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Hyderabad/Vijayawada, June 8 (IANS) Leading temples in the Telugu states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana re-opened for darshan on Monday, nearly 80 days after they were shut due the lockdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus. Resuming darshan in a totally new environment necessitating several safety measures, the temples[Read More…]
Seoul, June 8 (IANS) Lee Jae-yong, the de facto leader of Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, appeared in court on Monday for a hearing to decide whether he will be arrested again amid allegations of his involvement in a merger and accounting fraud. Lee, also the vice chairman of[Read More…]
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New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Samsung on Monday launched its new Galaxy Tab S6 Lite with an in-box S Pen, immersive display and uni-body metal design at a starting price of Rs 27,999 (Wi-Fi version). The LTE version of the tablet will be available for Rs 31,999. The device will[Read More…]
Washington, June 8 (IANS) Tropical storm Cristobal made landfall on the southeastern coast of the US state of Louisiana packing sustained winds of 50 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported. After leaving death and destruction on its passage through Central America and Mexico, Cristobal now threatens a[Read More…]
Lucknow, June 8 (IANS) Four boys have been booked and fined for wearing ‘horror’ masks and trying to frighten morning walkers in a park in the state capital. The boys, on Sunday, were trying to scare people and make Tik-Tok videos. All four have been booked for disturbing peace. Inspector[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding believes it is difficult for quality batsmen to play their natural shots against top-quality pace bowling. During an Instagram live session with Nikhil Naz, Holding when asked about how he would have bowled to modern-day big hitters, said[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Leading private life insurer Bharti AXA Life Insurance registered 17 per cent growth in its renewal premium to Rs 1,359 core for the year ended March 31, 2020, against Rs 1,164 crore in the last financial year 2018-19. The company today said its total premium[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has shown symptoms of cough, sore throat and fever, and is to go for the novel coronaviru (COVID-19) test on Tuesday, sources said on Monday. It is learnt that Kejriwal had symptoms of fever from Sunday. He has kept himself[Read More…]
Singapore, June 8 (IANS) Singapore and China on Monday began a “travel bubble” between the two countries with the aim to resume economic activity after containing the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to a bilateral agreement signed in late May, citizens of both countries will be able to resume official travel[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Digital payments major Paytm on Monday announced the expansion of its “Postpaid” lending services to make it easier for users to purchase products from neighbourhood kirana stores and other popular retail destinations such as Reliance Fresh, Haldiram, Apollo Pharmacy, Croma, Shoppers Stop, among others. The[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) Mumbai has unleashed its semi-normal self with thousands of masked men and women stepping out with their vehicles headed to their workplaces, creating traffic snarls at many locations, as the city eases into Unlock 3.0 mode, here on Monday. Long queues of crawling vehicles were witnessed[Read More…]
By Sumit Kumar Singh New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Tablighi Jamaat chief Maulana Saad is the only person yet to be questioned in the Nizamuddin Markaz case, as all other accused named have been questioned and their statements recorded, the Delhi Police said Monday. The police stated that they have[Read More…]
Chandigarh, June 8 (IANS) The holiest of Sikh shrines, Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as Golden Temple, in Amritsar city in Punjab was reopened on Monday for devotees as the Union Ministry of Home Affairs allowed the opening of places of worship with precautionary measures amid COVID-19 outbreak. Likewise, the popular[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, June 8 (IANS) A pilot trainer and a woman trainee pilot were killed when a trainer aircraft crashed in Odisha’s Dhenkanal district on Monday. The trainer aircraft of the Government Aviation Training Institute (GATI) crashed at Birasala airstrip shortly after taking off, informed B.K. Nayak Additional District Magistrate (ADM),[Read More…]
By Gokul Bhagabati New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) With the Covid-19 restrictions setting organisations off to a mad rush to adopt public Cloud to keep things running, the Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) has warned that it is time organisations made their operations smarter for long term. A lot of[Read More…]
Brasilia, June 8 (IANS) After last week’s riots, several demonstrations in favour and against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro were held again without serious incident. However, at around 9.30 p.m., two hours after anti-government and anti-racist protests in Sao Paulo ended, “a group of hooligans” attacked the police with stones and[Read More…]
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, June 8 (IANS) Authorities in J&K’s Srinagar district announced on Monday that all restrictions those were imposed on May 31 will continue without any relaxation till further orders in the district. Srinagar district has been categorised as red zone along with 8 other districts of J&K.[Read More…]
Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh), June 8 (IANS) A tigress attacked two farmers of Richhaula village under Gajraula police station of Pilibhit, critically injuring them on Sunday. The two men have been identified as Ram Singh (45) and Balkar Singh (58). Medical officer on emergency duty at district government hospital, Dr Sanjeev[Read More…]
Washington, June 8 (IANS) Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell became the first Republican to endorse Democratic candidate Joe Biden for this year’s presidential election, while adding that incumbent President Donald Trump “lies all the time”. “I’m very close to Joe Biden on a social matter and on a[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) Heavy traffic congestion was witnessed at the Delhi-Noida border near Delhi-Noida-Direct flyway (DND) on Monday, a day after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced the opening of national capital’s borders with Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Heavy vehicular traffic was witnessed at the DND, Kalindi Kunj-Noida, Ghazipur-Delhi[Read More…]
Wellington, June 8 (IANS) New Zealand cricketer James Neesham on Monday congratulated the citizens of his country as the last COVID-19 case recovered and now the nation has no active cases. As of Monday, New Zealand had no active COVID-19 cases and hadn’t recorded a new infection for 17 days.[Read More…]
By Nishant Arora New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) There is no denying the fact that Microsoft Surface laptops have given wings to the hardware dream Microsoft once harboured with its smartphones (remember Lumia) but could not beat the likes of Apple and the whole Android lot. Surface laptops, however, have[Read More…]
Los Angeles, June 8 (IANS) Thousands of people participated in the 11th straight day of peaceful protests in Los Angeles over the death of African-American man George Floyd in police custody, while the National Guard troops left the second largest city in the US. Some troops would begin departing on[Read More…]
