Kabul, Feb 23 (IANS) There was a rise in civilians killed and injured in Afghanistan following the start of peace negotiations in September, according to a report released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the UN Human Rights Office on Tuesday. The overall number of civilian casualties[Read More…]
Indore, Feb 23 (IANS) Six persons were killed in a collision between a car and a stationary dumper truck in Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The accident happened on Monday evening. According to the information received from the police control room, the car travelling at a high speed, rammed into the[Read More…]
Chikkaballapur, Feb 23 (IANS) Five persons died and one person injured after gelatin sticks exploded early Tuesday in a village bordering Chikkaballapur and Bengaluru, the police said. Mine owners successfully hid mining blast material twice in the last fortnight while raids were to be carried out. On Tuesday fearing another[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Indian government, Government of Nagaland and the World Bank on Tuesday signed a $68 million project to enhance the governance of schools across Nagaland as well as to improve teaching practices and learning environments in select schools. The “Nagaland: Enhancing Classroom Teaching and Resources Project”[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Global PayEx plans to raise Series A funding from strategic investors in the year ahead. Narayan Ramamoorthy, the Chief Revenue Officer of Global PayEX, the cloud-based accounts receivables and account payable management solution provider, said that the company also plans to grow its business both[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Telecom major Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc on Tuesday announced their collaboration for accelerating 5G in India. Recently, Airtel became India’s first telco to demonstrate 5G over a LIVE commercial network in the city of Hyderabad. An Airtel statement said that through its network[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 23 (IANS) Video-streaming platform Netflix has launched a new feature that aims to bring more offline content to users who opt-in automatic downloads. With “Downloads for You” enabled, the Netflix app will download recommended TV shows and movies to your mobile device based on your tastes, as[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) The Maharashtra Congress on Tuesday said it wants a probe into the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into the ‘suicide’ of Mohan S. Delkar, the Independent MP from the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli. State Congress Spokesperson Sachin Sawant said: “I will[Read More…]
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Feb 23 (IANS) Indian Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria reached here on a three-day visit on the invitation of Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat. The visit comes ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s planned[Read More…]
By Puja Gupta New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) Bollywood diva Malaika Arora advises her fans to follow a routine, eat right and work hard to bring balance between their body, mind and soul to the best of your abilities and become the ideal version of your own self. Malaika, who[Read More…]
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) With the commencement of nationwide vaccination drive and the falling numbers of active Covid-19 cases, the government has decided to slowly allow schools to re-open. Starting in phases the schools are first re-opening for the students of the 10th and 12th standard[Read More…]
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) Publishing house HarperCollins India and Amar Chitra Katha have announced a new collaboration to publish “a first-time adaptation of popular ACK comics into a narrative format for young children”. The said collaboration will “bring the beautiful folktales of India from our iconic[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) Miss India 2017 Manushi Chillar is all set for a Bollywood debut in the ambitious historical drama Prithviraj. She stars opposite superstar Akshay Kumar who essays the title role of Prithviraj Chauhan. She feels lucky that her film is scheduled for release on Diwali, one of[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Feb 23 (IANS) Goalkeeper Bichu Devi Kharibam’s career has been on the rise since she made her breakthrough with eye-catching display at the 2018 Youth Olympics, a tournament where India clinched a historic silver medal. In the following year, she was named goalkeeper of the tournament in the four[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) HP on Tuesday announced Pavilion 13, HP Pavilion 14 and HP Pavilion 15 as the company’s first consumer notebook range that uses post-consumer-recycled as well as ocean-bound plastics at a starting price of Rs 62,999 in India. The new Pavilion range comes in a unique[Read More…]
Amaravati, Feb 23 (IANS) Senior Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP V. Vijayasai Reddy on Tuesday claimed that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) will suffer a bigger embarrassment in the forthcoming municipal polls and asserted that the recently held polls were the ‘most’ peaceful ones[Read More…]
Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 23 (IANS) Six people have been arrested by the Shahjahanpur police that has seized nearly 500 cloned fingerprints of beneficiaries along with their Aadhaar cards and bank passbooks. The arrested persons include Gaurav, 26, a graduate who runs a photocopy shop in Kaant area. Gaurav, who[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Feb 23 (IANS) A one-of-its-kind Innovation Lab & Center of Excellence (ILCE) is proposed to be set up in Telangana with an investment of Rs 3,000 crore in the next 10 years. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed on Tuesday by Telangana State Innovation Cell[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Demonstrating the government’s commitment towards the country’s health sector, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the allocation for health in this year’s Union Budget has been “unprecedented”. Addressing a webinar on effective implementation of the Budget provisions in the health sector, he also[Read More…]
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) A team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers arrived at the residence of Trinamool Congress MP Abhushek Banerjee to question his wife Rujira Banerjee in connection with its probe into the illegal coal smuggling case, minutes after West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Samsung has started rolling out support for electrocardiogram readings and blood pressure monitoring on its Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Galaxy Watch 3 devices in more countries. The full list of countries are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,[Read More…]
By Subir Bhaumik Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) Indian Coast Guards vessels have reached a boat carrying 90 Rohingya refugees and three Bangladesh crewmen which drifted into India’s territorial waters a day back. Humanitarian groups monitoring the plight of the stranded Rohingya group on high sea said the Indian Coast Guards[Read More…]
By Puja Gupta New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) Spring wedding season is fast approaching, and brides-to-be must already be on their toes, planning everything down to the very last detail. Planning a perfect wedding is no small feat. From doing rounds of multiple outlets every day to buy your dream[Read More…]
Madrid, Feb 23 (IANS) Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has not included striker Karim Benzema in the 19-man squad for his side’s vital Champions League last 16 tie away to Atalanta on Wednesday night. The striker, who has netted 17 goals in all competitions this season, has still not recovered[Read More…]
Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 23 (IANS) A four-year-old girl was found dead and another unconscious in a mustard field in Shahjahanpur district, police said. Both girls are cousins and were reported missing on Monday. The injured girl, aged about 7 years, was immediately rushed to hospital by local police from[Read More…]
