Randhir Jaiswal Consul General of India in New York hoisted the Indian National Flag at the Times Square on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day The event was organised by Federation of Indian Associations FIA Earlier FIA said Itll be the first time ever that Indias Tricolour will be unfurled a

16-08-2020

Former India captain MS Dhoni has announced his retirement from international cricket The 39yearold took to Instagram to share a video showing pictures from different parts of his career and had Main Pal Do Pal Ka Shair song in the background He wrote ThanksThanks a lot for ur love and support throu

15-08-2020

A team of researchers from Indian Institute of Science IISc and the Indian Space Research Organisation ISRO has developed a sustainable process for making bricklike structures on the moon according to IISc The process uses urea which can be sourced from human urine and lunar soil as raw materials fo

15-08-2020

25 years ago VSNL now Tata Communications kick started Indias Internet revolution and built it from strength to strength From 64 Kbps bandwidth in 1995 in India to carrying almost 30 of the worlds internet routes Tata Communications has been transforming Indias digital foundation and now delivering

15-08-2020

NewDelhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hoisted the National Flag for the seventh straight time at the Red Fort on the occasion of 74th Independence Day With this he became the first nonCongress Prime Minister to do so most often He surpassed the number of times late Prime Minister Atal Bi

15-08-2020

Jaipur The Congress government led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday won the motion of confidence through a voice vote in the Rajasthan Assembly The house has been adjourned till August 21 said Assembly Speaker CP Joshi Earlier Sachin Pilot and 18 other rebel Congress MLAs returned to the par

14-08-2020

Home Minister Amit Shah took to Twitter to reveal that he has tested negative for coronavirus I will be staying in home isolation for a few more days on the advice of doctors he further wrote He had tested positive for coronavirus on August 2 and was admitted to Medanta Hospital in Gurugram

14-08-2020

Chennai Veteran singer SP Balasubrahmanyam who was earlier this month admitted to MGM Healthcare in Chennai after testing positive for coronavirus has been moved to the ICU of the hospital The hospital authorities said that Balasubrahmanyam is on life support and his condition remains critical He i

14-08-2020

Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday went under quarantine after over 20 officials including Malappuram SP and District Collector associated with the Kozhikode Air India Express crash rescue operation tested positive for Covid19 Malappuram SP U Abdul Karim and District

14-08-2020

Sanjay Dutt has been diagnosed with lung cancer aged 61 Punjab minister Rana Gurmit Sodhi tweeted Itsheartbreaking to learn about my friend being diagnosed with lung cancer I know he has the strength to beat cancer Cricketer and cancer survivor Yuvraj Singh tweeted I know the pain it causes but I al

12-08-2020

Indias KN Ananthapadmanabhan has been included in ICCs international panel of umpires following compatriot Nitin Menons promotion to the elite panel The former Kerala spinner joins fellow Indians C Shamshuddin Anil Chaudhary and Virender Sharma in the international panel and is now eligible to offic

11-08-2020

Beirut Lebanons entire government has resigned over last weeks explosion in Beirut that claimed at least 160 lives and injured over 6000 people Earlier nations health minister said that PM Hassan Diab went to presidential palace to hand over the resignation in the name of all the ministers The annou

11-08-2020

Irans Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has created a Twitter account in Hindi He already has Twitter accounts in other languages including English French Russian Persian Arabic Urdu and Spanish In his first tweet from his Hindi account he wrote In the name of Allah who is very kind and compassionate 

10-08-2020

Mumbai Actress Rhea Chakraborty arrived at the Enforcement Directorate office in Mumbai for the second time in four days for questioning related to Sushant Singh Rajputs death case Her brother Showik Chakraborty and father Indrajit Chakraborty also arrived at the office Sushants former business mana

10-08-2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the submarine Optical Fibre Cable OFC connecting Chennai and Port Blair Laid at a cost of ₹1224 crore the 2300kilometre OFC will deliver bandwidth of 2x200 Gbps between Chennai and Port Blair and 2x100 Gbps between Port Blair and other islands The p

10-08-2020

NewDelhi Indias coronavirus recoveries reached 1535743 after a record 54859 recoveries in the last 24 hours The total number of cases has increased to 2215074 after a singleday spike of 62064 cases Coronavirus death toll in the country has surged to 44386 and 634945 cases are currently active As man

10-08-2020

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday criticised new Environment Impact Assessment EIA 2020 draft calling it disgraceful and dangerous He added that the draft has the potential to reverse many hardfought gains won over the years in the battle to protect the environment He also urged every Indian to

09-08-2020

KottayamA trial court in Kottayam on Friday granted bail with stringent conditions to former Bishop Franco Mulakkal who has been accused of raping a nun in Kerala The court directed him to be present on the dates of hearing of the case Bail granted to Mulakkal was cancelled on July 13 after he faile

07-08-2020

Idukki PM Narendra Modi has expressed his grief at the loss of lives in the landslide in Keralas Rajamalai after the death toll in the incident rose to 15 with over 50 people still said to be missing PMs office also announced compensation of ₹2 lakh each for the next of kin of deceased and ₹50000 ea

07-08-2020

Kozhikode A DubaiCalicut Air India Express flight broke into two pieces after overshooting runway at the Karipur Airport on Friday evening There were 191 passengers including crew members on board the flight Total 14 passengers including One of the pilots of the aircraft have been killed in the acc

07-08-2020

Mumbai Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak reportedly died on August 2 at her residence in Dahisar She went live on Facebook a day before her death where she spoke about feeling cheated and not being able to trust anyone Actress Anupama hailed from Bihar’s Purnea district where the late actor Sushant S

07-08-2020

VIVO back out as title sponsors of the cashrich Indian Premier League The Chinese mobile giant backs out amid all the voices rising among the country to ban all Chinese products in the wake of the Galwan Valley incident that saw 20 Indian soldiers martyred According to India Today VIVO wanted a 304

06-08-2020

The CBI team probing Vijay Mallya case has taken over Sushant Singh Rajputs death case It has registered FIR against Rhea Chakraborty Indrajit Chakraborty Sandhya Chakraborty Showik Chakraborty Samuel Miranda Shruti Modi and others on the basis of FIR filed by Bihar Police Sushants father KK Singh h

06-08-2020

A video of a bride on her wedding day in Beirut captured the moment a massive explosion took place at the port of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday The bride was seen running away from the scene along with others At least 4000 people were wounded when 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded Video

06-08-2020

A picture of a nurse holding three newborn babies and attending a call in a hospital after an explosion hit Lebanons Beirut has gone viral The photographer who clicked the photo said the nurse remained calm despite being surrounded by dozens of bodies Heroes dont always wear capesbut they do run int

06-08-2020

A large explosion shook Lebanons capital Beirut on Tuesday and thick smoke was seen rising over the city with buildings getting damaged The source of the explosion was a fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port in Beirut the state media reported Lebanon’s Health Minister Hamad Hasan said t

04-08-2020

A day before the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan in Ayodhya Uttar Pradesh Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi has issued a statement in support of the ceremony saying the event can be a celebration of national unity in India along with friendship and brotherhood among all In a statement on Tuesday Priyanka Gan

04-08-2020

Japanese startup Donut Robotics has developed a smart mask that connects to the users smartphone or tablet through an app via Bluetooth Once connected it can be used to make calls and send texts remotely without accessing the smartphone and can also translate from Japanese into eight other languages

04-08-2020

NEW DELHI The Indian Premier League Governing Council IPL GC met today via videoconference to decide on the issues concerning the VIVO IPL 2020 edition Taking note of the prevailing COVID19 situation in India the IPL GC decided to stage the tournament in the United Arab Emirates UAE and the matches

02-08-2020

NewDelhi Home Minister Amit Shah took to Twitter to reveal he has tested positive for coronavirus My health is fine but Im being admitted to the hospital on advice of doctors he added I request that all of you who have come in contact with me in the last few days please isolate yourself and get your

02-08-2020

NewDelhi Former Samajwadi Party leader and sitting Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh has passed away today in Singapore He was 64 and had been hospitalised for a long time  Amar Singh had been battling health issues for several years In 2015 he was once rushed to the Fortis Hospital in New Delhi after he c

01-08-2020

After revealing that its considering a subscription model to generate additional revenue Twitter is exploring an Undo Send button among its options In a survey Twitter questioned users which potential paid features would they be interested in among ideas like Custom Colours Undo Send would give user

01-08-2020

Washington US President Donald Trump on Friday said he was planning to sign an executive order as soon as Saturday banning Chineseowned shortvideo app TikTok from the country Trump said this aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after a fundraising trip to Florida He further said he did

01-08-2020

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has announced that the citys legislative council election which was to be held on September 6 will be postponed by a year due to a spike in COVID19 cases Hong Kong reported 121 new COVID19 cases on Friday Earlier authorities disqualified 12 prodemocracy candidates from co

31-07-2020

Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi has said that Mumbai Police is putting obstruction in way of fair investigation by Bihar Police in Sushant Singh Rajputs death case Bihar Police is doing its best but Mumbai Police is not cooperating BJP feelCBI should take over this case he tweeted Bihar Police had

31-07-2020

CHANDIGARH As many as 21 people have died in Punjab allegedly after drinking spurious liquor following which CM Amarinder Singh has ordered a magisterial probe into the incident officials said on Friday Police have been directed to launch a search operation to crack down on spurious liquor manufactu

31-07-2020

NewDelhi The Delhi Police has banned flying of subconventional aerial platforms starting from Friday till August 15 as part of security measures The order signed by Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava states that it is prohibited to fly subconventional aerial platforms like paragliders paramoto

31-07-2020

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA on Friday extended the ban on international commercial passenger flights till August 31 The ban shall not apply to international allcargo operations and flights specifically approved by DGCA said a government statement Central government had earlier ext

31-07-2020

Chennai Tamil Nadu has extended the COVID19 lockdown across the state till August 31 midnight albeit with certain relaxations the state government announced today There will be complete lockdown on Sundays the state governments guideline read Tamil Nadu currently has 57490 active coronavirus cases a

30-07-2020

NewDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday announced that Delhi Cabinet has decided to reduce the Value Added Tax VAT on diesel from 30 to 1675 This will reduce the price of diesel in the city by ₹836 per litre from ₹82 to ₹7364 per litre he added Notably the central excise duty on petrol i

30-07-2020

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday 29 July congratulated the Indian Air Force for the Rafale aircraft but asked three pointed questions to the Government of India 1 Why each aircraft costs Rs 1670 Crores instead of Rs 526 Crores 2 Why 36 aircraft were bought instead of 126 3 Why was bankrupt

29-07-2020

Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board Chairman Zufar Ahmad Farooqui on Wednesday announced the formation of a trust IndoIslamic Cultural Foundation for the construction of a mosque in Ayodhyas Dhannipur village Farooqui said that he will be the chief trustee and the chairman of the trust which will

29-07-2020

A ceremonial Water Cannon Salute was given to the first batch of the five Rafale fighter jets as they landed at the IAF Air Force Station in Ambala on Wednesday Its arrival in India will make the IAF much stronger to deter any threat that may be posed on our country Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tw

29-07-2020

NewDelhi The Ministry of Human Resource Development has been renamed as Ministry of Education Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced on Wednesday after a Cabinet meeting The Cabinet also approved the New Education Policy 2020 NEP2020 which seeks to overhaul the education system in the

29-07-2020

NewDelhi The government today announced the Unlock 3 guidelines which will come into effect from August 1 The restrictions on movement of individuals during night night curfew have been removed Gyms will be allowed to reopen from August 5 Further schools colleges and coaching institutions will remai

29-07-2020

Alappuzha A video of a violent street fight involving men and women in Keralas Arattupuzha has surfaced online A police officer said that the fight broke out due to a dispute over construction of a road between several families living close to each other While at least three people were injured in t

29-07-2020

PM Narendra Modi during Mann Ki Baat on Sunday said I urge everyone that on this Independence Day we take resolve to get freedom from coronavirus adding that this time it will be celebrated in different circumstances He further said We must also take resolve for Aatmanirbhar Bharat and to learn and

26-07-2020

Gangster Tinku Kapala who was carrying a reward of ₹1 lakh for his arrest died following an encounter with a team of the Special Task Force in Uttar Pradeshs Barabanki on Friday night UP DGP HC Awasthy stated Kapala was active from the past 20 years and wanted in many cases I hope this has brought s

25-07-2020

The 13th edition of IPL will most likely start on September 19 in UAE with the final slated to take place on November 8 a senior BCCI official told PTI It is a 51day window which will suit the franchises as well as the broadcasters and other stakeholders” the official added There will be fewer doubl

24-07-2020

NewDelhi India has recorded its biggest oneday rise in coronavirus cases as 49310 people tested positive in the last 24 hours The total cases have increased to 1287945 and the death toll in the country has risen to 30601 While the number of people who have been cured discharged migrated stands at 81

24-07-2020

Central Pollution Control Board CPCB has directed that waste masks and gloves in general households should be kept in paper bags for a minimum of 72 hours prior to disposal as dry general solid waste after cutting them to prevent reuse It also directed commercial establishments malls and offic

23-07-2020

Riyadh Saudi Arabias 84yearold ruler King Salman bin Abdulaziz has been admitted to a hospital in the countrys capital Riyadh for medical tests due to inflammation of the gall bladder Saudi Press Agency said on Monday The statement said the 84yearold monarch is being tested at the King Faisal Specia

20-07-2020

Six more people have lost their lives in floodrelated incidents in Assam taking the death toll to 85 the state government said on Monday Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal has informed that over 70 lakh people have been affected due to Assam floods Central and state government are providing all kinds of as

20-07-2020

Mumbai The death toll in the multistorey building collapse in Mumbais Fort area has risen to 10 the BMC said on Friday Fire Department rescued a total of 27 people yesterday the BMC tweeted The owner and tenants of the building had planned to repair it earlier this year however the plan got delayed

18-07-2020

While addressing the UN at the Highlevel segment of its Economic and Social Council ECOSOC Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the UN was originally born from the furies of the Second World War Today the fury of the COVID19 pandemic provides the context for its rebirth and reform Let us not lose

17-07-2020

Kolkata The temporary restrictions on the arrival of flights to Kolkata airport from 6 cities including Delhi and Mumbai has been extended till July 31 the airport authorities announced The other cities include Pune Chennai Nagpur and Ahmedabad The step was taken to contain the spread of coronavirus

17-07-2020

As many as 99 doctors across the country have died due to coronavirus while 1302 have been infected Indian Medical Association IMA said on Wednesday Of the doctors who died 73 were above 50 years while 19 were in the 3550 age group and seven were aged under 35 IMA asked health workers to raise their

16-07-2020

Mumbai Under the influence of strong lower level wind convergence along the West coast and eastwest shear zone in mid tropospheric levels enhanced rainfall activity is likely over the region The India Meteorological Department IMD has issued a red alert for Mumbai and nearby districts following hea

16-07-2020

After Sachin Pilot was sacked as Rajasthan Deputy CM Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted Sad to see Sachin Pilot leave Congress He added I consider him one of our best and brightestand wish it hadnt come to this Instead of parting he shouldve joined the effort to make the party a better and more effe

14-07-2020

NewDelhi The Central Board of Secondary Education will declare Class 10 result on Wednesday Union Cabinet Minister for Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has said I wish all the students best of luck he tweeted The pending Class 10 board exams which were scheduled to take place in J

14-07-2020

Minutes after being removed as Rajasthan Deputy CM and Pradesh Congress Committee Chief on Tuesday Sachin Pilot tweeted Truth can be harassed not defeated He skipped the second meeting of Congress Legislative Party on Tuesday Congress made him a Union Minister in his 30s a Deputy CM in his 40sWe hav

14-07-2020

Hong Kong Disneyland Park will be closed temporarily from July 15 amid rising coronavirus cases The decision comes after Hong Kongs leader Carrie Lam announced new coronavirusrelated restrictions banning public gatherings of more than four people because of the coronavirus pandemic On Monday 41 out

14-07-2020

Johannesburg South Africas antiapartheid icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie MadikizelaMandelas daughter Zindzi Mandela has passed away state television South African Broadcasting Corporation reported She died in Johannesburg on Monday morning at the age of 59 Zindzi who had been South Africas ambassado

14-07-2020

Geneva WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus today said there are too many countries which are headed in the wrong direction as far as coronavirus pandemic is concerned The virus remains public enemy number onebut the actions of many governments and people dont reflect this he added Mixed messages from leade

14-07-2020

NewDelhi The Central Board of Secondary Education CBSE has declared the Class 12 result Over 88 students out of the 1192961 who appeared for the exams have passed Dear students parents and teachers We congratulate you all for making this possible I reiterate students health quality education are o

13-07-2020

Mumbai Maharashtra Home Department on Saturday issued guidelines for Ganesh mandals in Mumbai for organising Ganeshotsav this year amid coronavirus spread The guidelines said that processions while arrival or immersion of Ganesh idols will not be allowed Government has urged citizens to either delay

12-07-2020

Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her daughter Aaradhya Bachchan have tested positive for coronavirus This comes after they initially tested negative for the virus They are absolutely stable and I pray for their speedy recovery Rajesh Tope Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare Maharashtra sa

12-07-2020

Mumbai Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been admitted to Mumbais Nanavati Hospital after testing positive for coronavirus The 77yearold actor tweeted I have tested COVID19 positiveshifted to Hospitalhospital informing authoritiesfamily and staff undergone tests results awaitedAll that have been in close p

11-07-2020

A jewellery shop in Gujarats Surat is selling diamondstudded face masks which cost between ₹1 lakh and ₹4 lakh to customers who want to wear them to wedding functions amid the coronavirus pandemic Pictures of the mask has also surfaced online This comes after a man in Maharashtras Pune got himself a

