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New Delhi: Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved a new scheme ‘India COVID-19 Emergency Response & Health System Preparedness Package: Phase-II’ amounting to Rs 23,123 crore for the financial year 2021-22.This scheme aims to...

Agartala: The High Court of Tripura took an exception to the home secretary of the state for willfully ignoring the court orders regarding job offer to the son of a police constable under die-in-harness scheme and warned to impose...

New Delhi: Former BCCI president Anurag Thakur was on Wednesday appointed as the new Union Sports Minister.The 46-year-old, who was also given charge of the Information and Broadcasting ministry along with sports, replaces Kiren Rijiju.After taking oath as the...

Washington: Two members of the US military were injured during a rocket attack against the Ain Al-Assad Air Base that hosts Coalition troops in Iraq, Defense Department spokesperson Commander Jessica McNulty confirmed to Sputnik.Earlier on Wednesday, Operation Inherent Resolve...

Srinagar: Four militants were killed in two separate encounters with security forces in the twin south Kashmir districts of Pulwama and Kulgam on Thursday.With this, five militants -- including a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander -- have been killed by...

Agartala: Tripura after independence represented for the first time by a daughter of the soil in the union council of ministers Wednesday with the swearing-in of 52 -yrs old Lok Sabha Member Pratima Bhoumik.She is the first time MP...

Bhopal: Catapulted into the political sphere by destiny in the wake of his sire Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia’s demise in a plane crash in 2001, Jyotiraditya Scindia – now a Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart and just sworn in as...

Dushanbe: Tajikistan has returned 280 Afghan soldiers back to Afghanistan after they crossed the border this week to escape militant onslaught, a source in the Tajik national security agency told Sputnik on Wednesday.Media reported earlier that 2,300 soldiers were...

Mumbai: The death of ‘Tragedy King’ Dilip Kumar on Wednesday orphaned his teary-eyed kingdom of fans, followers and admirers both in India and abroad.The much-revered ‘Koh-i-noor’ (Mountain of Light) of the Indian film industry has stopped glowing forever.Born to...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will attend the swearing in ceremony of cabinet expansion of the Modi government which is likely to take place on Wednesday evening.Sarma has been personally invited by the former chief minister Sarbananda...