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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has re-clarified the story of the electric vehicle company’s early days to a Bengaluru-based man who tweeted that “Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. He acquired it”. Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. He acquired it. Just reminding 🙂 — Vaibhav Sisinty (@VaibhavSisinty) April 21, […]
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Chennai: With 25 more testing positive, the total number of persons infected with Coronavirus in the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) has gone up to 55, said Tamil Nadu Health Secretary J.Radhakrishnan. According to him, the tests are being conducted in the 19 hostels in IITM complex. The infection rate is higher in a […]
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New Delhi: With 2,527 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of cases rose to 4,30,54,952, while active cases have increased to 15,079, according to Union health ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll has climbed to 5,22,149 with 33 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases […]
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New Delhi: India’s smartphone market grew just 2 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 owing to supply constraints, not a great start to the year for a market which has seen double-digit percentage growth even during the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report has said. The biggest challenge this year will be maintaining device […]
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New Delhi: Amid rising power demand in the country due to a continued heat wave, India is staring at an electricity crisis accentuated due to a coal shortage at over 150 power plants. The coal stock position at the Central Election Authority (CEA) supervised 173 power plants stood at 21.93 million tonnes (MT), which, according […]
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Washington: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India’s stand on the Russia-Ukraine war was predicated on the security challenges in its own neighbourhood and the US should understand that though it has a friend in India, that “friend can’t be a weak friend (and) the friend should be not weakened”. On Friday, the Union Minister said […]
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Chennai: In a shocking incident, a 12-year-old boy was arrested by the Tanjavur All Women Police after a 17-year-old girl gave birth to a girl after being raped by the boy. He was held under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (Pocso) Act. However, when contacted, the police at Tanjavur All Women Police station […]
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Patna: The Iftar party, hosted by the RJD at the official residence of former Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Friday, attracted attention of every political party in the state. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accepting the invitation sent to him by Rabri Devi, and her sons Tejashwi Yadav and Tej Pratap Yadav, walked from his 7 […]
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Mumbai: The controversy surrounding the new tobacco advertisement featuring Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar is not dying down. After Akshay Kumar’s public apology and Ajay Devgn’s defence on his “personal choice” of starring in a tobacco brand’s elaichi product ad, an IAS officer from West Bengal has come down heavily […]
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka government is all set to strictly implement the law in connection with Azaan. The move is likely to add to the existing social unrest in the state. Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and the state DG and IGP Praveen Sood made it clear on Friday that everyone should follow the law in […]
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Jaipur: A 300-year-old Lord Shiva temple in Alwar district’s Rajgarh town was demolished on Friday. The video of the temple demolition is going viral on social media putting the Congress government of Rajasthan in the dock. However, the ruling party has washed its hands off the demolition claiming that the Rajgarh municipality is being ruled […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday received UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi. The UK Prime Minister, who is on a two-day visit to India, was accorded a Guard of Honour upon his arrival at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. “It is a very auspicious moment […]
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New Delhi: E-commerce giant Amazon on Friday said that it has acquired homegrown women-focused social commerce startup GlowRoad for an undisclosed sum. In a statement, the company said the acquisition will help it meet the commitment to digitise 10 million local Indian businesses by 2025. “Amazon continues to explore new ways to digitise India and […]
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New Delhi: In a bid to protect mangroves and local livelihoods in India, Apple on Friday announced a new initiative in the Raigad district of Maharashtra. The tech giant awarded a grant to the Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF) to work with the local community to protect a 2,400 hectare mangrove forest in the region, […]
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New Delhi: The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked Bharat Biotech for additional data on its COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin, for administering it to children aged between 2-12 years, sources said. This development comes after the Subject Expert Committee discussed recommendations for the restricted emergency of Covaxin in […]
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Rajnandgaon: Five members of a family including three children were charred to death in a fire that broke out in their car after an accident in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, the police said. According to the police, on Thursday night, a car crashed in the culvert near Ganesh temple in Singarpur village under Thelkadih police station […]
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Jammu: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was killed on Friday in a terror attack in J&K’s Jammu city. Police sources said terrorists attacked a bus of the CISF troopers near the Chaddha camp in Jammu city at around 4.25 a.m. The bus was carrying 15 troopers for morning shift […]
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Hubli: Section 144 has been imposed in Karnataka’s Hubli city after a mob pelted stones at the old Hubli police station in which four policemen were injured on Saturday night, the curfew will continue till April 23, the police said. As many as 12 cases were registered in connection with the law and order situation […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices opened in the red on Friday with Sensex down by 495.53 points and Nifty down by 156.60 points. At 9:35 am, the BSE Sensex was down by 495.53 points or 0.86 per cent at 57,416.15. BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange, is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, […]
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Houston: Four Indian-origin students were among the 58 aspiring public service leaders from 53 colleges and universities in the US selected as Truman Scholars 2022. The Indian-American Truman scholars are Amisha A Kambath, Eshika Kaul, Avi Gupta and Bhav Jain. The scholars will be awarded USD 30,000 in funding for post-graduate studies, along with leadership […]
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Lucknow: Three persons were killed and 34 injured after a balcony and a wall collapsed at a wedding venue in Bijnor area in Sarojini Nagar police circle, late on Thursday night. Two killed including a minor girl after roof collapsed during a wedding ceremony in Bijnor police limits of #Lucknow. pic.twitter.com/A8JIlCBR6c — Arvind Chauhan अरविंद चौहान […]
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Baramulla: Four terrorists, including a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander, have been neutralised so far in the ongoing encounter that broke out in Malwah area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district in early house of Thursday, said police. In the operation, LeT commander Yousuf Kantroo, who was on the list of top 10 most wanted terrorists […]
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Haveri: Karnataka police have formed two special teams on Thursday to nab a miscreant who opened fire in the theatre while watching blockbuster ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, severely injuring a 27-year-old youth in Haveri district of Karnataka. Vasanth Kumar Shivapura, a resident of Mugali village has been seriously injured in the incident which took place on […]
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Varanasi: Lemons are now being offered free with mobile accessories. #Varanasi: Amid rising prices, this electronics store has unique offers – 1 liter #petrol free on mobiles above Rs 10,000 and free #lemon with smartphone accessories Track udpates – https://t.co/xOCQbrIyex pic.twitter.com/qaxs20XJ9F — Hindustan Times (@htTweets) April 21, 2022 A shopkeeper in Varanasi is offering free […]
