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Patna: The issue of azaan being recited through loudspeakers was raked up again on Thursday. Bihar minister Janak Ram demanded that loudspeakers should be banned across the country as far as azaan in mosques is concerned. The BJP leader…

New Delhi: India will soon be issuing e-passports to its citizens, most likely from the year 2022-23. Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan provided the information in Rajya Sabha on Thursday while responding to a…

Rajouri: Even after 15 months from the start of India’s inoculation drive against COVID-19, there is still opposition to vaccines. Members of a medical team which had travelled to Madhaar village in Kashmir’s Rajouri district to vaccinate…

Bhubaneswar: The Centre has announced that fitness certificate of motor vehicles would be issued only through registered Automated Testing Station from next year. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, in a notification issued on…

New Delhi: Air India has cancelled its Delhi-Moscow flight, according to reports. The Russian embassy on Wednesday said Air India had stopped selling tickets on the Delhi-Moscow-Delhi route. "Dear fellow citizens. We draw your attention…

New Delhi: Suspected state-backed Chinese hackers targeted India’s electricity network near Ladakh in recent months, according to a report by private intelligence firm Recorded Future, Bloomberg and NDTV reported. The hackers targeted at…

Mumbai: India Inc is likely to give an average 9 per cent salary hike this year. The average salary hike in 2022 is likely to be 9 per cent against 7 per cent in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, the Michael Page Salary Report 2022 said,…

New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has revised the JEE Main 2022 exam schedule. The first session of the exam will now be held from June 20 to 29. Under the earlier schedule, the first session was scheduled on April 21, 24, 25,…

Mumbai: Hours after Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) informed that India’s first case of new COVID-19 variant XE had been detected in the city, the Union health ministry said “present evidence does not suggest the presence of the…

Budaun (UP): A girl who was denied admission to a government school in Uttar Pradesh’s Budaun because of an unusual name in her Aadhaar card has finally got a seat in the school following the intervention of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s…