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New Delhi : Over 11,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered to inmates of three jails in the national capital so far by the Delhi Prisons Department, officials said on Sunday. A total of 11,525 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, they said.   As on Friday, 1,710 Tihar ... Read More »

Coimbatore : A teenage girl has been arrested on the charge of marrying a minor boy after sexually abusing him, police said on Sunday. The girl working in a petrol bunk near Pollachi, 43 kms from here, became friendly with the boy a few months ago, the police said. The ... Read More »

Bengaluru : ISRO said it successfully conducted the first hot test of the System Demonstration Model (SDM) of the Gaganyaan Service Module Propulsion System for a duration of 450 seconds at the test facility of Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri, Tamil Nadu, on Saturday. The system performance met the test objectives ... Read More »

    Samsung, India’s most trusted smartphone brand, today announced the launch of Galaxy Watch4, Galaxy Watch4 Classic and Galaxy Buds2 in India. Galaxy Watch4 series will start a new a new era of smartwatch innovation to drive holistic health and wellness. With a comfortable fit, Galaxy Buds2 is designed ... Read More »

Jaipur : Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday underwent angioplasty at the Sawai Man Singh government hospital here after experiencing severe chest pain. Lokesh Sharma, the officer on special duty to the chief minister, said, “The CM”s angioplasty has been done successfully. Everything is fine”.   Earlier in the ... Read More »

Indian Navy is participating in the sea phase of Exercise Malabar 2021 from 26 – 29 August 2021 along with the US Navy (USN), Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Malabar series of maritime exercise commenced in 1992 as an IN-USN Exercise. In 2015, ... Read More »

Dubai : Aiming at deepening the academic and cultural ties between India and the UAE, an agreement was signed under which faculty members from Indian universities will spend six to 10 months every year for undertaking research and teaching social sciences in Abu Dhabi. The agreement between Indian Council for ... Read More »

Chandigarh : Haryana”s Covid tally rose to 7,70,411 on Thursday with 16 fresh cases, while the death toll reached 9,671 after one more person succumbed to the disease, according to the Health Department”s bulletin. The latest death was reported from Jind district, it said.   Of the fresh cases, six ... Read More »

New Delhi : Actor Sonu Sood is scheduled to meet Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday, sources said. The 47-year-old actor catapulted to the national spotlight for helping migrant workers reach their home states during the nationwide lockdown last year. He also helped people during the second wave of ... Read More »

Bengaluru : Karnataka reported 1,213 new COVID-19 cases and 25 deaths on Thursday, taking the total number of infections to 29,43,463 and the toll to 37,231, the health department said on Thursday. The day also saw 1,206 discharges, taking the total number of recoveries in the state so far to ... Read More »

Kotdwar  : Two tourists from Delhi were killed and another was injured when their car fell into a deep gorge between Lansdowne and Jaiharikhal in Uttarakhand”s Pauri district. The accident occurred at around 11 pm on Wednesday, Lansdowne Kotwali Station House Officer (SHO) Santosh Kunwar said.   Two of the ... Read More »

Mumbai : Hindi film lyricist Manoj Muntashir was at the centre of a growing Twitter storm on Thursday with several colleagues in the industry and others slamming him for “seeding hatred” in a video in which he compares Mughal emperors to “dacoits”. Muntashir, who has written lyrics for films such ... Read More »

New Delhi : Right to privacy includes right to be forgotten and to be left alone, the Delhi High Court has said while directing various online platforms including YouTube to remove certain objectionable videos and audio clips of a Bengali actress. The high court, in an interim order, said the ... Read More »

Ahmedabad : Two sanitation workers died of suffocation, while another went missing after they entered a sewer line without wearing any safety equipment in Gujarat”s Ahmedabad city on Thursday, police and fire department said. Although efforts are on to rescue the missing sanitation worker, chances of his survival are slim, ... Read More »

New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the district magistrates to complete the process of approval of applications for children, registered under the ”PM-CARES for Children” scheme, so that those who have lost their parents or legal guardian due to the COVID-19 pandemic could get the benefit. The apex ... Read More »

  Samsung, India’s largest and most trusted consumer electronics brand, has launched an Augmented Reality (AR) filter on Instagram and Facebook that will allow people to virtually experience how Samsung’s much loved lifestyle TV, The Frame would look in their homes.     AR filter will allow consumers to virtually ... Read More »

Kennewick (US) : Authorities believe one gunman killed three people and wounded another during a spree of shootings and arsons in eastern Washington on Wednesday. A suspect was believed to have been found dead later after police fired on a vehicle.   KEPR reports that police were called about several ... Read More »

Agra : Six more people in Agra district died after consuming spurious liquor, taking the toll to 10, family members said on Wednesday. Police said it still needs to be confirmed whether the persons died of spurious liquor. But Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Agra, Rajeev Krishna said this ... Read More »

Barmer (Raj) : A MiG-21 fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed in a village in Barmer district on Wednesday following a “technical malfunction” during a routine trainee sortie but the pilot ejected safely, officials said. It is the fourth MiG-21 crash this year.   The plane crashed in ... Read More »

New Delhi : The Supreme Court Wednesday asked Delhi High Court to decide “preferably within a period of two weeks” the plea pending before it challenging the appointment of senior IPS officer Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police Commissioner. The 1984-batch IPS officer was shifted to the Union cadre from Gujarat ... Read More »