In his teary farewell speech on July 26, BS Yediyurappa (BSY) slammed the Central leadership for causing a delay in the cabinet expansion when he took charge as the chief minister back in 2019. Believ...
The Delta variant of COVID-19 may cause more severe illness than all other forms of the virus and infect people as easily as chickenpox, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of the US has said in an unpublished document.
The report, conte...
Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned again on Friday after vociferous protests over the Pegasus spying row and the three new farm laws.
Two bills were introduced before House proceedings were adjourned for the day amid continued opposition protest...
It was a heartbreaking moment for boxing legend Mary Kom, when the bout she had believed to have won against Colombian Ingrit Valencia at the Tokyo Olympics, turned out to be her last at the games.
The 38-year-old pugilist, who was seen smiling an...
An old Hitachi video cassette recorder (VCR) and some mould-infected cassettes lying unused inside the storage room of documentary film-maker Amudhan RP make for the trash. The young film-maker, however, doesn’t want to throw them away, as the VCR and cassettes were all once the only media through which some films could see the light of the day, and so holds significant memories and value today. It was in 1996 that Amudhan launched “Marupakkam” (the other side), a collective of documentary lovers, in Madurai. Click for more.
Actor Vijay got relief from the Madras High Court on July 27, when the court stayed the ₹ 1 lakh fine the actor had to pay for seeking an exemption from paying entry tax on the import of a high-end car - a Rolls Royce Ghost - in 2012.The Madras High Court division bench however directed Vijay to pay 80 per cent of the entry tax that he had not yet paid within a week of receiving a new demand notice from the commercial tax department.
Small business current accounts are being frozen as the deadline RBI's directive on closing multiple current and overdraft accounts of a business nears.
Business tycoon Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, fondly known as India’s Warren Buffet, is planning to buy 70 aircraft at an investment of $35 million dollars over four years, for his upcoming ultra-low cost airlines.
According to Bloomberg, the project ...
The heads of TVS, Ola, Maruti and Tata oppose a cut in import duty on EVs while Hyundai is all for Elon Musk's suggestion; Bajaj goes for middle ground
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed India’s economic growth forecast from 12.5 per cent to 9.5 per cent for fiscal 2021-2022 following an onslaught of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The IMF had made the earlier...
Seven players will miss the second T20 against Sri Lanka on Wednesday (July 28) despite testing negative for COVID-19. They won’t play the third and final T20 match as well.
Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Prit...
The second T20 between India and Sri Lanka, scheduled to be played on Tuesday (July 27), has been postponed by a day after all-rounder Krunal Pandya tested positive for COVID-19.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) revealed that all members of the Indian team will undergo RT-PCR tests. The third T20I will be played on July 29 as planned.
Pandya complained of a sore throat on Tuesday morning, after which he was told to take...
Three blood-curdling incidents over a month and a half have yet again brought out the monster of Taliban which is challenging the Afghan government and has claimed to have taken control of most of the war-ravaged country.
India and USA, two of the world's biggest democracies, should do more to strengthen their democratic institutions, said US Secretary of State Antony Blinken today (June 28), adding that every democracy is a work in progress, on his two-day visit to India
State-run Xinhua news agency reported that during his visit, Xi stressed upon fully implementing the guidelines of the ruling Communist Party for "governing Tibet in a new era and writing a new chapter of lasting stability and high-quality development for the plateau region".
While Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin welcomed Centre’s decision to exempt Goods & Services Tax (GST) on medicines for rare diseases such as spinal muscular dystrophy, some of the demands put forth by people with spinal injuries have gone unnoticed so far.
Modern parents are well-versed with this fact: physical punishment is bad for children and can only cause more behavioural problems over time.This was driven home once again in a comprehensive study published by the reputed medical journal 'Lancet' on Monday. (June 28)
We saw it coming and yet we decided to ignore it. A latest global study indicates that Indians have suffered maximum damage to vision because of increased screen time, courtesy COVID-induced lockdowns.
Following the guidelines of the National Education Policy (NEP), engineering degree courses will now be made available in five regional languages with the All India Council for Technology Education (AICTE) preparing content for six more languages.
