Even as concerns are raised by several states over vaccine shortage in the country, an expert committee has approved the use of Russian vaccine Sputnik V in India. This is India's third vaccine against the COVID-19 infection after Covishield and Covaxin.
Cauvery delta farmers are furious with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami for not fulfilling his election promise of giving them round-the-clock three-phase electricity in the run up to the polling for the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
The controversy surrounding Rafale fighter jet deal is far from over. Chief Justice SA Bobde has agreed to hear a fresh public interest litigation (PIL) over alleged corruption in the 2016 deal after two weeks
A negative RT-PCR test and CCTV monitoring of people not wearing masks are the two methods the local administration at Haridwar have employed to keep COVID-19 at bay during the ongoing Kumbh Mela. Thousands of devotees, however, were seen taking a dip in the holy Ganges without wearing masks.
‘An IIM professor was born here.’
The social media caption paired with the photo of a dilapidated house canopied by a tarpaulin sheet in a non-descript village of Kerala’s Kasargod, has gone viral.
What has impressed netizens more is the inspir...
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
Centre-appointed teams have pointed out serious problems in the management of the COVID-19 situation in Maharashtra, Punjab and Chhattisgarh which are reporting the maximum deaths in the country.
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The teams which visited 30 district...
Researchers led by Maria Harrison, the William H Crocker Professor at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), found recently that the fungi, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM), could manipulate a specific group of soil bacteria to enrich the soil with nutrients that are required by the plant. In turn, the fungi host the bacteria and treat them with the nourishments they receive from the plants. In country that is deficient in phosphorous fertiliser and imports huge quantities of the element, this finding could come as a saviour. Click here to know more.
Cauvery delta farmers are furious with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami for not fulfilling his election promise of giving them round-the-clock three-phase electricity in the run up to the polling for the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections.
BJP state leader Sunil Deodhar on Friday criticised the Jagan Mohan government for not granting permission for the film’s premiere. Taking to Twitter, Deodhar, who is campaigning for the BJP’s candidate in the Tirupati Lok Sabha by-poll, said the state government was afraid of Kalyan
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.
The industries recovered ...
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 ...
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday kept key interest rates unchanged at record lows while pledging to buy ₹1 lakh crore of government bonds this quarter to cap borrowing costs in a bid to support an economy facing a resurgence of the p...
The collapse of Greensill Capital last month has been one of the most spectacular financial disasters of recent years. It has sent shockwaves around the world. It has also enmeshed a business tycoon and a former prime minister of Britain, David Cameron, in a global scandal.
The Pakistan cabinet on Thursday rejected a proposal of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to import cotton yarn and sugar from India, reports said.
The RSS, or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is the new reality in Indian politics. The organisation that used to remain in the shadows is now in the open. It is a well-known fact that the body that used to claim to be cultural organisation with no political ambitions is responsible for the growth and sustenance of a new brand of aggressive right-wing politics in India
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
The Indian cricket team completed one of its best four-month spells across formats, pipping England by a mere seven runs in the third and final ODI after surviving Sam Curran's determined assault in an exciting contest for a well-deserved hat-trick of series victories. For India, near domination of England in all the three formats at home comes straight after humbling Australia in their own backyard earlier this year during a gruelling tour.
In a nation with many centenarians, he missed the milestone by a couple of months. He would have been 100 by June and both the admirers of the monarchy as well as its carping critics in Britain (and there are many) were looking forward to that day.
Washington: After a brief halt, India accelerated the work on Chabahar Port early this year and the strategic Iranian port is expected to be operational by next month, a Congressional report has said.
With the global death toll as a result of the coronavirus peaking 2.5 million and nations in the developed and developing world looking at the second and third spikes of the deadly pandemic, a light at the end of the tunnel is “increasingly visible," says IMF in its World Economic Outlook.
Jakarta: A collision between a cargo ship and a fishing boat left 17 people missing off Indonesia's main island of Java, officials said Sunday.
The fishing boat with 32 aboard capsized a...
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