10-07-2020

NewDelhi The India Meteorological Department IMD on Friday predicted extremely heavy rainfall in UP Uttarakhand DelhiNCR and Bihar It also stated that moderate to intense thunderstorms and lightning are likely over UP Bihar Karnataka Telangana Andhra Pradesh and Meghalaya among other states Further

10-07-2020

The Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations CISCE on Friday released the results for the ICSE Class 10 and ISC Class 12 examinations The overall pass percentage of ICSE Class 10 is 993 while the overall pass percentage of ISC Class 12 is 968 The council said that it wont release the m

10-07-2020

Dubey Vikas a notorious Indian gangster accused of killing eight police officers was shot dead on Friday morning after his arrest on Thursday The Uttar Pradesh police said the gangster was killed as he attempted to flee when one of the vehicles bringing him back to his home city of Kanpur overturne

10-07-2020

The results of Class 10 ICSE Class 12 ISC Year 2020 Examinations will be declared on Friday 10th July 2020 at 0300 PM The results of the ICSE and ISC Year 2020 Examinations will be made available through the CAREERS Portal of the Council the Website of the Council and through SMS The schools can

09-07-2020

Uttar Pradesh gangster Vikas Dubey who is wanted in the killing of eight policemen who went to arrest him in Kanpur has been arrested from Ujjain Madhya Pradesh The bounty on Dubey who was missing since the incident was doubled to ₹5 lakh Earlier today two aides of Dubey were killed in separate enco

09-07-2020

Former India batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday inaugurated a plasma therapy unit for treating COVID19 patients at Mumbais SevenHills Hospital The unit which is an initiative of the BMC will offer convalescent plasma therapy to COVID19 patients using blood plasma donated by those who have recover

08-07-2020

CBSE on Wednesday said that each of the topicswrongly mentioned in media as deleted have been covered under the Alternative Academic Calendar of NCERT which is already in force for all the affiliated schools of the Board No question will be asked from the reduced syllabus in the Board Exams 202021 o

08-07-2020

NewDelhi BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday announced the cancellation of the Asia Cup which was scheduled to be held in September “Asia Cup cancel ho chuka hai joh September me tha Asia Cup which was to be held in September has been cancelled” Ganguly told ‘sports tak’ in an instagram live

08-07-2020

BJP leader Wasim Bari his father Bashir Ahmad and his brother Umer Bashir were killed in a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmirs Bandipora district on Wednesday The trio were injured during indiscriminate firing and were shifted to hospital where they succumbed to their injuries Police said they we

08-07-2020

Washington The Trump administration on Tuesday began the process of officially withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization–which would take effect in July 2021–after he repeatedly slammed the agency throughout the coronavirus pandemic for alleged misinformation about the virus

08-07-2020

UAE authorities have launched an investigation into the seizure of gold worth ₹15 crore at a Kerala airport from a diplomatic cargo addressed to its ConsulateGeneral The culprits who not only committed a major crime but also sought to tarnish the reputation of the UAE mission in India will not be sp

08-07-2020

Seoul At least 300 drones were lit up in Seoul as part of an initiative by the South Korean government to convey messages about ways to prevent the spread of coronavirus and thank health workers amid the pandemic The drones were programmed to form images including those of people wearing masks above

08-07-2020

Kanpur The Uttar Pradesh government has increased the reward for the arrest of gangster Vikas Dubey involved in gunning down eight police personnel from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 5 lakh officials said on Wednesday “Cash reward for the arrest of Vikas Dubey has been increased to Rs 5 lakh It would be given t

08-07-2020

The Telangana government on Tuesday began the demolition of the states old Secretariat complex in Hyderabad parts of which were built by the Nizams This comes less than 10 days after the High Court gave approval for the construction of the new Secretariat In 2019 the state government said the estima

07-07-2020

Mumbais Dharavi area which is considered as the largest slum in Asia reported only one new COVID19 patient on Tuesday which took the case tally in the area to 2335 an official said The last time Dharavi had recorded a single COVID19 case was on April 5 three months ago The official added that Dharav

07-07-2020

Riyad Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for the 1000 or so pilgrims that will be allowed to perform the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later this month an experience that will be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic The guidelines were announced on Monday as Saudi authorities prepare to

07-07-2020

A robotic trolley named Gollar has been deployed at Mumbais Podar Hospital a video of which was shared by Maharashtra Chief Ministers Office The robot helps serve medicines food and water to patients in COVID19 facilities This is an important step in our WarAgainstVirus as it willreduce risk for our

07-07-2020

Kanpur Police on Tuesday released pictures of accomplices of historysheeter Vikas Dubey an attempt to arrest whom led to the killing of eight policemen UPs ADG law and order Prashant Kumar said on Tuesday that 40 teams of UP Police and a Special Task Force STF are working to arrest Dubey and his acc

07-07-2020

Aarogya Setu the Covid19 tracker made by the Indian government has finally given users the option to delete their account from the app and erase all their data A new update has also brought in an option that will let you share your health data on Aarogya Setu with other health apps These new change

07-07-2020

The trailer of late actor Sushant SIngh Rajputs last film Dil Bechara is out Set to premiere on Disney Plus Hotstar on July 24 the film helmed by casting director Mukesh Chhabra is based on John Green’s 2012 bestseller The Fault In Our Stars It was slated to release in theaters on May 8 but got dela

06-07-2020

Kanpur The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday further increased the prize money for the arrest of dreaded criminal Vikas Dubey who headed the gang which shot dead eight policemen who came to arrest him The prize money has been increased to Rs 25 lakh news agency ANI quoted Uttar Pradesh Director General

06-07-2020

Beijing Authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning on Sunday one day after a hospital reported a case of suspected bubonic plague The health committee of the city of Bayan Nur issued the thirdlevel alert the second lowest in a fourlevel system The alert forbids t

06-07-2020

Boyci Two passengers are dead and as many as six others are unaccounted for after a tragic plane collision over Lake Coeur d´Alene on Sunday The Kootenai County Sheriffs Office confirmed that two victims were discovered dead while authorities searched the Idaho lake They were recovered from the wate

06-07-2020

NEW DELHI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the government over rising coronavirus cases saying future Harvard Business School case studies on failure would include the governments handling of COVID19Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi the former Congress chief also tweeted a

06-07-2020

Thiruvananthapuram As India sees an increasing rise in the number of COVID19 cases every day the state of Kerala has now decided to put in place regulations that will last till July 2021  With COVID19 cases gradually increasing in Kerala and with many patients’ sources of infection remaining unknow

05-07-2020

In an article uploaded on the official website of the Press Information Bureau PIB the Ministry of Science and Technology said that no coronavirus vaccine is likely to be ready for mass use before 2021 However the government withdrew the statement hours later This comes after Indian Council of Medic

05-07-2020

Kanpur UP historysheeter Vikas Dubeys partner Daya Shankar Agnihotri who has been arrested has revealed that Dubey received a call from police station that a team was arriving to arrest him After he received the call Dubey arranged 2530 people who fired at the police personnel killing 8 of them Agni

05-07-2020

Privacyfocused search engine DuckDuckGo has said its services are now being broadly restored in India This comes after it received user reports that the search engine was unreachable in the country from July 1 with some Indian Internet Service Providers ISPs appearing to be blocking it as per report

05-07-2020

NEW DELHI US President Donald Trump on Saturday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his tweet on the 244th US Independance Day and said that America loves India I congratulate POTUS realDonaldTrump and the people of the USA on the 244th Independence Day of the USA As the worlds largest democra

05-07-2020

Kanpur Uttar Pradesh Police has launched a manhunt to nab gangster Vikas Dubey after eight policemen were killed during a bid to arrest him in Kanpur Dehat on Thursday night A historysheeter accused in over 60 criminal cases including murder Dubey was hiding in Kanpurs Bikru village under the jurisd

04-07-2020

Beijing China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Saturday that the socalled “G4” strain of swine flu virus is not new and does not infect or sicken humans and animals easily rebuffing a study published earlier this week That study by a team of Chinese scientists and published by th

04-07-2020

Bengaluru Bengalurus civic body BBMP along with police and health officials has collected ₹6704 lakh in fines from 31740 people for not wearing masks and 1800 people for not following social distancing amid coronavirus spread City authorities have booked 118 commercial establishments for not maintai

04-07-2020

ChennaiTamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday announced that a complete shutdown will be reimposed in Madurai and area limits of adjoining rural civic bodies of Paravai Thiruparankundram panchayats till July 12 The decision has been taken in a bid to combat the spread of COVID

04-07-2020

Bengaluru Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike Commissioner Anil Kumar on Saturday announced Complete lockdown will be imposed from 8pm tonight till 5am on Monday in BBMP limits as per Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappas instructions in view of COVID19 He added sale of essential items would be allowed during

04-07-2020

Researchers led by Manu Prakash from Stanford University in the US have developed a cheap electricity free centrifuge to separate components in patient saliva samples for the detection of the novel coronavirus The Handyfuge device spins samplecontaining tubes at very high speeds enough to separate t

04-07-2020

New Delhi The Income Tax Department on Saturday announced an extension in the deadline for filing income tax returns ITR for the financial year FY 201920 with the deadline being extended to November 30  With reference to the ongoing coronavirus pademic of which India has reported nearly 65 lakh cas

04-07-2020

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ICAI in its notification dated Friday 3 July mentioned that it has decided to cancel the May 2020 CA examinations and merge the May 2020 attempt with the November 2020 examinations due to the COVID19 pandemic ICAI further said that the CA aspirants wh

04-07-2020

WASHINGTON The statue of Mahatma Gandhi which was vandalised by unknown miscreants last month was restored here on Thursday The historic statue of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi in front of the Indian Embassy here was open for the public at a simple ceremony attended by the Deputy Secretar

03-07-2020

Ladakh PM Narendra Modi on Friday met soldiers who were injured in the faceoff with Chinese soldiers at Galwan Valley in Ladakh on June 15 Our country has never bowed down and will never bow down to any world power and I am able to say this because of brave soldiers like you PM Modi said to them dur

03-07-2020

While addressing the soldiers in Ladakh during his visit on Friday PM Narendra Modi said Those who are weak can never initiate peace bravery is a prerequisite for peace The bravery that you and your compatriots showed a message has gone to the world about Indias strength Nation rests peacefully beca

03-07-2020

Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan died of cardiac arrest early on Friday at the age of 71 She was admitted to Guru Nanak Hospital in Mumbai last month for breathing problems Earlier one of her family members had said that she had tested negative for coronavirus May her loved ones find strength and

03-07-2020

Patna At least 26 people died in eight districts as lightning struck various parts of Bihar on Thursday according to the State Disaster Management Department Patna recorded six casualties Samastipur and Katihar recorded three each while East Champaran reported four deaths Bihar Chief Minister Nitish

02-07-2020

New Delhi In a major breakthrough in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack case in which 40 CRPF troopers were killed the National Investigation Agency NIA on Thursday said it has arrested one more accused who was in touch with JaisheMohammad JeM members in Pakistan An NIA spokesperson here said that it h

02-07-2020

The government has extended the postal ballot facility to electors above the age of 65 years and COVID19 patients under homeinstitutional quarantine The Election Commission had made the recommendations to the Ministry of Law and Justice so that crowding at the polling stations is reduced Chief Elect

02-07-2020

All monuments in India will be reopened for the public from July 6 Culture Minister Prahlad Patel said on Thursday The minister said all coronavirusrelated protocols issued by the Union health ministry would be followed by the monument authorities As many as 3691 centrallyprotected monuments and arc

02-07-2020

A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed at least 113 people with more feared dead authorities said on Thursday after a heap of mining waste collapsed into a lake triggering a wave of mud and water that buried many workers The miners were collecting stones in the jaderich Hpakant area

02-07-2020

Google has said that it has temporarily blocked access to the banned 59 Chinalinked apps on its India Play Store The company said it is reviewing the interim orders from the government and has already notified the affected developers “While we continue to review the interim orders from the Governme

02-07-2020

NewDelhi A plasma bank to treat novel coronavirus started functioning in Delhi on Thursday with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying that COVID19 patients can donate their plasma 14 days after recovery Addressing an online media briefing Kejriwal said the eligibility for being a plasma donor is “ve

02-07-2020

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday provided 175 smart televisions for tribal students in Keralas Wayanad for online classes This is a part of the second phase of the contribution made by Gandhi in Wayanad to provide adequate infrastructure for the online classes Earlier he gave 50 TVs to the

02-07-2020

Banguluru Aligning its services with the state governments night curfew the BMTC has limited the trips in each zone with depot managers told to completely halt operations of buses between 8 pm and 6 am In a recent circular the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation BMTC has directed its offic

01-07-2020

Lucknow Six members of a family in UPs Miyaganj village were admitted to hospital after consuming a dish laced with ganja As per reports the family was given a packet of dried cannabis leaves by a fellow resident of the village who told them it was fenugreek methi The man was later detained and said

01-07-2020

Volvo Cars has said that it is recalling over two million vehicles worldwide as a preventive measure after it discovered that a steel wire connected to the front seat belts can be weakened It added that this a very rare problem and the affected models have been manufactured between 2006 and 2019 Thi

01-07-2020

Legendary singer S Janaki recently hit the headlines after fake news about her death took social media by storm The Legendary singer who is referred respectfully as Janakiamma had fallen prey to a death hoax and the fake news had spread like wildfire all over This is for the sixth time that speculat

01-07-2020

Goa Tourism Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar on Wednesday announced that the coastal state will be open to tourists starting July 2 as 250 hotels have been granted permission to resume operations Goa one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations has remained shut for travellers since the nationwi

01-07-2020

Thousands of people gathered on Pragues historic Charles Bridge on Tuesday for coronavirus farewell party more than a month after the Czech Republic began easing coronavirus lockdown restrictions The event was organised by Ondrej Kobza a local cafe owner to celebrate the end of the coronavirus crisi

01-07-2020

NewDelhi India will not allow Chinese companies to participate in highway projects including those through joint ventures Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday Gadakri also said the government will ensure that Chinese investors are not entertained in various sectors like Micro Small and Me

01-07-2020

The Union Public Service Commission UPSC has allowed candidates to change their centre for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination including the Indian Forest Service Preliminary Examination scheduled on October 4 An option to change the centres for the Civil Services Main Examination 2020 and th

01-07-2020

As many as 2199 coronavirus cases were reported in Delhi in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 87360 Meanwhile the death toll in the national capital due to coronavirus surged to 2742 A total of 58348 coronavirus patients have recovered in Delhi while active cases stand at 26270

30-06-2020

NewDelhi KK Venugopal was on Monday reappointed as the Attorney General for India for one year His present threeyear term ends on Tuesday “The President is pleased to reappoint Shri K K Venugopal Senior Advocate as Attorney General for India for a period of one year wef July 1 2020” a notification

30-06-2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address to the nation said that the government provided free food grains to more than 80 crore people over three months during the lockdown period The number of beneficiaries is more than 12 times the UKs total population 25 times the population of the US and

30-06-2020

Visakhapatnam At least two workers were killed and four were taken to a hospital after a gas leak in a factory in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam city news agency ANI reported on Tuesday The leakage of benzimidazole gas was reported from Sainor Life Sciences Pvt Ltd in Visakhapatnam according to the

30-06-2020

Hyderabadbased Bharat Biotech on Monday said its COVID19 vaccine candidate COVAXIN has received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India DCGI to conduct Phase I and II human trials This makes it Indias first vaccine candidate to receive approval for human trials The vaccine is developed i

30-06-2020

Guwahati Nearly 25 districts of Assam got affected by the flood due to heavy rain bringing huge damage to the people of the state The flood has claimed the lives of 24 people and over 13 lakh people have been affected due to the heavy rain said the Assam State Disaster Mgmt Authority As per the sta

30-06-2020

Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad a local prosecutor reportedly said Monday While Trump faces no danger of arrest the charges un

29-06-2020

The Centre has released guidelines for Unlock 2 stating that schools colleges and coaching institutes will remain shut till July 31 The other activities prohibited during this period include international flights metro rail service cinema halls gymnasiums swimming pools bars and similar places Large

29-06-2020

The third Corps Commanderlevel meeting between India and China on the ongoing standoff along the Line of Actual Control LAC in Ladakh will be held on Tuesday said reports on Monday The meeting will reportedly be held in Chushul in Ladakh Indian and Chinese delegations have met twice since border ten

29-06-2020

Jashpur Three people including a woman were allegedly buried in cow dung by some villagers in a bid to ‘cure’ them after lightning struck them in the tribaldominated Jashpur district of Chhattisgarh a police official said on Monday  They were later shifted to a hospital where two of them were decla

29-06-2020

Delhi governments Guru Teg Bahadur GTB Hospital which was converted into a COVID19only facility last month is facing a shortage of senior resident doctors At present 95 posts of senior resident doctors are vacant The teachers association of University College of Medical Sciences UCMS wrote to the Vi

29-06-2020

NewDelhi The Ministry of Information Technology has banned 59 applications calling them prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India The apps include TikTok UC Browser ShareIt and Club Factory among several other Chinese applications This move will safeguard the interests of crores of Indian mo

29-06-2020

Mumbai The Maharashtra government on Monday extended the lockdown in the state till July 31 amid rising cases of coronavirus in the state Issuing guidelines for its Mission Begin Again the state government said people should restrict their nonessential activities like shopping and outdoor exercises

29-06-2020

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Sunday 28 June alleged that his party rivals were being instigated by India with the intention of removing him from power reported The Indian Express Addressing a meeting the Nepalese Prime Minister said that meetings were being arranged in New Delhi against Ne

29-06-2020

NewDelhi The Railways’ air conditioned trains will now have operation theatrelike fresh air pumped into its coaches replacing the circulated air which raises the chances of spread of infections officials have said The experiment started with 15 pairs of air conditioned trains being run by the Railw

