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Hyderabad: Given its hegemonic actions and blatant breach of international protocols in the recent past, China’s move to dock its spy ship in Sri Lanka must be viewed with suspicion. India’s concerns in this regard are quite justified as the ‘Yuan Wang 5’ is a powerful tracking vessel whose significant aerial reach — reportedly around […]
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Hyderabad: While India was celebrating the 75th anniversary of its Independence, Muriki Pulakita Hasvi celebrated freedom in her style by successfully scaling two peaks — Europe’s highest Mount Elbrus West and Mount Elbrus East, within 24 hours. Along with a group of seven other mountaineers, the 14-year-old scaled the 5,642-meter Mt Elbrus West at 5.30 […]
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New Delhi: India has gained one spot in the global ranking for median mobile speeds and was at 117th position in July from 118th in June, a report said on Wednesday. However, India witnessed a slight decrease in median mobile s, which is 13.41 Mbps from 14.00 Mbps in the previous month. According to the report […]
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New Delhi: India on Wednesday recorded 9,062 fresh COVID-19 infections that took its tally to 4,42,86,256, while the number of active cases came down to 1,05,058, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,27,134 with 36 new fatalities, including six reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. The […]
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Geneva: Reflecting its commitment to global promotion and protection of human rights and support for UN Human Rights, India has contributed USD 400,000 to four voluntary trust funds. The funds are for Victimes of Torture, Technical Cooperation, Implementation of Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and for supporting participation of least developed countries (LDCs)/ Small Island Developing […]
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Hyderabad: To celebrate the International Day of the Girl Child, the British High Commission is offering women from across India a unique opportunity to experience a day in the life of the UK’s top diplomat in the country. The competition is open to women aged 18 years and 23 years and the deadline to apply […]
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Hyderabad: Complimenting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his grand goals for 2047, Industries Minister KT Rama Rao sought to know about the past promises made by the Prime Minister for August 15, 2022. The Minister shared images of news reports about Prime Minister’s promises to double the farmers income by 2022, bullet trains operations by […]
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case tally increased by 8,813 in a day to reach 4,42,77,194, while active infections have declined to 1,11,252, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Tuesday. The death toll has climbed to 5,27,098 with 29 more fatalities, including one death reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]
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Colombo: A high-tech Chinese research ship docked at Sri Lanka’s southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, days after Colombo asked Beijing to defer the port call amidst India’s concern over the vessel’s presence in its neighbourhood. Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship ‘Yuan Wang 5’ arrived in the southern port of Hambantota at 8.20 […]
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Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech completed clinical development for Phase III trials and booster doses for India’s first intranasal Covid vaccine – BBV154. Two separate and simultaneous clinical trials were conducted to evaluate BBV154 as a primary dose (2-dose) schedule; and a heterologous booster dose for subjects who have previously received two doses of the two commonly […]
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New Delhi: Ola Founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal on Monday shifted gears and entered a new territory by showcasing a homegrown electric car that will arrive in the country by 2024. Aggarwal said the Ola Electric car will have a 500-km range on single change and will go from zero to 100 km within 4 […]
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New Delhi: Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday extended wishes to Indians on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence Day with a Google Doodle. The Doodle, illustrated by Kerala-based guest artist Neethi, celebrates India’s 75th Independence Day by showcasing the age-old tradition of flying kites. Happy Independence Day, India! We’re commemorating 75 years […]
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Chennai: Wishing the nation and its people a happy Independence day, Telugu superstar Mahesh Babu said that India is one nation with one emotion and one identity. One nation.. One emotion.. One identity! Celebrating 75 years of Independence! 🇮🇳#ProudIndian #HarGharTiranga @AmritMahotsav pic.twitter.com/BN5OOtWHj2 — Mahesh Babu (@urstrulyMahesh) August 15, 2022 Taking to Twitter to greet the masses […]
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Washington: Extending wishes to India on the occasion of its 75th Independence Day, US President Joe Biden said the two countries are indispensable partners and he is confident that the two largest democracies will stand together to defend rules-based order, advance a free and open Indo-Pacific. “I am confident that in the years ahead our […]
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New Delhi: India is celebrating its 75th year of Independence and is at the crossroads of realising a resilient economic growth for its people during the next 25 years – what the government terms the country’s “Amrit Kaal”. Keeping other aspects of the economy aside, let us have a glance at how the Indian currency […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called on the people of India to take “panch pran” (five pledges) for a developed nation and aim to fulfil the dreams of the freedom fighters by the year 2047- the 100th year of India’s Independence. The Prime Minister while addressing the nation on the 75th Independence […]
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New Delhi: With 14,917 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s case tally rose to 4,42,68,381, while the active cases increased to 1,17,508, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Monday. The death toll has climbed to 5,27,069 with 32 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. In the […]
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By Craig Jeffrey, Jane Dyson Young people have been taking to the streets across India, demanding governments act to provide more jobs. In Bihar, large numbers protested recently at delays in filling public sector vacancies. Some of them had passed the required examinations but waited several years for their job to start. In July and […]
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New Delhi: India’s retail inflation fell to 6.71 per cent in July, the lowest level in five months, helped by an easing in food and oil prices, as per the National Statistical Office (NSO) data released this Friday. With this, retail inflation has been over the Reserve Bank of India’s upper tolerance band of 6 […]
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New Delhi: India reported 14,092 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, a marginal decline from the previous day’s count of 15,815 Covid, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the same period, the country has reported 41 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,27,037. Meanwhile, the active caseload has marginally […]
