New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (July 11) appreciated the efforts of the Centre, state and the local authorities in containing the COVID-19 situation in Delhi, and directed that a similar approach be replicated in checking the pandemic in the entire NCR area.
Bengaluru: Karnataka will soon implement a ban on cow slaughter, sale and consumption of beef in line with other states, Animal Husbandry Minister Prabhu Chavan has said.
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in cancelling final year exams of Delhi University and other Central universities in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
Terming the COVID-19 pandemic as the worst health and economic crisis in the past 100 years, Reserved Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday (July 11) said that the Indian economy, however, is showing signs of inching towards normal...
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday (July 11) alleged that BJP leaders have "gone beyond humanity" and are trying to topple his government amid the pandemic. He, however, exuded confidence that the Congress government led by him will co...
Kolkata: Works have begun to set up a makeshift quarantine centre at Kolkata's iconic Eden Gardens, barely a few hours after the Cricket Association of Bengal gave its nod to the city police's proposal to use a part of the cricket stadium as an isolation facility for COVID-affected police personnel.
Tamil Nadu COVID-19 infection count increased to 1,34,226 as the state recorded 3,965 fresh cases on Saturday (July 11). As many as 69 people succumbed to the virus, pushing the death toll to 1,898.
According to the health department bulletin, the...
On her first visit to India in 2010, former US first lady of the US, Michelle Obama, picked up a indigenous wooden toy made in Channapatna, Karnataka. Channapatna toys, made of ivory wood, have a long history tracing back to the times of Tipu Sultan, and have been accorded the geographical indication tag. But over the years, they have lost out to competition from Chinese toys. However, with the recent clamour for boycotting Chinese goods, there is some hope for revival of the indigenous industry. Click here to know more.
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala on Saturday reported its biggest single day spike of 488 new COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally to 7,438 as the death toll climbed to 29 with two fatalities. This is the second consecutive day that the number of cases have crossed the 400 mark.
Bengaluru: A complete lockdown will be imposed in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts for seven days, starting from 8 pm on July 14 in view of the rising novel coronavirus cases, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Saturday.
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in cancelling final year exams of Delhi University and other Central universities in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
Terming the COVID-19 pandemic as the worst health and economic crisis in the past 100 years, Reserved Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday (July 11) said that the Indian economy, however, is showing signs of inching towards n...
Kolkata: Chhattisgarh appears to have beaten the COVID-19 economic blues by ensuring 22 per cent higher GST collection in June this year in comparison to the corresponding month of the last year.
According to figures furnished by the state government,...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that the Indian economy had started seeing “green shoots” of recovery, but one sector has seen more than just green shoots ever since Unlock 1.0. The used-car market has seen huge business ever since the ...
New Delhi: The Indian Railways (IR) seems to have taken some learnings from the hiccups faced by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in privatising airports, by barring a single bidder from bagging all the deals, while inviting bids by private parties to ope...
New Delhi: A finance ministry report on Monday (July 6) said that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will contract 4.5 per cent as predicted by International Monetary Fund, in the current fiscal due to unprecedented supply-demand shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Delhi: The CBI has booked Venkata Krishna Reddy Gunupati, the chairman of the GVK Group of Companies and his son GV Sanjay Reddy, Managing Director of Mumbai International Airport Ltd among others for alleged irregularities to the tune of ₹705 crore in...
Indian Railways on Wednesday (July 1) formally started its plans to allow private entities to operate passenger trains on its network by inviting request for qualifications (RFQ) for participation on 109 pairs of routes through 151 modern trains...
Nyon (Switzerland): All five former Champions League winners were put into the same half of the draw on Friday, setting up a possible semifinal pairing between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.
Naming BCCI president Sourav Ganguly as the favourite captain he had played under, former opener Wasim Jaffer said it was the former Indian skipper who had brought players like Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh to the ...
New Delhi: The Sports Ministry on Saturday removed the ₹2 lakh cap on the salary given to Indian coaches for training elite athletes in a bid to encourage them to produce better results.
Djokovic had tested positive 10 days ago after playing in an exhibition series in Serbia and Croatia with zero social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Former United States national security advisor John Bolton has said that if the Indo-Chinese border tensions escalated, there was no guarantee that US President Donald Trump would ...
Ankara (Turkey): The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul's sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum.
Washington: US President Donald Trump is working on an executive order to establish a merit-based immigration system, the White House has said.
The White House statement came soon after Tru...
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone on Friday (July 10), just days before he was set to report to prison.
Democrats deno...
Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Bombay High Court that a decision to declare sanitary napkins as an essential commodity can be taken only after following the due process.
New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering reduction of the exam syllabus for the JEE Advanced and changing the entrance exam format for the upcoming test.
New Delhi: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CICSE) will announce Class 10 and 12 board results on Friday (July 9), Board Secretary Gerry Arathoon said.
New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' on Thursday said there has been an "uninformed commentary" on the exclusion of certain topics from the CBSE syllabus to portray a false narrative.
New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH) have started using computational methods to understand the factors and impediments in incorporating biofuels into the fuel sector in India, in a bid to reduce carbon emissions from the use of fossil fuels.
