The mayor of Canada’s capital declared a state of emergency on Sunday and a former US ambassador to Canada said groups in the US must stop interfering in the domestic affairs of America’s neighbour as protesters opposed to Covid restrictions continued to paralyse Ottawa’s downtown. Mayor Jim Watson said the declaration highlights the need for […]
Delhi’s air quality was in the “severe” category on Monday as the minimum temperature was likely to be 6 degrees Celsius and the maximum 25 degrees Celsius. According to the Central Pollution Control Board, the hourly Air Quality Index (AQI) was 267 at 7 am. On Sunday, the average 24-hour AQI was 285. An AQI […]
Riding on a clinical bowling display by Yuzvendra Chahal, and some fine hitting by Rohit Sharma at the top, India defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first ODI in Ahmedabad. Rohit completed his 44th ODI fifty and added 84 runs for the opening wicket with Ishan Kishan. The Indian captain got out on […]
Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar had some of the best musical collaborations to their credit. However, their first meeting began with a misunderstanding as she thought the singer was ‘following’ her. In her book Lata Mangeshkar: In Her Own Voice, documentary maker and author Nasreen Munni Kabeer writes that the singing icon recalled with great […]
Amid the declining number of daily Covid-19 infections in the country, the Centre on Sunday announced that its employees at all levels should attend office physically without any exemption. The Union ministry of personnel, public grievances & pensions said that Union minister Jitendra Singh held a review meeting on Sunday following which the decision to […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday paid tributes to legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar who breathed her last at Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital after suffering a multi-organ failure. Offering his condolences, Khan said with Mangeshkar’s death, the subcontinent has lost one of the “truly great singers the world has known”. “Listening to her songs has […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid last respects to veteran music icon Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday evening. The legendary singer passed away at the age of 92 at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai earlier in the day. The last rites of Mangeshkar, known as the nightingale of India, were performed with full state honours at Shivaji […]
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has plans to spend about Rs 1.17 lakh crore through business transactions with its subsidiaries like Indus Towers, Nxtra and Bharti Hexacom, according to a regulatory filing. The company will hold an extraordinary general meeting of the members of the company on February 26 to also seek their approval for issuing […]
India is prepared to deal with any situation arising out of global developments, including the US Federal Reserve’s decision to roll back monetary easing, and will not allow the economy to suffer, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserted on Sunday. In a post-Budget interaction with industry body Ficci, she urged corporates to take advantage of the […]