Suprakash Roy has been in great demand in his village in Alipurduar district since the first wave of COVID-19 hit West Bengal around this time last year.
The divorce announcement by Bill and Melinda Gates a few days back, though shocking for the world, seemed to have been worked out well in advance by the billionaire couple, suggest financial details of the split now emerging.
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan took to his blog to shut down trollers that he is not involved in charitable work and reeled off all that he has done, which ranged from donating ₹2 crore to a COVID facility in Delhi, providing PPE units to frontline warriors to paying farmers' loans, buying footwear for migrant workers walking home last year and feeding 400,000 daily wage earners in the country for a month.
Natural historian and climate change activist Sir David Attenborough has warned the world of challenges, far more severe than COVID-19, in the next five to 10 years.
After exactly 20 years of active public life as an elected representative, senior Assam politician Himanta Biswa Sarma is all set to take oath as the state’s new chief minister, having first got elected in 2001 from the Jalukbari constituency which h...
Hours after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took over as West Bengal’s Chief Minister, the BJP on Monday unanimously elected her close-aide-turned bête noir Suvendu Adhikari as Leader of Opposition.
An adrenaline-packed, opening sequence in Skyfall with James Bond Daniel Craig dangerously perched on top of a train in a fight to nab the bad guy became famous among diehard Bond fans. Well, this train fight scene could have been filmed in India, if the railways ministry had not withheld permission over not wanting to show the country in a “poor light”.
The day 1 of lockdown in Karnataka was chaotic, to say the least, as cops used force to implement the ‘military-like regulations’, inviting protests from all quarters of the society.
The CM said Kerala would supply 40 metric tonne of oxygen to Tamil Nadu till May 10, but not beyond it. “After this, it will be practically impossible to allow oxygen to be taken out of the state, given the situation we are in,” Vijayan wrote to the PM.
On April 29, 2021, a massive, 22 metric tonne module called Tianhe-1 took to the skies atop a heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Centre, China. Reportedly, the space station will be fully functional by the end of 2022. The timing of its launch and deployment appears favourable, as the ISS will retire after a glorious tenure of 25 years in 2024. Post-ISS’ retirement, the CSS will be the only available functional space station for a while. Click here to know more.
Data paints a grim picture for India — the death toll could be three times of what is being reported by the government, he says. Infections, however, may be peaking now, says Dr Murray
Hours after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took over as West Bengal’s Chief Minister, the BJP on Monday unanimously elected her close-aide-turned bête noir Suvendu Adhikari as Leader of Opposition.
R Gouri, or as she is affectionately called Gouri Amma, the most adored and resilient woman leader of Kerala, was born on July 14, 1919 at Pattanakkad village of Cherthala Taluk in Alappuzha district.
The current lockdown was scheduled to end at 5am on Monday, May 10. It has now been extended till 5am May 17 through an order issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority
The announcment of corporate results, COVID caseload and mortality numbers - especially amid the lockddown - and global economic cues will have a significant influece on the performance of the Sensex and Nifty this week
Newdelhi: The ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the country has delivered a further blow to the Indian economy, with several investors pulling out ₹5,936 crore from the Indian equities in the first week of May.
According to the depositories data, foreign inve...
Reliance Industries was leading the Top 10 most-valued companies list followed by TCS, HDFC Bank, Infosys, Hindustan Unilever, HDFC, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bajaj Finance and State Bank of India
This month’s hikes have erased all the reduction in fuel rates announced during the four revisions between March 24 and April 15. In the past four days, petrol has increased by 87 paisa per litre and diesel by ₹1 in New Delhi
India was on the recovery path after two successive quarters of de-growth last year. The GDP had contracted by a massive 23.9 per cent in the June quarter following the national lockdown and by 7.5 per cent during the September quarter. India thereafter stepped out of recession, with the GDP growing 0.4 per cent in the December quarter
With business dwindling and rentals sliding, truckers have rushed to the government with a package of demands to save their enterprises. This follows the severe blow that road freight business has suffered in the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 wav...
Byju's, India’s third largest unicorn, is all set to raise about $150 million from multinational Swiss bank, UBS Group AG, which will scale up the ed-tech pioneer's valuation to about $16.5 billion making it the country’s most valuable start-up.
In all likelihood, the year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), which was suspended mid-way, cannot be held this year and even if it does, the tournament certainly can’t be hosted in India, where COVID cases are shooting up every day.
Vaccination is turning out to be a headache for the board because if the players choose Covaxin in India, the second dose will
be a problem in the UK, where only Covishield is available.
When news of two India internationals representing different franchises – Wriddhiman Saha (Sunrisers Hyderabad) and Amit Mishra (Delhi Capitals) – contracting the virus emerged on Tuesday afternoon, the Board of Control for Cricket in India had little option but to suspend Season 14 of the Indian Premier League indefinitely
The match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), which was supposed to be played on Monday (May 3), has been postponed after two players from KKR -- Varun Chakaravarthy and Sandeep Warrier -- tested positive for COVID-19.
The divorce announcement by Bill and Melinda Gates a few days back, though shocking for the world, seemed to have been worked out well in advance by the billionaire couple, suggest financial details of the split now emerging.
Natural historian and climate change activist Sir David Attenborough has warned the world of challenges, far more severe than COVID-19, in the next five to 10 years.
A French air force pilot has alleged that he was tied to a target on a firing range while fighter planes fired at him during a hazing ritual in 2019 at the Solenzara air base on th...
If there is one thing that the President of the United States, Joseph Biden, has made clear in his first four months in office, it is that he is not interested in seeking the Nobel...
Pointing out that India has been using immunity boosting methods for ages and that these have become more relevant in times of COVID, the government suggested that people consumer more protein-rich food, good fats, and dark chocolate to keep anxiety at bay
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.
On Saturday (May 1), the CBSE issued a ‘marking policy’ directing schools on how to assess and assign marks to students on the criteria spelt out by them in detail. Basically, the Board has given the schools the autonomy and flexibility to assess their own students but has drawn borders within which they have to act to ensure the results are fair and unbiased.
School teachers and staff should be designated as frontline workers and get vaccinated on a priority basis before the next academic year to avoid any disruptions in learning. This is one of the many recommendations made by the Lancet Covid-19 Commission's India Task Force and published in the peer-reviewed medical journal -The Lancet.
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.
