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Shimla, December 26 Taking a strict view of the Junior Office Assistant (IT) paper leak, the state government has suspended the functioning of Himachal Pradesh Staff Selection Commission (HPSSC), Hamirpur. All the ongoing and pending recruitments through the commission have been kept in abeyance till further orders. The…

New Delhi, December 26A mock drill will be held on Tuesday across a number of health facilities in several states and Union territories to ensure their readiness to deal with any eventuality related to COVID-19, following an advisory by the Centre.The exercise will focus on parameters such as availability of…

New Delhi, December 26 In the name of history, “concocted narratives” were taught to infuse inferiority and there is a need to break free from the “narrow views” of the past to move forward, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, underlining that new India is correcting the mistakes of…

New Delhi, December 26 Twenty cars were gutted at a multi-level parking facility in west Delhi’s Subhash Nagar on Monday morning following a blaze that started allegedly after a 23-year-old man set afire one of the vehicles to take revenge on its owner, police said. Fire officials said a call…

Gaya, December 26 Five foreign nationals, four of them from Thailand and one from Myanmar, have tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in Bihar on a pilgrimage, an official said on Monday. According to Dr Ranjan Kumar Singh, the medical officer in charge of Gaya district, the foreigners were tested…

Bejing, December 26 China’s Zhejiang, a big industrial province near Shanghai, is battling around a million new daily Covid-19 infections, a number expected to double in the days ahead, the provincial government said on Sunday. Despite a record surge of cases nationwide, China reported no Covid deaths on the mainland…

New Delhi, December 26 Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here on Monday, sources said. The 63-year-old has been admitted in a private ward of the hospital. She was taken to the hospital around 12 noon. More details are awaited. …

ANI Mumbai, December 26 In a major reveal by the main accused in TV actor Tunisha Sharma’s death case, her former boyfriend Sheezan Khan reportedly told police that he was “so disturbed by the atmosphere in the country that emerged after the gruesome murder of Shraddha Walkar” allegedly by her…

New Delhi, December 26 The CBI on Monday arrested Videocon group founder Venugopal Dhoot in connection with the ICICI Bank loan fraud case, officials said.The 71-year-old Dhoot was arrested from Mumbai, nearly three days after former CEO and MD of the ICICI Bank Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar…

Sirohi, December 26The desert state of Rajasthan is experiencing a record dip in mercury this year with the hill station of Mount Abu experiencing snowfall and the city of Churu, the gateway to the Thar, recording zero degree Celsius.People on the high rocky Aravalli plateau of Mount Abu near the…

ANI Sirohi, December 26 The desert state of Rajasthan is experiencing a record dip in mercury this year with the hill station of Mount Abu experiencing snowfall and the city of Churu, the gateway to the Thar, recording zero degree Celsius. People on the high rocky Aravalli plateau of…

Chandigarh, December 26 Biting cold conditions and dense fog were reported in several parts of Punjab and Haryana on Monday, with Narnaul being recorded the coldest in the region at 2.4 degrees Celsius. In Haryana, Hisar also recorded piercing cold as the minimum temperature plunged to 2.5 degrees Celsius. Ambala…

Islamabad, December 26 Amid heightened security in Islamabad, the US Embassy has issued an alert for its staff, urging them to refrain from non-essential, unofficial travel in the city, and to specifically avoid the Marriott Hotel where an attack is possible, media reports said. As per the security alert issued…

IANS New Delhi, December 26 Indian-American VA Shiva Ayyadurai, who “invented email” when he was just 14, has expressed interest in taking up the position of Twitter CEO after Elon Musk said that he wishes to step down from the post. Mumbai-born Ayyadurai, 59, who holds four degrees from the…

Washington, December 26 At least 38 people have died due to a severe Arctic storm that has continued to batter parts of the US and Canada, with some areas recording temperatures as low as -45 degrees Celsius, authorities have confirmed. Of the 38 victims, 34 were reported across the US,…