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• 22 Apr 2022, 10:24:31 PM IST

  Putin-UN chief Guterres to meet next week

  Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet with UN secretary-general António Guterres in Russia next week: Kremlin

• 22 Apr 2022, 09:32:22 PM IST

  Tamil Nadu CM urges PM Modi to ensure supply of 72,000 MT coal per day

  In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin requests him to to direct the Ministry of coal to ensure the supply of 72,000 MT coal per day as per the FSA (Fuel Supply Agreement) at Paradip & Vishakhapatnam ports to maintain uninterrupted power supply in the state.

• 22 Apr 2022, 08:53:04 PM IST

  NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar to step down

  Rajiv Kumar to step down as vice chairman of NITI Aayog, economist Suman Bery likely to replace him.

• 22 Apr 2022, 08:34:55 PM IST

  1,042 new Covid-19 cases, 2 deaths in Delhi

  Delhi reports 1,042 new Covid-19 cases, 757 recoveries and 2 deaths. Daily positivity rate recorded at 4.64%.

• 22 Apr 2022, 07:40:06 PM IST

  Maharashtra's daily Covid-19 cases see a dip with 121 fresh infections

  Maharashtra reports 121 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, while daily toll recorded at zero. Mumbai logs 68 fresh infections.

• 22 Apr 2022, 07:24:07 PM IST

  Earthquake in Ladakh's Kargil

  An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 occurred at around 6:50pm, 246km NNE of Kargil, Ladakh today: National Center for Seismology

• 22 Apr 2022, 06:44:40 PM IST

  Alwar DM speaks on temple demolition

  A consensus decision was taken during the municipality meeting to remove the illegal encroachments present on the roadside. Before the encroachment drive, the temple priests shifted the idols to another place: Shivprasad Nakate, DM, Alwar

• 22 Apr 2022, 05:54:21 PM IST

  Adar Poonawalla to meet UK PM Boris Johnson

  Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla reaches the British High Commission residence in Delhi to meet visiting British PM Boris Johnson.

• 22 Apr 2022, 05:03:39 PM IST

  ‘Of course, we have conversations with Indian on human rights’: Boris Johnson

  Of course, we have these conversations (on human rights or democratic values). The advantage of our friendship is that we can have them in a friendly way. It's very important to realise that India has constitutional protections for communities: Boris Johnson, UK PM

• 22 Apr 2022, 04:24:39 PM IST

  UK's Kyiv embassy to reopen next week: Boris Johnson

  The UK will reopen its embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine next week. The UK and our allies will not watch passively as Putin carries on this onslaught: Boris Johnson, UK PM, in Delhi

• 22 Apr 2022, 03:32:33 PM IST

  West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to visit Delhi on April 29-30

  West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to visit Delhi on April 29 to attend a joint conference of chief ministers and chief justices on April 30.

• 22 Apr 2022, 03:05:52 PM IST

  Jahangirpuri clashes: D Raja stopped by Delhi  Police

  D Raja, CPI general secretary, reaches violence-hit Jahangirpuri in Delhi. “We've come here to meet the victims, police is not allowing us. India belongs to everybody,” says Raja.

• 22 Apr 2022, 02:17:42 PM IST

  ‘Normalcy likely to return in 24-36 hours’: Delhi Police on Jahangirpuri

  Political leaders are not allowed near the mosque, no restrictions for general devotees there. Normalcy will return in the area in the next 24-36 hours: Depender Pathak, Joint CP (Law and Order), Delhi Police

• 22 Apr 2022, 01:41:25 PM IST

  Serum stops making Covid vaccines with 200 million doses spare

  Serum Institute of India Ltd., the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and a key supplier of Covid-19 inoculations to developing countries, has stopped making fresh batches of shots after its stockpile grew to 200 million doses amid a global supply glut.

  “We have got 200 million doses of stock. We had to shut down production in December,” Serum’s chief executive officer Adar Poonawalla said at the India Economic Conclave organized by Times Network on Friday, saying he was worried about wastage if the shots expired. “I have even offered to give free donations to whoever wanted to take it.”

