Thirteen-year-old Salil Deodhar is a passionate young boy, who feels strongly about the pathetic state of our rivers. He is probably among the very few of his age in Pune city who have seen Mutha river in its cleanest form. “I was so delighted to swim in Mutha, but that is the condition before the river enters city areas. Here, it is loaded with chemicals that mostly come from the cosmetics and toiletries we use at home. My school curriculum never told me about it. Most of my classmates know about climate change, but they don’t know that we humans can control it,” says Salil, who interacts frequently with his mother, a river warrior.
President Joseph Biden has said that by the time the US marks the 20th anniversary of terror attacks on twin towers in New York on September 11, 2021, all the remaining troops from Afghanistan would have come home, putting an end to the longest war the United States has been involved in overseas. The Vietnam War comes a close second with a formal involvement period of 18 years and 9 months.
Tamil actor Vivekh was reportedly admitted to a private hospital in Chennai on Friday (April 16) after he suffered a heart attack. The actor is in the ICU as his condition is serious, the hospital said, according to media reports.
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The Niranjani Akhara has said it will not take part in the next Shahi Snan on April 27 and has told its followers to leave the campus. Niranjani Akhara chief Ravindra Puri said only a dozen saints will take the holy dip in the Ganga on the next Shahi Snan and no procession would be taken out. He said following the social distancing norm becomes impossible during the Shahi Snan.
Indianapolis: Eight people were shot and killed in a late-night shooting at a Fedex facility in Indianapolis, and the shooter has killed himself, police said.
Multiple other people were injured Thursday night when gunfire erupted at the facility near the Indian...
In the run-up to his inauguration, which formally took place on January 20, Joe Biden had unfolded a series of steps to boost domestic production of COVID-19 vaccines. One of the measures the new president took a serious look at was the Korean War-er...
Several job aspirants and students belonging to SC, ST and backward class communities often complain that their surnames are a deterrent for them. Caste-revealing surnames result in ostracisation of Dalits and exclusion from certain jobs, education, businesses, temple entry, help from police among other things. To access mainstream society, some change their surnames. The practice is prevalent across India, though it has started gaining acceptance in the north only recently. Narendra Jadhav, a nominated Rajya Sabha member, has even proposed to bring a bill to drop caste implying surnames. Click here for more.
The Kerala High Court on Friday quashed two FIRs against unnamed Enforcement Directorate officials (ED) for allegedly coercing the prime accused in the gold smuggling case to give statements implicating Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
Karnataka is gearing up for by-elections in three constituencies – one Lok Sabha and two assembly segments – on April 17. The contest will be a test of leadership in both the leading national parties, the BJP and Congress.
Global lender Citibank’s exit from the consumer banking business of India, besides 12 other geographies, presents a great opportunity for other smaller banks to occupy a space that gives an opportunity to expand credit cards, deposit accounts, wealth management and mortgage portfolio.
The sharp surge in Covid cases and the initiatives taken by India to thwart the second wave of the pandemic may pose a risk to Moody’s Investors Services’ growth projection of 13.7 per cent for FY22 for the country, said a Mint report on Tuesday (April 13) quoting the global rating agency.
Battle lines have been drawn for the high stakes India e-commerce market with Walmart’s e-commerce division signing a deal with billionaire Gautam Adani to build a large retail warehouse in Mumbai
Coimbatore: With the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping across various parts of Tamil Nadu, some of the industrialists in the State are apprehensive of migrant workers leaving for their hometowns considering the health conditions.
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The provisional figures mark a departure from a gloomy scenario late last year. In the April-September 2020 period, gross tax collection had fallen by 27.5 per cent to ₹7.2 lakh crore compared to ₹9.2 lakh crore a year ago. The budget target for direct tax collection in the 2020 financial year was ₹13.2 lakh crore, and till September, barely 24 per cent of that target was achieved. These tax collection targets were fixed in January without factoring in the COVID-19 impact on the economy
E-commerce giant Amazon has moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s division bench order that allowed Kishore Biyani-promoted Future Group to proceed with its ₹24,713 crore asset sale deal with Reliance Industries Ltd, Mint report...
India now boasts of being home to the world’s third largest number of billionaires after the US and China while Reliance Industries Chairman has dethroned Chinese business tycoon Jack Ma to be the richest man in Asia, a new list released by the ...
The unique scheduling of Indian Premiere League 2021, stemming from obvious constraints, has served to bring the dichotomy in patterns at the two venues (being used in the initial stages) into sharp focus. Forced to abandon the home-and-away format due to logistical challenges at a time when the second wave of COVID pandemic is sweeping unchecked across the country, the first 20 games of the 60-match IPL have been distributed equally between the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai and the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Rahul Dravid was not a man who had temper issues but once Mahendra Singh Dhoni was at the receiving end of his angry outburst, recalled Virender Sehwag
Mumbai: A minor change in technique coupled with focus on cutting down on silly mistakes has been Prithvi Shaw's recipe for success after a poor run of form that found him out of national team during the England series.
The 21-year-old...
Unprecedentedly, within five months of the completion of the previous edition, a brand new season of the IPL is upon us. This short turnaround time stems from the postponement of IPL 2020 from its regular April-May window owing to the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the Maharashtra government considers locking down the state to arrest the spread of coronavirus, news has emerged of staff at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium testing positive for COVID-19
Indianapolis: Eight people were shot and killed in a late-night shooting at a Fedex facility in Indianapolis, and the shooter has killed himself, police said.
Multiple other people were injur...
Volcanic eruption at Mount Etna in Italy and not the six-day blockage of Suez Canal in March resulted in sudden spike in sulphur dioxide (SO2) concentration in the air on the Mediterranean side of the canal, the BBC reported on Thursday (April 15).
“I’m terminally ill,” he told The Washington Post newspaper at the time. “There’s no cure for my type of disease. So, you know, I’ve served. I’ve served 11 years already, and, quite frankly, I’ve suffered through it”
Egypt has seized the 200,000-tonne megaship which blocked Suez Canal and crippled world trade for nearly a week. Following Egypt’s Ismailia Economic Court orders, the Japanese owners of ‘Ever Given’ have been asked to pay $900 million in compensation for the economic loss caused due to one-of-its-kind blockage of the world’s busiest commercial sea route that connects Europe to Asia.
Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stresses on increasing the reach of vaccination amid increasing COVID cases, there are concerns of re-infection among vaccinated individuals.
The African swine fever, which has killed millions of pigs across Asia, is re-emerging in the continent, threatening a shortage in meat production and meat protein.
France has moved forward with its first medical marijuana experiment after identifying the companies that will supply products to 3,000 patients for two years, starting in March. Advocates hope the move will lead to the drug's legalisation for medicinal purposes.
The Narendra Modi government has spent over ₹11,300 crore till date to revamp medical infrastructure in the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the biggest share of the amount allocated to states was bagged by the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
More than one lakh students of classes 10 and 12 have actively petitioned the government to either cancel board exams scheduled to be held in May or conduct them in online mode due to the alarming rise in COVID-19 cases. A hashtag "cancelboardexams2021" too had been trending on Twitter for the past two days.
Online registration for admission to Class I in 1,247 Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) across the country for the Academic Year 2021 -2022 will commence from April 1, while registrations for Class II and above will be done from April 8 in the offline mode.
Azim Premji University (APU) released a study, on Wednesday (February 10), which found that prolonged closure of schools since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic has had an adverse effect on learning among younger children
