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Republic Day 2021: Tarun Gogoi, Ram Vilas Paswan among 10 Padma Bhushan awardees
Written by Prashasti Singh
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:49 PM IST
Prominent Shia preacher and scholar Shri Kalbe Sadiq was the third person to have received the award posthumously this year.

Senior officers must attend R-Day event at Rajpath or face action: Govt
PTI
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:48 PM IST
"You may suitably advise all officers of your ministry/ department, who are invited to the Republic day ceremony at Rajpath, to attend the function," the letter by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba said.

Full text: President Ram Nath Kovind’s speech on eve of 72nd Republic Day
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Mallika Soni
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:44 PM IST
Here’s the full text of President Kovind’s speech

Salaries not paid, doctors of Delhi’s Kasturba Hospital may strike work from Feb 1
By Ashish Mishra, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:44 PM IST
Doctors of Kasturba Hospital, run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, are likely to go on an indefinite strike from February 1 over non-payment of salaries for the past three months

DDA comes up with new plan to expedite process of issuing deeds to residents of unauthorised colonies
By Risha Chitlangia
UPDATED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:44 PM IST
New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) plans to implement a new strategy to expedite to process of issuing conveyance deeds, which will give ownership rights to residents of 1,731 unauthorised colonies in Delhi, under the Centre’s PM-UDAY scheme, said Anurag Jain, the vice-chairman of the housing agency

Doorstep delivery of rations in Delhi by March this year: CM Arvind Kejriwal
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:43 PM IST
New Delhi: The Delhi government’s ambitious doorstep delivery of ration service will be launched by March, and all of the residents of the city will get health cards by the end of this year, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Monday, during an address at a Republic Day event at the Delhi secretariat

HC allows DDA to declare results of e-auction of 3 plots that was stayed for want of parking
By Richa Banka, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:43 PM IST
The Delhi high court on Monday allowed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to publish the results of the e-auction of three commercial plots at the District Centre in Netaji Subhash Place, after the agency admitted that there was a deficiency of parking, to address which it would construct additional parking space on six plots

Delhi Police says it will ensure that farmers stick to rally route
By Shiv Sunny
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:43 PM IST
New Delhi: Only 5,000 farmers on 5,000 tractors will be allowed into Delhi for the tractor rally scheduled for Tuesday, according to the terms and conditions mentioned in the no-objection certificate (NOC) issued by the Delhi Police on Monday, but the police said that practically all tractors joining the rally will be allowed to enter the national capital

Olympics would be 'extremely difficult' for unvaccinated athletes: France
AFP
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:42 PM IST
Denis Masseglia warned that unvaccinated athletes who went to the Games in Japan faced "quarantine of a fortnight" and "will have to undergo tests in the mornings and evenings".

Farmers from across the country prepare for historic parade on R-Day
By Kainat Sarfaraz, Fareeha Iftikhar, and Karn Pratap Singh, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JAN 25, 2021 10:42 PM IST
Gleaming tractors that have been serviced, washed and adorned with the tricolour and banners; farmers busy giving finishing touches to tableaux on agricultural themes; volunteers setting up mobile hospitals and another group registering the parade participants -- the farmer protest venues at Delhi’s borders were beehives of activity on Monday, the eve of the historic “tractor parade” to be held by farmers on Republic Day