Author: IANS

Kolkata, Aug 3 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government on Monday once again revised the partial lockdown schedule for August. The state administration had earlier declared that there would be a complete lokcdown in the state for two days every week. The revised dates for the lockdown would be[Read More…]

New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) India cricket captain Virat Kohli was among those who flooded social media to wish football team captain and icon Sunil Chhetri as he turned 36 on Monday. “Happy b’day skip. Have a great one and God Bless you,” Kohli said in his Instagram story with[Read More…]

Beijing, Aug 3 (IANS) OnePlus is planning to introduce Hydrogen 11 — the China-bound alternative to OxygenOS 11 that comes without Google services and with local alternatives, on August 10. According to GSMArena, the new OS will come with new visual components, new functional features and what the company calls[Read More…]

Bengaluru, Aug 3 (IANS) After logging more than 5,000 COVID-19 cases a day for the past several days, Karnataka saw a drop in infections with 4,752 new cases in the last 24 hours, raising the state’s tally to 1.39 lakh, said a health official on Monday. Similarly,Bengaluru has also witnessed[Read More…]

New York, Aug 3 (IANS) One of the immune system’s oldest branches, called complement, may be influencing the severity of Covid-19 disease, say researchers. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, found that people with age-related macular degeneration — a disorder caused by overactive complement — are at greater[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) National Award-winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi is elated that her documentary, Son Rise, won the Best Feature Documentary award at the New York Indian Film Festival. Bakshi says it is a recognition for the gender-rights heroes of India. “We are thrilled at the news! This award is[Read More…]

Kolkata, Aug 3 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) issued the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for state associations on Sunday evening and the age-cap of 60 on the individuals has seen the likes of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) in a spot as coach Arun Lal[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday slammed the Maharashtra government for quarantining a Bihar IPS officer Vinay Tiwari, who arrived in Mumbai to probe the case of Bollywood actor’s Sushant Singh Rajput death. “It is really very strange why the Maharashtra government is[Read More…]

Amaravati, Aug 3 (IANS) Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President and leader of opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, N. Chandrababu Naidu, on Monday set a 48-hour deadline for Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy to either withdraw his three capitals decision or dissolve the Assembly to seek fresh public mandate for[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Singer Shibani Kashyap says her brother is her biggest critic and supporter, and thanked him for being her best friend for life. “I believe that one of the most important and pious bonds around the world is that shared between siblings. We Indians mark the festival[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) Amid the row over the move to shunt Bihar Police officer Vinay Tiwari to isolation, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday said that he had been “quarantined as per existing norms in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic”. Rushed to Mumbai in connection with the[Read More…]

Ayodhya, Aug 3 (IANS) The frontline leaders of the Ayodhya movement will not be present in the temple town on Wednesday when the much-awaited ‘bhumi pujan’ of the Ram temple takes place. While L.K. Advani and Dr Murli Manohar Joshi will attend the ceremony virtually, Uma Bharti has said that[Read More…]

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 3 (IANS) The Kerala Police has been given more powers, including contact tracing, to ensure that the Covid spread across the state is contained. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the new strategy means that from now on entire wards where there are cases will not be shut down.[Read More…]

Kochi, Aug 3 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Monday extended its ban, till August 31, on protests of any kind in the state. The court had, on July 15, ruled that there should be no protests or demonstrations in the state till July 31, as these would violate the[Read More…]

Mumbai, Aug 3 (IANS) A letter apparently written by Neetu Singh, sister of Sushant Singh Rajput, is doing the rounds on social media. The letter remembers the late actor on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. Sushant used to call Neetu Rani di, and the actor’s nickname was Gulshan. The letter[Read More…]

Chandigarh, Aug 3 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday announced opening of 11 colleges on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan, enabling the state to become the first one to have a college within a radius of 15 km. He announced the setting up of the colleges at[Read More…]

Patna, Aug 3 (IANS) Bihar Police on Monday urged Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to release its senior IPS officer Vinay Tiwari from the 14-day quarantine and allow him to smoothly carry out investigation into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. The state police wrote a letter to the civic body protesting[Read More…]

New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) Unable to communicate in English, a Brazilian citizen was facing difficulties in his trial, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, in a Chennai court due to the language barrier. For four years, Jailson Manoel Da Silva was unable to communicate with his[Read More…]