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Hyderabad: Industries Minister KT Rama Rao left for London and Davos on Tuesday leading a delegation to showcase Telangana as an investment destination for several multinational companies from May 18 to 26. The natives of Telangana have set up hoardings welcoming the Minister to London. After London, the Minister will be visiting Davos, Switzerland to […]
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Hyderabad: The Telangana government in the coming months will launch a mass screening drive in all the 33 districts to diagnose individuals with hypertension and diabetes. To implement the special screening drive and identify individuals with hypertension and diabetes, a total of Rs. 33 crore has been allocated, State Health Minister, T Harish Rao on […]
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Sydney: Researchers have identified two enzymes that play a role in increasing people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) risk of developing severe Covid-19. An inflammatory lung condition, COPD causes airway blockage and makes it difficult to breathe. It affects around 400 million people globally. Researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology […]
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Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is apparently back to its name changing spree. A tweet by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has sparked off speculations about the name of Lucknow, the state capital, being changed in the coming weeks. In the tweet welcoming Prime minister Narendra Modi to Lucknow on Monday evening, Yogi […]
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Thiruvananthapuram: A considerable number of the loss-making state-run KSRTC buses in Kerala will not be scrapped as decided earlier, but turned into classrooms, State Transport Minister Antony Raju said here on Tuesday. Several of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation(KSRTC) buses, lying idle after the pandemic struck, are not in a condition to be put […]
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Mumbai: Actress Kangana Ranaut, who does not shy away from speaking her mind, has poked fun at actress Ananya Panday during an episode ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’. Kangana, who was promoting her forthcoming film ‘Dhaakad’ in the comedy show, was seen giving out honest confessions about Bollywood, including taking a jibe at many stars. She […]
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Hong Kong/Sydney: Wheat prices increased after India imposed a ban on exports, stoking pressure on food costs as tight global supplies roiled international markets. Futures traded in Chicago rose as much as 5.9 per cent to $12.47 a bushel, their highest level in two months, Financial Times reported. Wheat prices have risen more than 60 […]
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New Delhi: On the occasion of silver jubilee celebrations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a 5G Test Bed, developed as a multi-institute collaborative project by a total of eight institutes led by IIT Madras. Prime Minister Modi graced the occasion as the chief guest through […]
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Sydney: The government of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has committed to the construction of what will be the nation’s longest road tunnel that will stretch across the Blue Mountains on Sydney’s western edge. The proposal confirms an 11-km, toll-free tunnel, from Blackheath to Little Hartly, and promises to reduce travel time by […]
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Hyderabad: A private school security guard suffered grievous injuries when the school bus ran over him at Pedda Amberpet on the city outskirts here on Tuesday morning. The mishap occurred when the driver of the bus belonging to Candor Shrine School High School, lost control of the steering while coming out of the school premises […]
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London: Google is facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK for allegedly using confidential medical records belonging to 1.6 million individuals for its artificial intelligence (AI) division called DeepMind. DeepMind allegedly passed data on patients for a smartphone app called ‘Streams’ that it received from the Royal Free NHS Trust in London, without the patients’ […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana’s Industry Minister K.T. Rama Rao on Tuesday appealed to the Centre to revive the Cement Corporation of India (CCI) unit in Adilabad even as the Centre has initiated steps to auction its assets. Reacting to reports that the Government of India has called for tenders to auction the machinery of CCI, the state […]
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Bengaluru: Popular Front of India (PFI) has lodged a complaint against air gun training to more than 100 participants during a week-long training camp held recently in Karnataka’s Madikeri district, police said on Tuesday. Ibrahim, a member of PFI, has lodged a complaint and demanded a probe into the matter. The complaint mentioned that air […]
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Varanasi: The commission tasked with the videography survey of the Gyanvapi Masjid complex here will on Tuesday seek additional time from a local court to submit its report as it is yet to be prepared, an official said. The court had earlier asked the commission to submit the report by Tuesday. Assistant Advocate Commissioner, Ajay […]
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Shahdol: A 54-year-old school teacher was killed after being run over by a train while he was chasing a man who took away his mobile phone in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol district, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place at Shahdol railway station late Sunday night. The deceased, Manoj Nema, worked as a teacher in […]
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Mumbai: Choreographer-director Farah Khan, who is the Friday Special host of the popular TV and OTT show ‘The Khatra Khatra Show’, recently revealed that she had a crush on young actress Ananya Panday’s father Chunky Panday. For the Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa-led interactive comedy game show’s finale episode, Farah invited Ananya to join the […]
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New Delhi: The country’s largest insurer LIC on Tuesday listed its shares at a discount of 8.11 per cent at Rs 872 per share on the NSE. On the BSE, the shares got listed at Rs 867.20 apiece, down 8.62 per cent over the issue price of Rs 949 a share. LIC had fixed the […]
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Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 14 paise to 77.69 against the US dollar in the opening trade on Tuesday tracking persistent foreign fund outflows and elevated global crude oil prices. However, a firm trend in domestic equities capped the losses in the domestic unit, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened weak […]
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Bengaluru: Tomato prices in Karnataka, especially in Bengaluru, have crossed Rs 80 per kilogram forcing people to find alternatives for it. In the recent past, protesting the steep drop in tomato prices, the farmers could be seen dumping the vegetable on the road. However, now, the farmers who got the tomato yield are celebrating, while […]
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(Jammu and Kashmir): Days after the killing of Kashmiri pandit government employee Rahul Bhat, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday blamed the Vivek Agnihotri directorial ‘The Kashmir Files’ for ‘triggering’ violence in the union territory, while also claiming that she created a safe environment for Kashmiri Pandits during her tenure. “We created […]
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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is conducting raids at nine locations belonging to Congress leader Karti Chidambaram and his father, former Union Minister P. Chidambaram in connection with a fresh case of visas issued to Chinese nationals for illegal gratification. According to sources, the probe agency is conducting raids in Odisha, Karnataka, […]
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Bikaner: Two persons were killed and 22 others injured when a bus collided with a truck in Rajasthan’s Bikaner district on Tuesday, police said. The incident occurred in the early hours near Ramsara Bigga village under Sridungargarh tehsil when the sleeper bus was on its way to Bikaner from Jaipur, they said. The deceased were […]
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New Delhi: The knives were finally out on Monday between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal as the Twitter CEO went into finer details on how the micro-blogging platform is fighting spam and fake accounts, to which Musk has objected and put the $44 billion Twitter takeover deal on hold. Musk even showed an […]
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Hyderabad: “The feeling of winning the Thomas Cup hasn’t sunken in yet. It is the best feeling in the world.” This is what Indian doubles player Satwiksairaj Rankireddy said more than 24 hours after India’s historic Thomas Cup victory. The doubles player says he doesn’t want this feeling to end. “We are still in the […]
