana in Karnataka over WhatsApp post; 40 held
At least 40 people were arrested and prohibitory orders clamped for four days in Hubballi, about 400km from Bengaluru, after a mob attacked police and their cars at a police station with stones on Saturday night over a youth’s provocative WhatsApp post that offended the minority community. The youth was arrested. A Karnataka police inspector and 11 cops suffered minor injuries and seven of their vehicles were damaged in the attack that happened between 9.30pm and midnight.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/5ce1hXr
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April 17, 2022
Blow for Assam Congress as ex-chief joins TMC
Congress in Assam suffered a setback on Sunday when its former PCC president, minister and Rajya Sabha MP Ripun Bora joined Trinamool Congress in Kolkata, hours after sending a two-page resignation to party chief Sonia Gandhi. Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee now has three key politicians in the Northeast—Bora, former Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma and Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev—to steer the party through the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and state polls in the region.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/xJSi3l8
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April 17, 2022
India’s weekly Covid cases up 35%, first rise since January
After 11 successive weeks of decline, Covid-19 cases in India surged again this week, rising by 35% over the previous seven days' numbers, on the back of a spike in infections in the contiguous states of Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. However, the overall case numbers remain low and, so far, the surge seems restricted to the three states.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/GW5FX1C
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After Madhya Pradesh, bulldozers roll in Gujarat against ‘rioters’
Bulldozers were used on Friday to raze encroachments on properties owned by those accused in the communal riots in Khambhat that had left one person dead on Ram Navami. Based on directives of the Anand district collectorate, the local administration in the coastal town started removing bushes, thick vegetation and tin and wooden cabins in Sakarpura area, the locality where stone-pelting had started during the Ram Navami procession. Six policemen were injured in the riots.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/7Z0rl2N
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April 15, 2022
Putin’s war delays delivery of second S-400 squadron
The first squadron of the formidable S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system has become virtually operational in northwest India, but the delivery of the second squadron from Russia has been slightly delayed due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. IAF got deliveries of the first S-400 squadron in thousands of containers through the air and sea routes in December. IAF is slated to get five S-400 squadrons.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/yx07658
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April 15, 2022
Navy goes full steam ahead for indigenisation amidst cut down in foreign arms procurements
The Navy also has the initial approval or `acceptance of necessity (AoN) for another 47 warships and submarines to be built in India at a cost of over Rs 1.5 lakh crore in the future. “Warship-building in the country has a multiplier effect, with one shipyard job leading to the creation of around six jobs in the ancillary industries,” a defence official said.from India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India https://ift.tt/HsEaPJ0
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