Hyderabad, Sep 20 (IANS) Hyderabad International Airport on Sunday said it has achieved the Airport Council International’s Airport Health Accreditation for safe travel. Airport operator GMR said this recognition comes when passenger safety is the topmost priority of airport operators due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Hyderabad is among the first[Read More…]
By Arun Kejriwal The week gone by had plenty of action and was volatile. While the benchmark indices were just about flat, BSEHEALTHCARE and BSEIT gained significant ground and helped the benchmark indices. Similarly post the SEBI announcement on multi-cap funds being directed to match the allocation of stocks based[Read More…]
Tokyo, Sep 20 (IANS) Sony has apologised for PS5 pre-orders being a bit of a mess which caused many gamers to miss out on securing a console. The company has promised that the PS5 console stocks will soon be restored in the coming days. Furthermore, they said that there will[Read More…]
Amaravati, Sep 20 (IANS) School students in Andhra Pradesh have the choice to attend classes in person or online from Monday, as the state government has allowed schools to reopen for students from ninth standard to 12th standard. “Schools will reopen starting Monday, students from 9th to 12th standards may[Read More…]
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) A package containing ricin poison that was addressed to US President Donald Trump has been intercepted before it reached the White House, officials told American media outlets. The letter was discovered at a screening facility for White House mail earlier this week, the BBC quoted the[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 20 (IANS) Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar on Sunday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at the latter’s official residence to discuss the chief minister’s announcement about the country’s “biggest and most beautiful film city” to be set up in Gautam Buddha Nagar district. The chief minister gifted the[Read More…]
By Sanjeev Sharma New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Harsh Vardhan Lodha would be moving the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday or Tuesday against the single Bench Judge’s order on Friday which restrained him from holding any office in M P Birla group entities. “Apart from all[Read More…]
Barcelona, Sep 20 (IANS) FC Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has urged everyone to look beyond the Lionel Messi transfer saga. The star forward tried to quit the club last month. Bartomeu also said he has no plans to step down from his position despite a motion to remove him.[Read More…]
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, Sep 20 (IANS) The Karnataka legislature is set for a stormy Monsoon Session starting Monday as the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress brace for a showdown on a number of issues amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 8-day session of the Assembly and Legislative Council will[Read More…]
By Rohit Vaid & Rituraj Baruah New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Modi government has left no stone unturned in inviting foreign investors with claims of an improved business environment backed by unprecedented reforms in the past six years, but what many industry players face is a different story altogether.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Loans totalling Rs 70,590 crore have been sanctioned so far to power distribution companies (discom) out of the Rs 90,000-crore liquidity package announced by the Centre, Union Power Minister RK Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Sunday. Of the sanctioned amount, Rs 24,742 crore has[Read More…]
Rome, Sep 20 (IANS) Alex Marquez of Repsol Honda Team has been gradually lapping up spaces in the Grand Prix Motorsport this season, challenging established race winners and setting a new personal best lap in Misano. Having already improved his free practice three time by almost a full second when[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Sunday passed two agriculture-related Bills amid a pandemonium due to protests by opposition members. The Upper House gave the nod to The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price[Read More…]
By Subhash Narayan New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Government will put five per cent customs duty on Open Cell, a key component for television manufacturing, from October 1, 2020, as one year exemption given to it ends on September 30. The tax exemption on the key TV component was extended[Read More…]
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANSlife) Heart failure is one of the most under-diagnosed heart diseases in our country, contributing to a high number of death rates. The National Heart Failure Registry recently revealed its one-year data, which shows that close to 17 percent of patients die within[Read More…]
By Siddhi Jain New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANSlife) Padma Bhushan recipient Rashtrakavi Maithalisharan Gupts and Santkavi Siyaramsharan Gupt’s great grand daughter Abhijita Gupta, who is all of seven years and a child prodigy, has penned her first collection of stories and poems. The book titled ‘Happiness All Around’, and was[Read More…]
London, Sep 20 (IANS) UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Sunday warned that Covid-19 restrictions in England will get tougher if rules were not followed, as the government has introduced 10,000 pound fines for people who fail to self-isolate. Speaking to the BBC, Hancock said the country was facing a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Terror linked organizations are funding the Zakat Foundation of India, which in turn is supporting the UPSC aspirants, according to a counter affidavit filed by Sudarshan News in Supreme Court. According to the affidavit, Zakat Foundation has received funds from various terror-linked organizations. “It is[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha saw a massive ruckus on Sunday as the government sought to clear the farm Bills amid an unrelenting opposition determined to block them as TMC MP Derek O’Brien tore up the documents. An aggressive O’Brien, approached the Chair and tore the documents[Read More…]
Toronto, Sep 20 (IANS) The Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research at University Health Network (UHN) here has collaborated with Apple to give heart failure patients more control over their health from their homes and usher in a new era of remote monitoring possibilities. The study will investigate how physiological[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Sep 20 (IANS) Farmers in the states of Punjab and Haryana on Sunday held protests on a call given by various organisations against the “anti-farmer” bills introduced by the Union government in Parliament. However, there was no report of violence anywhere in both the states. The reports were received[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Sep 20 (IANS) The rural areas in Telangana are bearing the brunt of COVID-19 even as the number of cases has considerably dropped in the state capital. Districts outside Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits account for 80-85 per cent of the 2,200-2,300 new cases added to the state[Read More…]
Seoul, Sep 20 (IANS) LG Uplus, a major South Korean mobile carrier, said on Sunday that it was joining forces with Google to jointly develop 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technology. Under the partnership, LG Uplus will work with Google Cloud, which will provide its artificial intelligence and machine learning[Read More…]
Seoul, Sep 20 (IANS) Police in South Korea said on Sunday that they have taken into custody a North Korean defector for attempting to cross into his country through a military unit in an eastern border town. The man in his 30s was caught entering a military unit in Chorwon,[Read More…]
Yangon, Sep 20 (IANS) At least 444 people were arrested in Myanmar in a week for violating the curfew imposed in some regions and states in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, police said on Sunday. Legal action was taken against them under the Penal Code for violating curfew, reports[Read More…]