29-06-2020

Home Minister Amit Shah today said that Delhi wont reach 55 lakh coronavirus cases by July 31 and added that the national capital will be in a better position He added that Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodias remark that there will be 55 lakh coronavirus cases in Delhi by July 31 had created panic

28-06-2020

The total number of coronavirus recoveries in India exceeded active cases by over 1 lakh on Sunday with recoveries reaching 309712 and active cases reaching 203051 The coronavirus recovery rate in India has reached 5856 The total number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 528859 marking t

28-06-2020

Mumbai has reported symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease among young coronavirus patients doctors said A 14yearold was brought to a private hospital this week with rashes and high fever two symptoms of the disease and tested positive for COVID19 Dr Tanu Singhal a paediatrics and infectious disease e

28-06-2020

A baby girl was born without arms and legs to a 28yearold woman in Sakla village of Sironj Tehsil in Madhya Pradeshs Vidisha district As per reports the baby was born with an autosomal recessive congenital disorder called TetraAmelia characterised by absence of all four limbs According to Bhopal CMH

28-06-2020

Traders body CAIT has criticised Xiaomi India MD Manu Kumar Jain for disrespecting the sentiments of Indian citizens CAITs Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said that Jain had mocked the Boycott Chinese Products campaign by saying the sentiment existed only on social media and is a result of mob

27-06-2020

New Delhi As swarms of locusts were spotted on Saturday near Gurgaon the Delhi government issued an advisory to contain and control the menace of desert locusts in Delhi It has also urged all district magistrates to remain on high alert and to coordinate with the district fire department personnel t

27-06-2020

Thiruvananthapuram At a time when several states are reimposing fresh lockdown in the wake of the rising number of COVID cases Kerala has withdrawn its Sunday lockdown order gradually moving towards unlocking In a fresh order on Saturday the Kerala government lifted ongoing lockdown on all Sundays

27-06-2020

Bangaluru The Karnataka government today announced that lockdown would be imposed in the state every Sunday with effect from July 5 No activities shall be permitted on that day except essential services and supplies it added Further the night curfew timings will be changed to 8 pm to 5 am from 9 pm

27-06-2020

Liverpool have won the Premier League title for the first time in their history and ended a 30year wait for a topflight championship victory Liverpool have won 28 of their 31 Premier League matches so far this season aggregating 86 points They won the title with seven matches remaining after Chelsea

26-06-2020

There are some wearables out there in the world that are making claims around COVID19 and their ability to detect it prevent it certify that you don’t have it and more But a new wearable device from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory might actually be able to do the most to prevent the spread of COVID1

26-06-2020

NewDelhi Schools in Delhi will remain closed till July 31 Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said after a meeting with education department officials on Friday Reopening schools is not merely a technical work rather it is a creative work that would give schools a new and bigger role Sisodia who is also the na

26-06-2020

NewDelhi The Directorate General of Civil Aviation DGCA has said that scheduled international commercial passenger services to from India shall remain suspended till July 15 This restriction shall not apply to international allcargo operations and flights specifically approved by DGCA it added Howev

26-06-2020

NewDelhi The Railway Board on Thursday announced that the regular timetabled passenger services including Mail Express passenger and suburban services stand cancelled up to August 12 2020 All the tickets booked for the regular timetabled trains for journeys from July 1 to August 12 also stand cancel

25-06-2020

Lucknow At least 107 people died due to thunderstorms in Bihar and UP in the last 24 hours according to figures provided by the Chief Ministers Office Bihar CM Nitish Kumar announced a compensation of ₹4 lakh each for the families of the deceased Gopalganj reported 13 deaths while eight each died in

25-06-2020

Bangaluru Karnataka government has reserved an entire wing of Bengalurus Kumara Krupa Guest House as Covid Care Centre for ministers MPs MLAs MLCs and senior officials of government above secretary rank for clinical management An order was issued stating that 100 rooms will be reserved Management ha

25-06-2020

NewDelhi The pending CBSE ICSE Class 10 and Class 12 board exams which were scheduled to take place from July 1 to 15 have been cancelled Centre told the Supreme Court today Solicitor General SG Tushar Mehta said that CBSE Class 12 examinations could be conducted for students who opt for it as soon

25-06-2020

Kolkata The West Bengal government on Wednesday announced extension of lockdown till July 31 to contain the spread of COVID19 The development comes after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held an allparty meeting at Nabanna in Kolkata to discuss measures to tackle COVID19 situation in the state I ann

24-06-2020

An IAS officer allegedly took his own life by hanging himself in his house on Tuesday evening The deceased officer was BM Vijay Shankar He had been arrested by special investigation team SIT in the I Monetary Advice IMA case when he was deputy commissioner DC Urban Bengaluru He had spent few days in

24-06-2020

  In a major relief to small borrowers amid the coronavirusled income crisis the Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today approved 2 p

24-06-2020

New Delhi Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajputs body was found hanging at his Bandra residence on June 14 2020 His shocking death left his family friends and film fraternity mourning Social media has been abuzz with various theories surrounding his death with fans demanding CBI enquiry to rule out a

24-06-2020

Commenting on Galwan Valley faceoff Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said India and China dont need any help from outside to solve issues between them Russia hopes the situation will continue to be peaceful and the countries will remain committed to peaceful resolution of disputes he added Lav

23-06-2020

Indian IT industry body NASSCOM has said that US President Donald Trumps move to suspend employmentbased visas including H1B till the end of 2020 is misguided and harmful to the US economy This could force more work to be performed offshore since local talent isnt available NASSCOM said It urged the

23-06-2020

The government has decided that pilgrims from India wont be sent to Saudi Arabia for Hajj this year Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Application money of over 23 lakh pilgrims will be returned without cancellation deductions through a direct transfer Naqvi added Saudi Arabia has restricted th

23-06-2020

India and China mutually agreed to disengage during top military talks between the two countries over the Galwan Valley faceoff according to reports quoting Indian Army sources The talks were held in a cordial positive and constructive atmosphere the Indian Army sources reportedly said Talks were he

23-06-2020

Apple announced the new watchOS 7 for Apple Watch with new customisable watch faces rebranded Activity app Fitness and sleep tracking Apple Watch sleep tracking feature will let users set a bed time and wakeup alarm using the existing Apple Watch vibration alarm Apple Watch will remind users to wash

23-06-2020

Odisha DGP Abhay said complete shutdown will be in place in Puri district from 9 pm on Monday till 2 pm on Wednesday for the smooth conduct of the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra Odishas Special Relief Commissioner said in an order that no passenger trains and public or private buses barring a few excep

23-06-2020

As many as 3721 new coronavirus cases were reported in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases in the state to 135796 Further 113 new coronavirus deaths were reported taking the total death toll to 6283 A total of 67706 patients have recovered from the virus so far As many

23-06-2020

NewDelhi Days after the Supreme Court of India had stayed Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra due to the COVID19 pandemic upon Centre and state of Odishas pleas among many the top court on Monday 22 June reversed its previous order and allowed it to be held in Puri without public participation The apex court

22-06-2020

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called on the government to ensure justice for the 20 soldiers who were martyred in a faceoff with China in Galwan Valley PM Narendra Modi must be mindful of implications of his words and declarations on our Nations securityPM cannot allow China to use his wo

22-06-2020

The Ministry of Home Affairs MHA on Sunday asked the Delhi government to delineate all containment zones afresh and enumerate all households even outside containment zones The MHA also instructed the Delhi government to send a detailed report on every COVID19 death in the city The MHA passed the ins

22-06-2020

Mizoram CM Zoramthanga on Monday tweeted that two earthquakes have struck Mizoram within a span of 12 hours and the damage assessment is being undertaken by the district administration Fortunately no casualties reported so far the CM said Following the earthquake Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ass

22-06-2020

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal today announced that government will provide pulse oximeter which is used to monitor amount of oxygen carried in the body to all home quarantine cases Every district will have oxygen concentratorswell have a helpline and our team will come to your home to provide you with ox

22-06-2020

Indian shuttler HS Prannoy has been recommended for Arjuna Award by chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand after the Badminton Association of India ignored him for a second successive year due to disciplinary issues It has emerged Prannoys name was recommended by Gopichand on June 3 in his

21-06-2020

Former firstclass spinner Rajinder Goel who was the highest wickettaker in Ranji Trophy history died aged 77 on Sunday owing to agerelated illnesses Its a huge loss for the game of cricket and personally for me He was one of the best if not the best leftarm spinner that this country has ever seen ex

21-06-2020

Drug firm Glenmark Pharmaceuticals on Saturday said it has launched antiviral drug Favipiravir under the brand name FabiFlu for the treatment of patients with mild to moderate Covid 19 at a price of about Rs 103 per tablet The drug will be available as a 200 mg tablet at a maximum retail price MRP o

21-06-2020

Bombay HC on Saturday asked BMC and Maharashtra government to implement the Supreme Courts order to hand over COVID19 test reports directly to patients or their family members HC was hearing a plea filed by a BJP corporator seeking to set aside a BMC order The order directed private labs to first sh

21-06-2020

BMW Group and MercedesBenz AG have punted on what was meant to be a long term collaboration to develop nextgeneration automated driving technology together less than a year after announcing the agreement The German automakers called the break up “mutual and amicable” and have each agreed to concent

21-06-2020

Amazoncom Inc has received an approval to deliver alcohol in West Bengal nearly a month after it ventured into food delivery market in India The West Bengal State Beverages Corp the agency authorised to carry out online retail of liquor trade in India fourthmost populous state said Amazon was among

21-06-2020

Facebookowned messaging app WhatsApp has told the Supreme Court that its payments platform is now fully compliant with the data localisation norms set by the Reserve Bank of India RBI  UPIbased payments feature WhatsApp Pay was launched in 2018 but restricted to the betastage and available to only

20-06-2020

The registration process for admissions to Delhi University have officially begun and students who wish to register for admissions can visit wwwduacin Registrations will be open for undergraduate postgraduate MPhil and PhD courses till 4 July The eligibility criteria of the UG and PG courses for 2

20-06-2020

A Pakistani drone loaded with a sophisticated rifle and some grenades was shot down by the Border Security Force along the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday officials saidThis is the first such incident in Jammu region when a drone carrying arms and explosives

20-06-2020

WhatsApp suffered glitch for over five hours as users reported facing issues with their privacy settings and complained that Last Seen Online and is typing features werent visible Several users said their privacy settings had automatically switched to None Online outage tracker DownDetector said Wha

20-06-2020

As many as 14516 coronavirus cases were reported in India in last 24 hours taking the total number of cases in the country to 395048 This is the first time that over 14000 coronavirus cases have been reported in a single day in India Meanwhile the coronavirus death toll in India surged to 12948 afte

20-06-2020

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said PM Narendra Modi will launch a ₹50000crore Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan with 25 schemes for migrant workers in 116 districts on June 20 Well reach saturation levels for schemes within 125 days Sitharaman added Weve found migrant workers returned in large numb

19-06-2020

Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has announced that the family of Colonel B Santosh Babu who was martyred in the Galwan valley faceoff will be given ₹5 crore and a residential plot His wife will be given a government job Telangana government also announced ₹10 lakh each for families of t

19-06-2020

NewDelhi Talking about IndiaChina faceoff in allparty meet PM Narendra Modi said Neither have China intruded nor has any post been taken over by them He added 20 of our jawans were martyred but those who dared Bharat Matathey were taught a lesson Today we possess such capability that no one can dare

19-06-2020

A viral message of an order allegedly from the National Informatics Centre that claims that the government has prohibited some Chinese apps from being available on app stores is fake the Press Information Bureau PIB said No such instruction has been given by the Ministry of Electronics and Informati

19-06-2020

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today said The world is in a new and dangerous phase He added More than 15 lakh coronavirus cases were reported to WHO yesterday the most in a single day He further said Almost half of those cases were reported from Americas with large numbers also being reported

19-06-2020

NewDelhi The Odisha government has said that it will abide by the Supreme Courts order to not hold Jagannath Rath Yatra in Puri this year in view of the COVID19 pandemic The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by CM Naveen Patnaik The state instructed the Shree Jagannath Temple Managing

19-06-2020

Actor and politician Paresh Rawal on Thursday tweeted that Amazon Flipkart Snapdeal and the other online merchants should ensure that they put a disclaimer on Chinese goods As your customer I would like to know the origin of the product that I am buying he added The actor also tweeted BoycottChinese

18-06-2020

India has been elected as a nonpermanent member of the United Nations Security Council UNSC for the eighth time securing the seat for the AsiaPacific Group India got 184 out of the 192 valid votes polled Nonpermanent members are elected for a twoyear term with the newlyelected members terms set to b

18-06-2020

Kathmandu Nepal’s National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Constitution Amendment Bill to update the country’s political and administrative map incorporating the Indian territories India has termed as untenable the “artificial enlargement” of territorial claims by Nepal after its lower

18-06-2020

Union Minister Ramdas Athawale on Thursday asked people to boycott Chinese food and called for a ban on restaurants selling Chinese food Earlier he tweeted China is a country that betrays India should boycott all products that are made in China His comments came after twenty Indian soldiers were mar

18-06-2020

Mumbai The total number of coronavirus tests in Maharashtra has crossed the 7 lakh mark with a total of 700954 tests having been conducted so far A total of 3307 new coronavirus cases were reported in the state in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 116752 Meanwhile the coronavirus

17-06-2020

NewDelhi Ministry of Home Affairs MHA has said the price of COVID19 test in Delhi has been fixed at ₹2400 based on suggestions of a committee set up by Home Minister Amit Shah The MHA announced that tests will be done via new Rapid Antigen methodology approved by ICMR from June 18 and Delhi would be

17-06-2020

Pune District Collector Naval Kishore Ram has said that domestic helps from containment zones cant be allowed into residential society premises He added that residential societies also have no right to ask for medical certificates from domestic helps who come from noncontainment zones He further sai

17-06-2020

The new mask has a USB port that connects to a power source such as a standard cellphone charger that heats an inner layer of carbon fibres to 70 degrees Celsius 158 Fahrenheit high enough to kill viruses EinEli said disposable masks in high demand globally during the health crisis were not economi

17-06-2020

Oxford University trial shows lowcost steroid drug dexamethasone reduced COVID19 deaths by up to onethird in severelyill ventilated patients Antiinflammatory medicine dexamethasone is used since early 1960s to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and asthma A total of 2104 patients received 6m

17-06-2020

Congress leader  on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over clashes between Indian and Chinese troops in Galwan Valley saying that enough is enough and the country needs to know what has at the Line of Actual Control Rahul Gandhi also raised question over PM Modis silence over the inci

17-06-2020

UN chief António Guterres has expressed concern over reports of violence and deaths at the LAC between India and China and urged both sides to exercise maximum restraint We take positive note of reports that the two countries have engaged to deescalatesituation his spokesperson said Indian Army said

17-06-2020

WHO has welcomed the initial clinical trial results from the UK that show dexamethasone can be lifesaving for criticallyill coronavirus patients This is great newsI congratulate the Government of the UK said WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Dexamethasone a lowcost steroid is the first

17-06-2020

Chinese army attacked Indian Army during deescalation talks At least 20 Indian soldiers killed in the violent faceoff with China in Galwan valley in Eastern Ladakh Casualty numbers could rise said Government Sources Indian intercepts reveal that Chinese side suffered 43 casualties including dead and

16-06-2020

The total number of coronavirus cases in India has increased to 343091 after a jump of 10667 cases in the last 24 hours This is the lowest daily jump in coronavirus cases in 5 days Meanwhile the number of patients who have been cureddischarged has reached 180012 Coronavirus death toll in India has s

16-06-2020

NewDelhi An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed during a violent faceoff with the Chinese army in Ladakh in unprecedented and dangerous escalation of an intense faceoff between the two armies since April A statement released by the Indian Army said the casualties were suffered on Monda

16-06-2020

New Delhi The CBI has alerted the police in all the states and Union territories and other lawenforcement agencies about an Interpol input warning about racketeers selling fake hand sanitiser manufactured using the highlytoxic methanol and another gang posing as PPE and other COVID19related medica

15-06-2020

The Assam government has nominated 2018 Asian Games silver medallist sprinter Hima Das for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2020 The 20yearold who won five international gold medals within three weeks in 2019 has already been conferred with Arjuna Award Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra wrestler Vinesh

15-06-2020

After months of talks and trials Whatsapp has finally pulled the trigger on payments in its app Today the Facebookowned messaging service announced that users in Brazil would be the first to be able to send and receive money by way of its messaging app using Facebook Pay the payments service WhatsAp

15-06-2020

Tamil Nadu government has announced maximised restricted lockdown in areas of Chennai Kancheepuram Chengalpattu and Tiruvallur which come under Metropolitan Chennai Police limits from June 19 to 30 Grocery shops vegetable shops and petrol bunks can open between 6 am and 2 pm People driving to market

15-06-2020

UK PM Boris Johnson has announced creation of a crossgovernmental commission to take stock of racial inequality issues in the country Writing in the Daily Telegraph Johnson said the commission would examine racism and the disparities experienced by minority ethnic groups in education health and crim

15-06-2020

Bombay High Court on Monday allowed airlines to fill up middle seats in planes in compliance with the May 31 circular issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation The guidelines stated that the middle seat passengers should be provided with a wraparound gown in addition to masks and face shie

15-06-2020

Two Indian High Commission officials are missing in Pakistans Islamabad news agency ANI reported on Monday quoting sources Ministry of External Affairs has taken up the matter with Pakistan the report added This comes after two Pakistani officials at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi were a

15-06-2020

Maharashtra Polices cyber department has asked people to refrain from circulating pictures of late actor Sushant Singh Rajputs body Calling it a disturbing trend they emphasised that circulation of such pictures is against legal guidelines and court directions and is liable to invite legal action Th

