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Royal Enfield has reported a 1.92 per cent growth in domestic sales to 55,910 units in September 2020. The two-wheeler manufacturer had sold 54,858 units in the domestic market in the year-ago month. In September 2020, Royal Enfield’s product portfolio in the domestic market included the Bullet 350, the Classic 350, the Himalayan, the Continental […]

The World Health Organization’s office in Turkey has reiterated its call for reporting COVID-19 data in line with the UN body’s guidance to “harmonise data collection and response measures”.The WHO’s statement comes days after Turkey’s health minister revealed that the daily COVID-19 figures published by the ministry since July 29 reflected only patients with symptoms, […]

Voters in the southern Pacific French territory of New Caledonia are set to cast their ballots in a referendum on whether to break away from France and become an independent state. The poll on Sunday is the second time New Caledonia holds such a referendum. Two years ago, almost 57 percent of voters voted against […]

RJD Rajya Sabha member Manoj Jha has approached the Supreme Court questioning the Centre’s new farm laws, saying the “discriminatory and manifestly arbitrary” changes will expose marginal farmers to exploitation by big corporates. Jha is the third legislator to challenge the new farm laws. Earlier, Congress MP from Kerala T N Prathapan and DMK Rajya […]

Thinking of Gandhiji today leaves you in a state of despair, as the voices of sanity and civilised conduct in our public life have been pushed into the margins, if not extinguished. We watch with utter disbelief how aggression and violence govern every walk of our life, how every form of dissent is muzzled, how […]

Officials announced on Saturday that the names of the 20 Indian soldiers who were killed on June 15 in the Galwan valley skirmish in eastern Ladakh have been inscribed on a war memorial.Colonel B Santosh Babu, the commanding officer of 16 Bihar, was among the 20 soldiers killed in the seven-hour deadly conflict near Patrolling […]

US First Lady Melania Trump courted controversy Thursday when her former senior adviser released secretly recorded tapes in which she is heard railing against the criticism she received in 2018 for her husband President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies, which separated refugee children from their parents at the US-Mexico border. Hours before the US President […]

The RJD-led opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar has arrived at a seat-sharing deal for the forthcoming state assembly elections, RJD’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav announced on Saturday. RJD will contest on 144 seats while Congress has been given 70 seats. Besides, a total of 29 seats have been allocated to three Left parties—CPI-ML (19), […]