An ambush in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap sector that led to the death of an Assam Rifles soldier on Tuesday has put the spotlight back on China’s role to fuel insurgency in the northeast. Tuesday’s attack by the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) came a week after China’s propaganda arm […]
Now, you can play, control Spotify podcasts through Google Assistant
Spotify users can now play and control podcasts through Google Assistant. The support has been rolled out to users globally. It currently supports only the English language. To control Spotify through Google Assistant, users need to activate the assistant by saying “Hey Google…” followed by the command to control a […]
Bihar deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi tests positive for Covid-19, admitted to AIIMS Patna
Deputy chief minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Thursday afternoon and has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Patna. Modi said that his parameters are perfectly normal adding that he will be back soon for campaigning. In […]
Car mechanic in Telangana kidnaps 9-yr-old boy for ransom, then kills him
Police in Telangana’s Mahabubabad district on Thursday arrested a 23-year old automobile mechanic who allegedly kidnapped and killed a nine-year old boy and set the body ablaze, on Sunday evening. The charred remains of the boy were recovered from Rallapusalapalli hillocks near Annaram village, a few kilometres from Mahabubabad town […]
Samsung, Lava favoured over Chinese brands by customers in India: CMR
Samsung and Lava have emerged as the two most favoured smartphone brands by customers in India amidst anti-China sentiment, a new nationwide CMR Insights On the Go Survey has revealed. The survey was conducted in Tier-I and Tier-II cities across India in order to understand the prevailing market sentiments around the border clashes. […]
Pooja Bhatt says Faraaz Khan is showing improvement
Actor Pooja Bhatt has shared an update on the health of actor Faraaz Khan and also assured everyone that his health is showing improvement.The actor appeared in films such as Fareb and Mehndi in the 1990s and was diagnosed with brain infection. Pooja tweeted Thursday afternoon, “Gratitude to all you truly special,generous […]
Government launches new inflation index for working class
The government on Thursday unveiled a new series for the consumer price index for industrial workers (CPI-IW), a measure of inflation used to calculate dearness allowance for government employees, wages for industrial workers and dearness relief for pensioners. The new series will account for changing spending habits of the working […]
175-Year Old Firm With 32K Employees Shuts Down Offices: Permanent Work From Home Declared!
One of the leading accounting and consulting companies in the world, Deloitte, has joined the league of companies that have permitted their employees to permanently work from home. Read on to find out more about Deloitte’s decision right here! Deloitte To Shut Down Four Offices; 500 People To Work From […]
Centre relaxes visa restrictions; Students, businessmen allowed
Extending further relaxations to Covid-19 travel guidelines, the Centre on Thursday has decided to allow more categories of foreign nationals and Indian nationals to travel to India. All OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) and PIO (Persons of Indian origin) card holders and all other foreign nationals intending to visit India […]
Yogi Adityanath’s Big Draw – Even Nitish’s Candidates Seek Him Out
Among the factors that truly frustrate critics and opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is his “Teflon coating” – there seem to be no consequences on his popularity of decisions that prove questionable, or even wildly flawed. In this, he now has a compatriot- saffron superstar Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister […]
AAP Government Wants To Kill “Goose That Lays The Golden Egg”: High Court
The Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up the AAP government for not sanctioning funds for the basic requirements of district courts, which are generating huge revenues through collection of fines, traffic challans and court fees, saying that it wanted to kill golden egg-laying goose. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli […]
Raises questions on your neutrality: India warns Twitter on wrong geotag
India has conveyed its disapproval to Twitter for reportedly showing Jammu and Kashmir as part of China in its location tag in a live broadcast. Amid the ongoing standoff with China, India warned Twitter that any attempt by the social media giant to “disrespect sovereignty and integrity of India, which […]
Tripura CM called ‘little Hitler’ for seeking to uproot ‘communist seeds’
After Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb called upon his party workers to uproot the communists from the state by 2023 while spreading the messages of nationalism and also those shared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the CPM responded by calling the CM ‘little Hitler’, and claimed that history would […]
‘Lost’ river that ran through Thar Desert 172,000 years ago found near Bikaner
Researchers have found the evidence of a “lost” river that ran through the central Thar Desert, near Bikaner, as early as 172 thousand years ago, and may have been a life-line to human populations enabling them to inhabit the region. The findings, published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represent […]
18 members of transgender community clear higher secondary course in Kerala
Eighteen members of the transgender community in Kerala have cleared their higher secondary equivalency course examination conducted by the Kerala State Literacy Mission Authority (KSLMA) with flying colours, enabling them to pursue further education. This is the first batch which has cleared the higher secondary (12th standard) equivalency examination. Kerala, […]