Noida: Chandra Shekhar Aazad will fight the Uttar Pradesh assembly election from the Gorakhpur Sadar seat, his Aazad Samaj Party (ASP) announced on Thursday. Gorakhpur Sadar is the seat from where the BJP has fielded UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. “Taking forward the ideology of Babasaheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar and Kanshiram sahib for ‘Bahujan Hitay-Bahujan […]
Scientists in Scotland have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) based test that uses X-rays to accurately diagnose COVID-19 in just a few minutes. The testing platform developed by researchers at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is able to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus far more quickly than a PCR test which typically takes […]
New Delhi: State-run Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL) on Thursday launched the biggest ever tender worth about Rs 5,500 crore to procure as many as 5,580 electric buses including 130 double deckers. CESL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), on Thursday announced the floating of a request for proposals for the biggest […]
New Delhi: Air India said it has resumed six India-US flights on Boeing B777 aircraft on Thursday after the plane manufacturer gave the clearance to operate them. The airline also said all flights to the US will normalise from Friday. Air India had cancelled eight flights on India-US routes on Wednesday due to deployment of […]
Chennai: Integrated payments technology company FSS (Financial Software and Systems) has partnered with the United Arab Emirates-based YAP, a digital banking platform, to deliver secure, digital first-card experiences to consumers in the Middle-East and African regions. Under the partnership, YAP and FSS would work to deliver greater value to customers by combining the FSS Unified […]
Kolkata: Collection efficiency ratio of the microfinance sector is comfortable at 90-95 per cent and there has been no impact on recoveries despite the current Covid surge, a senior official said on Thursday. The collection efficiency ratio of the sector is much better than other financial instruments, Chief Executive Officer of the Microfinance Institutions Network […]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday sought the Centre’s reply on a plea seeking direction to quash the Lead Stabilizer in Polyvinyl Chloride Pipes and Fittings Rules, 2021′ which mandate obtaining licence from the Bureau of Indian Standards for manufacturing PVC pipes and to have the BIS Standard Mark’ on them. A bench of […]
DUBAI: The flamboyant Rohit Sharma featured as opener, Rishabh Pant as wicketkeeper and R Ashwin as the lone specialist spinner in the ICC men’s ‘Test Team of the Year’ but no Indian player was included in the global body’s ODI XI for 2021. After going unrepresented in the ICC men’s ‘T20 Team of the Year’ […]
Mumbai: The Indian rupee weakened by 7 paise to close at 74.51 against the US dollar on Thursday as sustained foreign fund outflows and rising crude oil prices hurt forex market sentiment. Further, massive sell-offs in domestic equities for a third session in a row on Thursday too made investors more cautious, analysts said. At […]
DUBAI: After going unrepresented in the ICC’s men’s ‘T20 Team of the Year’ due to a disastrous World Cup campaign in the UAE, no Indian player featured in the global body’s ‘ODI Team of the Year’ which features two players from minnows Ireland. Incidentally, the team also doesn’t have any Australia, English, New Zealand or […]