15-06-2020

Mumbais Dharavi slum area recorded 13 new coronavirus cases on Sunday taking the total number of cases there to 2043 said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC No coronavirus deaths were recorded in the area on Sunday and the COVID19 death toll of Dharavi remained at 77 Mumbai has recorded over

14-06-2020

Following the demise of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput at the age of 34 Chennai Super Kings tweeted Still reeling in shock Terribly unfair CSK also shared a picture showing Sushant in a still from MS Dhoni The Untold Story writing A finish we never expected Rest in Peace Sushant Singh Rajput S

14-06-2020

Delhi government on Saturday declared all nursing homes having 10 to 49 beds as COVID nursing homes an official order read All such nursing homes are required to make their COVID beds functional within three days of the issuance of the order Standalone exclusive eye centres ENT centres dialysis ce

14-06-2020

New Delhi Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said testing for COVID19 in Delhi will be doubled in the next two days and tripled in 6 days PM Narendra Modis government is committed to control spread of COVID19 in Delhi Several important decisions were taken in the meeting held with Delhi Lieutenant Go

14-06-2020

Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide in Mumbai on Sunday at the age of 34 said police His body was found hanging at his residence in Bandra said reports The police were reportedly informed by his domestic help Sushant had starred in films including Kai Po Che and MS Dhoni The Untol

14-06-2020

The total number of coronavirus cases in Punjab has risen to 3063 out of which 671 cases are active The death toll due to coronavirus in the state has surged to 65 after two new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours A total of 2327 patients have recovered while 14 are on oxygen support and one i

13-06-2020

Nepals Parliament on Saturday passed an amendment to include Indian territories of Kalapani Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura in its new official map Earlier when Nepal had released the map India had said This unilateral act is not based on historical facts and evidenceSuch artificial enlargement of territo

13-06-2020

New Delhi The Health Ministry has added loss of smell anosmia and loss of taste ageusia as new symptoms of COVID19 in a document published for use by health professionals as a reference The other symptoms listed in the Clinical Features section of the document are fever cough fatigue shortness of br

13-06-2020

Amid criticism over alleged low COVID19 testing numbers in Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday If you want the number of tests conducted for COVID19 to increase then ask ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research to change its guidelines Jain added We cannot flout ICMR guidelines that

13-06-2020

Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi took to Twitter on Saturday to reveal that he has tested positive for coronavirus Afridi wrote Ive been feeling unwell since Thursday my body had been aching badly Ive been tested and unfortunately Im COVID positive Need prayers for a speedy recover

13-06-2020

PM Narendra Modi will interact with CMs of all states and Union Territories on June 16 and 17 As per the schedule PM Modi will interact with CMs of 21 states and UTs including Punjab Assam Kerala Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh among others on June 16 He will interact with CMs of states badly affe

12-06-2020

Ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections on June 19 Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said The Rajya Sabha elections couldve been conducted two months back but it was postponed for no reason because BJPs horsetrading was not complete Gehlot added We Congress are united Not a single vote of our MLAs will go to any

12-06-2020

New Delhi Google on Friday announced the launch of a new feature on Google Search Assistant and Maps for users in India to help them find information on Covid19 testing centres near them The search giant has partnered with the Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR and My

12-06-2020

New Delhi The government today clarified that the 9 pm to 5 am curfew doesnt apply to buses trucks and goods carriers plying on state and national highways It added that it also doesnt apply to persons travelling to their destinations after disembarking from buses trains and flights It advised state

12-06-2020

Indias foreign exchange reserves crossed the 500 billion mark for the first time reaching 5017 billion in the week ended June 5 The reserves increased by 82 billion during the week Indias current reserves provide an import cover of over a year Foreign currency assets the biggest component are at 463

12-06-2020

NewDelhi The Supreme Court on Friday criticised the Delhi government over its mismanagement of dead bodies of coronavirus patients terming the situation as horrific Coronavirus patients are being treated worse than animals the apex court said The patients families arent even informed about deaths In

12-06-2020

The junior doctors of Hyderabads Gandhi General Hospital who have been protesting for two days called off their strike on Friday morning This was after Health Minister Eatala Rajender assured that their demands which included adequate security would be fulfilled within 15 days They had been protesti

12-06-2020

India overtook the UK to become the fourth worst coronavirushit country with total cases reaching 297535 after a record jump of 10956 cases in last 24 hours The UK has reported 291409 cases till date Indias coronavirus death toll has surged to 8498 after 396 deaths were reported in last 24 hours Mea

12-06-2020

DelhiThe government has proposed an approximately ₹8000crore makeover of Delhis Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and invited bids to study the feasibility of the project According to a tender floated on Wednesday the sports ministry said it ‘has decided to redevelopdevelop Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium New Delhi

11-06-2020

A man who ordered a skin lotion worth ₹300 from Amazon India was mistakenly sent Bose wireless earbuds worth ₹19000 Sharing the incident on Twitter Punes Gautam Rege said that when he contacted Amazon he was told to keep the earbuds as the order was nonreturnable In another tweet he said that Amazon

11-06-2020

The ICMR on Thursday said that with coronavirus prevalence as low as less than 1 in small districts in a large country like India the nation is “definitely” not in the community transmission phase We have ramped up testing and we have calibrated testing guidelines We have capacity to do up to 2 lakh

11-06-2020

Flooding in south and central China has caused more than a dozen deaths and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes the government said on Wednesday About 228000 people have had to seek emergency shelter due to flooding since June 2 the Ministry of Emergency Management said Initial

11-06-2020

Unilever proposed combining its Dutch and British legal entities in a single holding company based in Britain on Thursday after shareholders sank an earlier plan to move the global consumer goods groups headquarters to the Netherlands The proposed unification which would unwind a structure that has

11-06-2020

Pathanamthitta Sabarimala temple will not open to the public this month Kerala Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran has said Surendran added that the Sabarimala temple festival scheduled to commence from June 19 also stands cancelled He said the decision was taken after a meeting with the temple

11-06-2020

The coronavirus recovery rate in India has exceeded 49 for the first time the government announced today As of June 11 the recovery rate stands at 4921 with a total of 141029 patients having been cured discharged migrated Indias coronavirus recovery rate was 2659 on May 3 Further India has tested as

11-06-2020

New Delhi Home Minister Amit Shah has said that Centre may have made a mistake or fallen short while dealing with coronavirus outbreak and migrant workers crisis adding but what did the Opposition do Shah said Someone talks in Sweden in English to fight against corona in the country Someone talks in

09-06-2020

Hyderabad The Telangana government on Monday allowed the Telugu film industry to resume film and television shooting and the postproduction works However shooting can resume with limited manpower and coronavirus safety guidelines issued by the government should be followed Furthermore the state gov

09-06-2020

Dubai A 28yearold Kerala engineer in Dubai who supported his pregnant wife to file a petition in Supreme Court for early repatriation from UAE died in his sleep Nithin Chandran was under treatment for high blood pressure and had a heart condition Chandran stayed back in Dubai after sending his wife

09-06-2020

India has recorded the biggest oneday jump in the number of coronavirus deaths and cases with a spike of 331 deaths and 9987 cases in the last 24 hours While the total cases have increased to 266598 the death toll in the country has surged to 7466 The number of patients who have been cureddischarged

09-06-2020

New DelhiGovernment has released guidelines to stop coronavirus spread in Central government departments after several departments reported cases of COVID19 Only asymptomatic staff will be allowed and not more than 20 people can attend office in a day guidelines stated Face shield and mask have to b

09-06-2020

World Health Organizations WHO DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom on Monday said that almost 70 lakh cases of coronavirus and 4 lakh coronavirus deaths have been reported to the WHO so far Although the situation in Europe is improving globally it is worsening he added Yesterday more than 136000 cases we

08-06-2020

Hyderabad Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao has said Class 10 students in the state will be promoted to next class without any examination He added it wouldnt be possible to conduct examinations due to spread of coronavirus The students would be promoted to the next class with grades given to them ba

08-06-2020

NewDelhi A day after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said hospitals run by Delhi government and some private hospitals providing coronavirus treatment will be reserved only for Delhi residents LG Anil Baijal overruled the decision The Delhi Disaster Management Authority Chairperson Baijal directed authorit

08-06-2020

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has developed fever and sore throat since Sunday afternoon tweeted Aam Aadmi Partys Sanjay Singh He has kept himself in isolation at home on the advice of doctors Tomorrow on 9 June he will undergo coronavirus test Singh added I pray to God to heal him soon his t

08-06-2020

Saudi Arabia made some of the biggest price increases for crude exports in at least two decades doubling down on its strategy to bolster the oil market after OPEC producers extended historic output cuts The steepest jump will hit July exports to Asia state producer Saudi Aramco’s largest regional ma

08-06-2020

NewDelhi Union Human Resources Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said that the schools are likely to reopen after August 15 if the situation is conducive If the situation is conducive and the Home Ministry permits then we can open schools in August he added The Minister also said the res

08-06-2020

NewDelhi The total number of coronavirus cases in India reached 256611 the government announced on Monday with a jump of 9983 cases in the last 24 hours This is the fifth straight day of over 9000 daily cases The death toll in the country has surged to 7135 Meanwhile active cases and cured discharge

08-06-2020

Wellington New Zealand has declared itself coronavirusfree as the country has no active cases of COVID19 for the first time since February 28 the Health Ministry said It has now been 17 days since the country last recorded a new case of coronavirus Fewer than 1500 people were diagnosed with COVID19

08-06-2020

Petrol and diesel prices were on Sunday hiked across the country after 83 days as stateowned oil firms restarted daily price revisions Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to ₹7186 per litre while diesel rates increased to ₹6999 Since March 16 oil PSUs kept fuel prices on hold over extreme volatility in

07-06-2020

As many as 3007 new coronavirus cases were reported in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases in the state to 85975 With this Maharashtra overtook China which has reported 84186 coronavirus cases till date The coronavirus death toll in Maharashtra stands at 3060 while the

07-06-2020

India overtook Spain to become the fifth worst coronavirushit country with total cases reaching 246628 after a jump of 9971 cases in the last 24 hours This is the biggest singleday jump in coronavirus cases so far The countrys coronavirus death toll has increased to 6929 Meanwhile the number of acti

07-06-2020

ExWest Indies captain Darren Sammy has revealed he learnt the meaning of the word kalu in the recent episode of Hasan Minhajs Patriot Act Oh so that’s what that meant when they called me and Thisara Perera kalu in India when we played for SRH I just thought they were calling me strong black man…I’m

07-06-2020

NewDelhi Following talks between India and China over tensions along the Line of Actual Control LAC the Ministry of External Affairs MEA has said Both sides agreed to peacefully resolve situation in border areas The two sides will continue military and diplomatic engagementsto ensure peace and tranq

07-06-2020

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced that Delhi borders will be opened from tomorrow All restaurants malls and places of worship in Delhi will open from tomorrow But people will have to maintain social distancing he added Last week Kejriwal had sought suggestions from the citize

07-06-2020

As many as 2739 new coronavirus cases were reported in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases in the state to 82968 The death toll due to coronavirus in Maharashtra has risen to 2969 A total of 537124 coronavirus tests have been conducted in Maharashtra while 37390 coronav

06-06-2020

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that the country will consider leaving the WHO unless it ceases to be a partisan political organization Earlier US President Donald Trump had announced the decision to terminate its relationship with the WHO With over 34000 fatalities coronavirus has killed mo

06-06-2020

Mumbai A step ladder belonging to SpiceJet detached from its parked position and crashed into the wing of an IndiGo aircraft parked at Mumbai airport early this morning because of strong winds This led to some damage to the wing and the engine cowling of the plane IndiGo said the incident is under i

06-06-2020

India on Saturday crossed Italys coronavirus case count as 9887 new cases were reported in last 24 hours The country now has 236657 coronavirus cases 2126 more than Italys 234531 infections and has reported 6642 deaths Out of the total cases in India 115942 are active while 114073 people have been c

06-06-2020

West Bengal recorded its highest singleday rise in coronavirus cases at 427 taking the total to 7303 The coronavirus death toll rose to 294 after 11 more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours At least 144 patients were discharged today taking the total recoveries to 2912 Kolkata the states w

05-06-2020

The website of People for Animals an NGO founded by BJP leader Maneka Gandhi was hacked by a group of ethical hackers called Kerala Cyber Warriors It was hacked after Maneka criticised Keralas Malappuram district over death of a pregnant elephant there Maneka dragged the sad death of pregnant elepha

05-06-2020

The Union Public Service Commission UPSC on Friday announced that the Civil Services Preliminary Examination will be held on October 4 this year while the Mains will be held on January 8 next year Initially the prelims were scheduled to be conducted on May 31 but were postponed due to the coronaviru

05-06-2020

New Delhi The Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that a CBI probe was not needed into the Tablighi Jamaat event at New Delhis Nizamuddin Markaz in March The Centre added that the investigation by the Delhi Police Crime Branch into the event will be completed in a timebound manner The Markaz eve

05-06-2020

Abu Dhabibased fund Mubadala Investment Company Mubadala will invest Rs 909360 crore in Jio Platforms for 185 equity stake on a fully diluted basis This is the sixth megadeal for Reliance Jio over the past six weeks  Mubadala’s investment at an equity value of Rs 491 lakh crore and an enterprise va

05-06-2020

Hotels must adopt contactless processes like QR code online forms and digital payments like ewallet for both checkin and checkout as per the guidelines issued by the government Luggage should be disinfected before being sent to rooms Further room service or takeaways shall be encouraged instead of d

05-06-2020

The government today issued guidelines for places of worship to contain the spread of coronavirus Touching of statuesidols holy books will not be allowed Physical offerings like prasad distribution or sprinkling of holy water will not be allowed inside the religious place As far as feasible recorded

05-06-2020

Bill Gatesbacked vaccine alliance Gavi has raised 88 billion from world and business leaders in a UKhosted summit on Thursday Notably India pledged 15 million towards the international vaccine alliance Gavi will use the funding to immunize 300 million children in poor countries by 2025 Gavi was form

05-06-2020

Washington Three US police officers named Thomas Lane J Kueng and Tou Thao who were present when Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on AfricanAmerican George Floyds neck were charged with aiding and abetting the murder Chauvin was also newly charged with seconddegree murder in

04-06-2020

Thiruvanathapuram In a horrific incident of animal cruelty a pregnant elephant was fed firecrackersstuffed pineapple in Kerala’s Malappuram after which the poor animal suffered injures and died while standing in Velliyar river Shocking netizens and celebrities alike the outrage was joined by BJP MP

04-06-2020

Following the desecration of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi outside Indian embassy in Washington DC US Ambassador to India Ken Juster tweeted So sorry to see the desecrationPlease accept our sincere apologies Appalled as well bydeath of George Floyd and theviolence and vandalism he added The statue wa

04-06-2020

Washington A full autopsy of George Floyd the AfricanAmerican man who died after being restrained by US police was released on Wednesday and revealed that Floyd had tested positive for COVID19 on April 3 but appeared asymptomatic The report also noted that Floyds lungs appeared healthy but he had so

04-06-2020

India has recorded the biggest oneday jump in number of coronavirus deaths and cases with a spike of 260 deaths and 9304 cases in the last 24 hours While the total cases have increased to 216919 the death toll in the country has surged to 6075 As many as 25 states and Union Territories have reported

04-06-2020

Dubai Dubai on Wednesday opened the shopping malls with full capacity following weeks of restrictions and curfews imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic The Dubai Government on Tuesday night issued a directive allowing all malls and offices in the emirate to return to full operating

03-06-2020

Jeneva WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus today said that the trial of hydroxychloroquine for treatment of coronavirus will resume On the basis of the available mortality data the members of the committee recommended that there are no reasons to modify the trial protocol he said The WHO had suspended the

03-06-2020

New Delhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asked the government if it can confirm whether or not Chinese soldiers have entered India amid the border standoff in Ladakh He shared a report about India and China holding a toplevel military meet on June 6 On Tuesday Defence Minister Rajnath Si

03-06-2020

Dispur An oil well in Assam is still leaking gas uncontrollably a week after a blowout that forced 2500 people to evacuate their homes An expert team from Singapore will reach the site today to assist Oil India Limited which operates the well in plugging the leak A critically endangered Gangetic riv

03-06-2020

Remove China Apps an app that gained popularity in India in recent weeks and did exactly what its name suggests has been pulled from the Play Store The top trending app in India which was downloaded more than 5 million times since late May and enabled users to detect and easily delete apps develope

03-06-2020

Washington The US will be ready to ship the first tranche of 100 donated ventilators to India next week President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a conference call the White House said Trump spoke with Modi on Tuesday and “the two leaders discussed the G7 summit the COVID19 re

03-06-2020

NewDelhi India and China will hold Lieutenant Generallevel talks on June 6 to address ongoing border dispute in eastern Ladakh along Line of Actual Control reports said The 14 Corps Commander Lt Gen Harinder Singh is scheduled to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Army sources told the media Ea

03-06-2020

Railway Protection Force RPF personnel deputed as frontline workers in the fight against COVID19 across India can be prescribed Hydroxychloroquine HCQ as prophylaxis under strict medical supervision The drug would be given only with the informed consent of the personnel Director General DG of RPF Ar

03-06-2020

Allahabad In a submission to the Allahabad High Court the UP government stated that theres no Tablighi Jamaat member at any of its COVID19 quarantine centres The government added that all have been released and sent home The submission came after a PIL sought the courts intervention in seeking the r

03-06-2020

New Delhi The number of active coronavirus cases in India has reached 101497 and number of patients who have been cured discharged now stands at 100302 The total number of cases has reached 207615 with biggest oneday jump of 8909 cases Meanwhile coronavirus death toll in the country has surged to 58

03-06-2020

The total number of coronavirus cases in Maharashtra has surged to 72300 after 2287 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours Out of the total 72300 coronavirus patients 31333 have recovered while the death toll stands at 2465 A total of 483875 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the state t

