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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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Hyderabad: It was somewhere in the late 2000s that there was a sudden surge witnessed in the elevation of Indian-origin executives to head global multinationals and mostly tech giants. While Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella and Shantanu Narayen were made the CEO of Microsoft and Adobe respectively, many other India-born and Indian-origin executives rose the ranks to […]
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Hyderabad: With Parag Agrawal being named as the Twitter Chief Executive Officer (CEO), he becomes a part of the Indian-origin executives who are now helming the top global tech companies. And we have a list to be proud of – from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, the […]
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New Delhi: The government will soon bring in a new Bill on cryptocurrency after it is approved by the Union Cabinet, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha. A Bill on Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency for introduction in the Lok Sabha has been included in the Lok Sabha […]
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Warangal: The CPI (Maoist) has expelled its politburo member and senior most leader Kobad Ghandy accusing him of abandoning the ‘dialectical and historical materialism, principles of Marxism and class struggle” and “for selecting the way of getting happiness through mysticism.” In a press release dated November 27, 2021, party national spokesperson Abhay said that the […]
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New Delhi: The Centre’s ‘Har Ghar Dastak’ campaign will continue till December 31 with a focus on 100 per cent first dose COVID-19 vaccination, and completing the backlog of second dose vaccination, informed official sources on Tuesday. This came after Union Health Ministry Secretary Rajesh Bhushan on November 22 wrote a letter to Additional Chief […]
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The coins belong to 12th century AD which are engraved with bull and a horseman on them
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New Delhi: Admiral R Hari Kumar on Tuesday took over as the new Navy chief, succeeding Admiral Karambir Singh who is superannuated after a 30-month tenure. Soon after taking over, Kumar said it was a matter of great honour for him to take charge as the Chief of Naval Staff. “Indian Navy’s focus is on […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday said it proposes to go ahead with the contempt matter involving fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, who is an accused in bank loan default case of over Rs 9,000 crore involving his defunct Kingfisher Airlines, and list it for hearing on sentencing. The apex court had earlier dismissed his plea […]
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New Delhi: Delhi’s air quality remained in the very poor category on Tuesday even as the minimum temperature slipped to 9.8 degrees Celsius.The 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) read 329. It stood at 389 on Monday. The city had recorded air quality in the severe category for three days on the trot. Delhi had […]
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Lucknow: Continuing its name changing spree, the Yogi Adityanath government is now mulling a proposal to name the Lucknow Zoo after former Prime Minister, late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Forest Minister Dara Singh Chouhan said that the government was considering the proposal and a decision would be taken at the right time. The Lucknow zoo, earlier […]
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Mumbai: The rupee recovered 21 paise to 74.86 against the US dollar in opening trade on Tuesday, as positive domestic equities and a weak American currency in the overseas markets boosted investor sentiments. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened on a strong note at 74.91, then surged higher to 74.86 against the American […]
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New Delhi: Delhi government-run Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital has been designated to treat patients testing positive for the new Covid-19 variant Omicron. The hospital has been asked to earmark wards for isolating and treating such patients. In an order, the Health Department has directed the hospital not to deny admission to patients infected with the […]
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Bijnor: A week after the murder of a 57-year-old man in Dharmuwala village under Badhapur police circle, the police have arrested the victim’s son and two of his accomplices and sent them to jail on Monday. According to police, victim Preetam Singh’s second marriage eight months ago and his intention to deprive his son (the […]
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New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor offered an apology after he posted his picture on the first day of the winter session of Parliament. Tharoor posted a selfie with six women MPs, including Trinamool’s Nusrat Jahan and Mimi Chakraborty, Congress’ Preneet Kaur and Jothiman Sennimalai, NCP’s Supriya Sule and DMK’s Thamizhachi Thangapandian and wrote: “Who […]
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Lucknow: The Lucknow Police have arrested a 25-year-old star on online social media platform for allegedly luring a Mumbai-based singer and actress into a relationship and dumping her when she became pregnant. The woman had lodged a case in September 2021 against the accused Divyansh Tiwari a.k.a Rajan Pandit and his sisters Neha and Neetu, […]
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Bengaluru: In a shocking case, miscreants entered a house in Bengaluru on the pretext of giving a jab for the new virus Omicron and robbed the inmates of gold jewellery, the police said on Tuesday. According to police, three robbers came in a car and one of the accused wearing hand gloves went inside the […]
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Gorakhpur: A bride’s cousin was beaten to death when he stopped the DJ from playing music to allow marriage rituals to continue. The incident took place in the early hours of Monday in the Gorakhnath area of Gorakhpur. The scene was captured by a CCTV camera.Police are trying to identify the miscreants with the help […]
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New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday posted a selfie with six women MPs on Twitter with a caption:”Who says the Lok Sabha isn’t an attractive place to work?”, triggering a controversy with many netizens accusing him of sexism. Tharoor later apologised for offending “some people” and said the “whole selfie thing” was […]
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Jodhpur: A team of innovators at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Jodhpur has developed low-cost ‘Talking Gloves’ for people with speech disability, the institutes announced on Monday. The device uses principles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to automatically generate speech that will […]
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Prayagraj: In a shocking incident, five people, including four members of the same family, died in a road accident in the Nawabganj area in Uttar Pradesh. All five were riding on the same motorcycle when a truck rammed into them on the Shringverpur highway road on the intervening night of Sunday/Monday. The victims were returning […]
