India

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday informed that two people have tested positive for the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Karnataka. A 46-year-old male and a 66-year-old male were those who contracted the variant.Addressing a media briefing Joint Secretary of the Union Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal said all primary and secondary contacts of the […]

Hyderabad: The State health authorities have requested the general public to carry their vaccine certificates on the person, as health teams will start randomly checking their vaccination status. The surveillance teams of the health department will conduct random checks at public areas and individuals will be asked to present their vaccination certificates. If you have […]

Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati Thursday asked the people to be wary of “Hindu-Muslim politics” of the BJP, saying it is the “last tactic” of the party to ward of its impending defeat in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. She was reacting to the Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s statement that preparations […]

Hyderabad: Microsoft expanded its India Development Center (IDC) in NCR. Over the past two decades, the IDC has been growing its footprint in India across cities such as Hyderabad, followed by Bengaluru and most recently its third campus in Noida. Upon realising the potential, the NCR region holds for technology, the IDC further expanded its […]

New Delhi: A day after TMC chief Mamata Banerjee’s “there is no UPA now” jibe, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday said without the Congress, the UPA will be a body without a soul and asserted that it was time to show opposition unity. West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee on Wednesday met NCP supremo […]

Tikamgarh: A total of 164 coins, possibly of the Mughal era, have been found kept in a pot in the sand dug up during a stone quarry work in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district, an official said on Thursday. District mining officer Prashant Tiwari told PTI that after a private contractor involved in stone mining informed […]

The service is being rolled out on a pilot basis in Lucknow first, and will soon be expanded to other cities in the country.

After using references from 'Stree' and 'Main Hoon Na', the Mumbai Police account used a scene from the upcoming Kabir Khan directorial to talk about the importance of wearing masks at all times.

India's active caseload presently stands at 99,763. It constitutes 0.29 per cent of the country's total positive cases, which is lowest since March 2020.

New Delhi: The Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has recommended that the Union government should not shutdown the Internet services in every case, saying that the ‘Internet is indispensable in everyday lives of citizens of the country’. In its 26th report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on ‘the suspension of telecom […]

New Delhi: Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday unveiled a user interface in Hindi, with the goal to support 600 million Hindi language speakers globally. With this launch, LinkedIn aims to break down language barriers, providing greater access to professional and networking opportunities to Hindi speakers in India and around the world. With the launch […]

Hingoli: The Hingoli Municipal Council in Maharashtra has decided to lure people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by offering them prizes like LED TVs, refrigerators and washing machines, officials said on Thursday. Similar incentives were also announced by the Chandrapur civic body in the state earlier this month to encourage people to take the vaccine. […]

New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will upgrade 20 sewage treatment plants (STPs) and sludge biogas plants in order to clean the environment and produce biogas as much as possible so that it can be used to make clean fuels like bio-CNG and produce electricity. This decision was taken by Satyendar Jain, Delhi’s Water Minister […]

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided not to resume scheduled international flights from December 15, less than a week after announcing the decision in the wake of rising concerns over the COVID variant Omicron. Aviation watchdog DGCA said the effective date for resumption of scheduled commercial international passenger services will be notified in due […]

Hyderabad: Marriott International introduced the ‘Mood Diets’ menu, which was designed to meet the nutrient requirements of guests while simultaneously meeting the unconscious food cravings that emerge from fluctuating temperaments. Keeping the momentum alive, Marriott International is taking it a notch higher with the introduction of ‘Mood Diets 2.0’, with a vegan touch to all […]

Sabarimala: As the annual pilgrimage is progressing at the famed Lord Ayyappa temple here, Travancore Devaswom Board, the apex temple body, has made arrangements for devotees to offer ‘e-kanikka’ at the electronic hundi collection in the temple complex and nearby areas. As in the previous years, the arrangements for the digital payment was made in […]

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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has ordered issue of notice to a man who allegedly appeared “shirtless” during the hearing of a virtual court proceeding. The person had logged in with a name Sreedhar Bhat but it could not be ascertained whether he is an advocate or not. During the hearing of the purported ‘sex-for-job’ […]

Bareilly: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a lawyer in Baradari area here, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday when the girl was playing outside her house and Taurn alias Govind reached there and took the girl to her office and raped her, SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan said. The lawyer […]

Lucknow: A Global Young Tobacco Survey by the World Health Organisation has found that one in every three students below the high school level in Uttar Pradesh consume tobacco in some form or the other. Seeking a safe place, 37.4 per cent students smoke at their own home while 19.8 per cent do so at […]

Indore: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will run the ‘Rampath Yatra’ train on December 25 which will start from Gujarat connecting Madhya Pradesh to reach Ayodhya, informed Krishna Kumar Singh, Regional Manager of IRCTC on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference in Indore on Tuesday, Singh said, “The 640-seater train will start from Sabarmati […]

Lalitpur: A 14-year-old girl from a village in Lalitpur district has ranked among the top 20 in the country, and the only one from Uttar Pradesh in the artificial intelligence-based innovative project exhibition and award ceremony, held in Delhi recently. Nandini Kushwaha has been awarded for devising a smart data-based AI tool that identifies the […]

Mathura: A minor Dalit girl from Mathura district was allegedly kidnapped and raped repeatedly in Delhi for resisting prostitution bid. The victim, who was later rescued by her mother, lives in a colony in the Kosikalan police circle and her mother has filed an FIR in this regard. Superintendent of Police (rural) Sirish Chandra said […]

New Delhi: New Covid variant Omicron doesn’t escape the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) test and Rapid Antigen Test, Indian Council of Medical Research Director General, Dr Balram Bhargava, said on Tuesday. In a virtual meeting with states and UTs on public health response measures and preparedness amid reports of Omicron variant in many countries, […]