Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the December 8 IAF chopper crash, died at a military hospital in Bengaluru on Wednesday, a week after he was critically injured in the accident that killed CDS Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others. The Indian Air Force said the ‘braveheart’ Group Captain succumbed to […]
World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said that the Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading at a rate not seen with any previous variant. In a media briefing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director general of WHO, said, “77 countries have now reported cases of Omicron, and the reality is that Omicron is probably in most countries, […]
The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Adjoining Areas have allowed needles and syringes major Hindustan Syringes & Medical Devices Ltd (HMD) to restart production, said a top company official.”Today (Monday) we start full operations on getting the formal letter,” HMD Managing Director Rajiv Nath told IANS.In a […]
Lauding the resilience of India’s civilisational heritage here, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said tyrants like Aurangzeb tried to destroy Kashi but were consigned to the “black pages” of history while the ancient city is now writing a new chapter of its glory. In a speech after inaugurating the Kashi Vishwanath Dham, which has […]
Punjab born Harnaaz Sandhu on Monday won the Miss Universe 2021 pageant, beating contestants from 79 countries to bring the title back to India after 21 years, her panacea for the stresses young woman face in response to the final question placing the final diamante in her crown.Only two Indians before Sandhu, just 21 and […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter handle was briefly hacked on Sunday, and a tweet claiming that India has “officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender” was put out from it. The Prime Minister’s Office later said the account was immediately secured after the matter was escalated to Twitter.“The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly […]
The last rites of Lt Colonel Harjinder Singh, Naik Jitendra Kumar, Naik Gursewak Singh and Lance Naik B Sai Teja, who were among the 13 people killed in a helicopter crash in Coonoor in Tamil Nadu last week, were performed on Sunday amid patriotic chants and an outpouring of grief. Thousands of people lined the […]
Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday attacked rival political parties over the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor saying the project could never have been completed under their government.The corridor is going to be inaugurated on Monday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Earlier in the day, former UP CM and SP president Akhilesh Yadav had claimed […]
Chandigarh, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh reported their first Omicron case on Sunday, while Maharashtra and Karnataka each recorded one more case of the COVID-19 variant, taking the tally in the country to 38. All the five persons in the cases reported on Sunday had arrived from foreign countries. According to state health officials, a 20-year-old […]