02-06-2020

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced the launch of Delhi Corona app which will give everyone the status of hospital beds and ventilator availability in Delhi It will provide you information about all the hospitals in Delhi private as well as government It will tell you the number of vacant

02-06-2020

Amid protests in the US UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said Weve always said that police forces around the world need to have adequate human rights training UN chief António Guterres has urged Americans protesting racial inequities and excessive police force to do so peacefully and he called on US l

02-06-2020

Thiruvananthapuram Going in line with the guidelines of the Central government the Kerala government on Monday extended the lockdown in containment zones till June 30 Making an announcement Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday eased curbs in many sectors including allowing indoor film an

02-06-2020

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that metro services should restart with social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic We have to follow the Centres guidelines but I believe Metro services should restart he added In our conversations with Metro officials we have been told that the plan to o

02-06-2020

A recent show that seems to have left everyone stunned with terrific content storyline and performances in Paatal Lok Anushka Sharma went ahead with the production of this web series with Prime Video under the banner Clean Slate Films and managed to churn out a gripping and intense show With stellar

02-06-2020

The death toll due to coronavirus in Delhi has risen to 523 after 50 new deaths were reported on Sunday The total number of cases has surged to 20834 in the national capital after 990 new cases were reported in the last 24 hours As many as 8746 patients who were diagnosed with coronavirus in Delhi h

01-06-2020

Mumbai The IMD issued a districtwise forecast on Sunday and has put Maharashtras Palghar on red alert with the possibility of extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places on June 3 and 4 Mumbai and Thane are put on orange alert with the possibility of heavy to very heavy rainfall Heavy and extremely

01-06-2020

Talking about the coronavirus pandemic Prime Minister Narendra Modi today tweeted The virus may be an invisible enemy But our warriors medical workers are invincible He added In the battle of Invisible vs Invincible our medical workers are sure to win He further said Doctors and medical workers are

01-06-2020

Mumbai Maharashtra government has decided not to hold exams of final year university students in the state amid coronavirus spread These students will be promoted on the basis of aggregate of marks scored in previous exams Students who feel at a disadvantage because of the aggregate marks formula wi

01-06-2020

Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Minister Thomas Isaac has said that a 100member team of doctors and nurses has volunteered to assist doctors in Mumbai in battling coronavirus The team is led by Santhosh Kumar Deputy Superintendent of Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram who has already reached Mu

01-06-2020

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has announced that Delhis borders will remain closed for one week amid rising coronavirus cases in the national capital He further sought suggestions from Delhi citizens on reopening of borders Keeping Friday as the deadline he added that people can mail their suggestions to

01-06-2020

Music composer Wajid Khan passed away on Sunday night at the age of 42 Composer Salim Merchant in a statement to PTI said that Wajid was suffering from kidney infection and was on ventilator for the last four days  Terrible newsMy condolences to his family and everyone grieving actress Priyanka Cho

01-06-2020

As many as 1295 people tested positive for coronavirus in Delhi in the last 24 hours marking the biggest singleday rise so far The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the national capital surged to 19844 while the death toll reached 473 The number of active coronavirus cases in Delhi stan

31-05-2020

The National Institute of Open Schooling NIOS has released revised dates for class 10 and 12 board exams which were scheduled for March and were postponed due to coronavirus lockdown The exams will now be held between July 17 and August 13 2020 as per the schedule shared by the Human Resource Develo

31-05-2020

Videos have surfaced online showing police in US New York driving into crowd protesting against the murder of AfricanAmerican man George Floyd Videos show the protestors pressing a metal barricade against the front of an NYPD SUV and pelting it with bottles and traffic cones following which the driv

31-05-2020

Mumbai The Indian Meteorological Department IMD on Sunday said a cyclonic storm is brewing over the Arabian Sea and is likely to hit the coastal districts of Maharashtra and Gujarat by June 3 The Met department also iterated that monsoon has not yet reached Kerala yet and conditions will be favourab

31-05-2020

Mumbai Maharashtra government announced Mission Begin Again and released guidelines to ease the lockdown in phased manner Phase 1 will begin from June 3 allowing individual physical exercises in open public spaces Phase 2 will allow opening of shops and market areas except malls from June 5 Phase 3

31-05-2020

Sara Ali Khan shared a video of her weight loss and captioned it From Sara ka Sara to Sara ka aadha In January she had shared a video of herself before she lost weight Earlier this year she had also revealed that on the first day at gym she did three crunches and couldnt do more 

31-05-2020

During Mann Ki Baat on Sunday PM Narendra Modi said Indias seva shakti is visible in its fight against COVID19 Every Indian has played a part in this battle In villages small towns our sisters daughters are making thousands of masks on daily basis Many social organisations too are helping them in

31-05-2020

Coronavirus cases in India have increased to 182143 government announced on Sunday with a jump of 8380 cases in last 24 hours This is the first time that India has recorded over 8000 cases in 24 hours marking the biggest oneday jump so far Coronavirus death toll in the country has surged to 5164 whi

31-05-2020

Delhi In his disclosure statement to Delhi Police Sanjeev Chawla the prime accused in 2000 Hansie Cronje matchfixing case said no cricket match is fairly played All the cricket matches which people see are fixed he added He pointed to the involvement of a very big syndicate underworld mafia that inf

30-05-2020

NewDelhi The nationwide lockdown has been extended in containment zones till June 30 while prohibited activities will reopen in a phased manner in areas outside containment zones the government has announced Hotels restaurants shopping malls and religious places will open from June 8 outside the con

30-05-2020

Delhi government has released a video explaining the process of home isolation and the precautions patients caregivers and neighbours need to take The video shows how a caregiver takes care of a man who has contracted COVID19 My Delhiites dont worry if you contract coronavirus Most of you can be tre

30-05-2020

New Delhi An Air India flight from Delhi to Moscow had to return midway from over Uzbekistan after the airline realised that one of the pilots had tested positive for coronavirus Officials said there was an error in the preflight test report which was read as negative initially The pilot reportedly

30-05-2020

Mumbai Amid COVID19 spread two schools in Mumbai have been identified and proposed to be set up as temporary jails for Byculla womens jail and Arthur Road jail inmates A proposal was sought from the prison department detailing its requirements Based on this a few options were given including civic s

30-05-2020

New Delhi The number of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 173763 the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Saturday This is the second day in a row that India has witnessed a daily rise of over 7000 cases The coronavirus death toll in the country has risen to 4971 while 8237

30-05-2020

Washington US President Donald Trump has said that US is terminating its relationship with World Health Organization WHO He added that the US will redirect funds from WHO to other organisations China has total control over WHO despite only paying 40 million a year compared to what US has been paying

30-05-2020

Lyricist Yogesh Gaur who wrote the lyrics of songs like Kahin Dur Jab Din Dhal Jaye and Zindagi Kaisi Hai Paheli passed away aged 77 on Friday He also wrote songs for films like Chhoti Si Baat 1976 Baton Baton Mein 1979 Manzil 1979 Condoling his death Lata Mangeshkar said that he was a very calm an

29-05-2020

Kolkatha West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee announced on Friday that all public and private sector offices in the state will be allowed to operate with 100 attendance from June 8 Social distancing must be followed in all cases said CM Banerjee All schools in the state will continue to be closed she said

29-05-2020

NewDelhi An earthquake hit Delhi at 908 pm today The magnitude is measured to be 45 on the Richter Scale according to the National Center for Seismology NCS The tremors were also felt in Gurugram and Noida The earthquake hit 16 kilometers ESE of Rohtak in Haryana There were no immediate reports of a

29-05-2020

NEW DELHI Days after nine deaths were reported onboard Shramik Special trains the Indian Railways on Friday appealed to people not to travel on these trains if they are suffering from preexisting health conditions It has been observed that some people who are availing this service have preexisting

29-05-2020

The body of a 37yearold migrant worker was found inside a train toilet in Jhansi Officials said the body had decomposed in the four days that it was lying unattended adding that it was found when the train was being sanitised by officials His face had swollen and we had kept the body at the mortuary

29-05-2020

Delhi A day after Haryana sealed its border with Delhi citing rising cases of coronavirus there was a massive traffic jam and hundreds of people gathered on the DelhiGurugram border Police personnel were seen checking passes and identity cards of people commuting via the border A policeman stated No

29-05-2020

Pulwama The car carrying 4045 kg IED in Pulwama belonged to an active Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist from Shopian district a JK police officer has stated The driver who had managed to escape is also suspected to be a Hizbul terrorist Kashmir IGP Vijay Kumar said that the driver was in touch with Jaishe

29-05-2020

NewDelhi After Donald Trump claimed that he spoke to PM Narendra Modi over tensions between India and China reports quoting government sources said there has been no recent contact between PM Modi and the US President They last talked on April 4 reports added Trump said PM Modi is not in a good mood

29-05-2020

The Directorate General of Foreign Trade on Thursday removed restrictions on the export of active pharmaceutical ingredients APIs of paracetamol The government had imposed curbs on the export of paracetamol and formulations made from the compound on March 3 On April 17 the government had lifted rest

29-05-2020

India now has the worlds 9th worst coronavirus case count as number of those infected in the country rose to 165799 According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare the number of deaths from coronavirus in India stands at 4706 Out of the total cases 89987 are active while 71106 people have bee

29-05-2020

New Delhi No fare for travel by train or bus shall be charged from migrant workers and it shall be shared by the states the Supreme Court said Railways should provide migrants food and water in trains SC added Migrants found travelling on foot must be immediately taken to shelters and provided food

28-05-2020

NewDelhi Amid threats of a probable locust attack the Delhi government issued an advisory with preventive measures As swarmsfly in day the locust shouldnt be allowed to rest at night” the advisory said It added that four chemicals– Melathion 50? Melathion 25 WP Chloropyriphos 20?and Chloropyriphos 5

28-05-2020

After White House officials said US President Donald Trump would be signing an executive order on social media platforms Trump tweeted This will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS Officials had not given more details on it However Trump is expected to order review of law that protects platfo

28-05-2020

Bangulru The Karnataka government has banned air travel from five states which include Maharashtra Gujarat Tamil Nadu Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan This comes after large number of domestic travellers were tested positive for coronavirus from these states Karnataka had already banned rail and road tr

28-05-2020

Medak A threeyearold boy who accidentally fell into an open borewell in Telanganas Medak district on Wednesday evening died due to asphyxiation the police said on Thursday His body was retrieved by National Disaster Response Force teams following a nearly 12hourlong rescue operation Medak DM K Dharm

28-05-2020

Pulwama A major terrorist attack was averted when police in JKs Pulwama intercepted a vehicle moving with huge quantity of explosives in it on Wednesday night Bullets were fired towards it and the driver escaped in the darkness Locals were evacuated and the vehicle was exploded in situ by bomb dispo

28-05-2020

Pune At least 3 employees of Serum Institute of India have tested positive for coronavirus This is the new normal and there has been no disruption in the workDepartments where COVID19 cases were found have been shut Chief Executive Officer of the company said The employees hail from nearby villages

28-05-2020

Sachin Tendulkar shared a collage on Instagram wherein one picture shows exWest Indies captain Brian Laras son holding a bat while the other shows young Sachin holding the bat brianlaraofficial I know of another boy who had a similar grip and didn’t do too badly in international cricket Sachin wrote

28-05-2020

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 1044 new coronavirus cases and 32 deaths according to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation A total of 33835 coronavirus cases have been reported in Mumbai so far and the cumulative death toll has reached 1097 The total number of coronavirus cases in Dharavi has reached

27-05-2020

VaranasiTwo persons were found dead when a Shramik Special Train from Mumbai arrived in Varanasi on Wednesday amid the lockdown The bodies were found by railway staff after other passengers had got off the train The deceased were identified as 20yearold Dashrath Prajapati who was a physically challe

27-05-2020

NewDelhi The Supreme Court of India on May 26 Tuesday declined to hear a petition seeking the linking of Aadhaar to social media accounts in order to prevent fake accounts The petition was filed by a Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay It was being heard by a bench of Justices

27-05-2020

Contact tracing apps have the potential to slow the spread of COVID19 But without proper security safeguards some fear they could put users’ data and sensitive info at risk

27-05-2020

Actor Kiran Kumar who tested positive for coronavirus on May 14 has revealed he has now tested negative for the virus I was totally asymptomatic and apart fromboredom that accompanies isolation I had no other complaints said Kiran who was home quarantined after testing positive for the virus He furt

27-05-2020

The India Meteorological Department on Wednesday 325 pm issued a notification saying thunderstorm with light rain would occur over and adjoining areas of Uttar Pradeshs Mathura Agra Tundla Firozabad and Etah and Rajasthans Deeg and Bharatpur in the next two hours Light rain over and adjoining areas

27-05-2020

The US has informed India and China its ready willing and able to mediate or arbitrate their now raging border dispute US President Donald Trump said His statement comes amid a standoff between the Indian and Chinese forces at the Line of Actual Control LAC ChinaIndia border area situation is overal

27-05-2020

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant revealed Aarogya Setu predicted over 3000 hotspots at subpost office level across India almost 317 days ahead of time He added it has alerted over 14 lakh people of potential risk of infection Kant mentioned that today Aarogya Setu has around 15 crore users and is the onl

26-05-2020

As many as 97 coronavirus patients were reported dead in Maharashtra today marking the biggest singleday rise in the number of deaths in the state so far The death toll in Maharashtra rose to 1792 while the total number of cases rose to 54758 after 2091 cases were reported today A total of 390170 te

26-05-2020

NewDelhi The India Meteorological Department IMD has predicted that heatwave conditions will be at their peak on Tuesday over the plains of northwest India central India and adjoining interior parts of eastern India The IMD added that the hot spell is very likely to prevail over these areas till May

26-05-2020

Uttarakhand A 47yearold government officer heading a Covid19 city response team CRT in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district died during a training programme on Sunday while his colleagues thought he was sleeping said officials Jaswant Singh an assistant engineer in the Public Works Department i

26-05-2020

Gujarat has recorded over 400 new coronavirus cases in last 24 hours taking the total number of cases there to above 14400 said the states health department on Monday Gujarats coronavirus death toll rose to 888 with 30 more dying of the virus in the last 24 hours A total of 6636 coronavirus patients

26-05-2020

Congress on Sunday criticised PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah after Gujarat HC called state governments main COVID19 facility as good as a dungeon Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi asked whether PM and Shah are even aware of what is happening in their own home state He added If so

25-05-2020

New Delhi Ever since TikTok star Faizal Siddiqui’s acid attack video sparked outrage on social media many such problematic and disturbing TikTok videos have surfaced online One such controversial TikTok video depicts animal cruelty wherein two teenagers tie the mouths and legs of a dog and throw the

25-05-2020

New Delhi Two terrorists have been killed in an encounter that broke out between security forces and terrorists at Khur village in Damhal Hanjipora area of Kulgam district in the morning hours on Monday May 25 according to IG Kashmir The encounter ensured as cordon and search operation CASO was lau

25-05-2020

A video shows New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern staying calm as a 58magnitude earthquake struck the capital Wellington on Monday while she was doing a live TV interview Were just having a bit of an earthquake hereQuite a decent shake hereif you see things moving behind me The Beehive parliament building

25-05-2020

Delhi Around 80 flights to and from Delhis Indira Gandhi International Airport have been cancelled as domestic flights resume today Earlier flight schedule was made for airports including West Bengal Maharashtra and Chennai West Bengal has permitted flights from May 28 while Maharashtra has allowed

25-05-2020

Indian hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr passed away at the age of 96 on Monday morning The threetime Olympic gold medallist was undergoing treatment at the Fortis Hospital in Mohali for over two weeks He was in semicomatose state since May 18 He holds the record for most goals scored by an individual i

25-05-2020

With 6977 cases in the last 24 hours coronavirus cases in India have increased to 138845 the government announced on Monday This marks the biggest oneday jump in cases in India for fourth day in a row India also recorded 154 deaths in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 4021 Number of active

25-05-2020

Maharashtra Public Works Department PWD Minister Ashok Chavan has tested positive for COVID19 He is the second minister in the Maharashtra government to catch the infection after Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad According to reports Chavans condition is stable and he is currently admitted at a hospit

25-05-2020

As many as 3041 coronavirus cases were reported in Maharashtra in last 24 hours marking the first instance of the state reporting over 3000 cases in a single day With this the total number of cases in the state rose to 50231 of which 33988 are active cases A total of 14600 coronavirus patients have

24-05-2020

Kollam The death of a young Kerala woman who suffered two snake bites in a span of two months turned out to be a wellplanned and executed murder said Kerala police which probed the case after the deceased woman’s father filed a complaint alleging foul play The shocking incident has got all ingredie

24-05-2020

Mumbai Veteran actor Kiran Kumar has been tested positive for the corona virus The actor confirmed the news to The Indian Express Kiran said he was diagnosed with COVID 19 on May 14 and since then he has been living under selfquarantine away from the family The actor added that he is an ‘asymptomati

24-05-2020

Karachi The flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been recovered from site of a place crash in Karachi an airline spokesman said on SaturdayThe black box had been found late yesterday we are handing it over to the inquiry board Pakistan International Airlines PIA spokesman Abdullah Kh

23-05-2020

NewDelhi Railways will operate 2600 Shramik Special trains in next 10 days to ferry around 36 lakh stranded migrant workers to their home states said Railway Board chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav on Saturday Over 40 lakh migrants have travelled through Shramik trains since May 1 said Yadav Nearly 80 of t

23-05-2020

The carcass of a 40footlong endangered whale washed ashore in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary area in Odisha a senior forest official said on Saturday It weighed around 10 tonnes “The mammal’s body bore injury marks The species figures in the list of IUCN Red list of threatened marine species The fores

