If there had to be one defining drama of the coronavirus pandemic in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice of maintaining do gaz ki doori (a distance of two yards) soon after addressing electio...
On April 9, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg was fined 20,000 kroner ($2,352) for breach of COVID rules during her 60th birthday celebration on February 26
Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Thursday (April 15) took China head on when he said that “India we will not get pushed” and the country got “world support in preventing a change of status quo along northern borders”.
The Election Commission (EC) has convened an all-party meeting in Kolkata on Friday (April 16) to discuss enforcement of COVID-19 protocol during electioneering even as the deadly virus claimed life of a candidate and infected six others, casting an ominous shadow on the poll process.
The Delhi High Court on Thursday allowed 50 people to offer prayers five times a day at the Nizamuddin Markaz during Ramzan.
Justice Prathiba M Singh directed the station house officer of Nizamuddin police station to permit entry of 50 people to the...
Newdelhi: The Delhi government on Thursday (April 15) imposed weekend curfew and ordered malls, gyms, spas and auditoriums to close, even on weekdays, until further orders in a bid to break the chain of COVID infections.
At an online press briefing, Chief Min...
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 13 urging him to declare the pandemic as a "natural calamity" under the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) to be able to provide financial help to the worst effected in this second wave of the pandemic.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (April 15) ordered that the report of a committee on the role of erring police officers in the 1994 espionage case involving ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan should be given to the CBI for further investigation.
The cou...
Even as the country is in the throes of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, several states are grappling with an acute shortage of Remdesivir, the vital high-value drug used in the treatment of severe COVID-19 infection.
Faced with the cris...
A rallying cry by a Bangladeshi lawmaker has taken electioneering in West Bengal by storm, adding a cross-border flavour to the political sloganeering that has a chequered history in the state. If Trinamool Congress adapted the 'Khela Hobe' (Game on) slogan from Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League's Shamim Osman, the BJP spun it back 'Khela Shesh' (Game Over). Not wanting to be left behind, the CPI(M) also launched lyrical attacks with a parody song “Haal Pherao Laal Pherao”. (To bring back good days, bring back red). Click for more.
Days after the Kerala State Lokayukta accused him of nepotism, Kerala Higher Education minister K T Jaleel on Tuesday (April 13) resigned from the state cabinet.
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.
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 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
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.
Ever since Saudi monarch and ruler Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) bought the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ called Salvatore Mundi (Saviour of the World) at a Christie’s auction in New York in 2017 for $450 million, it has been dogged by controversy about its authenticity.
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
