India ranks third in the world for women working in senior management positions, according to the Women in Business 2021 report by global accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton. The percentage of women in senior management for India stood at 39 per cent, as against the global average of 31[Read More…]
In a bid to speed up the pace of the coronavirus vaccination drive, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday announced that citizens will now be able to take vaccine round the clock as per their convenience. The minister took to microblogging website Twitter and said: “The government has ended[Read More…]
Several users of the State Bank of India (SBI) have been targeted with a phishing scam where hackers have flooded them with suspicious text messages, requesting them to redeem their SBI credit points worth Rs 9,870. The link associated with the text messages redirects the user to a fake website[Read More…]
GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) has bagged Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality (ASQ) award for 2020. Hyderabad Airport has been adjudged as the ‘Best Airport by Size and Region’ in Asia-Pacific region for 2020, in its category of 15-25 Million Passengers Per Annum (MPPA). ASQ is the[Read More…]
In the third spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover concluded their spacewalk after 7 hours and 4 minutes. The two NASA astronauts began work on Monday to install modification kits required for the upcoming solar array upgrades, the US space[Read More…]
Chinese and Russian-linked hacking campaigns in recent weeks targeted Indian vaccine makers Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech, cyber intelligence and threat discovery platform Cyfirma said on Monday. Both SII and Bharat Biotech are involved in producing Covid-19 vaccine. Moreover, Cyfirma added that hacking campaigns believed to be[Read More…]
Global consumer spending on premium apps, in-app purchases, and subscriptions across Apple’s App Store and Google Play will reach $270 billion annually by 2025, nearly 2.5 times what consumers spent in 2020 as Covid-19 accelerated mobile trends. According to data provided by app analytics firm Sensor Tower, Covid-19 supercharged global[Read More…]
As the Indian equities continued to scale new highs post the Union Budget for FY22, the net foreign portfolio investments (FPI) into the Indian equities in February was ₹25,787 crore. The total net FPIs in 2020 now stand at ₹45,260 crore, as per NSDL data. Foreign investments have continued to[Read More…]
As the 44-day funding-raising campaign for the Ayodhya’s Ram Temple construction came to an end on Saturday, the Trust associated with the drive said that they have collected over ₹2,100 crore. Prior to the crowdfunding campaign launch on January 15, the Trust had projected an estimate of ₹1,100 crore for[Read More…]
Ahmedabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Captain Joe Root hinted that England might play both pace bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad in the pink ball Test that begins on Wednesday here at the Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium in Motera. England have usually avoided playing the two together in recent times with[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed detection of two new variants of novel coronavirus, other than the Brazilian, UK and South African, in at least three Indian states. The variants, AN440K and E484Q have been found circulating in a few districts of Maharashtra, Kerala[Read More…]
Guwahati, Feb 23 (IANS) In a significant development ahead of the Assembly elections in Assam, 1,040 militants belonging to five extremist outfits led by wanted terrorist leader Ingti Kathar Songbijit surrendered on Tuesday at a ceremony here in the presence of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Songbijit, the self-styled commander-in-chief[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 23 (IANS) A day after Karnataka closed 13 entry points on their border with Kerala citing the Covid spread there, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to see such restrictions are not imposed. In a letter to Modi, Vijayan said that[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Feb 23 (IANS) Police in Cyberabad on Tuesday said they have busted a passport racket with the arrest of eight people including four Bangladeshis and two policemen. The accused were arrested for fraudulently obtaining Indian passports from Nizamabad district of Telangana. Cyberabad Police Commissioner V. C. Sajjanar told a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Construction of 56,368 houses has been approved under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U), whi are proposed to be built under the various verticals of the PMAY-U Mission. The proposal to construct new houses was approved at the 53rd Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee meeting[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) More than 13 lakh healthcare workers, who had received the first dose of vaccines since the launch of Covid immunisation drive last month, have been inoculated with the final dose, with 63,458 of them receiving the second shot on Tuesday, the Union Health Ministry said.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) When Naresh Tikait, the national president of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, reached the Ghazipur border to meet farmers agitating against the three farm laws on Tuesday, he was given a traditional welcome with drum beats. While talking to IANS, Tikait said, “If this is government[Read More…]
Dubai, Feb 23 (IANS) Top Indian archers, including Harvinder Singh and Shyam Sundar Swami, launched their campaigns on a strong note as the 7th Fazza Para Archery World Ranking Tournament got underway with the qualification rounds here on Tuesday. Singh, an Indonesia 2018 Asian Para Games gold medallist, qualified in[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (IANS) A disabled aircraft recovery kit has been installed at the city airport to clear the runway early in the event of an emergency, said its operator on Tuesday. “The disabled aircraft recovery kit will enable faster resumption of operations in the event of an incident on[Read More…]