23-05-2020

New Delhi The Army on Saturday accepted the West Bengal government’s request for assistance in restoration of essential infrastructure and services sending five columns to help the Kolkata city civil administration in its efforts in this regard In a statement the Army said “Based on the request from

23-05-2020

As many as 62 coronavirus cases were confirmed in Kerala in last 24 hours marking the biggest oneday jump so far and taking the total number of cases to 794 Kerala had reported the previous highest singleday rise 42 cases yesterday The coronavirus death toll in Kerala stands at 4 Out of the total ca

23-05-2020

Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC on Friday allowed home delivery of alcohol in Mumbai amid lockdown except in the citys COVID19 containment zones Ecommerce platforms may be utilised by the liquor shops permitted to do home delivery said a BMC order However overthecounter sale of liq

23-05-2020

The Haryana government today issued guidelines for barber shops and salons in view of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic As per the guidelines people with coronavirus symptoms those without masks will not be allowed inside the shops Adequate spacing at least 1 metre shall be maintained for seating it

22-05-2020

Tamil Nadu reported 786 new coronavirus cases and 4 more fatalities taking the total number of infections to 14753 with 98 deaths the state health department said on Friday As many as 846 patients were discharged today taking the total recoveries to 7128 The total cases in Chennai district rose to 9

22-05-2020

Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations CISCE on Friday released the schedule of the remaining ICSE and ISC 2020 examinations on its official website According to the revised schedule CISCE will be conducting the remaining exams for class 10 from July 2 to 12 and class 12 exams are s

22-05-2020

Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday took charge as the Chairman of the World Health Organization WHO Executive Board Vardhan succeeds Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan who formerly headed the 34member WHO Executive Board Earlier this week India was elected to the WHO Executive Board along with nine

22-05-2020

A Pakistan International Airlines flight from Lahore to Karachi crashed in a residential area just short of landing at the airport in Karachi As per reports 90 passengers and eight crew members were on board the plane The Pakistan Army Quick Reaction Force Pakistan Rangers Sindh troops arrived at t

22-05-2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday conducted an aerial survey of Cyclone Amphanaffected areas in West Bengal with CM Mamata Banerjee and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar PM Modi will also be taking part in review meetings where relief and rehabilitation measures will be discussed The cyclone has claime

22-05-2020

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly took to social media to share pictures of himself fixing a tree which was uprooted due to Cyclone Amphan at his home in Kolkata The mango tree in the house had to be lifted pulled back and fixed againstrength at its highest he wrote Reacting to it a fan wrote Dadaanothe

22-05-2020

New Delhi RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday announced that banks will be able to provide moratorium on EMIs and term loan payments to customers for another 3 months from June 1 to August 31 RBI on March 27 allowed financial institutions to offer a moratorium of three months on payment of instal

22-05-2020

Maharashtras Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad who had recently recovered from coronavirus wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray stating that Dharavi is fast becoming the COVID19 capital of Mumbai A major factor for the spread of the infection in the area has beenthe lack of quality healthcare serv

22-05-2020

The PMO today announced that PM Narendra Modi will travel to West Bengal and Odisha to take stock of the situation in the wake of Cyclone Amphan tomorrow Hell conduct aerial surveys and take part in review meetings where aspects of relief and rehabilitation will be discussed PMO stated At least 72 p

21-05-2020

The DGCA has released fare structure for domestic flights for different flight durations The minimum fare for flights with a flight time of less than 40 minutes is ₹2000 whereas the maximum that can be charged in the sector is ₹6000 For a journey between 180210 minutes the minimum fare will be ₹6500

21-05-2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that he saw the visuals of the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan and added The entire nation stands in solidarity with West Bengal He said top officials are working with West Bengal government He added My thoughts are with the people of OdishaAuthorit

21-05-2020

NewDelhi Indian Railways on Thursday 21 May said that within two hours of online booking opening 149025 tickets were booked for the first set of 73 special passenger trains that will be run from 1 June The booking began at 10 am on Thursday Shortly after the IRCTC also tweeted saying “Website is wo

21-05-2020

New Delhi The government has divided air routes into 7 categories based on flight durations for regulating fares till August 24 For a journey between 90120 minutes which includes the DelhiMumbai route the minimum fare will be ₹3500 and maximum ₹10000 40 of the tickets will have to be sold at a price

21-05-2020

New Delhi Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said that domestic civil aviation operations will recommence in a calibrated manner from May 25 Monday He added All airports air carriers are being informed to be ready for operations from May 25 SOPs for passenger movement are also

21-05-2020

Kathmandu A day after claiming parts of Indian territory in its new map Nepal on Wednesday sent a new shocker in his offensive against India While addressing the Parliament Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli blamed India for the spread of coronavirus in the neighbouring countries and said the virus

21-05-2020

The total number of coronavirus cases in Tamil Nadu reached 13191 after 743 new infections were reported the state health department said on Wednesday The death toll from coronavirus rose to 87 after three more fatalities were reported in Tamil Nadu today Chennai recorded 557 new cases taking the to

21-05-2020

Cambridge has become the first university to set out measures for the full 202021 academic year announcing that it will move all “facetoface lectures” online for the duration The institution added that it was “likely” social distancing would continue to be required The university said lectures woul

20-05-2020

At least two people were killed and two severely injured due to Cyclone Amphan which made landfall in West Bengal today Bibek Vasme SubDivisional Officer SDO Basirhat said that around 5500 houses were damaged due to the cyclone Earlier the government had said that around 5 lakh people have been evac

20-05-2020

Johnson Johnson on Tuesday announced it would stop selling its talc Baby Powder in the United States and Canada saying demand had dropped in the wake of what it called “misinformation” about the product’s safety amid a barrage of legal challenges JJ faces more than 19000 lawsuits from consumers and

20-05-2020

Mumbai Bank of Baroda is seeking to recover loans worth more than 250 million from NMC founder BR Shetty and his companies and an Indian court has barred him and his wife from selling or transferring some properties while it hears the case a court document showed The 16 properties in several Indian

20-05-2020

New Delhi Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is set to become the chairman of the 34member WHO Executive Board on May 22 officials said on Tuesday May 19 Harsh Vardhan who is at the forefront of Indias fight against coronavirus COVID19 would succeed Dr Hiroki Nakatani of Japan According to reports

20-05-2020

Delh In a bid to avoid the spread of coronavirus the Delhi Office of the District Sessions Judge HQs has issued a direction to lawyers court staff to not use saliva while affixing the court fees stamps on petitions or applications The officials have also been directed to not use saliva while doing

20-05-2020

NEW DELHI All central government departments have been asked to exempt pregnant women persons with disabilities and those with comorbidities from joining offices in view of the COVID19 pandemic the Personnel Ministry said on Tuesday The directive comes a day after it allowed 50 per cent of junior s

20-05-2020

West Bengal has recorded 136 new coronavirus cases in last 24 hours taking the total number of cases there to 2961 said the states Health Department West Bengals coronavirus death toll rose to 178 after six more died of the virus in the last 24 hours The total number of COVID19 patients discharged i

20-05-2020

New Delhi The Indian railways will begin operating 200 non AC special passenger trains per day from June 1 onward in a step aimed at gradually restoring normal services the railway ministry said on Tuesday The tickets for these special passengers trains can only be booked online on the IRCTC websit

19-05-2020

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced that the schools in the state will reopen on August 3 The CM asked the authorities to complete the first phase of renovation work under the NaduNedu scheme in over 15000 schools by the end of July He added that his government had relea

19-05-2020

Five latest startups to be backed by Samsungs inhouse incubator CLabs include SunnyFive which makes windowshaped lighting device that produces artificial sunlight The device allows users to synthesise vitamin D while staying indoors or in lowlit places The angle of the light can also be changed thro

19-05-2020

Delhi The Delhi High Court has expressed disappointment at Delhi governments failure to implement its previous orders that no citizen currently residing in Delhi should go hungry amid the lockdown The court asked the Delhi government to immediately ensure that food grains are distributed to poor nee

19-05-2020

HAPUR An Uttar Pradesh Police constable was on Tuesday sent to police lines following a viral video of him in social media in which he is seen beating two labourers who were going to their respective homes and also made them roll on road in Hapur The constable and a home guard can be seen thrashing

19-05-2020

The Premier League on Tuesday said that it tested 748 players and club staff members for coronavirus on May 17 and May 18 It added that out of these six people tested positive from three clubs Players or club staff who have tested positive will now selfisolate for a period of seven days Premier Leag

19-05-2020

Alappuzha A ninemonth pregnant nurse who returned to Kerala from Kuwait after recovering from COVID19 has tested positive for the virus again She tested negative in Kuwait but returned to India before undergoing the second test said the District Medical Officer   The 34yearold native of Alappuzha

19-05-2020

Locknow An FIR was registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police against Priyanka Gandhi Vadras personal secretary Sandeep Singh and UP Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu in Hazratganj Police station of Lucknow on Tuesday 19 May alleging fraud and forgery for furnishing wrong details about the b

19-05-2020

A man from China’s Yunnan province tested positive for Hantavirus on Monday He died while on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a chartered bus China’s Global Times reported 32 other people have been tested the report added Following his death hantavirus became a trend on social media wi

24-03-2020

Washington A conservative lawyer has filed a classaction lawsuit against China for the corona virus pandemic pushing an unsubstantiated claim that the Chinese government developed the virus as an illegal biological weapon to unleash on the world Lawyer Larry Klayman and his group Freedom Watch file

24-03-2020

LONDON Countries can’t simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus there need to be public health measures to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on the World Health Organization’s top emergency expert Mike Ryan said on Sunday “What we really need to focus on is finding those who are s

22-03-2020

New Dlehi In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak Section 144 will be imposed in Delhi with effect from 9 pm tonight till March 31 This comes after India reported seven deaths from coronavirus Earlier today Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the citizens to stay at home for the next few day

22-03-2020

NewDelhi Seven years three months and four days after the gruesome rape and murder of Nirbhaya all four convictsMukesh Singh Pawan Gupta Vinay Sharma and Akshay Kumar Singh were hanged till death at 530 am today Friday March 20 2020 in Tihar Jail by Meerut hangman Pawan Jallad The hanging brings an

20-03-2020

Prasar Bharati News Services on Wednesday tweeted a photo of a resident doctor carrying a sheet of paper with the message I stayed at work for you you stay at home for us amid coronavirus pandemic PM Narendra Modi retweeted it and wrote Well said Doctor Also a shoutout to all those working to make o

19-03-2020

Kochi Metro passengers can carry liquor bottles inside the train provided they are sealed and within the permissible limit below 15 litre At present sealed liquor bottles are not banned The metro is one of the most peoplefriendly transport systems in the state and cannot deny passengers their rights

31-01-2020

Ahead of Abhishek Bachchans 44th birthday on February 5 Amitabh Bachchan retweeted a blackandwhite picture of his son when he was born The picture showed Abhishek in an incubator surrounded by nurses with Amitabh and his mother Teji Bachchan looking at the newborn The retweeted post stated that Abhi

30-01-2020

New Delhi The Cabinet has approved the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Bill 2020 to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 The Bill proposes increasing the upper limit for termination of a pregnancy from 20 weeks to 24 weeks 6 months The Bill will be introduced in the ensuing

30-01-2020

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khans cousin Noor Jehan passed away in Peshawar on Tuesday after a prolonged illness Jehan 52 a paternal cousin of the Bollywood superstar resided in Mohallah Shah Wali Qataal area close to Peshawars Qissa Khwani Bazaar Jehans husband Asif Burhan said that she was suffe

29-01-2020

Chennai A doctor from Tamil Nadus Rathna Siddha Hospital in Chennai has claimed to have formulated a herbal medicine that can cure novel Coronavirus as China continued to reel under deadly coronavirus epidemic and has no effective vaccine or drug to treat it Dr Thanikasalam Veni who has 25year of v

29-01-2020

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26-01-2020

New Delhi President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday rejected the mercy petition filed by Nirbhaya gangrape and murder convict Mukesh Singh This comes after the Home Ministry sent the mercy plea to the President and recommended him to reject it Singh had filed the plea after the Supreme Court rejected his

17-01-2020

Thiruvananthapuram The Kerala Police have operationalised the Cheetah patrol system in the city to boost traffic regulation and ensure smooth vehicular flow The squads have been mandated with detecting traffic violations easing traffic snarls adopting steps to prevent accidents and report informatio

02-01-2020

The first photo of veteran singer the nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar after she was discharged from Mumbais Breach Candy Hospital where she was admitted for 28 days has surfaced online Bollywood photographer Viral Bhayani shared it on Instagram and wrote The nurses from Breach Candy Hospital wh

10-12-2019

A video that shows actor Shah Rukh Khan holding the train of his wife Gauri Khans gown at an award show which was held on Monday has surfaced online Many social media users praised the actor with comments like Always a gentleman and King for a reason The duo was named the Most Stylish Couple at the

10-12-2019

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the Maharashtra CM for the second term while NCP leader and Sharad Pawars nephew Ajith Pawar took oath as the Deputy CM Ajith said From result day no party was able to form a stable government Maharshtra needed a stable government not a khichdi one People h

23-11-2019

Several schools in Kerala have started ringing the bell twice or thrice a day to remind students to drink water A school teacher said a proposal in this regard to be implemented across the state has also been submitted to the Education Department Meanwhile the Education Department said We have to an

18-11-2019

A picture of singer Ranu Mondal in heavy makeup has gone viral on Twitter  Ranu Mondal became an overnight sensation with a viral video and she once again became the talk of the town after a picture of her wearing makeup went viral The horrendous makeup evoked a lot of comparisons with horror figur

17-11-2019

After rejecting Shiv Senas request for more time to form government Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has now invited NCP the third single largest party in the Assembly polls to form government The governor has given NCP 24 hours time Earlier BJP which was the single largest party refused t

11-11-2019

Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray has said that he and his party leaders met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and expressed their willingness to form the government We asked him for two days time but we werent given time Our claim wasnt denied but the time was Well continue to put in effo

11-11-2019

Maharashtra caretaker CM Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday tweeted that a fish bellyshaped flyover expected to reduce travel time by 30 minutes between Sion and Dharavi has been opened for public Fadnavis said the 16km long 17metre wide and 4lane BKCChunabhatti Connector would provide a faster route to Ea

11-11-2019

Several users have taken to Twitter to complain that the latest update of messaging app WhatsApp was noticeably draining the batteries on their phone As per WABetaInfo the 219112 WhatsApp version for iPhone increases the background activity of the app causing battery drainage In some cases users sai

11-11-2019

NASA on Friday unveiled its first allelectric experimental aircraft X57 Maxwell thats being developed since 2015 The aircraft having 14 electric motors would be the agencys first crewed experimental plane to be developed in two decades NASAs previous experimental aircraft include the Bell X1 that f

10-11-2019

MercedesBenz India launched its new MPV VClass Elite at ₹110 crore Powered by a 2litre BSVI compliant diesel engine the VClass generates 120kW163hp and has 380Nm of torque It is equipped with features like luxury seats with massage climate control functions centre console with refrigeration compart

10-11-2019

Jaunpur A man died after trying to eat 50 eggs in an eating competition in India after collapsing unconscious when he reached number 42 Subhash Yadav 42 had gone to Bibiganj market in Uttar Pradeshs Jaunpur district with a friend to eat the eggs when a row reportedly broke out between the pair poli

05-11-2019

New Delhi Delhi Police fined a man for driving an oddnumber car near India Gate on Monday nearly 30 minutes after the oddeven scheme came into effect at 8 am The rule will be applicable on all nontransport fourwheeled vehicles from 8 am to 8 pm till November 15 Notably a fine of ₹4000 is imposed on

04-11-2019

Instagram account Diet Sabya has shared pictures and accused Sunny Leone of copying artist Malika Favres painting and auctioning it for charity Sharing a photo of the drawings the post mentioned We are all for charity but stealing an artists’ original work — without credit — and auctioning it off fo

29-10-2019

The world’s most expensive sex toy has taken Australian jewellery designer Colin Burn 15 years to craft “My inspiration was to create something that shows the value people place on sex” he tells The Post “People spend lots of money for the experiences of owning Maseratis and the like But would they

29-10-2019

Thirteen employees of airlines and airports have failed breath analyser tests since 16 September and they have been suspended for three months a DGCA official said on Monday 28 October Two Bengaluru International Airport Limited employees – one a senior assistant and the other a manager at the airli

29-10-2019

Trichy Twoyearold Sujith Wilson who was trapped in an abandoned borewell in Tamil Nadu since Friday 25 October has been reported dead His body was retrieved by rescue officials in the wee hours of Tuesday 29 October after intense rescue efforts that lasted four days Sujith had fallen into the disus

29-10-2019

Washington The United States has given the remains of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr alBaghdadi a burial at sea and afforded him religious rites according to Islamic custom after he was killed in a US commando raid in Syria on Saturday The US officials who spoke on condition of anonymity did not dis

29-10-2019

New Delhi A 28member European parliamentary delegation will visit Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow Ahead of their visit to Jammu and Kashmir the delegation met PM Narendra Modi and NSA Ajit Doval and discussed the situation prevailing in Kashmir following abrogation of Article 370 Their visit should give

28-10-2019

New Delhi India has reportedly taken Pakistan to International Civil Aviation Organisation for denying permission to use its airspace for PM Narendra Modis special flight to Saudi Arabia Overflight clearances are sought and granted by other countries as per prescribed guidelines of the ICAO official

28-10-2019

New Delhi As the deadline for the Supreme Court verdict on the politically sensitive Ram Jamnabhoomi land dispute case nears Ayodhya witnessed vibrant and extravagant Diwali alias ‘Deepotsav’ celebrations on Saturday 26 October Over 55 lakh diyas were lit up along the banks of Saryu River in Ayodhya

