New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 tally raced past the 38-lakh mark on Thursday with the sharpest single-day spike of 83,883 fresh cases, while the number of recoveries surged to 29,70,492, pushing the recovery rate to over 77 per cent, Union health ministry data showed. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country mounted to 38,53,406, while […]
New Delhi: Twitter on Thursday said that the account linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked, and was later restored. “We’re aware of this activity and have taken steps to secure the compromised account. We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted. Advice […]
Washington: Both President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will commemorate the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in rural Pennsylvania where one of the hijacked planes crashed in a field, the White House and Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday. It was not immediately clear whether their visits to the memorial in Shanksville will overlap. […]
Washington: The United States has urged India to create an environment that will foster its position in the global supply chain and said that the country continues to face challenges on the market access front despite improvement in the ease of doing business. Observing that the coronavirus pandemic may give rise to self-sufficiency and self-reliance […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that ‘Mission Karmayogi’, a major bureaucratic reform exercise approved by the Union Cabinet, will “radically” improve the government’s human resource management practices, asserting that the programme aims to prepare civil servants for the future. The exercise will use scale and state of the art infrastructure to augment […]
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday reported 641 new COVID-19 infections taking the overall tally to 38864. The fresh cases comprise 367 cases in Kashmir while the remaining 274 cases in Jammu division as per the government’s media bulletin. As per the data, there are 8053 active COVID-19 cases in J&K while 30079 patients have […]
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday blocked 118 more mobile applications, including popular gaming app PUBG, terming them prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of the nation. The banned apps include Baidu, Baidu Express Edition, Tencent Watchlist, FaceU, WeChat Reading and Tencent Weiyun, besides PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite, according to an official statement. […]
New Delhi:The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a bill under which Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi, apart from the existing Urdu and English, will be the official languages in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Announcing the decision at a news briefing, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020 […]
Leh: An octogenarian died of the novel coronavirus in Ladakh, taking the toll to 35 on Wednesday, officials said. The number of cases of the pathogen rose to 2,733 with 52 more people testing positive for the infection, including 46 in Leh and six in Kargil, according to the officials. The active cases of the coronavirus […]
New Delhi:The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to stay at this stage the streaming of Netflix movie, ‘Gunjan Saxena – The Kargil Girl’, on the Centre’s plea that it depicts the Indian Air Force (IAF) in bad light. Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked the Centre as to why it did not approach the court before the […]