Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Child artiste Maanya Varma feels lucky to be part of a short film, titled “Bholi”, which deals with the serious issue of child trafficking. “I had no clue that child trafficking was such a serious matter. I really feel bad for every one who has gone[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said she will discuss with the PMO about the relief that could be offered to industry but allayed any immediate worries about scarcity of any raw materials as yet on account of inventories built up by sectors as also[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Reminding the alumni that JNU had made a “significant difference” to their lives, the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday urged them to contribute to a fund set up to ensure financial help to students from poor families. At its 284th meeting, the JNU Executive Council[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) India will have over 907 million Internet users by 2023, accounting for 64 per cent of the country’s population, a Cisco report said on Tuesday. Over half a billion people already use the Internet in India. In India, there will be 966 million total mobile[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Liquidity crisis in non-banking financial companies (NBFC) has marginally improved off late as NBFCs have diversified their borrowing sources, a report by Emkay Global said on Tuesday. It also said that asset quality trends remain weak given the stress mainly from developer financing portfolios and[Read More…]
Toronto, Feb 18 (IANS) Researchers have found that the rate of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among women living with HIV was 54 per cent higher than that of HIV-negative women. The study, published in the journal CMAJ Open, also showed that people in Ontario living with HIV had a[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Feb 18 (IANS) Karnataka’s senior Congress leader D.K. Shivakumar has urged Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa to set up a medical college in his Kanakapura Assembly segment. “Shivakumar met Yediyurappa in the latter’s office this afternoon and urged him to withdraw the cancellation order and restore the allotment letter to[Read More…]
Jaipur, Feb 18 (IANS) The first edition of Jaipur Jazz and Blues Festival, which will have performances by artistes from the US, Canada, Brazil and more, will be held here from February 28 to March 1. Sungazer (US), Kirk MacDonald (Canada), Joao Bittencourt (Brazil), Nikhita Gandhi (India) and Dhruv Vishwanath[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Bellwether stock index Nifty50 will exclude lender Yes Bank from the stocks that comprise its weightage, NSE Indices said on Tuesday. The Index Maintenance Sub-Committee (IMSC) of the NSE decided to make the change as part of a periodic review. In its place, Shree Cement will[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Maharashtra Police will introduce a ‘Changing of Guard’ protocol at the state police HQ here on the lines of a similar and world-famous ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said here on Monday. The protocol will be witnessed from May 1 –[Read More…]
Sydney, Feb 18 (IANS) The same technological forces that make the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak a global concern are also key to managing the crisis response, says a top researcher, adding that a connected world makes this coronavirus (COVID-19) scarier but also helps us deal with it. At a time when[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) Actor Sonu Sood, who will next be seen onscreen in the big-budget period drama “Prithviraj”, hopes to strike the same magic with the films hero Akshay Kumar that the duo has shared in many projects before. “The shoot is on. It’s one of the most expensive[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Feb 18 (IANS) As a tribute to the father of the Indian Constitution, B.R. Ambedkar, the Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday agreed to the renaming of Government Medical College in Mohali as Dr B.R. Ambedkar State Institute of Medical Sciences. Disclosing this here, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) At a time when the deadly coronavirus is taking a toll on the tech industry with the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2020 getting cancelled, a coronavirus-themed spam is spreading Emotet malware, security researchers said on Tuesday. According to researchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) A Canadian couple were left dumbfounded while making their dinner last week when they found a live frog inside a bell pepper. Nicole Gagnon and Gerard Blackburn from Saguenay, Quebec, were making dinner on February 9 when Gagnon chopped the vegetable and made the discovery,[Read More…]
London, Feb 18 (IANS) Researchers have found that the children conceived through assisted reproductive techniques including IVF (in vitro fertilisation) had a 45 per cent higher risk of death before 1 year of age than children conceived naturally. The findings, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, link the increased[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Feb 18 (IANS) The Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday approved creation of 550 posts in the Government Medical Colleges at Patiala and Amritsar with the objective of further improving and streamlining the functioning of these institutions. The new posts would 66 paramedics of technical nature, 464 critical posts of nurses,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Iltija Mufti, daughter of detained former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, on Tuesday said she is not yet ready to join politics. Speaking at the Indian Women’s Press Corps here, Iltija said she doesn’t think she will be a good politician. She said[Read More…]
Jamshedpur, Feb 18 (IANS) FC Goa have a shot at history when they take on Jamshedpur FC in an Indian Super League tie at the JRD Tata Sports Complex here on Wednesday. Goa, who are three points clear at the top of the table, know that just a point against[Read More…]
New York, Feb 18 (IANS) Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture in the air. The findings published in the journal Nature could have significant implications for the future of renewable energy, climate[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that in a child custody battle, the rights of the child need to be respected as he/she is entitled to the love of both parents, and even if there is a breakdown of marriage, it does not signify the[Read More…]
Mumbai/Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Renowned actor Tapas Paul — rated as one of the biggest superstars of Bengali films in the post-Uttam Kumar era — who also served two terms as Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP, passed away following a cardiac arrest at a Mumbai private hospital on Tuesday, family[Read More…]
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) After reports of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter Suhana Khan and popular “Bigg Boss 13” contestant Asim Riaz making their Bollywood debut in Karan Johar’s “Student Of The Year 3” got viral, the filmmaker took to Twitter to request to everyone “publishing this fabrication” to[Read More…]
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Even as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has observed a decline in the number of cases of COVID-19 in China, the stats of cases of novel coronavirus may shoot up. WHO will be reporting all confirmed cases from now. This includes both laboratory and clinically[Read More…]
Thane (Maharashtra), Feb 18 (IANS) A massive fire broke out in a chemical factory, Metropolitan Eximchem Pvt. Ltd, situated in Phase II of Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area of Dombivali east, around 35 kms north of Mumbai. on Tuesday, officials said. Locals and eyewitnesses reported that deafening blasts were[Read More…]
