NEW YORK President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has given his “blessing” to a proposed deal between Oracle and Walmart for the US operations of TikTok, the Chinese-owned app he is targeting for national security and data privacy concerns. Trump said the proposed deal will result in a …
Read More »Anurag Kashyap Denies Payal Ghosh’s Sexual Assault Allegations; talks about their marriages
Breaking his silence on the allegations of sexual assault by actor Payal Ghosh on Saturday, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap rejected all the allegations saying they are “unfounded”. In a Hindi tweet, Kashyap said: “Wow, it took me so long to try to silence myself. You lied so much in this effort …
Read More »India’s coronavirus cases cross 54 lakh, 92,605 new infections, 1,133 deaths in one day; more than 43 lakh patients have recovered
India recorded 92,605 new coronavirus cases, surpassing the 54 lakh mark in the past 24 hours. New Delhi: For the second day in a row, India has reported more coronavirus recoveries than new infections, shows data from the Ministry of Health this morning according to which 94,612 people have been …
Read More »India’s Covid-19 count crosses the 54 Lakh mark with a peak of more than 92,000 new cases; Sec 144 enforced in Jaipur, Jodhpur
A health worker takes a woman’s temperature in Gujarat. (Reuters) Coronavirus LIVE Updates: Concerned about the growing number of coronavirus cases, the Rajasthan government decided on Saturday night to impose Section 144 of the CrPC in 11 districts of the state. News18.com Last update: September 20, 2020 9:51 AM M. …
Read More »Mahua Moitra assumes PM CARES: 70% corpus of 38 PSU donations
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: September 20, 2020 2:55:24 am ** EDS: VIDEO RECORD ** New Delhi: TMC MP Mahua Moitra at the Lok Sabha during the current session of parliament on monsoons, in New Delhi, Tuesday, September 15, 2020. (Photo LSTV / PTI) ( PTI15-09- …
Read More »See: India needs to choose the economy it wants: Toyota or pakora?
By Andy Mukherjee Narendra Modi says: “Make in India”. Toyota Motor Corp. says, stop treating cars like drugs or alcohol. The Japanese automaker is correct that the tax structure is not viable for the industry, and Shekar Viswanathan, vice president of the India unit, put it bluntly in an interview …
Read More »IPL 2020 – CSK v Mumbai Indians
Two retirement announcements by Chennai Super Kings players dominated the airwaves this year. Both MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina received their well-deserved praise, but it would be fair to say that it was hard to imagine either of them wearing an India jersey again. Compare that to a shocking ad …
Read More »Prime Minister Modi is likely to hold a Covid-19 review meeting with top ministers from 7 states on September 23.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to discuss coronavirus situation with top ministers from seven states on Sept. 23, news agency PTI reported citing sources. The meeting comes as most states in the country have witnessed an alarming increase in the number of Covid cases in recent weeks. The …
Read More »Defamation Case: Ramani Seeks Acquittal, Says Freedom of Expression Is Intrinsic to a Democratic Society
Rebecca John, a lawyer for journalist Priya Ramani, concluded her arguments on Saturday at an online hearing on the criminal defamation lawsuit brought against her client by former Union Minister MJ Akbar. Akbar brought the case under Section 499 of the Indian Penal Code in November 2018 after Ramani made …
Read More »Tata Group to Launch India’s First Low-Cost Covid-19 Test ‘Feluda’
India’s Comptroller General of Drugs (DCGI) approved on Saturday the commercial launch of India’s first Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) coronavirus test, ‘Feluda’, developed by Tata Group and CSIR-IGIB (Institute of Genomics and Integrative). Biology). “This test uses state-of-the-art CRISPR technology developed in the country for the detection …
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