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New Delhi: With the Air Quality Index in the national capital improving slightly to “very poor” category on Monday, the Delhi government is likely to review the ban imposed under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) restrictions. According to the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the overall AQI of the […]
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Today, there are around 32 pride flags representing different sexualities.
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New Delhi: Relief for Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, as the Supreme Court on Monday set aside the Jharkhand High Court, which had upheld the maintainability of a PILs seeking probe against Soren in a mining lease case. On August 17, the Supreme Court had stayed the proceedings before the Jharkhand High Court on PILs […]
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The police action was against women protesting over the vandalism of a statue of B.R. Ambedkar in the area recently. The protests set off a dispute over the land on which the statue stands.
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Vinod Kumar along with TRS leaders and public representatives on Monday performed pujas at the Rajarajeshwara Swamy temple, Vemulawada, after the TRS victory at Munugode.
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New Delhi: Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has criticised the decision by Elon Musk-run Twitter to sack its employees in India, saying that they should have been given a “fair time for transition”. Vaishnaw’s reaction, first reported by Business Standard, came as Musk fired about half of Twitter’s workforce globally, including nearly 150-180 employees in […]
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The judgment was pronounced by a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice U.U. Lalit and also comprising Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, S. Ravindra Bhat, Bela M. Trivedi and J.B. Pardiwala.
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Hyderabad: TRS (now BRS) working president and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao termed the demonetisation initiated by the Narendra Modi government on November 8 of 2016, a colossal failure that crippled the growing Indian economy. He demanded that Modi apologise to the people of the nation for this massive policy failure and take urgent measures […]
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New Delhi: Physical activity or a regular workout regime is a key element in managing type 2 diabetes. Until recently studies showing the significance of exercise to manage diabetes were very less. However, now we can see that there is plenty of research highlighting the importance of exercise to manage blood glucose levels effectively. The […]
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San Francisco: After mass layoffs at Twitter, it is another Big Tech company’s turn as the Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta is reportedly set to lay off ‘thousands’ of employees this week. The “large-scale” job cuts, to begin from Wednesday, could affect “thousands” of workers, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. “Social-media company’s planned […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: A Norwegian oil vessel was detained by Equatorial Guinea and its 26 sailors, including 3 Keralites, are also in custody. According to the sailors who have communicated with their families, they were detained on suspicion of crude oil piracy. The Norwegian ship Heroic Idun, which had reached the AKPO Terminal in Nigeria on August […]
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The badminton competition is organised as part of the first edition of the Saudi games, the largest national sports event of its kind on Friday at King Fahd Stadium in Riyad
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Mumbai: Currency with the public has jumped to a new high of Rs 30.88 lakh crore as of October 21, illustrating that cash usage is still robust even six years after the demonetisation move. At Rs 30.88 lakh crore, the currency with the public is 71.84 per cent higher than the level for the fortnight […]
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The incident took place in Gudibande town of Chikkaballapur city.
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New Delhi: The Indian Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) can coexist and thrive with cryptos in the future and such a system, applied to several other sectors on a public blockchain with their own cryptos, can unleash innovation that has not been thought of before, Ashish Singhal, Co-founder and CEO, CoinSwitch, said on Saturday. It […]
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Hyderabad: Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Sunday joined the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra‘ led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on its 60th day in Telangana. Manda Krishna Madiga, leader of Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti (MRPS), an outfit fighting for categorisation of SCs, also joined the rally which resumed this morning from Alladurg in Medak district, party sources […]
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In a suspected case of honour killing, a woman and her lover were killed allegedly by her brother and their bodies dumped in a drain in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, police said.
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he BJP has taken an early lead in four seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha and Bihar, while the ruling TRS was ahead of its rivals in Telangana's Munugode as counting of votes got underway on Sunday for the bypolls to seven assembly constituencies in six states.
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Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh): The BJP won the by-election in Gola Gokarannath Assembly seat in Lakhimpur Kheri with a margin of over 30,000 votes, defeating his rival, Vinay Tiwari of the Samajwadi Party. The Gola Gokarannath seat had been won by the BJP in 2017 and the seat became vacant following the death of the […]
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New York: There are eight Indian-Americans running for the House of Representatives in the midterm elections — four of them sitting Democratic Party members, and three Republicans and a Democrat aspiring to join them in the “Samosa Caucus”. All the four Representatives who gave themselves the nickname “Samosa Caucus” stand a strong chance of being […]
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Bengaluru: A 9-year-old girl died after allegedly being punished at a school in Karnataka’s Bengaluru, according to the police on Sunday. The police registered a case after the family alleged that their child was allegedly hit at her school. “We have booked a case under CRPC 174 after the family alleged that their kid allegedly […]
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Colombo: The Sri Lankan Navy arrested 15 Indian fishermen who were allegedly poaching in the northern waters of the Island nation and seized two trawlers on Saturday evening. The Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) said that the arrests were made during “a special operation in seas north of Talaimannar to chase away Indian poaching trawlers from […]
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New Delhi: Counting of votes is underway on Sunday in the by-election to seven assembly constituencies in six states including former chief minister Bhajan Lal’s family bastion Admapur in Haryana. Bhajan Lal’s grandson Bhavya Bishnoi, who contested on a BJP ticket, and RJD’s Neelam Devi, whose husband Anant Singh’s disqualification necessitated the by-election in Bihar’s […]
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New York: India at United Nations voted in favour of Russia’s draft resolution on “Combating glorification of Nazism.” Amid the spirited debate, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly approved a draft resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism by a recorded vote of 105 in favour to 52 against, with 15 abstentions. […]
