PITHORAGARH: Barely a few hours after the vehicular movement was restored on the Pithoragarh-Tanakpur road (National Highway-9), the stretch was closed again on Thursday due to landslide. On Wednesday night, the NH-9 was blocked at Delhi Band due to landslide, cutting off Pithoragarh from Tanakpur and Haldwani. Supply of essential commodities like […]
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Uttarakhand Kranti Dal members join AAP in Dehradun
DEHRADUN: Several members of Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) joined the Uttarakhand unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Dehradun on Thursday. Among them is Raju Maurya, who had contested some elections on the UKD ticket, the latest being in the 2017 assembly elections, when he contested from the Devaprayag constituency. Maurya also held an important organisational post in […]
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Van Gogh Museum, Musée d’Orsay and more: Travel in the time of lockdown
A viral pandemic is sure to leave people with vacation plans disheartened as governments across the world impose travel restrictions and stay-at-home advisories. Postponing that well-earned trip enjoy seem to be the only option but don’t be dejected all’s not over yet. Enjoying a virtual travel experience from the confines of your […]
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Exclusive: 2020 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy BS 6 price details confirmed
The stricter BS 6 emission norms deadline is just around the corner and majority of automakers have already rolled out required updates in order to continue sales post April 1st. Harley-Davidson India announced on Wednesday that it is going to offer its products to the defence personnel and will sell the Street […]
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Covid-19: London now a hotbed; UK coronavirus death toll hits 144
Several boroughs in London – such as Westminster, Southwark, Lambeth – have become hotbeds of coronavirus as the Boris Johnson government scrambles to deal with the pandemic that has brought large parts of London and the UK to a standstill. Latest figures put the death toll across the UK at […]
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Vasundhara Raje, son Dushyant in self quarantine after party with Kanika Kapoor
Former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and son Dushyan Singh, who attended a party where singer Kanika Kapoor was a guest, have gone into self quarantine. Kapoor announced on Friday that she has tested positive for coronavirus disease Covid-19. “While in Lucknow, I attended a dinner with my son Dushyant […]
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People find themselves more attractive from a third-person’s point of view
A group of researchers has found that people rate their own body more negatively when embodied in it, compared to viewing their exact same body except as an outsider. So, how exactly do we view our own body as an outsider? The experts from the Experimental Virtual Environments (EVENT) Lab at […]
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Sensex opens 457 points higher at 28,762 in early trade
Sensex opened 457 points higher despite coronavirus continuing to affect businesses and investments across global markets. Nifty has also opened 1% higher as global benchmarks continued amidst volatile trading. Rupee has opened 22 paise higher. It is currently at Rs 74.77 versus the US dollar. It closed 22 paise lower […]
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30 minutes of music a day is good for the heart
Listening to music for 30 minutes every day can be good for your heart as researchers have found that patients who suffered episodes of chest pain soon after a heart attack, known as early post-infarction angina, had significantly lower levels of anxiety and pain. The new study suggests music, combined with standard […]
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Kamal Nath blames BJP for MP collapse, Shivraj Singh Chouhan responds with an advice
BJP national vice president and three-time former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan has rejected allegations of BJP’s hand in the collapse of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh and said the Congress should instead introspect on the reasons precipitating the “internal conflict” that led to the situation. […]
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Delhi Metro services shut on Sunday to power ‘Janta Curfew’
The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Friday announced the closure of metro services in the national Capital on March 22 (Sunday) keeping in mind the ‘Janta Curfew’ declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contain the spread of the coronavirus. “In the wake of ‘Janta Curfew’ to be observed […]
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Urdu University students oppose converting campus to a quarantine centre in Telangana
Authorities in Telangana on Thursday decided to convert the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) here into a quarantine facility for international travelers with suspected symptoms of Covid-19, a move which has evoked strong opposition from the students and the faculty members. Revenue authorities of Ranga Reddy district requested that […]
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International Day of Happiness 2020: How being happy makes you healthy
Globally, things are as tough as they could be. A viral pandemic has gripped the world, over thousands have died and more than 120,000 people have tested positive. But difficult times call for greater efforts to sustain hope and smile in the world. As March 20 is the International Day of […]
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Schools in this UP district also teach how to respect women
Kaushambhi has become the first district in Uttar Pradesh to introduce a unique concept in its schools, wherein teachers will interact with the students and encourage them to respect women. Launched in February, the 30-minute session on ‘Mahila Samman Kaksha’ (classes on women’s respect) in its 1,410 government schools for […]
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S Jaishankar to reach out to Indian missions soon via VC over Covid-19
External affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will interact with heads of Indian mission across the world to keep them posted about the steps India is taking against the spread of Sars-Cov-2 infection and to shore up confidence of the diplomats on the frontline. The interaction, being held via video conference, will […]