• 22 Apr 2022, 01:06:04 PM IST

  Delhi govt issues Covid SOP for schools

  Delhi govt releases Covid SOPs for schools, asks to conduct daily symptoms check, quarantine rooms, thermal scan and hand sanitsation, among other protocols.

• 22 Apr 2022, 12:11:58 PM IST

  RJD chief Lalu Prasad gets bail in fodder scam case

  RJD chief Lalu Prasad gets bail in fodder scam case from Jharkhand High Court. The matter pertains to Doranda Treasury case in which he was sentenced with five years on Feb 21.

• 22 Apr 2022, 11:57:11 AM IST

  Johnson, Modi hold talks at Delhi's Hyderabad House

• 22 Apr 2022, 11:45:23 AM IST

  Jahangirpuri violence: Delhi Police asks ED to source finances of prime-accused Ansar

  Police have written to the Enforcement Directorate to source finances of Ansar, prime accused in Jahangirpuri riots case in Delhi. Ansar is a resident of Jahangirpuri, originally from Haldia, West Bengal. He works as a scrap dealer in Delhi.

• 22 Apr 2022, 10:50:23 AM IST

  Supreme Court rejects Nawab Malik's plea to release him in money laundering case

  Supreme Court rejects a plea by Maharashtra minister & NCP leader Nawab Malik to release him in a case of money laundering.

  "It is too nascent a stage to interfere with the investigation.We can't interfere with the due process at this stage. You move the competent court," the top court says.

• 22 Apr 2022, 10:19:47 AM IST

  Sri Lanka president calls in Army ahead of protester’s funeral

  Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered a three-day military deployment ahead of the funeral of a protester killed earlier this week when police fired at crowds angry over the country’s worsening food and fuel shortages and rising living costs.

  Soldiers have been deployed in and around the central Rambukkana area where police opened fire Tuesday night after tear gas failed to dispel protesters who had blocked a train track and tried to set fire to a diesel truck, Sri Lanka’s information department said in a statement.

• 22 Apr 2022, 09:52:20 AM IST

  India-UK relations ‘never been as strong or as good as between us’: Boris to PM Modi

• 22 Apr 2022, 09:29:45 AM IST

  J&K encounter: 2 terrorists killed in encounter in Sunjwan

  A total of two terrorists were neutralized in an encounter that broke out in near Jammu's Sunjwan area, the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) of Jammu zone, Mukesh Singh said.

  Singh said that the terrorists had plans to carry out a major terror attack but their sinister designs were foiled. He also said the guerilla warfare tactics of the terrorists and arms used by them indicated them to be foreigners.

• 22 Apr 2022, 09:25:09 AM IST

  Sensex opens in the red, tumbles over 600 points; Nifty stays above 17,200

  Markets opened on negative note on Friday. Sensex tumbled over 600 points to 57,294 as of 9:20am; Nifty stays above 17,200.

• 22 Apr 2022, 09:14:52 AM IST

  PM Modi receives Boris Johnson at Rashtrapati Bhavan | Watch

• 22 Apr 2022, 09:06:34 AM IST

  Security deployment at Jahangirpuri

• 22 Apr 2022, 07:39:29 AM IST

  Over 6 crore members enroll for Congress' polls to elect new president

  As the Congress weighs poll strategist Prashant Kishor's proposal for a revamp, the party is all set to have organisational elections. Over six crore Congress members have enrolled themselves for the same.

  Speaking to news agency ANI, Congress Central Election Authority Chairman Madhusudan Mistry said that the party has completed its membership drive, wherein almost 6 crore members were enrolled. "Around 2.6 crores members were enrolled through Digital Membership. Membership has been done through papers too, so the total numbers will be finalised in another few days. It is expected to be more than six crores by April 15, 2022," he said.

• 22 Apr 2022, 07:32:51 AM IST

  1 security personnel killed, 3 others injured in encounter in J&K's Sunjwan

  Additional Director General of Police of Jammu Mukesh Singh told PTI the encounter started when the police's Special Operations Group and the CRPF launched a joint search operation in the area.

  He said one security force personnel was killed and three more suffered injuries in the gunfight. "The encounter is going on," he said.