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New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind will confer Padma awards for the year 2022 on Monday. As per Rashtrapati Bhavan’s press release, today, Kovind will confer two Padma Vibhushan, eight Padma Bhushan and 54 Padma Shri Awards at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-I to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Amongst the prominent awardees at today’s Investiture […]
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Mumbai: Vivek Agnihotri’s latest directorial venture, ‘The Kashmir Files’, is unstoppable at the box office. The film, featuring Anupam Kher in the lead, registered a strong second weekend, crossing the Rs 150 crore mark. Indian film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the movie’s box office collection on his Twitter handle. The film, which […]
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Amaravati: Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) legislators on Monday washed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s portrait with liquor to protest against the state government encouraging the consumption of alcohol. The legislators brought bottles and poured liquor on a portrait of the Chief Minister during a protest led by party general secretary and […]
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Mumbai: Actor Sonam Kapoor Ahuja and her husband Anand Ahuja will soon welcome their first child. On Monday, Sonam took to Instagram and announced the good news with her fans and followers. Sharing that the baby will arrive this fall, the ‘Neerja’ star wrote, “Four hands. To raise you the very best we can. Two […]
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Haveri: The final rites of Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, the medical student who lost his life in Russian shelling in Kharkiv city of Ukraine, was performed in his native village Chalageri here on Monday morning. His family conducted the rites as per Veerashaiva Lingayat traditions. The mortal remains will be kept for public viewing till 2 […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday extended his greetings on the occasion of Parsi New Year-Navroz and wished everyone peace and prosperity. Gandhi tweeted, “My best wishes on the occasion of Navroz! Peace and prosperity for all.” Navroz or Nowruz is an Iranian and Persian New year, a day dedicated to the beginning […]
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Hyderabad: A motorist died on the spot after his bike crashed into a stationary truck on the road at Chiluka Nagar on Sunday midnight. Police suspect the victim, Shiva from Chengicherla, was driving under the influence of alcohol. On receiving information the Nacharam police reached the spot and took up investigation. Now you can get […]
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Patna: Deaths due to consumption of spurious liquor continue in Bihar. According to an official of Bihar police, so far 37 persons have died after consuming spurious liquor in the three districts of Bihar since the day of Holi. Maximum number of deaths took place in Bhagalpur district where so far 22 persons have died […]
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US-based search engine giant Google is reportedly planning to bring full support for variable refresh rate (VRR) displays to Chrome OS. As spotted by About Chromebooks, support for variable refresh rate displays is rolling out to the Chrome OS 101 Dev Channel. The variable refresh rate allows the monitor refresh rate to synchronize with the […]
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New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, India reported 1,549 new Covid-19 cases and 31 deaths, the Union Health Ministry announced on Monday. The new fatalities increased the nationwide death toll to 5,16,510. Following a continuous downward trend, India’s active caseload has further declined to 25,106 on Monday, constituting 0.06 per cent of the country’s […]
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Los Angeles: Hollywood star Robert Pattinson’s superhero movie ‘The Batman’ has minted over $300 million in North America. That feat is not surprising because March has been relatively light in terms of new releases. But even though there hasn’t been much competition, ‘The Batman’ has managed to score impressive week-to-week holds. The movie collected $36.8 […]
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Shanghai: Shanghai Disney Resort said that it will be temporarily closed from Monday amid a Covid-19 resurgence. The closed areas will include Shanghai Disneyland, Disneytown and Wishing Star Park, Xinhua news agency quoted a notice issued by the resort as saying. The resort will notify guests as soon as it has a confirmed date to […]
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Mumbai: Equity indices opened in red on Monday with Sensex plunged by 56.16 points and Nifty down by 11.20 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 56.16 points or 0.10 per cent at 57807.77 at 9.35 am. The 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17275.80 at 9.35 am, down by 11.20 points or 0.06 […]
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Srinagar: The sky remained partly cloudy in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh with light rain on Monday, according to the Met Department. “Weather is likely to remain dry with generally clear sky in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh during the next 24 hours,” a Department official said The minimum temperature on Monday in Srinagar, Pahalgam […]
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San Francisco: Google has reportedly acquired Raxium, a five-year-old startup focused on developing microLED displays for AR and VR applications. The terms of the deal are unknown, but Google put a value of $1 billion on Raxium, according to a report from The Information. microLED is similar to OLED in that it doesn’t use a […]
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Washington: According to researchers at UC San Francisco, people who are gifted with genes that pack the benefits of slumber into an efficient time window, show psychological resilience and resistance to neurodegenerative conditions that may fend off neurological disease. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘iScience’. “There’s a dogma in the […]
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Washington: Researchers have discovered a new form of ice, which could have implications for our understanding of distant, water-rich planets. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Physical Review B’. Solid water, or ice, is like many other materials in that it can form different solid materials based on variable temperatures and […]
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San Francisco: Brazil has lifted its ban on Telegram after the country’s Supreme Court blocked the messaging app for failing to comply with court orders. “Considering that the (court’s requested changes) were fully attended to, I revoke the decision to fully and completely suspend the operation of Telegram in Brazil,” Justice Alexandre de Moraes wrote […]
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London: Researchers have discovered a pioneering chemical technique that could develop new treatments for cancer and other diseases. The findings of the study were published in the ‘Journal of Medicinal Chemistry’.Members of the Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology, based at the University of Leicester, used proteolysis targeting chimeras (PROTACs) as a ‘bridge’ to […]
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Washington: The global coronavirus caseload has topped 470.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.07 million and vaccinations to over 10.79 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Monday morning, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the […]
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Lucknow: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Uttar Pradesh, is now working on expanding to reach ll the villages in the state by 2025 and helping the government address the issue of unemployment. Ashok Dubey, a senior RSS functionary, said that the plan for ‘shakhas’ at all villages could be completed by 2024 itself. The Lok […]
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New Delhi: Telugu star Ram Charan is elated to be a part of a pan-India film of the scale of “RRR” and agrees that directors such as S.S. Rajamouli have opened the floodgates for all actors to gain the experience of working with other directors from different states. Addressing a press conference in the Capital, […]
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Bengaluru: The family of Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar thanked Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday for bringing the mortal remains of the medical student from Ukraine. Naveen was killed on March 1 in Kharkiv city during the shelling by the Russian forces. Naveen’s younger brother, Harsha Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, who was present at the Kempegowda international […]
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Prayagraj: A 35-year-old ward boy was found brutally murdered in his room in the premises of the Motilal Nehru (MLN) Medical College in Prayagraj. The deceased has been identified as Pankaj Patel and the motive behind the murder is yet to be ascertained. Deputy SP (Colonelganj) Ajeet Singh Chauhan said that the case came to the […]