27-10-2019

Manohar Lal Khattar was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP Legislative Party in Haryana on Saturday Khattar is likely to take oath as the Chief Minister of the state for the second term on Sunday We have stake claim to form government in Haryana Governor has accepted our proposal and invit

26-10-2019

Four years after his debut for India in a T20I against Zimbabwe Kerala wicketkeeper batsman Sanju Samson has been drafted in the T20 squad for the series against Bangladesh which starts November 3 Kerala wicketkeeperbatsman Sanju Samson said I just want to concentrate on T20s so I can perform and go

26-10-2019

The Lahore High Court on Friday granted bail to former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case on medical grounds Sharif has been diagnosed with acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura and will recover in a weeks time doctors said Sharif is already serving a sevenyear jai

26-10-2019

Dubai During Diwali festivities in Dubai the citys police band played the Indian national anthem and a video of the performance is going viral As the band played the anthem the crowd gathered in the arena sang along and cheered as the performance ended The Diwali celebrations also included special f

25-10-2019

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday appointed Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud who has diplomatic experience in Western countries as foreign minister Prince Faisal had served for the last several months as ambassador to Germany and earlier as a political adviser at the Washington embassy Outgoing foreign mini

25-10-2019

A court in Mangaluru on Thursday 24 October has sentenced a notorious serial killer to death for the murder of an anganwadi worker from Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada district in 2005 The sixth Additional District and Sessions Judge Sayeedunnisa handed down death penalty t

25-10-2019

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday shared a video of herself jogging in saree for 10 km in Darjeeling to create awareness on conservation The 64yearold leader was accompanied by her security men and journalists for the jog Let us all solemnly pledge to make every effort to conserve the envir

25-10-2019

An Australian sheep named Chris who set a world record in 2015 for the weight of his fleece has died The animal apparently died of old age and was believed to be aged about 10 Chris who was discovered struggling to walk under the weight of his wool near Canberra had shed 411 kilograms wool on being

23-10-2019

Vidya Balan who will be seen in an upcoming film Shakuntala Devi Human Computer has received the Youth Icon Award from Imperial College London Vidya on Tuesday shared the pictures and wrote Forfirst time I received a Youth Icon Award fromYouth itself It waswhere ShakuntalaDevi madehistoric calculati

22-10-2019

Apples nextgeneration AirPods with the noisecancellation feature have long been under development but there hasnt been any official confirmation from the tech giant about its launch Now a new report has emerged that suggests that the upcoming AirPods will be launched with moniker AirPods Pro later t

22-10-2019

Ranchi India defeated South Africa by an innings and 202 runs in the third Test at the JSCA stadium in Ranchi on Tuesday to clinch the threematch series 30 This is the first time India have registered a series whitewash against South Africa in Test cricket history Further India have now won six Test

22-10-2019

Noida Businessman Robert Vadra on Monday underwent treatment at a Noidabased private hospital after he complained of back pain His wife and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also spent the night at the hospital while he was undergoing treatment Meanwhile there is no official confirmation from th

22-10-2019

The Supreme Court has granted bail to Congress leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media case registered by the CBI However the leader will continue to be in the custody of Enforcement Directorate ED till October 24 in the case filed by it Chidambaram was arrested by the CBI

22-10-2019

Bollywood stars spent their Saturday evening along with PM Narendra Modi who hosted the creme de la creme of Bollywood including Shah Rukh Khan Aamir Khan Sonam Kapoor Kangana Ranaut Ekta Kapoor among others who participated in the Change Within Meet and initiative to mark Mahatma Gandhis 150th birt

21-10-2019

Asking a customer to pay Rs18 for a cloth carry bag cost hypermarket chain Big Bazaar Rs 11518 as the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered it to pay Rs 10000 to the Consumer Legal Aid Account for helping needy litigants and 1518 to a Panchukla resident for “wrongly charging” for the it

20-10-2019

Amitabh Bachchan who was discharged from Nanavati Hospital after four days on Friday following a routine checkup took to his blog to criticise medias speculative reporting about his illness Adding that all is not for sale in this world Amitabh said that medical conditions are the confidential right

20-10-2019

A woman fell onto train tracks in Buenos Aires Argentina after being pushed away by a fainting man The driver managed to stop the train in time and the woman was rescued by other commuters at the station Police and emergency services arrived on the scene and attended to the woman and the man who fai

19-10-2019

Due to the ongoing cash crisis the United Nations Headquarters in New York will remain closed on Saturday and Sunday Has your country made its contribution to this years regular UN budget yet the United Nations asked in a tweet As per the document shared by the United Nations 131 member states have

19-10-2019

Students of Bhagat PreUniversity College in Karnatakas Haveri were made to wear cardboard boxes on their heads to allegedly stop them from cheating during an exam Pictures from the incident went viral on social media State education authorities have issued a notice to the college and sought written

19-10-2019

Mumbai Actor Amitabh Bachchan has been hospitalised in Nanavati Hospital in suburban Mumbai for issues relating to his liver He was admitted on Tuesday 15 October and continues to be in the hospital “Mr Bachchan had come for a routine checkup” a hospital source told reporters Initial reports in Mu

18-10-2019

Benguluru Police in Benguluru on Thursday 17 October said that they have solved the sensational murder case of former Vice Chancellor of Alliance University D Ayyappa Dore within 48 hours of the crime and arrested two persons including the present Chancellor The accused in custody are Sudhir G Angu

18-10-2019

Researchers have found the worlds fastest ants in the northern Sahara desert which can travel 108 times their body length per second at full speed The Saharan silver ants can travel at speeds approaching 855 millimetres per second scientists said They do so by swinging their legs at speeds of up to

18-10-2019

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has criticised Pakistan for raising the Kashmir issue at the InterParliamentary Union IPU assembly in Serbia Speaking for the Indian delegation which was headed by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said Parliament of India will not allow these maliciou

18-10-2019

New Delhi A Delhi court on Thursday extended former Union Minister P Chidambarams custody by Enforcement Directorate ED in the INX Media case till October 24 The court also extended judicial custody in the case by the CBI till October 24 However the court has allowed facilities like western toilet

17-10-2019

MEXICO CITY Mexico has deported 311 Indians who were trying to enter the US illegally following pressure from the US The 311 Indian nationals including a woman had been detained in various Mexican states before being concentrated in the state of Veracruz in preparation for their deportation  Accord

17-10-2019

Riyadh Thirtyfive pilgrims have been killed in a traffic accident in Saudi Arabia after a bus collided with another vehicle on Wednesday the Saudi Press Agency reported quoting a police spokesman The accident happened on Hijra road 170 km from Madinah near the village of AlAkhal around 7pm when the

17-10-2019

American ridehailing giant Uber has reportedly fired 1015 of its employees in India across all of its businesses in the country including Uber Eats This comes after Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi emailed employees on Monday saying the company would cut jobs of 350 people across the world Uber reportedly

16-10-2019

San Franciscobased AI startup OpenAIs humanoid robotic hand Dactyl has learned to solve a Rubiks cube onehanded Plenty of robots can solve Rubiks cubes very fast The important difference between what they did there and what were doing here is that those robots are very purposebuilt OpenAI robotics l

16-10-2019

Sourav Ganguly who will take charge as BCCI President on October 23 took to Twitter to share a picture of himself with his new team In the picture Ganguly can be seen with Secretaryelect Jay Shah Joint Secretaryelect Jayesh George Treasurerelect Arun Dhumal and Vice Presidentelect Mahim Verma Former

16-10-2019

IndianAmerican Abhijit Banerjee Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday 14 October for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the prize on Monday The research conducted by this years Laur

14-10-2019

All postpaid mobile phone services were on Monday restored in Jammu and Kashmir after a period of 70 days The telecom services were suspended on August 5 when the government decided to revoke Article 370 and bifurcate the state into two Union TerritoriesLadakh and Jammu and Kashmir In September all

14-10-2019

Ten people have been killed and 16 others are missing after Typhoon Hagibis hit Japans Tokyo The storm caused rivers to overflow and left over four lakh homes without power PM Shinzo Abe convened an emergency meeting and dispatched the minister in charge of disaster management to the worsthit areas

13-10-2019

A Ranchi court has issued an arrest warrant against Bollywood actress Ameesha Patel in a cheating and cheque bounce case police said on Saturday Ranchi police will go to Mumbai to execute the warrant which was issued on a complaint by Ajay Kumar SinghAmeesha Patel and her business partner Kunal had

13-10-2019

The United States announced the deployment of additional American military forces to Saudi Arabia on Friday to bolster the kingdom’s defenses after the Sept 14 attack on its oil facilities which Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran The large deployment includes fighter squadrons an air expediti

12-10-2019

Chennai During the delegationlevel talks between India and China Prime Minister Narendra Modi said A new era of cooperation will begin today through Chennai Connect PM Modi added Tamil Nadu and the historic city of Chennai have connected India and China through cultural and trade exchanges since age

12-10-2019

Hrithik Roshan has shared a video showing his physical transformation from Super 30 to War following a slip disc injury The 45yearold revealed he was given just a month to get back in shape In the video that shows his rigorous training sessions Hrithik shared he needed to prove to his kids and to hi

12-10-2019

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested on Friday from Lahores Kot Lakhpat jail in connection with money laundering in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills CSM case Sharif had earlier appeared in the accountability court for the hearing in the case The National Accountability Bureau NAB ea

11-10-2019

DUBAI Two missiles have struck an oil tanker owned by National Iranian Oil Company setting it ablaze off the Saudi port city of Jeddah Iranian state media said The tanker suffered heavy damage and is leaking oil into Red Sea it added Tensions have been high between Iran and Saudi since an attack on

11-10-2019

Padma Shri awardee and noted saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath breathed his last in the early hours of Friday 11 October days after he was admitted to a Mangaluru private hospital He was 69 and was hospitalised for agerelated issues His last rites are slated to be held later in the day in order to wait f

11-10-2019

Trump said in a White House statement that alAsiri a Saudiborn militant with al Qaeda’s Yemen branch who was known for his ability to create hardtodetect bombs was killed in 2017 in a United States counterterrorism operation in Yemen US officials said last year they were confident alAsiri had been

11-10-2019

Ranbaxy’s former promoters Shivinder Singh and his brother Malvinder Singh were arrested on Thursday 10 October in an alleged cheatingfraud case of Rs 740 crore While the Economic Offences Wing EOW of the Delhi Police had arrested Shivinder Singh in the evening Malvinder Singh was held at night as a

11-10-2019

The 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature were awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke respectively The Nobel Prize in Literature wasnt awarded last year after allegations of sexual misconduct and financial malpractice in Swedish Academy The Nobel Prize in Literatu

11-10-2019

Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it will allow women in the ultraconservative kingdom to serve in the armed forces as it embarks on a broad programme of economic and social reforms The move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom even as rights g

11-10-2019

A woman found two pythons in her toilet for two days in a row in Cairns Australia Each time it has been a water python In all my time I have pulled several snakes out of toilets But never two in two days at the same address Dave Walton part of the Cairns Snake Removals wrote Cairns Snake Removals t

11-10-2019

A Japanese man who stepped out of his Paris hotel for a cigarette was robbed of his 840000 approximately Rs 6 crore Swiss watch by a thief who snatched it off his wrist police sources said Tuesday The 30yearold victim was approached outside the fivestar Hotel Napoleon near the Arc de Triomphe late M

11-10-2019

Lamborghini on Thursday launched its opentop model Huracán EVO Spyder in India at ₹41 crore exshowroom price Powered by 52litre V10 engine the car can go from 0100 kmph in 31 seconds and has a top speed of 325 kmph Its roof can be lowered in 17 seconds and it costs about ₹37 lakh more than the coupe

10-10-2019

Fashion company CuteCircuit has created a shirt called Sound Shirt which allows deaf people to feel the music through sensations Its embedded with 16 sensors through which the wearers will be able to feel the heavier notes in lower parts of the torso and the lighter notes around the neck area The sh

10-10-2019

On Wednesday during rush hour a PanvelCSMT local caught fire at Vashi station No injuries have been reported The incident took place at around 930 am Local services running on harbour line were delayed for 10 minutes Heavy smoke was seen rising in the pantograph apparatus on the roof of

09-10-2019

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday officially received first of the 36 Rafale aircraft in the French port city of Bordeaux Earlier in the day Rajnath held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron Rajnath Singh will also take a sortie in the Rafale combat aircraft which will be fl

09-10-2019

Hyderabad Following heavy rain in Hyderabad several places in the city were waterlogged including the Intensive Care Unit ICU of Malla Reddy Narayana Multispeciality Hospital in Jeedimetla A picture showing hospital staff walking inside the waterlogged ICU of the hospital surfaced online Hospital s

08-10-2019

Abu Dhabi Staff at Abu Dhabi Airport have been left in shock after a man with a passport saying he is 123 years old walked through the terminal Swami Sivanandas passport says that he was born on August 8 1896 in Behala India Mr Sivananda had been travelling from Kolkata to London with Ethihad Airway

08-10-2019

New Delhi Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has directed that the advisory asking tourists to leave Jammu and Kashmir be lifted on October 10 On August 2 the Jammu and Kashmir government had issued the advisory for Amarnath Yatra pilgrims and tourists to curtail their stay in the valley A p

08-10-2019

New Delhi Several cars were damaged as they fell into the gap after a bridge collapsed near Malanka village in Junagadh district of Gujarat Reports claimed that the bridge collapsed due to heavy rainfall on Sunday Some people are said to be trapped at the moment however no casualty has been reporte

07-10-2019

New Delhi The Supreme Court has said that no more trees are to be cut in Mumbais Aarey Colony till the next hearing on the matter on October 21 The apex court said this while hearing petitions challenging the felling of trees to build a car shed for the Mumbai Metro The SC also asked to include Envi

07-10-2019

DUBAI Saudi Arabia is working to remove Sudan from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism a Saudi foreign ministry tweet said on Sunday The tweet followed a meeting in Riyadh between King Salman and the head of Sudan’s transitional sovereign council Abdel Fattah alBurhan and prime mi

07-10-2019

Indian tennis player Sania Mirza has confirmed that her sister and fashion stylist Anam Mirza will be getting married to former Team India captain Mohammed Azharuddins son Asad in December this year We just came back from the bachelorette trip in Paris we’re really excited Sania added Anam had part

07-10-2019

Manchester City slumped to a 02 loss against Wolves after Adama Traore registered a secondhalf brace on Sunday Meanwhile Chelsea hammered Southampton 41 with Tammy Abraham Mason Mount and NGolo Kante all scoring goals Arsenal posted a 10 win against Bournemouth with David Luiz scoring the only goal

07-10-2019

Saudi Arabia is allowing foreign men and women to rent hotel rooms together without proving they are related after the conservative Muslim kingdom launched a new tourist visa regime to attract holidaymakers Women including Saudis are also permitted to rent hotel rooms by themselves in a break with p

05-10-2019

SKODA India has introduced its latest car the allnew KODIAQ Scout which seeks to combine true craftsmanship with precision With a 20 TDI engine and 7speed DSG it offers high power output Offering a muscular beauty and a robust body with offroad capability ŠKODA promises that the KODIAQ Scout will st

05-10-2019

Hyderabad Dispute over payment after gay sex led to the murder of ISRO arm National Remote Sensing Agency NRSA scientist S Suresh Kumar in Hyderabad four days ago police said on Friday The police cracked the murder case with the arrest of a lab technician who was having sexual relations with the d

05-10-2019

Speaking about the Mi17 chopper crash in JKs Budgam in February Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria said It was our mistake as our missile had hit our own chopper We accept this was our big mistakewell ensure such mistakes are not repeated he added A civilian was killed and six IAF person

04-10-2019

Hazzaa AlMansoori the first astronaut to visit the International Space Station from the United Arab Emirates safely returned to Earth after an eightday stay on Thursday AlMansooris stay covered 128 orbits of Earth and a journey of about 50 lakh kilometres NASA revealed NASA astronaut Nick Hague and

04-10-2019

NEW DELHI The RBI on Friday cut benchmark interest rates for the fifth time this year to spur growth after the economy expanded by 5 in Q1 The repo rate was reduced by 25 bps to 515 taking the cumulative cuts so far this year to 135 bps Banks have passed only a small portion of the cuts this year to

04-10-2019

An international team of scientists has invented the worlds strongest silver 42 stronger than last world record They achieved this by mixing a trace amount of copper into the silver which helped in both strengthening it and maintaining its electrical conductivity When you can make material stronger

04-10-2019

New Delhi The Delhi government will soon set up a Sports University in the national capital Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Thursday said a Bill in this regard has been approved by the Cabinet and it will be sent to Lt Governor Anil Baijal After that the bill will be tabled in the Delhi Assembly in the w

04-10-2019

Renault recently launched the allnew Kwid with enhanced SUVinspired design details and nextgen technology The new Kwid comes with improved interior and exterior features like LED DRLs 8 inch Touchscreen MediaNAV LED Digital Instrument Cluster Passenger Airbag Rear Power windows and much more It also

04-10-2019

The Karnataka government is collecting information on immigrants in the state and will proceed on working toward Assamlike National Register of Citizens NRC after a discussion with the central government its home minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Thursday The state home minister had said on Wednesda

03-10-2019

President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied a US media report that he proposed extreme measures including alligatorfilled trenches to stop migrants on the Mexican border “The press is trying to sell the fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes with an electrified fence and sharp

03-10-2019

Delhi The Delhi Police on Wednesday sounded a red alert following a categoryA intelligence input regarding the presence of 34 terrorists planning to carry out attacks during the festive season Following the alert the police reportedly carried out raids at several places and detained two suspects Mea

03-10-2019

Tollywood Megastar Chiranjeevi’s prestigious 151st movie Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy Opened with superb positive reviews all over world in all languages and box office openings were terrific Day 1 morning first shows it touched 80 to 85 and showed excellent trend throughout day and touched 90 to 95 in e

