Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the permanent campus of IIM Sambalpur, Odisha, on Saturday via videoconference, according to a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). The prime minister also made the announcement on Twitter. “At 11 am tomorrow, January 2, the foundation stone …
Read More »Swiggy and Zomato Record Highest New Year’s Eve Dinner Orders Ever
Bangalore / New Delhi: India’s major food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy saw orders spike to their highest during dinner on December 31, bolstering restaurants that otherwise saw a drop in sales. dinners due to covid-related curfews in many large states. Zomato co-founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said in a …
Read More »‘No sir, it’s up to me’: fan claims to have paid INR 6683 bill for India team lunch in Melbourne – cricket
Over the years, Indian cricket fans have struggled to forge an identity. Sudhir Gautam, the famous fan of Sachin Tendulkar, comes to mind, who travels for all the Indian matches and paints his body in three colors. Some have been lucky enough to meet their beloved cricketers, while others are …
Read More »Mumbai Crown Update: Mumbai positivity rate below 5% in December, but Covid-19 ‘fat tail’ Mumbai News
MUMBAI: After being the worst Covid-19 hotspot in India for most of 2020, Mumbai starts the new year on a good note: a positivity rate of less than 5% in December. According to data from the BMC public health department as of December 29, the overall positivity rate in December …
Read More »Zomato CEO was stunned when the food delivery app registers 4,100 orders per minute on New Years Eve
With COVID-19 Keeping many revelers indoors even on New Years Eve, food delivery platforms appear to be struggling to keep up with the sudden surge in demand, with orders on Zomato alone surpassing 3,200 per minute Thursday night. . “Our ordering speed right now is the highest we’ve ever seen …
Read More »Covid forced people to accept the importance of migrant work: PM Modi
In his first New Year’s speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that the Covid-19 crisis had forced those who did not understand the importance of migrant workers to do so. He spoke at the inauguration of six Light House Projects under the Global Housing Technology Challenge with the …
Read More »Kashmir closure for murder of 3 ‘militants’
Mehbooba demands that the families of the murdered ‘be allowed burial according to their wishes’ Parts of the Kashmir Valley observed a shutdown on Friday for the killing of three “militants” on December 30 and the former Chief Minister and Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti, wrote …
Read More »Vaccination against the world’s largest Covid will start soon in India, preparations similar to the elections are underway; details here
Covid 19 vaccination update in India: The testing process is scheduled to take place in all state capitals at at least 3 session sites. (Image from Reuters) India Covid 19 Vaccination Update: Election-like preparations are underway as India prepares to vaccinate frontline healthcare workers, essential workers, and the identified immunosuppressed …
Read More »For the first time, the United States Congress annuls Donald Trump’s defense veto bill
The first time lawmakers have done so during the Trump presidency. (Archive) Washington: On Friday, the United States Congress dealt Donald Trump a humiliating blow in his final days in office with the Senate voting overwhelmingly to override his veto on a radical defense bill, the first time lawmakers have …
Read More »Pak vows to rebuild Hindu temple demolished by Muslim fanatics
ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistanis the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) announced on Friday the rebuilding of a Hindu temple that was vandalized and demolished by a mob earlier this week in the Karak district, which borders the country’s volatile tribal region. KP Prime Minister Mahmood Khan He stated that the …
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