New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Google India on Tuesday launched ‘YouTube Learning Destination’ to help student, teachers and parents find useful and high-quality learning content created by education-focused creators on YouTube. It features content in English and Hindi, with Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi and other Indian languages are coming[Read More…]
Firoz Bakht Ahmed, Chancellor, MANUU (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad), has written a letter to the Prime Minister requesting him not to lift the lockdown on May 3. He fears that in the wake of the Ramzan month of fasting there is possibility of the spread of the coronavirus[Read More…]
New Delhi, 16 April (IANS) Indias sugar production declined over 20 per cent till April 15 in the ongoing sugar season (2019-20 October-September) against the corresponding period of the previous year, as per the production data released on Thursday by the apex industry body, Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA). According[Read More…]
Jammu, April 16 (IANS The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) of the Indian Army on Thursday defused many live mortar shells in Mendhar area of J&K’s Poonch district. For the last two days Pakistan army had resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate shelling on the Line of Control (LoC) in Mendhar sector.[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) The funds raised by Actor Arjun Kapoor’s virtual date will be used to help the families of 300 daily wage earners. The actor’s virtual date happened through his sister Anshula Kapoor’s online fundraising platform, Fankind, and raised enough funds to feed the families in question for[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) A Mumbai Court on Thursday granted bail to a Marathi channel reporter who was arrested in connection with the migrant crowd at Bandra two days ago. The accused, Rahul Kulkarni, Osmanabad-based correspondent of ABP Majha news channel, was produced before a Bandra Magistrate Court which released[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) to intervene while highlighting the plight of minority Hindus in Pakistan, who are “battling for food” amid the outbreak of Covid-19. Milind Parande, the Secretary General of VHP, has appealed[Read More…]
Beijing, April 16 (IANS) Table tennis’ world governing body, the ITTF, tasked itself to ensure the 2020 world team table tennis championships will take place, “even if the event needs to be postponed again.” The ITTF Executive Committee met late on Wednesday to discuss the latest situation regarding COVID-19, and[Read More…]
Los Angeles, April 16 (IANS) Actor John Krasinski has reportedly met with Marvel Studios for an unspecified project. Although details about the project are awaited, Geeks Worldwide claims that Marvel has been holding “virtual meetings” with actors, directors and writers lately, and Krasinski was one of them, reports dailymail.co.uk. The[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) An unprecedented 70 per cent of retailers in the country anticipate that their business will recover in more than six months, while 20 per cent expect it to take more than a year, a survey conducted by industry body Retailers Association of India (RAI) stated.[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) There has been no coronavirus case in 325 of the 736 districts in India and also no one has tested positive in 27 districts of 17 states in the past 14 days, according to the Union Health Ministry, here on Thursday. In the past 24[Read More…]
Chennai, April 16 (IANS) Chennai Super Kings bowling coach L. Balaji believes that all talks about M.S. Dhoni taking a sabbatical and all shouldnt count when it comes to deciding whether the former skipper should be a part of the Indian team for the T20 World Cup later in the[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) India’s renewable energy subsidies fell 35 per cent from 2017-18 to 2018-19, while its oil and gas subsidies increased by 65 per cent, a study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) said on Thursday.[Read More…]
Hyderabad, April 16 (IANS) Setting an example for others engaged in enforcement of lockdown measures, a sarpanch in Telangana did not allow even his mother to enter the village. Sai Goud, sarpanch of Goisaipally village in Sangareddy district, sent back his mother as the village was sealed for outsiders to[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) Actors Smriti Khanna and Gautam Gupta have welcomed their first child, a baby girl. Sharing the news with her followers, Smriti took to Instagram. “Our princess has arrived… 15.04.2020,” she wrote. Along with it, she also shared a picture that shows the couple holding the newborn[Read More…]
Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) With an eye on the coronavirus outbreak and the need to maintain social distancing and stay indoors, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday officially announced that the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League has been suspended till further notice. While[Read More…]
San Francisco, April 16 (IANS) Apple has stopped selling iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus smartphone after unveiling the much-awaited iPhone SE 2020. The highly-acclaimed phones will no longer be sold by Apple but while some other retailers may still stock it, they will not get any new units[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, April 16 (IANS) The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), here has developed a diagnostic test kit (Chitra GeneLAMP-N) which is highly confirmatory for the diagnosis of COVID-19 and detects the N Gene of SARS-CoV-2 using reverse transcriptase loop-mediated amplification of viral nucleic acid (RT-LAMP).[Read More…]
Panaji, April 16 (IANS) The Goa Congress on Thursday expressed fear about the data collected from lakhs of state residents as part of an ongoing community survey related to Covid-19, alleging that the data being collected via an app devised by a private agency, poses a risk of being leaked[Read More…]
Lucknow, April 16 (IANS) The number of Covid-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh has risen to 776, and the number of deaths to 13. However, 69 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospitals. Principal Home Secretary Amit Mohan Prasad said, here on Thursday, 48 districts of the state now had[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) India defender Subhasish Bose spoke about a wide range of topics in a free-wheeling live chat session on the official Indian Football Team Facebook page, which included how sporting icons like Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli, current BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and 20-time Grand Slam[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Delhi government has provided grain to over 300,000 poor, who lacked ration cards, to help them tide over the lockdown, according to the Food and Supply Department here on Thursday. The distribution was started on April 7, in addition to the steps taken to[Read More…]
New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Actress Rhea Chakraborty prefers no intrusion into her private life, and that is the reason she never reacts to the rumours of her relationship with actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The actress says Sushant is a “dear friend”, and refused to get into any more details.[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, April 16 (IANS) The Odisha government is planning to set up a NDRF-like health disaster mitigation facility in the state, said Health Minister Naba Kishore Das on Thursday. A proposal has been made to establish a health disaster mitigation training centre so that doctors, paramedics, nurses can be imparted[Read More…]
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