New Delhi: The Union health ministry on Thursday pointed out that the COVID-19 recovery rate in the country has jumped to 62.09 per cent and the recovered cases of the infection are now 1.75 times that of the active cases.
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.
Kolkata: The daily spike in COVID-19 cases in West Bengal breached the 1,000-mark for the first time on Thursday with 1,088 fresh infections and 27 new related fatalities being reported in the last 24 hours.
For market participants who actively trade or invest in gold, the last few days had been historic. On Wednesday (July 08), gold futures, for the first time since 2011, settled above $1,800 per ounce. That was followed on Thursday (July 09) too, when ...
“Where is KCR?” is the most frequently asked question in Telangana these days as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) has not made any public appearance or participated in official meetings in the last ten days.
The political row over his long...
Bengaluru: Amid the steady increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, former chief minister and Opposition leader in the Assembly Siddaramaiah mounted a veiled attack on the B S Yediyurappa-led BJP government in the state over alleged corruption in ...
Swapna Suresh, a former employee at the UAE Consulate General whose alleged role in the recent gold smuggling case has sparked a controversy, has claimed in her anticipatory bail plea in the Kerala High Court that she had only followed instructions from the Consul General.
A pall of gloom descended on the scenic Kashmir valley when it was learned that the Jammu and Kashmir administration had started granting new domicile certificates to non-Kashmiris. Minutes after the picture of the domicile certificate went viral and caused panic, reactions and commentaries followed on social media. An overwhelming majority now fears that a demography change is round the corner. New classes of people have been made eligible for domicile status including migrants, central government employees, armed forces personnel and their children. Click here to know more.
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs on Thursday allowed the National Investigation Agency to probe the gold smuggling case detected at the Thiruvananthapuram international airport in Kerala as the incident "may have serious implications for national security," officials said.
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...
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's (BSNL) tender for 4G upgrade has been cancelled after the Department of Telecom (DoT) asked the state-run firm not to use Chinese telecom gear, according to a source.
The Reserve Bank of India has announced the launch of Floating Rate Savings Bonds 2020 (Taxable) with an interest rate of 7.15 per cent, which will be available for subscriptions from July 1.
Mumbai: India's external debt stood at USD 558.5 billion in March, an increase of USD 15.4 billion compared to the year-ago period, according to RBI data.
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
After two tenures as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Shashank Manohar on Wednesday (July 1) announced that he is stepping down from the position.
Nepal's ruling Communist Party has failed to address the intra-party rifts as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and NCP executive chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda have failed to re...
New Delhi: Some flights are likely to be operated from India to the UAE very soon for Indians having valid residency or work permit for the UAE, its Ambassador Ahmed Al Banna said on Wednesda...
A day after stating that the US was looking at banning Chinese social media apps, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (July 08) said China’s action along the LAC was "incre...
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 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.
New Delhi: The Ministry of Human Resource Development on Friday postponed medical and engineering entrance exams NEET and JEE to September in view of the spike in COVID-19 cases.
