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New Delhi: Top cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase quit India operations owing to “informal pressure” from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), its CEO Brian Armstrong has revealed for the first time. The US-based and Nasdaq-listed exchange had halted payments via unified payments interface (UPI) mode on its app in India last month. In the company’s earnings call […]
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New Delhi: With 2,897 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of cases rose to 4,31,10,586, even as active cases have decreased to 19,494, according to Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,24,157 with 54 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases […]
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Melbourne: India will gear up for the ICC T20 World Cup with a home series against Australia featuring three T20 internationals in September later this year. According to a report in foxsports.com.au, “Australia will play a number of white ball series with home games against Zimbabwe, New Zealand, West Indies and England coming either side […]
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India is caught in a paradoxical situation on the energy front. On one hand, it needs to continue to exploit fossil fuels like coal to meet its growing demands but on the other, meet the international goals on climate change by phasing out fossil fuels and adopting clean energy technologies. Intense heatwaves across India, with […]
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Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the previous article to help you handle current affairs topics. Here are some sample questions with explanation: 1) Which of the following two new wet lands of India have been added to the Ramsar sites on February 2, 2022? 1. Bhindawas Wildlife Sanctuary in Haryana 2. Bakhira Wildlife […]
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Mumbai: British star Benedict Cumberbatch’s latest release ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ is the fourth biggest opening weekend for a Hollywood film in India as it has collected a whopping Rs 27.5 crore at the box office in the country. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ is a little behind last year’s […]
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New Delhi: Slamming the Indian raids on Chinese technology brand Xiaomi, Chinese state media outlet Global Times has said that the impression that Chinese and other foreign companies could be intentionally targeted and suppressed isn’t something good or favourable for India. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has come under intense regulatory pressure in the Indian market, […]
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New Delhi: India and France agreed to work in close proximity in line with the Make in India initiatives to address challenges related to space issues, besides having deeper ties in climate change and defence-related matters. Building on a great tradition of over 60 years of technical and scientific space cooperation, and in order to […]
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New Delhi: India logged 3,207 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,05,401, while the active cases dipped to 20,403, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,093 with 29 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
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Sulaymaniyah (Iraq): Indian junior archers on Sunday had a dream run in the Asia Cup Stage 2, making it to six finals in recurve and compound team events here. Indian men’s recurve team of Parth Salunkhe, Mrinal Chauhan and Juyel Sarkar, who got top billing in the qualification, downed their counterparts from Uzbekistan 6-0 in […]
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Bangkok: India thrashed Canada by a margin of 4-1 in their first Uber Cup Finals 2022 tie in Bangkok. Both the teams, part of Group D, had an intensely fought battle which saw India dominating most of the proceedings. World No. 7 PV Sindhu started off things against Michelle LI. The first game of tie […]
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New Delhi: While Union Ministers keep on making a beeline to Tesla CEO Elon Musk to come and manufacture electric cars in India, he is more interested in his $44 billion Twitter acquisition rather than paying attention to what the Indian government has been reiterating now for months. His utter disinterest in responding to several […]
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New Delhi: India logged 3,451 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,02,194, while the active cases rose to 20,635, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 5,24,064 with 40 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise […]
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New Delhi: India reported 3,805 new coronavirus infections in a day, pushing the number of active cases of the disease in the country to 20,303 and the overall tally to 4,30,98,743, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The data released at 8 am also showed that 22 fatalities — 20 of them […]
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Expert says investors should focus on investing 40-50% of monthly income in equity mutual fund schemes
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New Delhi: The report of the fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) revealed that the total fertility rate of India has declined from 2.2 to 2.0 indicating the significant progress of population control measures. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) which is measured as the average number of children per woman, has come […]
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New Delhi: India reported 3,545 new Covid cases in a span of 24 hours, a rise over the 3,275 Covid infections reported the previous day, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Affairs said on Friday morning. In the same period, the country has reported 27 Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,24,002. […]
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New Delhi: India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, T.S. Tirumurti engaged in a Twitter spat with the Dutch Ambassador to the UK and Northern Ireland, Karel van Oosterom over New Delhi’s abstention from voting at the General Assembly against Russia’s war in Ukraine. In a tweet late Thursday, Oosterom said: “You should not have abstained […]
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Geneva: The WHO on Thursday said that 14.9 million people were killed either by COVID-19 directly or due to the pandemic’s impact on health systems and society, with the global health agency estimating that India had 4.7 million fatalities. In New Delhi, India strongly objected to the use of mathematical models by the World Health […]
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New Delhi: India logged 3,275 new coronavirus infections in a day, pushing the number of active cases to 19,719 and the overall tally to 4,30,91,393, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. The data released at 8 am also showed that 55 fatalities — 52 of them from Kerala alone — were reported […]
