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New Delhi, Jan 4 (PTI) Bharatiya Janta Party MP from North East Delhi and former state unit chief Manoj Tiwari on Tuesday said he tested positive for COVID-19 and has isolated himself at home.

He has developed fever and cold two days back and tested positive on Tuesday.

New Delhi, Jan 4 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over reports of China constructing a bridge on the Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh near the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

"PM's silence is deafening. Our land, our people, our borders deserve better," Gandhi said on Twitter.

New Delhi, Jan 3 (PTI) BJP president J P Nadda lashed out at the Telangana government on Monday for the arrest of the party's state unit chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar, alleging that it amounted to "murder of democracy".

He said Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao acted in frustration due to the BJP's win in a recent bypoll and the popular support the party has been receiving in the southern state.

New Delhi, Jan 1 (PTI) In the second tranche of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban, India on Saturday supplied 5,00,000 doses of the Covaxin vaccine to the war-torn country and announced that an equal number of jabs would be sent in the coming weeks.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the consignment of vaccine doses was handed over to the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul.

It said another batch of additional 5,00,000 doses of the vaccine would be supplied to Afghanistan in the coming weeks.

New Delhi, Jan 1 (PTI) The Congress on Saturday slammed the Modi government for an increase in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on several categories from footwear to food delivery, and urged voters to defeat the BJP in the upcoming assembly elections to tame inflation.

Mumbai, Dec 31 (PTI) India's current account slipped into a deficit of USD 9.6 billion or 1.3 per cent of GDP in the September quarter, the Reserve Bank said on Friday.

The current account, which records the value of exports and imports of both goods and services along with international transfers of capital, was in a surplus mode both in the quarter-ago and year-ago periods.

New Delhi, Dec 31 (PTI) A 21-year-old woman was allegedly raped by three people, including a juvenile, in northwest Delhi's Budh Vihar Phase-1 area, police said on Friday.

All three accused have been apprehended, they said.

The victim works at the factory of one of the accused persons. The incident took place on Thursday, the police said.

New Delhi, Jan 1 (PTI) Continuing a 31-year practice, India and Pakistan on Saturday exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral pact that prohibits the two sides from attacking each other's atomic facilities.

The two countries exchanged the list of nuclear installations and facilities covered under the agreement on the prohibition of attack against nuclear installations between India and Pakistan, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.

New Delhi, Jan 1 (PTI) GST revenue collected in December 2021 was over Rs 1.29 lakh crore, 13 per cent higher than the same month last year, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday.

Though the collection was lower than Rs 1.31 lakh crore mopped up in November, December is the sixth month in a row when revenue from goods sold and services rendered stood at over Rs 1 lakh crore.

New Delhi, Dec 30 (PTI) India and the Philippines are set to formally seal a government-to-government BrahMos deal soon, capping years of negotiations for the supply of a batch of the supersonic cruise missiles for the Philippine navy, people familiar with the development said on Thursday.

The procurement is expected to signal a major upswing in India's strategic ties with the Philippines which has been focusing on ramping up its naval prowess in the face of its lingering friction with China in the South China sea.