02-10-2019

Whatsapp is testing disappearing messages that will selfdestruct after they are sent The feature is intended to preserve the privacy of conversations by allowing messages to be sent but letting the record that remains of them to be purged When it is turned on users will be able to set a time limit o

02-10-2019

New Delhi Former India captain Kapil Dev has resigned from his post as the head of the threemember adhoc Cricket Advisory Committee CAC Speaking to IANS sources in the know of developments said that Kapil has resigned from the position Yes he has sent his resignation from the position of CAC chief

02-10-2019

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday wrote an oped in the New York Times to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi PM Modi in his article says Mahatma Gadhi had the unique ability to become a bridge between some of the greatest contradictions in human society Mahatma Gand

02-10-2019

Australian police have arrested a 19 year old man for allegedly running down and killing 20 kangaroos with his car The dead kangaroos including two joeys were found littered over in Tura Beach 280 miles south of Sydney on Sunday morning At least three other joeys were orphaned as a result of the dis

02-10-2019

London Saudi operatives suspected of killing the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country’s Istanbul consulate were heard joking and talking about dismemberment before his arrival according to secret tapes heard by UN investigators Helena Kennedy a British lawyer assisting the UN probe into Khasho

01-10-2019

The former Sri Lankan captian Kumar Sangakkara on Tuesday took over as the first nonBritish President of the historic Marylebone Cricket Club MCC here The former Sri Lankan wicketkeeperbatsman is the first nonBritish President of MCC and will hold the post for one year   His nomination was announ

01-10-2019

Mumbai The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday assured the general public that the banking system is safe and stable and there is no need for panic based on rumours The RBI’s statement came on a day when the Nifty Bank index tanked by 130 percent in intraday trade amid a barrage of negative news from t

01-10-2019

New Delhi The Goods and Service Tax GST collection in September declined to Rs91916 crore as against Rs98202 crore in the preceding month as per government data released on Tuesday GST collections dropped sharply to a 19 month low of Rs91916 crore in this previous month mirroring a widening slowdown

01-10-2019

New Delhi Economist Surjit S Bhalla was on Tuesday appointed as the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund IMF an official order said His appointment has been cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet ACC headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi   The ACC approved

01-10-2019

Jaipur India is all set to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Gandhi a political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s Independence from British rule was born on October 2 1869 Fondly remembered as the Father of the Nation he is

01-10-2019

Srinagar Saliq Rayees a student of class XI from Chanapora area of Srinagar said “I am unable to get in touch with my friends and classmates for more than a month due to the communication blackout I am able to talk to some of my friends and clasmates only after the landlines telephones were restored

01-10-2019

New Delhi The Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed November 14 to commence hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Centre’s decision to dilute sections of Article 370 that give special status to Jammu Kashmir A fivejudge Constitution bench headed by Justice NV Raman

01-10-2019

Lucknow A set of instructions have been released by the DGP to district police chiefs to identify Bangladshis along with other foreigners in the State Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police OP Singh said that in the present scenario to strengthen the State’s internal security it is necessary to id

01-10-2019

Dulquer Salmaan in all set play the role of a police officer in the upcoming movie direct by Rosshan Scripted by BobbySanjay the film is set to go on floors by March next year Dulquer will be seen playing a cop in the movie which is touted to be a thriller When we reached out to Rosshan and Sanjay

01-10-2019

Chennai Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Chennai this morning to address the 56th annual convocation of Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras Shortly after landing the PM said he was delighted to be back as this was his first visit to the state after this summers win in the general electi

30-09-2019

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22-09-2019

Bangluru Jubilation turned to despair early Saturday morning as the Chandrayaan2 lander lost contact with Earth minutes before it was to land on the Moon All was going well for the Vikram lander which was descending on to the lunar surface as planned Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisat

07-09-2019

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07-09-2019

New Delhi Delhi Rose Avenue court on Thursday sent former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram to 14 days judicial custody in the INX Media case During the judicial custody P Chidambaram who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI last month will be lodged in the Tihar Jail till Sept

05-09-2019

Former Union finance minister and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley passed away on Saturday Jaitley 66 was admitted to AIIMS on August 9 after he complained of palpitations and restlessness He was placed under observation at the hospital’s CardioNeuro Centre Prime Minister Narendra Modi Union Home Min

24-08-2019

New Delhi Former Union minister P Chidambaram was arrested by CBI Wednesday from his Jor Bagh residence in Delhi in the corruption cases related to the INX Media scam A CBI team reached the former union minister’s Delhi home minutes after he held a press conference at the Congress party headquarters

21-08-2019

New Delhi P Chidambaram to move SC tomorrow against Delhi HC order rejecting his anticipatory bail plea Congress leader P Chidambaram will move the Supreme Court on Wednesday to challenge the Delhi High Court order which dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in cases filed by the CBI and the ED rela

20-08-2019

As former finance minister Arun Jaitley remains on life support many politicians including veteran BJP leader LK Advani paid him visit at AIIMS on Monday 19 August to enquire about his health Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and BJP national generalsecretary Arun Singh also visited the hospital t

19-08-2019

New Delhi The Congress Working Committee would meet on Saturday to elect a new party president after Rahul Gandhi resigned in May owning responsibility for the partys loss in the 2019 Lok Sabha election A nonGandhi may be the party president for the first time in two decades On Friday after a meeti

10-08-2019

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited former finance minister Arun Jaitley at AIIMS late on Friday Jaitley had been admitted after complaining of palpitations and restlessness and is under observation Jaitley 66 was admitted to the CardioNeuroCentre of the hospital around 10 am He is under

09-08-2019

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08-08-2019

Former president Pranab Mukherjee was on Thursday conferred with the Bharat Ratna Indias highest civilian honour The political career of the 83yearold who served as Indias President from 2012 till 2017 spanned about five decades President Ram Nath Kovind gave the award to Mukherjee Hazarikas son Tej

08-08-2019

New Delhi Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj passed away in Delhi following a cardiac arrest She was admitted to AIIMS earlier yesterday She was the first woman external affairs minister of India The 67yearold leader who had served her fourth term in Lok Sabha had long been her party’s m

07-08-2019

New Delhi Former Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj has passed away on August 6 According to the reports Swaraj had suffered a cardiac arrests and was rushed to AIIMS hospital in Delhi as her condition was critical Attempts to revive her had failed

06-08-2019

New Delhi Former Delhi Chief Minister Congress leader Sheila Dixit passes away in Delhi at the age of 81 years Delhi Congress president Sheila Dikshit had on June 28 dissolved all 280 block Congress committees in Delhi with immediate effect a decision which was later stayed by All India Congress C

20-07-2019

Mumbai Congress MLA Abdul Sattar who was recently expelled from the party for indulging in antiparty activities has indicated that he will join the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP soon Mr Sattar and disgruntled Congress leader Radhakrishna VikhePatil were seen together at an event in Sangamner in Ahmedn

27-05-2019

Kochi Ahead of the school reopening GPS made mandatory for school buses by Motor Vehicles Department MVD to ensure the security of children and reduce road accidents The GPS tracking and panic buttons are made mandatory for all the vehicles registered as educational institution buses and it has to b

26-05-2019

N Chandra babu Naidu has resigned as CM of Andhra Pradesh after trends showed his Telugu Desam Party TDP leading in only 23 Assembly seats and winnind two YS Jagan Mohan Reddy led YSR Congress Party YSRCP is leading in 138 Assembly seats and has won 12 The legislatice Party meeting of YSRCP is set t

23-05-2019

American news magazine Time of its May 20 issue has featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the cover page  with a headline that may create controversy across India amid the election season The headline reads Indias Divider in Chief that is and carries a caricature of the Prime Minister criticising

10-05-2019

Taking on unlicensed private sector service providers in railways Indian Railway Catering Tourism Corporation Limited IRCTC has approached lower courts Indian Railways’ catering arm has complained against many companies including Rail yatri and Travel khana for providing food ordering services witho

04-05-2019

New Delhi The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Saturday postponed the National Medical Entrance exam NEET in Odisha which was scheduled to be held on May 5 in the wake of the aftermath of cyclone Foni Earlier the National Students’ Union of India NSUI Goa president Ahraz Mulla also penned

04-05-2019

Wayanad Campaigning in Kerala’s Wayanad on behalf of her brother Rahul Gandhi Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday praised the indomitable spirit of the Congress President saying the man she had known since birth had the courage to walk up to and hug those people who abuse his family on a daily basis w

20-04-2019

Sheikh Mohamed bin ZayedAlNahyan Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces on Thursday tweeted that the UAE has awarded PM Narendra Modi with the Zayed Medal The medal the UAEs highest civilian honour awarded to kings presidents and heads of states was conferred

04-04-2019

Congress General Secretary for UP East Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took to Twitter to share a picture of her brother and Congress President Rahul Gandhi filing nomination for Lok Sabha polls from Keralas Wayanad constituency My brother my truest friend and by far the most courageous man I know Take care o

04-04-2019

WhatsApp introduced the ‘forwarding’ label last year to help curb fake news The Facebookowned company is working on two new features as an update to this First spotted by WABetaInfo a new beta update for WhatsApp on Android shows two features on forwarding messages One adds an additional ‘frequentl

23-03-2019

Dubai The UAE on Friday projected New Zealand PM Jacinda Arderns image on the Burj Khalifa the worlds tallest structure in Dubai The picture shows Ardern hugging a victims family member UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum also thanked the New Zealand Prime Minister for the since

23-03-2019

The world stood in shock and dismay upon the hearing of the shootout in New Zealand This horrible act of violence was later glorified by a video taken by the shooter himself Whatever reason he had for showcasing his actions there is absolutely no need to empathize with this monster For those who ha

18-03-2019

Mumbai A special court in Mumbai on Friday issued a nonbailable warrant against the wife of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi a key accused in the 2billion Punjab National Bank Ltd fraud case The warrant against Ami Modi was issued by Special Prevention of Money Laundering Act by Judge MS Azmi after h

16-03-2019

New Delhi Delhi has been ranked the most polluted capital in the world while Gurugram is the most polluted city according to a Greenpeace reportAccording to the latest data compiled in the IQ Air Visual 2018 World Air Quality Report and interactive world’s most polluted cities ranking which is prepa

05-03-2019

MIT has released a video which shows its new fourlegged robot Mini Cheetah doing backflips MIT claims the 9kg robot can trot on uneven terrain twice as fast as an average persons walking speed and is the first fourlegged robot to do a backflip In the video it can also be seen walking sideways and pi

04-03-2019

A snake travelled 15000 km in a womans shoe on a flight from Australia to Scotland Moira Boxall unpacked her luggage after the journey to find the snake which had shed its skin curled up in her shoe Boxalls soninlaw said when she opened her bag and saw the snake she thought it was a toy put there as

26-02-2019

Naushad Alathoor had held the second audition for his second project titled Viral 2019 at Indira Nagar Bangalore It is very rare that a Mollywood movie conducts an audition in Bangalore but nevertheless it was accepted with open arms by the mass who appeared in thousands The first audition was hel

14-02-2019

A California resident has filed a classaction lawsuit against Apple alleging the iPhone maker deliberately disabled old iPhone chargers with an iOS update in 2016 The complainant’s iPhone allegedly displayed ‘this accessory may not be supported’ after a software update in 2017 Apple forced users to

06-02-2019

Mumbai Nearly 5000 flights in and out of Mumbai airport have been cancelled for 6 hours on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays between 7th February and 30th March 2019 The planned closure at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport is to allow repairs of the two runways Mumbai airpor

06-02-2019

Missing Hindu Mahasabha leader Pooja Pandey who shot at Mahatma Gandhi’s effigy in Aligarh arrested The right wing leader and Hindu Mahasabha Secretary Pooja Shakun Pandey who shot  Mahatma Gandhi’s effigy on his 71st death anniversary was arrested on Tuesday from Tappal in UP’s AligharPandey was mi

06-02-2019

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s protest to save the Constitution ended on Tuesday evening She had started the sit in late on Sunday after the CBI’s attempt to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with two chit fund scams The Supreme court on Tuesday directed

05-02-2019

Priyanka Gandhi has been allotted an office at the Congress headquarters in 24 Akbar Road Priyanka’s name plate has been put up outside the room which is adjacent to the office of her brother and congress president Rahul Gandhi Priyanka’s office was occupied by Rahul when he was the party vicepresid

05-02-2019

New Delhi The Centre has forwarded a bill of Rs102 crore to the Kerala government for the use of Indian Air Force aircraft and helicopters for flood relief operations in the state Rajya Sabha was informed Heavy rains caused floods in large parts of kerala in August last year resulting in loss of hum

05-02-2019

New Delhi The centre has made Aadhaar number of small and marginal farmers optional for availing the first instalment of Rs2000 under the recently launched Rs 75000 crore PM Kisan scheme according to an official document However to get the subsequent instalments it has been made compulsory for farme

04-02-2019

A man was arrested for posting an obscene tweet against Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Bihar’s Katihar police said The Bihar Police cyber cell had received an email complaint from a social activist about a tweet that carried a morphed image of Priyanka police added The cyber cel

04-02-2019

Actor Kangana Ranaut is currently basking in the positive reviews of her recet release Manikarnika though the film has now slowed at the box office To enjoy the film’s success on her own the actor just returned from her quick Switzerland vacation and went on to walk the ramp at the Lakme Fashion Wee

03-02-2019

New Delhi Indian Railways has announced an exgratia of Rs5 lakh each to family of those who lost their lives in the Seemanchal Express derailment in Bihar on Sunday Additionally Rs 1 lakh will be given to the grievously injured and Rs 50000 to those who have suffered ‘simple injuries’ The Railways w

03-02-2019

Social activist Anna Hazare on the fourth day of his hunger strike said ‘If something happened to me people will hold PM Modi responsible’ This comes after Hazare received a letter from PM Modi which Hazare said did not address any issues raised by him Hazare is fasting to press for the appointment

03-02-2019

A video shows the exact moment a dam collapsed in Brazil on January 25 The dam collapsed at an iron ore mining complex operated by a mining firm killing atleast 115 people with 248 others listed as missing In the video vehicles can be seen driving despirately trying to escape as a gush of mud approa

02-02-2019

UC Berkeley researchers including PhD scholar Indrasen Bhattacharya have created a light powered 3D printer that can transform liquids into detailed objects within minutes The researchers first created a video of a 3D model’s images which was beamed to a rotating container with a lightsensitive liqu

02-02-2019

New Delhi The government on Saturday appointed Rishi Kumar Shukla the new director of the Central Bureau of Investigation for a term of two years Shukla a 1983 batch Indian Police Service Officer is the former Director General of Police of Madhya Pradesh He is currently the chairman of the Madhya Pr

02-02-2019

Kochi PM Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation an integrated Refinary Expansion complex of the public sector Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited BPCL at the Kochi refinery on Sunday Also laid the foundation stone for a petrochemical complex at the refinery and a skill development institute at Ettum

27-01-2019

Saina Nehwal became the first woman to win Indonesia Masters title after her opponent Carolina Marin pulled out due to injury during the first game in the final Marin was leading the first game 104 before forced to retire due to a knee injury Saina had finished as runnerup in the 2018 edition of the

27-01-2019

New Delhi Congress president Rahul Gandhi congratulated former President Pranab Mukherjee on being chosen for the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna Rahul said that his party takes great pride in the fact that the immense contribution to public service and nation building of one of their own has be

26-01-2019

New Delhi The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation IRTC an Friday introduced the electronic payment mode for the food items on trains through the use of Point of Sale POS machines Also the paper bill is generated immediately after the payment is made by the customers as a record of the pu

26-01-2019

Celebrating its 25th year MercedesBenz India is set to redefine India’s Luxury space in the automotive segment by launching the new Vclass The VClass is powered by a 21 litre BS VI diesel engine that generates 120kW power 380Nm torque and can go from 0100kmh in 109 seconds It features LED headlamps

25-01-2019

The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its 46th flight of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLVC44 and put into space MIcrosatR an imaging satellite and studentmade Kalamsat a communication satellite named after former President Abdul Kalam from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota

25-01-2019

A Tamil man who was facing the death penalty in Kuwait for murder had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the government after his family managed to raise the Rs 30 lakh compensation or ‘blood money’ to pay the victim’s family Athimuthu who was on death row hails from Thanjavar district o

25-01-2019

The Election Commission of India Tuesday asked the Delhi Police to file a FIR against a US based cyber expert a day after he claimed that the 2014 General Elections were rigged The expert Syed Shuja had said at a press conference in London that he could demonstrate how electronic voting machines us

22-01-2019

London A United State based cyber expert who claims he was part of a team that designed the electronic voting machines used in India told a press conference in London on Monday that the 2014 General Elections had been rigged He also claimed that BJP leader Gopinath Munde and journalist Gauri Lankesh

21-01-2019

A hail of banknotes rained down onto the streets of a working class neighbourhood in Hong kong on Saturday sending bystanders into a frenzy Wong Chingkit a 24yearold man claiming to be crypto currency entrepreneur was arrested for throwing cash worth Rs 18 lakh from the top of building in Hongkong

20-12-2018

A video has surfaced online showing a phenomenon called ‘fish rain’ in Amalapuram Andhra Pradesh after cyclone Phethai on Monday The video shows fish either dead or jumping in the puddles formed after the rains As per the Meterological Department this happens when strong winds sometimes carry displa

20-12-2018

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04-12-2018

The trailer of Ranveer Singh and Sara Ali Khan starrer Simmba has been released Directed by Rohit Shetty the film is about an orphan named Simmba who believes that a corrupt officer’s life is an ideal life which inspires him to become one Also starring Sonu Sood and Ashutosh Rana the film is schedul

04-12-2018