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With the campaign for the Bihar assembly elections in its final week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed his first election rally in Sasaram today. The Prime Minister recalled and paid tribute to the late former Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and former RJD Leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh in his speech. …

Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi and Devendra Fadnavis’ banker wife Amruta Fadnavis exchanged swords on Twitter Friday morning over the Mumbai police salary accounts at Axis Bank. The duo often get involved in discussions on Twitter. On Thursday, the Mumbai police decided to transfer 40,000 accounts from Axis Bank to …

NEW DELHI: India has crossed the Rs 10 crore mark in testing for Covid-19 as on Thursday with an average testing of more than Rs 10 lakhs of samples per day in the past 17 days, the Council Indian Medical Research (ICMR) said. So far, 74,000 tests have been carried …

The board of Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited today approved the issuance of equity shares on a preferential basis to Flipkart Investments Private Limited adding to ₹1500 crore. The company has also entered into a commercial agreement in connection with the sale and distribution of various company brands. Aditya …

Hyderabad: In a major boost to the fight against the dreaded coronavirus, a city-based startup incubated at the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has developed a new nutraceutical that they claim will boost immunity. The start-up Clone Deals, incubated at the Atal-CCMB (AIC-CCMB) incubation center, has developed ‘CoronAid’, …

The State Department has proposed not to issue temporary business visas for H-1B specialty occupations, allowing several companies to send their tech professionals for a short stay to complete on-site jobs in the US, a move that it could affect hundreds of Indians. The proposal, if finalized, will eliminate any …

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman published the BJP manifesto for Bihar assembly polls on Thursday, promising the free Covid-19 vaccine once it has been approved by the ICMR. The move provoked a strong reaction from the opposition, which criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party for “politicizing” public health. “The NDA government …

the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday it published its manifesto for the Assembly polls in Bihar with the first promise that it will be the free distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine once it is approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who published the …

CBSE 10th, 12th students to access documents through FRS | Photo Credit: Representative Image The Central Board of Secondary Education, CBSE, has introduced a facial recognition system, FRS to access digital documents in DigiLocker and Parinam Manjusha. Candidates would not need to enter their Aadhar number or mobile phone number …

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has issued an advisory for the use of the FELUDA paper strip test, the first test developed in the country for coronavirus disease (Covid-19) based on the CRISPR gene editing tool. / Cas-9, which is likely to hit the market within a month. …