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New Delhi: India reported a single-day rise of 12,847 coronavirus infections, taking the overall tally of cases to 4,32,70,577, while active cases also went up by over 4,800, according to the Union Health Ministry data issued on Friday. The data updated at 8 am also recorded 14 fresh fatalities, pushing the overall death figure to […]
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Patna: Violent protests over the Central government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in armed forces continued across Bihar on Friday with agitators disrupting rail and road traffic and setting the Bhagalpur-New Delhi Vikramshila Express and Jammu Tawi-Guwahati Express trains on fire. Several organisations have given a 72-hour ultimatum to the Modi government to withdraw the Agnipath […]
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Hyderabad: Tension prevailed in the Secunderabad Railway Station when several youngsters staged a protest against the Central government’s Armed Forces recruitment scheme ‘Agnipath’ here on Friday. Hundreds of protestors barged into the railway tracks and platforms damaging the food stalls, luggages, and partially torching a goods compartment. A few two-wheelers too were set on fire. […]
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Mumbai: Equity indices opened the trade on a muted note on Friday, with the Sensex tanking 425 points in early trade, in line with weak global markets and concerns over unabated foreign capital outflows. The BSE benchmark was trading 425.11 points lower at 51,070.68. The Nifty dipped 125.7 points to 15,234.90. From the Sensex pack, […]
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Hyderabad: Rolling back the time to 7 years ago, there was a young man who had nothing but his dreams in his eyes and determination in his soul. Overcoming every inch of thought that demotivated him, Fuzail Naqash decided to commence his journey being the least bothered about how far he could go. Despite his […]
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Hyderabad: A software engineer committed suicide by jumping under a speeding train following failure in love. N. Ramesh (26) killed himself under Simhapuri Express between between Ghatkesar and Cherlapally railway stations late on Thursday. The railway police identified the body with the help of identity card found in his pocket. Hailing from Nagepalle village in […]
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Bengaluru: In a shocking case, the Karnataka Police have arrested a woman on charges of trying to smuggle drugs into the Central Prison of Parappana Agrahara in Bengaluru for her jailed son, police said on Friday. The arrested woman has been identified as Parveen Taj, a resident of Shikaripalya in Bengaluru. According to police, the […]
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New Delhi: Actor Preity Zinta posted a few pictures with West Indies batter Chris Gayle after the two bumped into each other in Atlanta, USA. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Preity G Zinta (@realpz) In the images, Preity and Gayle are seen flashing their million-dollar smiles. Entrepreneur Paresh Ghelani […]
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New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was conducting raids at multiple locations in Delhi-NCR in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case involving the national capital’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain. Jain was arrested on May 30 by the ED under section 19 of the PMLA. According to the sources, the ED officials were conducting […]
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Washington: A commercial COVID test can quickly determine if you are infected with SARS-CoV-2. However, if a positive result is obtained, there is no equivalent home test to assess how long you have been protected from reinfection. In the Journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS), researchers are now reporting simple and accurate glucose meter-based […]
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Panaji: Police in Goa have arrested a Delhi native for driving a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) on the popular Anjuna beach while endangering the lives of tourists and the general public. #Beach|| This is what a insensitive Delhi based tourist did at Anjuna beach. pic.twitter.com/3epg6vdaPS — Goa News Hub (@goanewshub) June 16, 2022 Deputy Superintendent […]
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Paris: Upbeat with India being recognized as the “country of the year” at Europe’s biggest start-up conference – Vivatech 2020, an Indian diplomat in France said that India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Rupay cards will soon be accepted in France. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Jawed Ashraf, Indian Ambassador in France, said, “India […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has told Twitter employees that the platform “needs to get healthy” financially and bring down costs, suggesting that job cuts are likely in store if his deal to buy the social media service goes through. When asked about the possibility of layoffs during an internal Q&A, Musk said “Right now […]
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Amaravati: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national general secretary Nara Lokesh on Thursday urged Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to take steps to prevent aqua farmers from declaring ‘aqua holiday’ this year. In a letter to the Chief Minister, Lokesh said one sector after another including aqua culture was getting stuck in crisis […]
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Mumbai: On the occasion of her mother Madhu Chopra’s birthday, actor Priyanka Chopra treated fans by sharing a new picture of her daughter Malti Marie. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka (@priyankachopra) In the image, Priyanka is seen sitting next to her mother, and the latter is holding the […]
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Vestavia Hills: A shooting at a church in a suburb of one of Alabama’s major cities left one person dead and two others wounded Thursday evening, police said, adding a suspect was taken into custody. The shooting occurred at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Police Capt. Shane Ware said […]
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Hyderabad: The certificate verification for candidates who applied for financial assistance under Mahatma Jyotiba Phule BC Overseas Scholarship Scheme will be conducted from June 20. Of the total of 571 candidates applied for the financial assistance, 438 were from BC castes and 133 EBC. Candidates who registered in March 2022 should attend the certificate verification […]
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By B Sambamurthy India has been striving hard to accelerate the growth of the manufacturing sector. There has been no surfeit of initiatives by governments over the last two decades. But the results are suboptimal. The share of manufacturing, which was about 15% of the GDP during 2000, crawled over the next two decades to […]
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Hyderabad: Debit and credit cardholders beware! Come July 1, your card details will get erased from e-commerce sites, apps and OTT platforms. One will have to restore their card number and generate a unique token from July onwards in order to make online payments. This is part of the new rules set by the Reserve […]
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Deploying bulldozers to target the houses of the accused in criminal cases and political opponents has been a disturbing trend, fraught with communal overtones. The ‘bulldozer justice’, being mastered by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, is a direct assault on the fundamental constitutional rights of citizens. What is appalling is the way the […]
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Hyderabad: What started as a fictional concept in 1992 is slowly becoming a reality – albeit in the virtual world. Metaverse, which was first coined by Neal Stephenson in his fictional book Snow Crash has over the past few years gained prominence – thanks to Facebook which has transformed into Meta. The Facebooks, Microsofts and […]
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New Delhi: The government on Thursday increased the upper-age limit to 23 years from 21 years for recruitment under the Agnipath scheme for the year 2022 amid widespread protests against the new model for enrolment of soldiers into the three services. Unveiling the scheme on Tuesday, the government had said the entry age for all […]
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Hyderabad: Prior to Salar Jung, there was no systematic police administration. In the districts, police work was performed by the irregular troops, the Shibandi Peons, the Nizamats and the villages servants. The law and order was separated from revenue department and a separate Police department called Mahakma-i-Kotwali was established. A Police force called Nizamath was […]
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Hyderabad: A two Bench panel consisting of the Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili of the Telangana High Court refused to entertain a PIL relating to constitution of a boundary wall of Waqf property in Begumpet. The petitioners, S. V. Ranga and others complained against permission granted for the construction of […]
