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US President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intent to nominate Indian-American civil rights lawyer and labour advocate Seema Nanda for the post of Solicitor of the Department of Labour. "Today (Friday), President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Seema Nanda for Solicitor of the Department of Labour," the White House said in a statement.

Police personnel posted on duty at the Karnataka-Kerala border had a providential escape, after five notorious criminals opened fire on them, while the accused were being intercepted near the Salethur-Kodange check-post on the border, in the early hours of Friday.

In chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal’s constituency of Majuli, people have got no relief from floods and the untold miseries brought by them. And many of them say the BJP hasn’t helped them in any way.

The Senate Judiciary Committee has ended in a tie vote over the nomination of Indian-American civil rights lawyer Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general of the United States, amid objections from the Republicans. The committee on Thursday voted 11-11 on Gupta's nomination. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, can now file a discharge motion on her nomination to allow a full Senate vote on her nomination.

Amid the sharp uptick in the Covid-19 cases in Ludhiana, the district administration on Friday has launched a unique initiative ‘Vaccine at Doorsteps’ to inoculate a larger population in a short period to break the transmission chain of virus.

The 20,000 vendors in the city, who make a living out of selling their wares on the streets, are hoping to have a government that would be concerned about them and allocate a dedicated area to conduct their business or allow them to continue their business on the street itself.

If you are voting on Saturday, please ensure that you come to the poll booth wearing a mask. The Election Commission has mandated this as it braces for the first phase of the Assam elections where 81.09 lakh people are eligible to vote.

The customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport seized gold weighing 1.23kg, worth Rs 57.15 lakh from a passenger arriving from Dubai, here on Friday.

As the lockdown emptied out roads and confined people to their home, those who keep our cities moving took the hardest hit. Drivers of autos, cabs and e-rickshaws saw their earnings eviscerated in one stroke. The months that followed set them back by several years as savings plummeted. A year on, earnings remain drastically curtailed as most of India continues to work from home, making the crawl back to normalcy a long and hard one. The one silver lining has been at cycle dealerships. The curbs,... Читать дальше...

Campaigning in 47 constituencies in northern and upper Assam, which started with Prime Minister Narendra Modi three months back, ended at a feverish pitch at 6pm on Thursday, setting the stage for the first phase of election on March 27 that will go down as an election without an issue concerning life and livelihood of voters.

A 30-gram gold casket of Male Mahadeshwara Temple atop MM Hills in Hanur taluk in Chamarajanagar, which went missing on March 18, was found along with temple waste on Thursday afternoon.

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started conducting Covid-19 tests of inmates of government and private hostels in the city from Thursday after some campuses reported cases.