New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) As bugs in highly-sensitive apps on Google Play Store keep increasing, Google is now looking for security engineers to find critical vulnerabilities and focus largely on fake Covid-19 contact tracing and election-related apps. The security engineers will manage a team that “performs reverse engineering, technical[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 3 (IANS) The Congress in Goa on Saturday burnt an effigy of Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar, protesting against the detention of nearly a dozen opposition party workers. The Congress workers were detained following their protest outside a city five-star resort demanding a meeting with[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the newly-inaugurated all-weather Atal Tunnel in Himachal Pradesh, that links Manali to the Lahaul-Spiti valley, will bring employment opportunities for the youth of the entire region. After a decade of sheer hard work of the Border Roads[Read More…]
Gandhinagar, Oct 3 (IANS) The Gujarat State Human Rights Commission (GSHRC) has issued notice to the Narmada Collector and District Development Officer (DDO), asking them to explain why a pregnant woman had to be carried to a hospital while seated on a sling tied to bamboo shoots. A pregnant women[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 3 (IANS) A 22-year-old railway employee was electrocuted on Saturday while working in the yard at Thiruvananthapuram station, said officials. Dathu, a native of Andhra Pradesh, got the railway job under the sports quota (gymnastics) and was deputed to the electrical division. According to sources, Dathu came in[Read More…]
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New York, Oct 3 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can relieve pain, adding that the finding may explain why nearly half of the people who got Covid-19 experience few or no symptoms. “It made a lot of sense to me[Read More…]
San Francisco, Oct 3 (IANS) Google has announced to introduce automated third-party verification in Campaign Manager and custom pre-bid filtering in Display and Video 360 tools. The previous process required multiple teams working in spreadsheets to add third-party verification to each placement on the media plan. This required a lot[Read More…]
Kolkata, Oct 3 (IANS) With a number of Covid-19 safety regulations in place for the teams set to participate in the upcoming I-League Qualifiers, a training session is no more the same, especially with regards to the recovery sessions. The qualifiers are slated to kick-off on October 8 where five[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) Actor Ayushmann Khurrana is distraught reading about the recent horrific gangrapes and killings at Hathras and Balrampur. “Shocked, shattered and devastated. After Hathras, another gangrape and murder at Balrampur! It’s barbaric, inhuman and calls for the most severe punishment to the guilty. When will this stop?[Read More…]
Madrid, Oct 3 (IANS) A partial lockdown has been imposed in Madrid as Spain was trying to control a second Covid-19 wave in the one of the worst-affected countries in Europe, the media reported on Saturday. According to authorities, more than three million people will be affected by the new[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) Actor Kunal Kemmu took to Instagram to flaunt his new tattoo, written in Devanagari and inked under his chest. It spells out the name of his daughter, Inaaya. “This ink is the closest to my heart emotionally and literally as well. My little girl is and[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 3 (IANS) India successfully test-fired an advanced version of Shaurya missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead from a defence facility off the Odisha coast on Saturday. The surface-to-surface missile can hit targets in around 800 km range, said defence sources. Developed by the Defence Research and Development[Read More…]
Colombo, Oct 3 (IANS) Sri Lankan authorities has embarked on an innovative initiative to promote the Ceylon Tea brand during the global Covid-19 pandemic by distributing ‘tea dyed’ face masks to the international business community. According to the Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB), the face masks which have undergone a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) A plea has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking directions to the Centre to introduce uniform grounds for maintenance and alimony for all citizens. The plea was moved by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, through advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey, seeking gender and[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) A Mumbai Special Court on Saturday sent former executive of Dharma Productions Kshitij Ravi Prasad — who was arrested in connection with the drugs probe in Bollywood — to judicial custody till October 6. Prasad was arrested on September 26 by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)[Read More…]
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, Oct 3 (IANS) In a major setback for P.R.Venketrama Raja, President All India Chess Federation (AICF) and his faction, the Madras High Court has clarified the electoral college that existed in February this year is no more valid, said an advocate of the rival faction. He[Read More…]
Visakhapatnam, Oct 3 (IANS) The Visakhapatnam civic body officials on Saturday demolished a part of former MP and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader Sabbam Hari’s home due to alleged encroachment of a park, drawing protest from the opposition party. “Demolition was taken up with the help of police and encroached[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Massive traffic jams were witnessed on the Delhi-Noida Direct (DND) flyway on Saturday afternoon as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s cavalcade moved on the 9.2 km stretch to meet the kin of the 19-year-old Hathras girl who died four days[Read More…]
By Sanjeev Sharma New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) The Delhi government has intervened following a large number of grievances by people for non-checking of vehicles at the pollution checking centres. The Transport Department of the Delhi government said that a number of grievances have been recently received due to non-checking[Read More…]
Amaravati, Oct 3 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s father-in-law E.C. Gangi Reddy passed away on Saturday. He passed away while undergoing treatment in Hyderabad. Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan expressed profound grief and sadness over Gangi Reddy’s death. “Gangi Reddy was a renowned pediatrician in YSR[Read More…]
Varanasi, October 3 (INS) During a visit to Varanasi on Saturday, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Zubin Irani described the incident in Hathras as painful. “Chief Minister Yogi will do justice in this matter. But Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka going to Hathras is just playing[Read More…]
Seoul, Oct 3 (IANS) South Korean chipmakers like the giant Samsung are expected to benefit from the US export restrictions against China’s leading foundry firm, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), analysts here said on Saturday, as the ban could give them more opportunities to secure orders. The US Commerce Department[Read More…]
BY VISHAL GULATI Manali, Oct 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the newly inaugurated Atal Tunnel beneath the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district would help give a fresh boost to India’s border infrastructure. “It is an example of world-class border connectivity. There have been demands[Read More…]
San Francisco, Oct 3 (IANS) Airbnb, the San Francisco-based online vacation rental company, announced that it has decided to block bookings for the upcoming Halloween festival to “help protect” communities from Covid-19, it was reported on Saturday. In a statement on Friday, a company spokesperson said the cause for the[Read More…]
