# Punjab assembly election The election Commission of India on Monday postponed polling for the Punjab assembly elections from February 14 to February 20. State government and different political parties raised concerns that many devotees would be in Varanasi to celebrate Guru Ravidas’s birth anniversary on February 16 and miss out voting. The congress, Bhartiya […]

# Covid-19 On Sunday, India recorded 2,55,025 new covid-19 cases, a 40℅ increase from the previous week. The total number of infections has reached 3.72 crore, and the active cases have crossed the 16.2 lakh mark. Sunday marked the completion of one year since India started it’s vaccination drive. As of Sunday, 89.4℅ of the […]

# Election Commission The election commission on Saturday banned rallies and roadshows in the five election bound states. The election commission has allowed political parties to hold indoor meetings of upto 300 people or 50℅ of the venue capacity. The election commission decided to continue the ban on roadshows, padyatras, processions and rallies by political […]

# Covid-19 Cases fuelled by the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have initially spread only in Urban areas. However, many rural and semi urban places recorded a sharp spike in infections in the past week. At the start of this year, 50℅ of the cases were from the Urban centres such as Mumbai, chennai, Delhi, Kolkata. […]

# Retail inflation Retail inflation quickened to 5.59℅ in December due to an uptick in food prices. India’s industrial output grew at a subdued rate of 1.4℅ in November 2021. This data has been released by the national statistical office. The inflation based on the Consumer price index (CPI) compares with 4.91℅ seen a month […]

# Covid-19 India’s Covid-19 cases continued to rise, recording 1.85 lakh cases on Tuesday. The number of Covid-19 cases declined in Mumbai for the fourth consecutive day, with the city recording 11,647 infections on Tuesday. The positivity rate, which indicates the number of positive cases per 100 tests conducted, also reached a seven day low […]

# Covid-19 The number of covid-19 cases continued to rise on Sunday, with 1.79 lakh cases registered in last 24 hours. The steep rise in past week was primarily due to the case surge in urban centres such as Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata. Between January 4 and 8, mumbai recorded more than 86,000 cases, […]

# polls in five states Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur will be held between February 10 and March 7, the election Commission of India announced on Saturday. The counting of votes for all 690 constituencies, across the five states, where a total of 18.34 crore citizens are eligible to vote, […]

# NEET counselling The supreme Court on Friday allowed National eligibility cum entrance test counselling to proceed so as to not dislocate medical admissions this year. The court also upheld the 27℅ reservation for the other backward classes and 10℅ for the economically weaker section in the All India quota seats in accordance with the […]

# Prime minister’s security breach Prime minister Narendra Modi’s proposed event at Ferozpur in Punjab was cancelled on Wednesday. Event was cancelled because protestors blocked the highway through which Prime Minister’s convoy had to travel. The ministry of home affairs (MHA) termed it major lapse in the security of Prime minister. MHA sought a detailed […]