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Rajasthan trust vote: How numbers stack up

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:10:53 GMT

Airtel, Vodafone & Jio have warning over these apps

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:33:36 GMT

Email spoofing: Beauty e-tailer duped of Rs 62 lakh

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:56:37 GMT

Top10: Who will win the numbers game in Rajasthan?

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:26:28 GMT

Cracks between BCCI & National Cricket Academy?

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 06:07:20 GMT

With batting legend Rahul Dravid at the helm, the academy has time and again insisted that it is trying to put better work policies and a clearer, more structured vision in place but that, BCCI members say, should happen only once the BCCI and the academy together acknowledge that “at the moment, the NCA is a glorified government hospital where nobody wants to go”.

PIO scribe to Trump: 'Do you regret your lies?'

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 04:11:43 GMT

A Pune-born Indian-American journalist dropped a bombshell in the White House Press Room on Thursday with a loaded question, bluntly asking US President Donald Trump to his face if he regrets his lies and dishonestly.

Dad asked for jackfruit from village: Pranab's son

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 03:38:46 GMT

Less than a week before former President Pranab Mukherjee went on ventilator support, he had called up his son with a request.

Cyber firm, govt spar over Aarogya info theft risk

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:45:39 GMT

Data of over 150 million Indians shared with the Aarogya Setu app runs a “significant risk of theft or abuse”, a security audit firm working with the ambitious contact-tracing programme has alleged, claiming that it was not heard when it warned the government on the potential weaknesses.

Ex-Prez Pranab Mukherjee is comatose, responding to drugs

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:39:44 GMT

Former President Pranab Mukherjee is slowly responding to medical treatment and all his vital parameters are stable though he remains deeply comatose. Sources said his pupils had started responding to light. He was admitted to the Army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi on August 10 and was operated upon to remove a clot in the brain. He also tested positive for Covid-19.

Covid live: Record 8.3 lakh samples tested in a day

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:19:13 GMT

India scaled a new high by testing over 8.3 lakh samples in last 24 hours, the highest tested for Covid-19 in a day so far, even as new cases continued to increase registering a record single-day surge of 66,999 cases. The government maintained that increasing number of positive cases should be seen in tandem with the positivity rate and recovery of patients. Stay with TOI for more updates-

In e-courts, lawyers in vests, with hookahs

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:08:00 GMT

Advocates, arguing before virtual courts from the comfort of homes and farmhouses, do not seem to be able not to a sip of tea or coffee, so intrinsic to the Indian way of life, while on the job. With many advocates seen in video-conference proceedings of the Supreme Court and high courts taking cups to their lips, a storm brewed on the court decorum front.

'No Mum police FIR in Rajput case, statements invalid'

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:59:03 GMT

The Union government told the Supreme Court on Thursday that there was no legal sanctity in the recording of statements of 56 people by Mumbai police in the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput as the state police had not registered an FIR that empowers police to legally investigate a crime.

19 booked for B’luru riot; ban PFI, SDPI says K’taka

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:29:48 GMT

Police have registered two separate FIRs against 19 men — most of them are members of Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) — for their “direct involvement” in Tuesday night’s violence in east Bengaluru. All the 19 accused belonging to a particular minority community have been identified in the FIRs.

Record spike: 66k cases, 1,008 deaths in one day

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:15:03 GMT

An unprecedented surge in the Covid-19 pandemic in India on Thursday saw the number of fresh cases as well as deaths from the virus touch record highs. New infections during the day went past 66,000 while fatalities touched 1,008.

Israel, UAE to establish diplomatic ties

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 01:00:36 GMT

Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement on Thursday that will lead to a full normalisation of diplomatic relations between the two states, a move that reshapes the order of West Asia politics from the Palestinian issue to Iran. Under the accord, which US President Trump helped broker, Israel has agreed to suspend annexing areas of the occupied West Bank as it had been planning to do, White House officials said. I

Chinese national held for Rs 1,100cr online gambling racket

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:56:19 GMT

A Chinese national and three of his Indian associates have been arrested in a crackdown on an illegal online gambling racket being run by a China-based company, the police said on Thursday. The Chinese national and his associates were arrested by the Hyderabad police from Delhi on Wednesday and brought to Hyderabad on Thursday.

India to build 'largest infra project' worth $500m in Maldives

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:35:42 GMT

With focus on greater connectivity, India on Thursday announced several developmental projects in the Maldives, including a $ 500 million Greater Malé Connectivity Project (GMCP), billed as the largest ever infrastructure project in the country.

Retail inflation nearly 7% on food prices rise

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:23:03 GMT

Retail inflation inched close to the 7% mark in July, accelerating higher than expectations on the back of hardening food prices. The consumer price index rose an annual 6.9% in the previous month, higher than the upwardly revised 6.2% in June, dashing hopes of any interest rate cuts for now. Food inflation soared to an annual 9.6% in July from 8.7% in the previous month as supply disruptions continued to take toll.

Gehlot, Pilot meet; House session from today

Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:05:13 GMT

After more than a month of acrimony, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and his rebellious former deputy Sachin Pilot met here on Thursday, keeping behind the bitterness and flashing victory signs to their supporters and the media.

Faceless assessment scheme now extended to all taxpayers

Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:25:08 GMT

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday expanded the faceless assessment scheme to all taxpayers, unveiled a single-page Taxpayers’ Charter and promised a faceless appeal mechanism from next month. He urged citizens to be more tax-compliant, pointing to the fact there are just 1.5 crore taxpayers in a country with a population of 130 crore.