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New Delhi: India is set to deploy drones to gather atmospheric data that is currently collated by sending sensors through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day. The sensors embedded in a radiosonde, which is a telemetry instrument carried by a weather balloon, record atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind […]
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Hyderabad: Actress Kangana Ranaut, who is known for her controversial remarks, is once again in headlines as she calls Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker “Idiot of a man,” based on a parody video. A spoof video of the CEO commenting on an Indian Twitter user’s boycott call is going viral on the internet. Following […]
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Toronto: Indians will benefit the most from changes introduced by Canada to its super visa programme for parents and grandparents. Under the changes announced by Immigration Minister Sean Fraser on Tuesday, parents and grandparents coming to Canada can now stay here for up to five years per entry. The changes will kick in from July […]
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New Delhi: Taking into account the increase in prices since the housing loan limits were last revised and considering the customer needs, central bank Reserve Bank of India decided to increase the existing limits on individual housing loans by the cooperative banks. Accordingly, the limits for Tier I or Tier II urban cooperative banks shall […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday proposed to allow the linking of credit cards to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform. After the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the implementation will start with the indigenous RuPay credit cards. “At present, UPI facilitates transactions by linking savings/current […]
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New Delhi: Over 90 vehicles, including 10 cars, were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a metro parking lot in the national capital on Wednesday morning, an official said. Fire in Jamia Nagar’s electric motor parking, 11 fire tenders on the spot#JamiaNagar #electricmotorparking #Fire #जामियानगर pic.twitter.com/VGE9FJQbCU — city andolan (@city_andolan) June 8, 2022 […]
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New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a man was stabbed to death in Delhi’s Anand Parbat area by a group of boys after a scuffle broke out over Rs 10 for a cigarette. The deceased in the case was identified as Vijay while the accused were identified as Ravi, Jatin, Sonu Kumar and Ajay. A […]
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New Delhi: Daily coronavirus infections in India were recorded above 5,000 after 93 days taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,90,282, while the active cases rose to 28,857, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. A total of 5,233 infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours, while the […]
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Mumbai: The rupee strengthened by 9 paise to 77.69 against the US dollar in opening trade on Wednesday, ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy decision. A weak trend in domestic equities, surging crude oil prices and unabated foreign fund outflows capped the appreciation bias of the rupee, forex dealers said. The RBI’s […]
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Mumbai: Indian stock market’s benchmark Sensex opened 205 points down on Wednesday as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.9 per cent. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex fell 205.27 points or 0.37 per cent to close at 54,902.07 points at 10:30 am. The broader […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday retained its growth projection at 7.2 per cent for the current fiscal on the back of improvement in urban demand and gradual recovery in rural India. Unveiling the third monetary policy for the current fiscal, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the Indian economy remained resilient, and the […]
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New Delhi: Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has issued a chilling warning of carrying out ‘suicide bombings’ in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat in a bid to take avenge of the insult to the Prophet Mohammed. “The saffron terrorists should now await their end in Delhi, Bombay, UP and Gujarat. They should find refuge […]
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Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the interest rate by 50 basis points to a two-year high of 4.9 per cent as it doubled down to tame inflation that has surged in the last couple of months. The rate hike comes on the back of a 40 bps increase effected by RBI […]
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Latur: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that the Bharatiya Janata Party took action against Nupur Sharma only when “something happened in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain”. “After 10 days PM Narendra Modi said to suspend (Nupur Sharma). No action was taken when we were saying, raising the issue. They acted when something happened in Qatar, Saudi […]
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New York: An Indian origin patient was among those who had a “miracle” cure using a cancer medication that is being tried out by a research centre here achieving an unprecedented healing rate when all 14 patients in the trial had their cancers disappear. “It’s a miracle”, Nisha Varughese said about the immunotherapy drug’s efficacy in […]
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Bengaluru: The number of fresh Covid cases have been steadily increasing in Karnataka. After a gap of three months as many as 348 new cases have been reported min a span of 24 hours. The positivity rate has increased to 2.11 per cent. The state recorded 382 cases on March 3. After a long gap, the […]
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Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old boy allegedly shot dead his mother in a fit of rage here after she refused to allow him to play PUBG. The boy shot his mother with his father’s licensed revolver and kept the body hidden in one of the rooms of the house. He sprayed room freshener in […]
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Hyderabad: Amazon India on Tuesday launched the second edition of Machine Learning (ML) Summer School, an immersive programme that aims to provide students an opportunity to learn key ML technologies. Conducted over four weekends in July, the course will provide students with an opportunity to gain skills on key ML topics, including Supervised Learning, Deep […]
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Mumbai: Actor Kangana Ranaut on Tuesday voiced support for suspended BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, saying she was “entitled to her opinions” amid international condemnation over the politician’s controversial remarks on Prophet Mohammad. The BJP on Sunday suspended Sharma and expelled its Delhi unit media head Naveen Kumar Jindal as the row over their alleged derogatory […]
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New Delhi: The Income Tax Department on Tuesday said software services provider Infosys has been directed to look into the issue relating to malfunction of search option on the e-filing portal. After many users complained of issues while accessing the I-T portal and reported that it was hacked on Tuesday, which also happens to be […]
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New Delhi: The government is “open” to big tech platforms suggesting an effective self-regulatory appellate mechanism that can offer a “better solution” to resolve grievances raised by social media users, IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Tuesday, asserting new amendments to social media rules will be finalised before July end after extensive consultations. The comment […]
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Dubai: Iraq and Libya have joined over a dozen Muslim countries in condemning the controversial remarks made by now-suspended and expelled BJP leaders against Prophet Mohammad. In response to a statement issued by the Parliamentary Committee on Awqaf and Tribals of Iraq on the controversial tweets, the Spokesperson of the Embassy of India in Iraq […]
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Mumbai: Maharashtra Police on Tuesday asked suspended BJP functionary Nupur Sharma to appear before them on June 22 to record her statement in connection with her alleged derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammad, an official said. An FIR had been registered against Sharma, the former national spokesperson of the BJP, by the Mumbra police in the […]
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Hyderabad: India’s largest prototyping centre T-Works and CARE India, a not-for-protfit organisation, entered into an agreement to build affordable and accessible innovations in health, education, economic empowerment and humanitarian assistance. T-Works, CARE India partnership has started working towards enhancing access to foundational and science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) learning for children in rural […]
