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New Delhi: Veteran Bihar politician and ex-RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh - his June resignation letter to Lalu Prasad Yadav emerged Friday - died Sunday morning at AIIMS in Delhi. He was 74 years old. Less than an hour later a shocked Lalu Prasad tweeted: "Dear Raghuvansh babu! What did you do?" Mr Singh tested positive for COVID-19 in June, after which he was admitted to the All India

Coimbatore, Sept 13: Former CPI(M) MLA K Thangavelu died of Covid-19 at a private hospital here on Sunday, party sources said. He was 69 and is survived by his wife and two daughters. Thangavelu was admitted to the hospital a couple of days ago and died without responding to treatment, they said. He had represented Tirupur South assembly constituency in 2011-16. He was the party Coimbatore

New Delhi, Sept 13: Two weeks after his discharge, Home Minister Amit Shah has been re-admitted to All India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after complaining breathing issue on Saturday, multiple sources told media persons. However, the hospital did not come on record to confirm this. The sources told that Shah was admitted around 11 p.m. on Saturday night. As per the sources, he is being

New Delhi, Sept 12: In a shocking development, the Delhi Police has named CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav, economist Jayati Ghosh, Delhi University professor and activist Apoorvanand, and documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy as co-conspirators in the February Delhi riots. They have been accused of asking anti-CAA protesters to go to ¨any extreme¨

Kannur, Sept 12: A 30-year-old engineer, who had returned from Kuwait and was in quarantine here, was found dead with his throat slit, police said on Saturday. T V Sharath was staying in an outhouse adjacent to his residence. When a relative went to give Sharath breakfast, the latter was found dead, the police said. A pair of scissors was recovered from near the body, they said. It is suspected he

New Delhi, Sept 12: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday "expressed shock and anguish" over the passing away of social activist and former Haryana MLA Swami Agnivesh and conveyed his condolences to his followers. Terming him a "leading social activist and reformer," Singh said that Swami Agnivesh had made "immense contribution in public life while working for bonded labourers and

After the death of veteran social worker and Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh, former CBI director Nageswara Rao, who was controversially installed in a midnight coup by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office, revealed himself as the new Hindutva icon spewing hate. “Good riddance @swamiagnivesh. You were an anti-Hindu donning saffron clothes. You did enormous damage to Hinduism. I am ashamed

Shanghai, Sept 11: A flight from Delhi carrying 212 Indians, few foreign and Chinese nationals landed in Ningbo, China on Thursday night, according to Consulate General of India in Shanghai. "Late night of Sept 10 #VBM with 212 Indians few foreign and Chinese nationals flew into Ningbo from Delhi uniting family members & enabling to join back work in China. The flight carried back 54 Indians who

New Delhi, Sept 11: The much-awaited findings of the first national serosurvey conducted by the ICMR, published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, indicate that 0.73 per cent adults in India were exposed to SARS-CoV-2 amounting to a total of 6.4 million infections by early May. The survey was conducted from May 11 to June 4 and covered 28,000 individuals whose blood samples were tested for

Mumbai, Sept 11: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday issued new guidelines for banks to tighten their compliance functions and ensure that chief compliance officers (CCOs) follow the best industry practices as required by supervisory expectations. Banks currently follow diverse practices in this regard, it said. "The policy should lay special thrust on building up compliance culture, vetting