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Amidst the campaign of Taliban to reconquer Afghanistan gathering pace in the month of June, hundreds of people were losing their lives in the fight and a huge chunk of Afghan nationals was fleeing. A 38-year-old photojournalist for Reuters based in New Delhi decided to cover the story, telling his boss, “If we don’t go, […]
According to a statement issued by US Embassy on Monday, over 55,000 Indian students and exchange visitors to the US have been given student visas this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, which is the highest number ever. The statement read, “more than 55,000 students and exchange visitors are boarding planes to study in the United […]
Heavy rains at Bhavnathpur village in Bihar have resulted in a heavy flood. There is water all around and people are suffering a lot like all of the transport routes in the village have been closed due to water. People cannot even get out of their homes. Even, the government officials did not come to […]
The power utility’s majority shareholder Isolux Corsan filed for bankruptcy in Spain, leaving the local unit to stand for itself. Following this, the power transmission company was put up for sale under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) by its lenders in July last year. Now, Tata Power, Adani, Sterlite and state-owned Power Grid Corporation […]
Skymet Weather Services Private Limited, India’s leading weather analytics firm, had released its monsoon foreshadow for 2021 on April 13, 2021 and is now updating the forecast. Skymet believes that there is a 60% chance of below normal, forecasting Monsoon to be at 94% of the long period average with an error margin of +/- […]
Amidst a huge chaos in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover the country, a C-17 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force has been kept on a standby mode to take-off for Kabul and bring back the Indian nationals, stuck in the war-ravaged country. According to the sources, the aircraft will take-off, once enough Indian nationals will […]
She is as old as Harry Potter was when he found out that he was a wizard, but Janvi knows no magic will transform her life. Ask her why she has not been attending school since March last year, the 11-year-old barely pauses as she presses the hot iron through dress after dress at her […]
Speaking at the Global Dairy Congress recently, Amul managing director RS Sodhi declared that plant based products like almond, soya and cashew milk are a major threat to the traditional milk industry. He then went to say these are “lab-based, artificial, highly processed” products and those who promote them are unethical. Some may say he’s […]
NV Ramana, Chief Justice of India said today that he was “extremely upset” over media reports on recommendations of Supreme Court judges and urged media to be “responsible” on reporting such news before any formal announcements. Speaking at the farewell of a judge, justice Navin Sinha, the Chief Justice said that Media friends must understand […]
In a quirk of fate, a tuition class owner is having to sell paani puri these days, all thanks to the Corona pandemic. Jayesh Kariya had set up his venture Star Classes in December 2019 on Kuwaliya Road in Rajkot. When the nation-wide lockdown was clamped down, Kariya couldn’t bear the double whammy of shelling […]
Angad Singh Bhatia, a resident of Pune and ardent dance lover may well be one of the youngest animal welfare activists in India. At just 19 years of age, he is in the process of organising a drive to feed as many stray dogs as he can, as well as spraying them with anti-tick spray […]
Kupwara: 65 km away from the frontier district headquarters Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir; Keran is located very close to the Line of Actual control (LAC). Early in June 2021, Keran, Mandiyan and Kundiyan villages saw scenes of jubilation when they were finally connected to the rest of the world, via mobile connection towers. “The […]
As India celebrated its 75th Independence Day on August 15, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted in his eighth I-Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort the importance of Aatma Nirbhar and ‘Sab Vikas’ for building a new India. He also announced that the Centre will soon launch the Rs 100 lac-crore Gati […]
Addressing at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Thursday, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal criticised Tata and in wider perspective said that the local businesses should not just focus on profits or think of bypassing local laws. Following which, he faced the criticism on social media today for his remarks. […]
PM Modi on Saturday said that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people for independence. The partition era in 1947 is known as one of the darkest periods in the history of India as the division had displaced hundreds of thousands of […]
TMC MLA Madan Mitra said that ‘Khela Hobe’ to be reverberate across India on Saturday. “Khela Hobe to be celebrated in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Tripura, Haryana, Bihar and many other states. Some will celebrate it under the flag of Trinamool Congress while others may not use any party symbol. But the slogan will reach across […]
After the approval of the proposal for a study on the mixing of two COVID-19 vaccines – Covishield and Covaxin by Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), the Chairman of Serum Institute of India, Cyrus Poonawalla indicated the mixing of the vaccines to be risky on Friday. He said, “I am against the mixing of […]
Netflix and UNESCO have come together to celebrate India’s rich cultural heritage through the popular animated series “Mighty Little Bheem” which encompasses the adventures of Bheem. The animated series premiered on the streaming platform in 2019. A series of short videos, ‘One Country, Incredible Diversity’ featuring Bheem will focus on India’s cultural journey, including monuments, […]
The Kerela High Court rejected the petitions by the head of the Kerela-based Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and ordered that he should face trial in all the cases linked to the 2018 Church land scam on Thursday. Justice P Somarajan rejected seven petitions against a lower court order which had ordered that Varghese and Alencherry should […]
Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Wockhardt has entered into an agreement with Dubai-based Enso Healthcare DMCC and Human Vaccine (HV) LLC, for the manufacture and supply of the Sputnik V and Sputnik Light vaccine against Covid-19, as per a statement issued by the pharmaceutical company on Friday. It further said that with subject to required approvals and […]
