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New Delhi: The Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has recommended that the Union government should not shutdown the Internet services in every case, saying that the ‘Internet is indispensable in everyday lives of citizens of the country’. In its 26th report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on ‘the suspension of telecom […]

New Delhi: Professional networking platform LinkedIn on Thursday unveiled a user interface in Hindi, with the goal to support 600 million Hindi language speakers globally. With this launch, LinkedIn aims to break down language barriers, providing greater access to professional and networking opportunities to Hindi speakers in India and around the world. With the launch […]

Hingoli: The Hingoli Municipal Council in Maharashtra has decided to lure people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by offering them prizes like LED TVs, refrigerators and washing machines, officials said on Thursday. Similar incentives were also announced by the Chandrapur civic body in the state earlier this month to encourage people to take the vaccine. […]

New Delhi: Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will upgrade 20 sewage treatment plants (STPs) and sludge biogas plants in order to clean the environment and produce biogas as much as possible so that it can be used to make clean fuels like bio-CNG and produce electricity. This decision was taken by Satyendar Jain, Delhi’s Water Minister […]

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday decided not to resume scheduled international flights from December 15, less than a week after announcing the decision in the wake of rising concerns over the COVID variant Omicron. Aviation watchdog DGCA said the effective date for resumption of scheduled commercial international passenger services will be notified in due […]

Hyderabad: Marriott International introduced the ‘Mood Diets’ menu, which was designed to meet the nutrient requirements of guests while simultaneously meeting the unconscious food cravings that emerge from fluctuating temperaments. Keeping the momentum alive, Marriott International is taking it a notch higher with the introduction of ‘Mood Diets 2.0’, with a vegan touch to all […]

Sabarimala: As the annual pilgrimage is progressing at the famed Lord Ayyappa temple here, Travancore Devaswom Board, the apex temple body, has made arrangements for devotees to offer ‘e-kanikka’ at the electronic hundi collection in the temple complex and nearby areas. As in the previous years, the arrangements for the digital payment was made in […]

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Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has ordered issue of notice to a man who allegedly appeared “shirtless” during the hearing of a virtual court proceeding. The person had logged in with a name Sreedhar Bhat but it could not be ascertained whether he is an advocate or not. During the hearing of the purported ‘sex-for-job’ […]

Bareilly: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a lawyer in Baradari area here, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday when the girl was playing outside her house and Taurn alias Govind reached there and took the girl to her office and raped her, SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan said. The lawyer […]

Lucknow: A Global Young Tobacco Survey by the World Health Organisation has found that one in every three students below the high school level in Uttar Pradesh consume tobacco in some form or the other. Seeking a safe place, 37.4 per cent students smoke at their own home while 19.8 per cent do so at […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]