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With a high number of COVID patients recovering every day and the sustained fall in the mortality rate, India’s steady trend of registering dipping active cases continues. The active caseload is sustained below the 6L mark for the sixth successive day today. India’s active caseload stands at 5,33,787 today. Presently the active ... Read More »

According to sources, the incident occurred after the fire and blast in a chemical factory Sahil Enterprise. Several nearby godowns of cutting and packing materials of textiles collapsed following the fire and blast.   More than 20 firefighters rushed to the spot and started rescue and relief works. The NDRF ... Read More »

The national recovery rate has reached 92.09 per cent. With overall recovery of nearly 76 lakh 56 thousand patients, the recovered cases in the country stand at over 14 times the number of active cases. Over 53 thousand patients recovered and were discharged in the last 24 hours whereas the ... Read More »

Thursday’s agreements follow deals in September worth A$1.7 billion ($1.22 billion) with AstraZeneca and CSL Ltd for a total of nearly 85 million vaccine doses. The deals with Novax, Pfizer and BioNTech are worth about A$1.5 billion. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine along with AstraZeneca’s and Novavax’s are among the leading candidates ... Read More »

Udaipur : The Smart Cities Mission,Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs,held a kick-off event for the ‘Nurturing NeighbourhoodsChallenge’ in collaboration withthe Netherlands-based Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) and with the technical support of WRI India.By focusing on the needs of young children aged 0 – 5 years and their caregivers ... Read More »

Nadal becomes just the fourth man to achieve 1,000 singles victories in the Open Era, behind Jimmy Connors (1,274), Roger Federer (1,242) and Ivan Lendl (1,068). Nadal, who was handed a bye in the first round, got off to a terrible start, losing his opening service game and never really ... Read More »

Using an oft repeated cliché, he said it is an issue left over from history between India and Pakistan. The seemingly quiet response of the Chinese establishment vis a vis Pakistan’s move in forcibly occupied Gilgit-Baltistan exposes its diatribe against India scrapping article 370 from Jammu & Kashmir in August ... Read More »

The region between the Kangra (1905) and Bihar-Nepal (1934) earthquakes has not yet experienced great earthquake of magnitude greater than 8.0 since last 500 years, and hence the region is known as Central Seismic Gap (CSG) region. However, the Kumaon Central Himalayan, which belongs to this CSG region, is one ... Read More »

According to a press release issued by the US embassy in Dhaka on Wednesday, the exercise  demonstrates U.S.’s continuing commitment to work with the Bangladesh military to address shared maritime security concerns in the region and strengthen partnership to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific region. Speaking during the online ... Read More »

Inside, the fiery ball that is the primary source of energy, the magnetic field interacts with thermal convection to form a network structure called supergranular pattern with cell boundaries which look brighter. Deeper study on these structures can help reveal these solar mysteries. One more door to the mystery seems ... Read More »

In the advertisement athletes have been asked to deposit Rs 6000 for enrolling in the Khelo India camp and have been assured that they can participate in Khelo India Games after trials. A phone number was mentioned in advt. Acting as an aspirant SAI has managed to get bank account ... Read More »

With more than a trillion photos taken each year on mobile devices, according to a report by Mylio, Samsung cameras help people to not just document a moment in time but rather to truly capture it in near lifelike form.   As smartphone cameras became the primary go-to camera for ... Read More »

Both the Union territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh plan to provide tap water connections to every rural household by 2022, when India celebrates its 75 year of Independence. To help the UT Administration, a multidisciplinary team from National Jal Jeevan Mission comprising of officials of the ministry and ... Read More »

In an interview given to a local news outlet on Tuesday, the Army Chief said that some opposition parties had complained about the irregularities over the voter list which could have been taken care of as there was enough time for that, reports Reuters.  The Military Chief also criticised the ... Read More »

A cyclonic circulation lies over Southwest Bay of Bengal off Sri Lanka coast and a trough runs from southeast Arabian Sea to Karnataka coast across Lakshadweep area in lower tropospheric levels. Under its influence: i) Scattered to fairly widespread rainfall very likely over Tamilnadu & Puducherry, Kerala & Mahe, South Interior Karnataka ... Read More »

As per a notification by Indian Embassy in Beijing, Chinese side have indicated that more discussions are required in order to process these clearances. This flight has already been rescheduled once from 30th October to 6th Nov. It has been again rescheduled without any fresh date for it as yet. ... Read More »

At the time of launch of Jal Jeevan Mission in August last year, about 3.23 crore households out of a total 18.93 crore rural households had tap water supply. Goa had become the first state in the country to provide tap water connections to all rural households of the state. ... Read More »

Malabar series of maritime exercises commenced in 1992 as a bilateral Indian Navy- United States Navy exercise. Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force joined Malabar in 2015 and the 2020 edition will now witness participation of the Royal Australian Navy in this joint maritime exercise.   Read More »

The super typhoon Goni weakened after barrelling through the southern part of the Philippines’ main island of Luzon. The weather bureau downgraded Goni, to typhoon category, with 215 kph sustained winds and gusts of up to 290 kph after it made landfall in two places in the Bicol region.   ... Read More »

Briefing media in Patna this evening, Chief Electoral Officer HR Srinivasa said, voter turnout will increase after receiving of final figures from remote areas. Earlier, Briefing media in New Delhi, Secretary General of Election Commission of India, Umesh Sinha informed that the second phase of election for Bihar state assembly ... Read More »