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Beijing: Wuhan is back in the news as a team of scientists have warned of a lethal variant called ‘NeoCov’ that requires only one mutation to infiltrate human cells and carries the combination of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS)-CoV mortality rate (where one in every three infected persons may die) and the current SARS-CoV-2 […]

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday alleged that he was stranded in Delhi as his helicopter was not allowed to fly to UP’s Muzaffarnagar for an election programme. In a tweet in Hindi, the SP president posted a picture with the helicopter in the background and said no reason was given for it. […]

Chennai: Tough action would be taken against those spreading canards in social media to create religious hatred or disturb public tranquility, Chennai police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal warned on Friday. Following a complaint against a BJP functionary which alleged that he posted tweets that created among people hatred and enmity based on religion, an FIR was […]

Hyderabad: The British Council, the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations, announced the second cohort of British Council Scholarships for Women in STEM. Over 100 scholarships are available to women STEM scholars from Asia and the Americas, out of which 65 scholarships are reserved for women STEM scholars from India and other South […]

Bengaluru: Dr Soundarya (30), the granddaughter of former Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, had left her nine-month-old baby in the other room of the flat before committing suicide on Friday. Meanwhile, High Ground police have lodged a case of unnatural death following the complaint by her husband Dr Neeraj. The police are awaiting the statements […]

Lucknow: The BJP on Friday released a list of 91 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, giving tickets to 13 ministers and repeating its sitting MLA in Ayodhya. The party dropped Co-Operative Affairs Minister Mukut Bihari Verma, whose son Gaurav will be contesting from his Kaiserganj seat in Bahraich. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi […]

Postmortem is going on at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital, added the BS Yediyurappa's Office.

The Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) had also recommended the internasal vaccine clinical trials during the last meeting.

Hyderabad: Granules India said on Friday that the US Food & Drug Administration (US FDA) has approved the Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) filed by Granules Pharmaceuticals, Inc (GPI)., a wholly owned foreign subsidiary of Granules India, for Potassium Chloride for Oral Solution USP, 20 mEq. Potassium chloride is used to prevent or to treat low […]

Well in many ways, this doesn't change the concerns that we have with the S-400 system. I think it shines a spotlight on the destabilising role that Russia is playing not only in the region but potentially beyond as well

New Delhi: In a breather to SpiceJet, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Madras High Court order for three weeks, in which the HC had asked the airlines to wind up its operations after it failed to make a payment of $24 million to Credit Suisse. However, the apex court bench headed by Chief […]

Upset over the groom's behaviour, the bride refused to marry him.

New Delhi: India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station with a capacity of 100 charging points for 4 wheelers, was opened on Friday at Delhi-Jaipur National Highway in Gurugram. Previously, India’s largest EV charging station was situated in Navi Mumbai with 16 AC & 4 DC charging ports for EVs. The new EV charging station […]

The training I got in NCC and the things I learned here have provided me immense strength in delivering upon my responsibilities. Recently, I had also received an NCC alumni card as well

Nine arrested out of the 11 named in the FIR, are women, Delhi Police said on Friday adding that more arrests will be made soon.

Thiruvananthapuram: Prominent journalist E.Somanath passed away here on Friday, sources said. He was 60. He is survived by his wife and daughter. Earlier this week, Somnath had a fall in his house and suffered a haemorrhage and has been on ventilator support. He was Covid positive. The veteran journalist had recently retired from Malayala Manorama […]

They added that the top defence brass of the Philippines would be present on the occasion while India would be represented by its Ambassador. These missiles are meant for the Philippines Navy.

A bench headed by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said the suspension could have only been for a session of the House. It further added that the resolution for suspending the 12 BJP MLAs for a year was illegal and declared it ineffective.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said the state governments are obligated to collect quantifiable data, on inadequacy of representation, before granting reservation in promotion to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) employees in government jobs. A bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao said the collection of quantifiable data is mandatory to […]

Pietersen's tweets were a response to PM Modi's letter of appreciation, in which he had thanked the former skipper for his affections towards India.

Jagdish Baldevbhai Patel, 39, Vaishaliben Jagdishkumar Patel, 37, Vihangi Jagdishkumar Patel, 11 and Dharmik Jagdishkumar Patel, 3, all from the same family, were found dead near Emerson, Manitoba

The $700 million equity investment in Bharti Airtel is at a price per share of Rs 734, while $300 million will go towards investments in scaling Airtel's offerings that covers a range of devices to consumers.

A video of the event, held on Wednesday at a primary school in Sohratgarh Block of Siddhartha Nagar district, has gone viral.

New Delhi: India reported 2,51,209 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry reported on Friday. With this, the daily positivity rate in the country dropped to 15.88 per cent. As per the ministry, the country’s active caseload mounted to 21,05,611, which is 5.18 per cent of the total COVID-19 cases […]