By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) Ahead of the International Women’s Day on March 8, two collections of short stories of flawed, rebellious and most importantly real women, are set to be published by Penguin. The new titles — “Women Who Misbehave” and “Impetuous Women” — are stories[Read More…]
Seoul, Feb 23 (IANS) South Korea’s daily new coronavirus cases stayed below 400 for the second straight day Tuesday on fewer tests over the weekend, but authorities are vigilant over the rising reproduction rate amid eased social distancing measures and an increase in the number of patients infected with Covid-19[Read More…]
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) People in India seem to have overcome the anxieties of the pandemic and are looking forward to a year of regularity, according to a randomized online survey of over 9000 customers of online bus ticketing platform redBus. The survey reveals intent for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) In April 2017, Nandini Murali lost her urologist husband Dr T.R. Murali to suicide. In the wake of that devastation, her life changed forever. As she struggled to find her feet and begin to live again, Murali, a certified life coach and a suicide prevention[Read More…]
By Puja Gupta New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANSlife) Is he/she worth waiting for, does she/he feeling the same way I do? Am I kidding myself thinking long-distance can work? What if they find someone else? These questions and more are likely to haunt people in a long-distance relationship. Moreover, Skype[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The petrol and diesel prices across the country continued their northward march after two days break taking its retail rates to unprecedented levels while burning bigger holes in the consumers pockets. The oil marketing companies raised the pump price of both petrol and diesel by[Read More…]
Washington, Feb 23 (IANS) Despite additional funding needs, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have cut their public education budgets since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report. The Education Finance Watch 2021, jointly released by the World Bank and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and[Read More…]
By Anjuri Nayar New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Social media following seems to have become quite an obsession today with almost every celebrity trying to increase their number of followers. As long as the idea was to augment personal image, it was okay. The trouble is, a lot of television[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Google has quietly added Apple iOS privacy labels to its Gmail app which is yet to come as an official update for billions of users. According to MacRumors, Google which has been “slow” to support Apple App Privacy labels has “done so server side and[Read More…]
New Delhi/Prayagraj, Feb 23 (IANS) A day after Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited Prayagraj to meet fishermen whose boats were allegedly damaged by the police, she on Tuesday announced that the party will take out a “Nadi Adhikar Yatra” in support of the community’s cause. She also announced[Read More…]
Auckland, Feb 23 (IANS) Commentator Simon Doull said that it may have not mattered if New Zealand batsman Devon Conway’s unbeaten 99 against Australia in the first T20I had come before the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. Conway went unsold at the auction and four days later, his innings helped[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Although fresh Covid-19 cases have been showing an upward trend over the past one week, it came down by at least 3,600 cases as the country reported 10,584 new cases in the last 24 hours on Tuesday. The overall tally mounted to 1,10,16,434, the Health[Read More…]
Sydney, Feb 23 (IANS) Facebook will restore news pages in Australia in coming days after the government has agreed to amend the News Media Bargaining Code, the media reported on Tuesday. “We will restore news on Facebook in Australia in the next few days,” Campbell Brown, vice president of global[Read More…]
Shahjahanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 23 (IANS) In a shocking incident, a student of BA second year was found in a half-burnt condition under mysterious circumstances near the highway on Nagaria crossing here, police said. The woman, in her early twenties, was found without any clothes late on Monday evening. She[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Foodtech unicorn Zomato has raised $250 million (around Rs 1,800 crore) in a new funding round from five different investors. The transactions valued Zomato at a post-money valuation of $5.4 billion, Info Edge, a publicly listed investor in Zomato, disclosed in a filing to National[Read More…]
Peshawar, Feb 23 (IANS) 20 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including two former ministers who were recently expelled from the cabinet, missed the meeting called by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Minister Shaukat Yousafzai played down any significance of the absentee lawmakers, saying that those lawmakers had already[Read More…]
Sydney, Feb 23 (IANS) Naomi Osaka climbed one spot to second in the latest women’s WTA rankings released after the Australian Open. The 23-year-old Japanese won her fourth Grand Slam title and second at the Rod Laver Arena. Australia’s Ashleigh Barty remains the world No. 1 despite losing in the[Read More…]
San Francisco, Feb 23 (IANS) Former US President Barack Obama and rockstar Bruce Springsteen have turned hosts for a podcast exclusively for the audio platform Spotify. In the first episode of the show, “Renegades: Born in the USA”, they talked about “race, fatherhood, marriage, and the state of America”, The[Read More…]
Lucknow, Feb 23 (IANS) The Lohia Trust will now buy land and build its own office in Lucknow. Trust secretary Shivpal Yadav said on Tuesday that a decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held on Monday evening under the chairmanship of Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. The[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, Feb 23 (IANS) Despite President Joe Biden’s opposition to fossil fuels, the US will continue to supply petroleum products to India while supporting sustainable energy development, according to State Department Spokesperson Ned Price. “Our broad energy cooperation with India under the Strategic Energy Partnership is[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) The key Indian equity indices opened on a positive note on Tuesday with the BSE Sensex gaining 400 points to trade well above the 50,000-mark. Around 10.25 p.m., Sensex was trading at 50,146.82, higher by 402.50 points or 0.81 per cent from its previous close of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb. Feb 23 (IANS) Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) proposes to carve out its oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business into a separate wholly-owned subsidiary by second quarter of FY22. The process would result in formation of a new firm — Reliance O2C Ltd — where the company intends to rope in[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) The Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested two more accused in the Red Fort violence case from Jammu. The two accused have been identified as Mohinder Singh and Mandeep Singh and were arrested in a joint operation with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, police said[Read More…]
Chikkaballapur (Karnataka), Feb 23 (IANS) At least four persons are reported to have died when gelatin sticks exploded early Tuesday in a village bordering Chikkaballapur and Bengaluru. The blast occurred in a stone quarry unit situated in Hirenagavalli village. One person has reportedly sustained injuries. Hirenagavalli is a small hamlet[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Amazon India on Tuesday said it has deployed nearly 100 Mahindra Treo Zor three-wheelers in seven cities in the country as part of its broader goal. The Mahindra Treo Zor vehicles have been deployed in seven cities so far, including Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad,[Read More…]
