Samajwadi Party (SP) minister Gayatri Prajapati who is accused of rape is still on the loose; the Apex Court has heard a plea on Monday against his arrest. Prajapati’s issue stirring up Uttar Pradesh is raising a lot of questions. In fact, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh has written a[Read More…]
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More than 1 in 4 child deaths a year attributed to unhealthy environment: WHO
Environmental pollutants cost an estimated 1.7 million lives among children under 5 every year, according to World Health Organization reports. The report attributed the death of more than 1 in 4 deaths of children under 5 years to unhealthy environments such as indoor and outdoor air pollution, second-hand smoke, unsafe[Read More…]
North Korea’s missile launch a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions: Shinzo Abe
North Korea fired four ballistic missiles in the early hours of Monday morning into the sea off Japan’s northwest, South Korean and Japanese officials said. Military authorities in South Korea, Japan, and the United States all confirmed the launch of four intermediate range missiles, which traveled almost 1,000 kilometers (620[Read More…]
Honda Mobilio production stopped
The Honda MPV Has Been Reeling With Poor Demand And Continuously Dwindling Sales Which Read Zero Units Last Month. Honda’s attempt at the flourishing MPV segment of India isn’t going too well. Launched in July 2014, the Honda Mobilio hasn’t really been able to push the sales for the carmaker.[Read More…]
Maruti Suzuki Baleno RS – Is it priced right?
Maruti Suzuki has finally entered the hot-hatch segment in India with the Baleno RS. At Rs 8.69 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi), the Baleno RS is priced Rs 1.4 lakh higher than the similarly equipped Baleno Alpha and about half a lakh less than the Volkswagen Polo GT TSI. The big question[Read More…]
Invest in new types of infra; massive investment opportunity in aviation: Sinha
Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha urged investors to think of new types of infrastructure in India such as ports and waterways at the ‘IVCA’s Annual India Alternatives Conclave 2017,’ that kicked off on Monday at the Grand Hotel, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. The Indian Private Equity and[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu: Tirunelveli first to have 100% waste segregation
In just a few months, Tirunelveli municipality in Tamil Nadu has achieved the feat of 100 per cent segregation of waste at source across households and institutions. It required securing effort from each family to segregate biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste. Several campaigns though TV and local radio channels was done[Read More…]
Nigerian women displaced by Boko Haram hold protest
Boko Haram jihadists drove out a thousand of Nigerian women forced from their homes to hold a protest against the authority demanding better conditions as UN Security Council envoys visited their camp. The demands of the demonstrators were strictly accusing the local authorities and aid agencies of making worse one[Read More…]
Alarming: Over half of under-five kids are anaemic in India
More than 58 per cent of children below the age of five years are anaemic, reveals the recently released family health survey (NFHS 4). It means, these kids suffer from lacking haemoglobin in the blood, leaving them vulnerable to infections, and might affect their brain development. Carried out in 2015-16,[Read More…]
Delhi will be comparable to London: Arvind Kejriwal
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday promised in a highly driven speech that he would alter the city’s civic management and make it “comparable to London within just one year if AAP wins the municipal polls”. The Municipal elections are expected to happen this coming April. Kejriwal attacks the Congress and BJP[Read More…]
Agra: 12 killed in two separate road accident
On Sunday, at least, 12 people were killed in two different road accident in ISBT area here in less than 12 hours, says the police report. The first accident took place which killed five persons late last night. In another instance, seven lost their lives in the second road mishap[Read More…]
More than half of global Internet users are in India
India accounted for 268.9 million new Internet users globally who have come on board since 2014, a report by software firm Adobe said on Sunday. According to Mobile Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) Report, India accounted for more than half of the 500-million new Internet users. “The report, based on the[Read More…]
Google’s fortune telling website restores your hope in future rather than merely predicting it
A fake Google Fortunetelling web page went viral after promising users to predict their future, only to draw their attention to a serious issue. At first glance, the beta version of Google claims to predict the future, allowing users to submit a question and have Google tell them their fortune on[Read More…]
Trump expected to sign revised travel ban on Monday: US media
United States President Donald Trump is expected to sign a revised travel ban on Monday, just over a month after his executive order banning immigrants of seven Muslim-majority country in to US sowed controversy across the globe and chaos at airports, US media reported. It was unclear about the changes[Read More…]
Royal family members attend wedding of Amarinder Singh’s grandson
Members of the royal families from across the country converged at Kashmir House in Lutyen’s Delhi on Saturday to attend the wedding of the grandson of Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh with grand daughter of senior Congress leader Karan Singh. Nirvan Singh, a descendant of Patiala royal family, tied the[Read More…]
Hate crime in US: Sikh man shot by masked man in US, attacker yelled ‘go back to your own country’
Deep Rai, a 39-year-old Sikh man, has been shot and wounded outside his home in Washington’s Kent city by a masked stranger on Friday when he was working on his car. The man alleged that the attacker told him to ‘go back to his country’ before shooting him in the[Read More…]
Karan Johar becomes dad to twins Roohi, Yash via surrogacy
Filmmaker Karan Johar has become the proud father to a pair of twins — a girl and a boy. The twins were reportedly born via a surrogate in February 2017. According to reports, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials confirmed that the babies’ birth had been registered with them on Friday,[Read More…]
GST on track, to be implemented from July 1: Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the new indirect tax regime, was on track and 1 July was going to be its likely date of implementation. “It (GST) looks on track. Subject to Parliament approval, it looks like the possible date of implementation[Read More…]
India vs Australia 2nd Test: Australia reach 40-0 at stumps, India all out for 189
After restricting India to a meagre 189 in the first innings, Australia reached 40 for no loss at stumps on the opening day of the second cricket Test at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday. Openers David Warner (23 not out) and Matt Renshaw (15 not out) survived[Read More…]
Assembly Elections: 84% voter turnout in Manipur, 57.03% in UP
An estimated 57.03 per cent polling was recorded in the sixth phase of the ongoing Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and 84 percent voters cast their votes in the first phase of polls in Manipur on Saturday. The day-long poll process remained peaceful in both the states. In Uttar Pradesh,[Read More…]
Akhilesh dares Modi to list out work done by him
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to list out the work done by him.”I told you about 10 works done by my government. Can he (Modi) list 10 works? I am ready to give the performance report of my “I told you about[Read More…]
Former Miss India Sonu Walia lodges police complaint after receiving obscene calls & videos
Former Miss India and actor Sonu Walia lodged a complaint with the Mumbai Police after she received obscene phone calls and videos. She filed an FIR against unknown persons under sections 354 of IPC and other sections of the IT act at Mumbai’s Bangur Nagar police station. The Bangur Nagar[Read More…]
West Bengal assembly passes bill to regulate private hospitals
West Bengal Assembly on Friday passed a bill to regulate functioning of private health facilities, providing for up to three-year jail terms and trials under the IPC for offenders and fines up to Rs 50 lakh in case of death of patients due to medical negligence. Under the West Bengal[Read More…]
Airtel offers 28GB 4G data, free calls at Rs 345
Aiming to counter Reliance Jio’s prime plans, now Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom operator, has come up with a new revamped plan to offer 1 GB 4G data per day along with free local and STD calls. Airtel’s Rs 345 plan offers 1GB of 4G data per day along[Read More…]
G67: A forum for a new Tamil Nadu
Karti Chidambaram wants to set a Tamil Nadu to new tune, one singing of youth and hope. With this view in mind, the son of former finance minister P Chidambaram is organizing G67, a seminar for the generation born after 1967, on March 6 in Chennai. The genesis of the[Read More…]