New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Global air passenger traffic will not return to pre-Covid-19 levels until 2024, a year later than previously projected, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said on Tuesday. The updated global passenger forecast, released by IATA on Tuesday, showed that the recovery in traffic has been[Read More…]
Srinagar, July 29 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday reported 489 new Covid-19 cases, taking the Union Territorys coronavirus tally to 18,879, while 12 persons succumbed to the dreaded virus in the last 24 hours. So far, 333 people in the UT have fallen prey to the deadly disease. A[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) More troubles for Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s elder brother Agrasain Gehlot seems to be coming up as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned him for questioning in fertilizer scam case. According to top ED sources, the agency has asked Agrasain Gehlot to appear before[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, July 28 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday requested Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to accord necessary approval to start passenger traffic on the new Haridaspur-Paradip railway line. In a letter, the Chief Minister requested to accord necessary approvals and certifications so that a passenger train can[Read More…]
Mumbai, July 28 (IANS) For the fifth consecutive day on Tuesday, Covid-19 continued a downward trend in Maharashtra with an added bonus in the form of the highest recoveries till date, health officials said. The state notched 7,717 new Covid cases, the lowest in a fortnight and down from the[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Efforts of a 14-year old Edgar Sebastian, resident of Chellanam village in Kerala, to save a Covid-19 and sea erosion hit coastal village paid off after President Ramnath Kovind took cognizance of his letter and instructed the Kerala government to take immediate steps to save[Read More…]
Agartala, July 28 (IANS) The top two officials of Tripura’s border Sepahijala district on Tuesday tested positive for Covid-19, officials said. Health officials said that District Magistrate Chandra Kumar Jamatia, and Superintendent of Police Krishnendu Chakraborty have tested positive. “At least 50 contacts of the DM and the SP are[Read More…]
Tirupati, July 28 (IANS) A 32-year-old Russian woman, who was stranded in this temple town and separated from her mother, who is stuck in Uttar Pradesh, has started receiving help from various sources. Help started pouring in for Ester on Tuesday after a Telugu television channel highlighted her pathetic story.[Read More…]
By Aarti Tikoo Singh New Delhi/Srinagar, July 28 (IANS) In 1988, just before Kashmir erupted with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, a young man from Anantnag, a small town in the Valley, was commissioned in the Indian Air Force. Thirty-two years later, as Pakistan’s ally China is locked in a military faceoff with[Read More…]
Mumbai, July 28 (IANS) Actress Sushmita Sen is celebrating two years of togetherness with boyfriend Rohman Shawl through a gushing love note. The actress took to Twitter to celebrate their love, and mark the occasion. “Rooh se Rooh tak…2 us!!! 2 years of 2getherness #rohmance… I love you,” she wrote[Read More…]
By Arul Louis New York, July 28 (IANS) Indian pharmaceutical companies may be able to benefit from US President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce the prices of drugs that would allow individuals to import prescription medications directly. This provision was one of several executive orders Trump has signed to lower[Read More…]
Panaji, July 28 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party in Goa on Tuesday urged Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to simplify home quarantine norms for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients on the lines of the model adopted by the party’s government in the national capital, which provides free pulse oxymeters and counselling to the[Read More…]
By Manoj Pathak Patna, July 28 (IANS) Late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case took a dramatic turn on Tuesday after it emerged that his father K.K. Singh has filed an FIR in the Rajiv Nagar police station here accusing six people, including actress Rhea Chakraborty, for abetment to[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Nestle India on Tuesday reported an 11.15 per cent rise in its net profit for the quarter ended June on a year-on-year basis on the back of rise in sales and lower taxes. Its profit after tax for the April-June quarter of 2020 stood at[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) A year after Mindtree co-founders Krishnakumar Natarajan, N.S. Parthasarathy and Rostow Ravanan resigned from the leadership of the company, the IT major has submitted applications to the exchanges seeking reclassification of the founder-promoters along with other promoters as public shareholders. In a regulatory filing, Mindtree[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has sought the Central government’s reply on a petition filed by a real estate firm, involved in construction of AIIMS Bhopal, seeking release of its bank guarantees of over Rs 30 crore pursuant to the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat programme. A single[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Mid-size motorcycle major Royal Enfield on Tuesday announced the launch of ‘Service on Wheels, a new initiative aimed at “safe, seamless and hassle-free motorcycle service experience” for customers at their doorsteps. “Under this initiative, Royal Enfield has deployed 800 units of purpose built Royal Enfield[Read More…]
Guwahati, July 28 (IANS) The overall flood situation in Assam further improved on Tuesday, even as one more person died in Golaghat district, taking the death toll to 104, officials said. Officials of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that with the respite in the monsoon rains, the situation would[Read More…]
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday suggested the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) establish its regional presence for effective project management and implementation. Addressing the 5th annual meeting of the Board of Governors of AIIB through video conference, Sitharaman appreciated the bank’s efforts for[Read More…]
By Manoj Pathak Patna, July 28 (IANS) Late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case took a dramatic turn on Tuesday after it emerged that his father K.K. Singh has filed an FIR in the Rajiv Nagar police station here accusing six people, including actress Rhea Chakraborty, for abetment to[Read More…]
Patna, July 28 (IANS) Late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case took a new turn after it emerged on Tuesday that his father K.K. Singh has filed an FIR in the Rajiv Nagar police station here accusing six people, including actress Rhea Chakraborty for abetment to suicide. Chakraborty has[Read More…]
San Francisco, July 28 (IANS) Intel has started a major shake-up of its technology organisation and executive team and its chief engineering officer Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala is leaving the company on August 3. Renduchintala’s departure comes after the company delayed the rollout of its 7-nanometer chips by six months, which[Read More…]
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, July 28 (IANS) The Eid ul-Azha will be celebrated in Bangladesh as a three-day national holiday, starting July 31, amid terrorist threat of attack on various places, including religious sites, embassies and the police establishments, by the neo-Jamaat-ul Mujahideen (neo JMB). According to intelligence input, the[Read More…]
New Delhi 28 July (IANS) In a fatal accident, a 45-year-old tractor driver died after his tractor trolley carrying cement was hit from behind by a speeding truck early on Tuesday morning at the Loni Gol Chakkar flyover in North East Delhi’s Jyoti Nagar. The truck driver also received injuries[Read More…]
San Francisco, July 28 (IANS) A fake coronavirus video propagating the benefits of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) that attracted millions of views has been taken down by Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube, the media reported on Tuesday. US President Donald Trump shared several versions of the video that went viral[Read More…]
