Indian soldiers have great experience in winter warfare, an Indian army officer said Wednesday, adding that the troops are psychologically tuned to operate on short notice. The comment follows rounds of bullets fired into the air last week on the north shore of Pangong Tso amid a protracted standoff with …
Read More »Quixplained: Covid-19 Vaccine Development Stages and History So Far
By: Desk Explained | New Delhi | Updated: September 16, 2020 7:37:30 am The AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine was among the leading global candidates. AstraZeneca, which is creating a vaccine for the new coronavirus in partnership with the University of Oxford, halted its global vaccine trial on September 6 after a participant …
Read More »No actionable information reveals drug-film industry nexus: government amid Bollywood drug cartel accusations
Parliament | Photo credit: PTI Key points The alleged link between Bollywood and the drug cartel was pointed out in Parliament on the first day of the monsoon session. Drug addiction is also in the film industry, said BJP MP Ravi Kishan Jaya Bachchan, a day later, said that the …
Read More »Record of 82,961 recoveries in one day, a quarter of Maharashtra alone; recovery rate 78.53% | India News
NEW DELHI: A record 82,961 new Covid-19 recoveries were reported on Wednesday, nearly a quarter of them in Maharashtra alone, pushing the overall figures to close to 39.5 lakh and the recovery rate to 78.53 percent, showed data from the Ministry of Health. In its figures updated at 8 a.m. …
Read More »India criticizes Pak for persecuting minorities
Image for representation. India also rejected the reference made by the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to Jammu and Kashmir, which is an integral part of India. News18.com Last update: September 16, 2020 4:37 PM IST FOLLOW US: India on Tuesday described Pakistan as an epicenter of terrorism and said …
Read More »Doval exits SCO meeting for new map of Pakistan
The online meeting of national security advisers at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on Tuesday was riddled with dislike and controversy after Pakistan used a map showing Indian territories as its own as a backdrop for its representative. Mr Ajit Doval of the Indian NSA raised a strong objection to …
Read More »‘No gap in hospital, cops’ end’: MSHRC on Rhea’s visit to the morgue to see Sushant
There was no rape by Mumbai police or the hospital when Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty visited the morgue to view Sushant Singh Rajput’s body before the funeral, the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) ruled on Wednesday. . The chairman of the commission, MA Sayeed, was quoted by the ANI …
Read More »2020 NEET question sheet: 97% of NEET questions were from Tamil Nadu blackboard textbooks
CHENNAI: In a boost for aspiring students to study MBBS in Tamil Nadu, the revised state board textbooks have covered almost every question in NEET this year. An analysis of the NEET 2020 questionnaire has revealed that the new textbooks covered 97% of the questions. The state government had revised …
Read More »Body rots in Indore Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital morgue, kept on stretcher for 11 days
The body had been in the morgue at Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MY) for 11 days. Indore: The body of a highly decomposed man was found in the morgue of a government-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore on Tuesday. The body, with its skeleton, was found on a stretcher in the …
Read More »Tatas wins a contract to build a new parliament building for Rs 861.9 crore
Tatas to build a new Parliament building – the government civic body estimated a cost of Rs 940 crore New Delhi: The new parliament building will be built by Tata Projects at a cost of Rs 861.90 crore. The Tatas beat Larsen and Toubro, who had submitted an offer of …
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