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By Rohit Vaid New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Healthy rise in automobile month-on-month sales has lighted up hopes of a steady pick-up in overall economic activity. Industry insiders cited the nil to double digit sales pickup in the last four months as ‘green shoots’ of a slow-but-steady rise in economic[Read More…]

BY AHANA BHATTACHARYA Mumbai, Oct 8 (IANS) As per the recent guidelines from the central government, cinema halls and multiplexes across the country can reopen on October 15 with 50 per cent seating capacity. However, there is no announcement from the Maharashtra state government regarding when cinemas across the state[Read More…]

Beijing, Oct 8 (IANS) Researchers have developed a stretchable conductive hydrogel that could someday be used to repair damaged nerves. According to the study, published in the journal ACS Nano, injuries in which a peripheral nerve has been completely severed, such as a deep cut from an accident, are difficult[Read More…]

Muzaffarnagar, Oct 8 (IANS) Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Jayant Chaudhary has said that the lathicharge on his party’s leaders in Hathras was a ‘conspiracy’ to finish farmer politics in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the ‘Loktantra Bachao’ rally — organized in protest against police action on Chaudhary and other leaders —[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 8 (IANS) Ankita Lokhande on Thursday penned a note for her father, who returned home on being discharged from hospital. The actress took to her verified Instagram account to share a few pictures of herself with her parents. Even though she thanked the hospital staff and doctors for[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 8 (IANS) Actor Tiger Shroff says his father, actor Jackie Shroff, is his hero and adds that he can never match up to dad. “A father is every child’s icon. Every kid looks up to his father and wants to become like him. I feel blessed that this[Read More…]

Kolkata, Oct 8 (IANS) Newly-appointed Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) national president and BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday said that the constitutional rule of law has been murdered in Mamata Banerjee-ruled West Bengal. “Mamata didi is scared of Yuva Morcha and that is why she decided to close down[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 8 (IANS) Actress Shikha Malhotra, who made headlines earlier this year when she volunteered to nurse Covid patients, has tested positive for the virus. She took to her Instagram account to confirm her medical condition on Thursday. Shikha had been treating novel coronavirus patients for over six months[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre for appointment of full-term chairman and vice-chairman for the National Commissions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The petitioner argued that the role of constitutional bodies was pivotal in addressing atrocities[Read More…]

Gurugram, Oct 8 (IANS) Further strengthening its presence in the mid-price smartphone segment, Samsung on Thursday officially announced the 6.4-inch Galaxy F41 with a 64MP rear camera system and a 6000mAh battery in India that will be available on the first day of the six-day Flipkart ‘Big Billion Days’ sale,[Read More…]

By Vikas Datta New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Acclaimed American poet Louise Gluck, who draws on classical mythology, family life and nature in her precise and spare rendition of certain traumatic facets of the human condition such as pain and loss — both personal and public — but also longing[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Defending its investment decisions, Franklin Templeton India has said that its investment management team takes the call on the basis of various factors and options with a view of maximising recovery of investment proceeds and getting the best outcome. In a letter to the investors[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Even as Cricket Australia (CA) is yet to officially announce the dates for India’s tour of Australia that begins next month, controversy has flared up. It is not just the broadcasters Seven West Media, the owner of Channel 7, who are crying foul over the[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Post years of controversy over the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature, American poet Louise Gluck was on Thursday named for the honour for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. Hailed for her technical precision, and focussing on loneliness, desire,[Read More…]

Vijayawada, Oct 8 (IANS) In preparation for the forthcoming festival season and intensifying economic activity amid the Covid pandemic and multiple unlock phases, Vijayawada division South Central Railway (SCR) zone employees on Thursday took a pledge to exhibit appropriate Covid behaviour as part of their duties. “In response to the[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Increased digital screen time amid the COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the rising burden of preventable blindness in the country, said the All India Ophthalmology Society (AIOS). There is an immediate need to take preventive measures on a very urgent basis, the society cautioned. “With[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two more accused – a business analyst and a rice merchant – who played a very significant role in radicalisation of the members of the group and arranged funds through donations and own sources to send Bengaluru youth[Read More…]

Jaipur, Oct 8 (IANS) The state government has decided to make a database of artists through crowdsourcing across Rajasthan. It will be the first state in the country to take this initiative. Mugdha Sinha, Secretary, Art and Culture Department, and Director General, Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, said that her department[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) In a modification to the reopening guidelines, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday allowed political parties to hold rallies in 12 election bound states before October 15. The order came in the wake of the announcement by the Election Commission of India to[Read More…]