Hyderabad, Dec 3 (IANS) Leading vaccine manufacturer Bharat Biotech on Tuesday announced the commercial roll-out of Rotavac 5D, lowest dose volume rotavirus vaccine in the world. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu launched the vaccine at a function in New Delhi. The first generation, rotavirus vaccine, Rotavac was developed under a[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Delhi High Court is expected to hear on Wednesday a petition, seeking the court take action against the media for revealing the identity of the victim of the gruesome Hyderabad rape-murder case. The petition argues that exposure of names, address, work details and other[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress on Tuesday demanded the resignation of Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik over the gang rape of a girl in police quarters in Puri district on Monday. Two persons including one dismissed police constable Jitendra Kumar Sethi were arrested[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Days after Tesla company led by Elon Musk launched their electric Cybertruck, a video of a man carving out the vehicle from boiled potato and then pouring gravy over it has gone viral on Twitter. A user posted on his Twitter handle @DanMilanoHere: “My brother[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Singer Arijit Singh was the most streamed artist in India in 2019, while the most streamed song of the year was “Señorita” by Shawn Mendes and Camilla Cabello, Swedish music streaming giant Spotify announced on Tuesday while sharing the data trends in India. Tanishk Bagchi,[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday said it had arrested a CMD and a Director of a ponzi scheme company in West Bengal in connection with a chit fund case probe. Arrested persons are Ajay Chakraborty, CMD, and Sanjit Chakraborty, Director, both of Jugantor[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) In one of the successful exercises of VRS in CPSEs, as many as 92,878 employees of BSNL and MTNL availed the voluntary retirement option with BSNL accounting for 78,500 and MTNL for 14,378 as the scheme closed on Tuesday after a month long running. BSNL[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 3 (IANS) India on Tuesday conducted a night trial of its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile off Odisha coast. The Strategic Forces Command conducted the night trial of short-range ballistic missile Prithvi-II from launch complex-3 of Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, said defence sources. The missile, which[Read More…]
Greater Noida, Dec 3 (IANS) Mandeep Jangra marked his return to the boxing ring with a hard fought split decision over Dinesh Dagar in the mens 57kg bout to help his team, NE Rhinos, draw abreast of Bengaluru Brawlers 1-1 on the second day of the Big Bout Indian Boxing[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) As HDFC Bank customers stormed Twitter with complaints that its online banking site and the app were not operational or working properly, the bank on Tuesday said it regretted the inconvenience to customers, and its experts were on the job to resolve the glitch. “We[Read More…]
Kathmandu, Dec 3 (IANS) The Indian men and women paddlers claimed team gold medals yet another time, stamping their authority on the ongoing 13th South Asian Games in Kathmandu on Tuesday. In the men’s team final, India beat hosts Nepal 3-0, while their counterparts defeated Sri Lanka, also by an[Read More…]
Srinagar, Dec 3 (IANS) Two civilians were killed and nine others injured on Tuesday when Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing on a villages close to the Line of Control in Shahpur and Kirni sectors, in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, defence sources said. Gulnaz (35) and Soaib (16)[Read More…]
Pokhara, Dec 3 (IANS) After the stupendous gold medal-winning show from the Indian mens and womens teams, the contingent made a thunderous start in the individual section at the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) here in Nepal on Tuesday, registering five wins to progress into the quarter-finals. The only setback[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) To further enhance air regional connectivity, the Centre on Tuesday invited bids for the fourth round of the RCS-Udan scheme. According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the focus of this round would be the priority areas like the northeastern and hill states, the Union[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 3 (IANS) The Economic Offences Wing of the Mumbai Police arrested three former directors – two of them women – of the Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd in connection with the ongoing probe into the Rs 4,355-crore HDIL scam, a police official said here on Tuesday. The[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Congress leader H. Vasanthakumar urged the government in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday to ban online games like ‘PUBG’, ‘Blue Whale’ and ‘Rummy’, citing their negative side effects on the mental and physical development of children. “I urge the government to ban online games such[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Even as the Gujarat Police is looking for self-styled godman, Swami Nithyananda, in an alleged case of kidnapping and wrongful confinement of children to make them collect donations from followers to run his ashram in Ahmedabad, a website named Kailaasa.org has popped up suggesting that[Read More…]
Kannur (Kerala), Dec 3 (IANS) Boxers from Chandigarh and Punjab dominated the proceedings on the second day of the 4th Elite Womens National Boxing Championships at the Mundayad Indoor Stadium here on Tuesday. The day began with a fiery encounter between last year’s bronze medallists KH Shamim Banu from Manipur[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) State-run NBCC and Mumbai-based Suraksha Realty on Tuesday submitted their final resolution plans for acquisition of the insolvent Jaypee Infratech Ltd (JIL). The Committee of Creditors (CoC) of the realty firm had sought clarifications and asked both the companies to sweeten their offers in its[Read More…]
Kathmandu, Dec 3 (IANS) Alert security personnel in Kathmandu airport pounced on a Chinese man who they noticed was walking suspiciously. The man was arrested for concealing one kg gold in his rectum. Security personnel at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) arrested Chinese national Sa Luitui, 22, last week after[Read More…]
Adelaide, Dec 3 (IANS) Pakistan’s young pace battery will only get better with experience, feels bowling coach Waqar Younis after they put up a miserable show in Australia. “Yes I admit that we didn’t get the sort of performances or results we wanted from them. But for teenagers you tend[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) In a setback for Delhi Minister Kailash Gehlot, the Adjudicating Authority (AA) has confirmed attachment of Rs 1.46 crore assets of his brother Harish Gehlot in a Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA) violation case. on May 7, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) attached properties, including[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) With the number of complaints of fraudulent withdrawal from bank accounts crossing the 50-mark over two days in two city police station areas, the Kolkata police sleuths have reached Delhi where they were examining some CCTV footage on Tuesday amid suspicion that foreign nationals were involved[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Private airline IndiGo has instructed pilots to use lower engine thrust during the take-off phase to avert any technical glitch which might impact the operations of A320neo aircraft. The instruction comes after India’s aviation regulator in a probe report cited the practice of full-engine throttle[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Dec 3 (IANS) Techies working for various companies here staged a protest on Tuesday, demanding death for the four accused in the horrific gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian on the outskirts of the city last week. The software employees of various Information Technology companies in the IT[Read More…]
