The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected actor Rhea Chakraborty’s petition to transfer the investigation from Patna to Mumbai in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case. The court said that said Bihar government was competent to give consent to CBI for probing into the Patna FIR. A single-judge bench of Justice Hrishikesh Roy pronounced […]
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Heavy rains expected over North West and central India for next 2 to 3 days
Widespread and heavy rains are expected over different parts of north-west India and the Western Himalayan region until Thursday, India Meteorological Department (IMD) authorities said on Wednesday. The monsoon trough is active and lies south of its normal position (from Ganganagar to the Bay of Bengal). It is very likely to be […]
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Chinese firm hopes to make Covid-19 vaccine available for less than 1,000 yuan: 5 key developments
With the race towards finding a vaccine against Covid-19 intensifying by the day, the question remains when will the world get the much-awaited antidote to the deadly contagion. Last week, in an interview to an American broadcaster, top US expert Anthony Fauci said that he believes the vaccine should be […]
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Crucial SC verdict on Rhea Chakraborty’s plea in Sushant case today
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday deliver its verdict on actor Rhea Chakraborty’s petition to transfer the investigation in Sushant Singh Rajput’s death case from Patna to Mumbai. A single-judge bench of Justice Hrishikesh Roy will pronounce the judgment at 11am. The apex court had reserved its judgement on the […]
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Democrats nominate Joe Biden as candidate for US Presidential Elections 2020
The Democratic Party nominated Joe Biden as their presidential candidate for the November election, making his challenge to incumbent President Donald Trump official. The moment marked a political high point for Biden, who had sought the presidency twice before. He tweeted to say it is the “honour of his life”. […]
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A rush to save remains of an Egyptian woman from rainwater in Jaipur
As heavy rain washed away low-lying shanties and submerged cars in Jaipur last Friday, the staff at the historic Albert Hall museum was busy in a different rescue operation. As water started filling the museum, housekeeping officials and guards hopped the stairs to the museum’s basement to get to a […]
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Cancer cases could increase by 12% in next 5 years: ICMR
India’s cancer cases could increase by 12% in the next five years, with 1.5 million people projected to suffer from the non-communicable disease by 2025, up from 1.39 million in 2020, according to data based on current trends from the cancer report by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). The […]
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‘Sixth worst-hit in world’: Maharashtra has more virus cases than S Africa
Maharashtra now has more Covid-19 cases–over 600,000–than South Africa, the sixth worst-hit country globally. South Africa has reported 5,89,886 Covid-19 cases as per the reference website worldometers.info. With 5,612,027 cases, the US tops the list of countries with maximum cases in the world. Brazil has reported 3,363,235 cases, India 2,701,604 […]
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‘Take the right precautions’: PM Modi cautions citizens amid dengue season
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday urged citizens to be cautious about tropical and vector-borne diseases and asked them to take steps to be safe amid the country’s battle against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). “This is the season of tropical and vector-borne diseases. I urge you all to take the […]
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‘Transparency writ large in PM CARES’: RS Prasad attacks Rahul Gandhi
Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad joined party chief JP Nadda in attacking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the Supreme Court verdict on PM CARES fund. The apex court on Tuesday rejected a plea seeking transfer of all contributions made to PM CARES Fund till date to […]
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SC refuses to direct transfer of contributions made to PM CARES to NDRF
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a petition by an NGO seeking transfer of contributions in PM CARES Fund to National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). Teh NDRF is a statutory fund created under Section 46 of the Disaster Management Act, 2005. The court held that individual and organisations are free […]
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Union home minister Amit Shah admitted to AIIMS, Delhi for post-coronavirus care
Union home minister Amit Shah was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi on Monday night for medical care after recovering from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) last week, the premier institution said on Tuesday. “Sh Amit Shah, Honourable Home Minister has been complaining of fatigue […]
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‘Use JPC to find solutions’: Govindacharya advises parties on Facebook row
Political parties should bury their differences and shed double speak on the issue of data sovereignty and right to privacy; to come up with solutions to the problems of social media platforms being largely unregulated and unchecked said KN Govindacharya, a former Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary and an RSS ideologue on […]
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India records decline in daily Covid-19 cases and deaths; tally over 2.7 million
India saw 55,079 cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 875 deaths, the lowest in nearly a week, in the last 24 hours, bringing the country’s case count to 2,702,742, according to the Union health ministry data. There has been a decline in the daily number of Covid-19 cases for […]
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29 wildfires raging across California amid heatwave, world temperature record
One of the hottest air temperatures recorded anywhere on the planet in at least a century, and possibly ever, was reached on Sunday afternoon at Death Valley in California’s Mojave Desert where it soared to 130 Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius). The temperature was recorded in the Valley’s sparsely populated Furnace Creek. […]