Southampton: England paceman Jimmy Anderson became the first fast bowler to reach 600 wickets in Test cricket, before the third and final Test against Pakistan finished as a draw on Tuesday, leaving the home side to celebrate a second series victory of the pandemic-disrupted summer. Less than two hours of cricket were played on a […]

New Delhi: The Special Cell of Delhi police arrested JNU PhD scholar Sharjeel Imam in connection with the February Northeast Delhi riots. He has been booked on the charges of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). On Sunday, he was brought back to Delhi from Assam on the production warrant. On July 21, the Delhi police […]

San Francisco: Google has introduced several features including tabs that load faster and let you organise and find them easily in Chrome browser as you work or study from home. To start with, Google has made tabs 10 per cent faster in Chrome via under-the-hood performance improvements. Now the users can collapse and expand tab […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 23.8 million, while the deaths have increased to over 818,000 according to the Johns Hopkins University. As of Wednesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 23,820,104 and the fatalities rose to 818,137, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in […]

New Delhi: With 67,151 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours, India’s tally mounted to 32,34,474 on Wednesday, while the death toll climbed to 59,449 with 1,059 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry. The actual caseload is the active cases, which currently stands at 7,07,267. The silver lining is that the recoveries are over three times […]

Mumbai: The Special Investigation Team of the CBI on Wednesday continued questioning Sushant Singh Rajput’s flatmate Siddharth Pithani. The CBI now wants to know from him the entire chain of events from last year till the time of the Bollywood actor’s death. It was for the fifth time that Pithani was being grilled. The SIT […]

New Delhi: IIT Alumni Council has announced formal disbanding of the Covid vaccine initiative that was part of the six-month C19 Task Force. The vaccine team concluded that none of the available approaches and claims were adequately backed by disclosed scientific data, patient research and clinical studies. In addition to getting the vaccine paradigm right, […]

New Delhi: Africa has been declared free from wild poliovirus. The milestone comes four years after Nigeria – the last polio-endemic country in Africa – recorded its final case of wild poliovirus. “Rotary International and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) are proud to announce a historic public health achievement as the […]

New Delhi: Indian sports has witnessed some defining moments in its history which have been etched in our memories and revered by fans over the ages. To relive these historic moments, Baseline Ventures has conceptualised and produced an eight-part web series titled ‘The Finish Line’ which documents eight defining moments from Indian sports by recreating the […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of a plea seeking timely payment of salary to doctors and healthcare workers, citing that the Delhi High Court was already on the matter. A bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah said the Delhi High Court has already taken up suo moto […]

Mumbai: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy has pointed a finger at the role of Mumbai Police and Bollywood in the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. “For day 1 (July 9) I had said Sushant was murdered, that CBI inquiry should be instituted because Mumbai Police was complicit, and that Dubai is involved. I have […]

By Collin R Salman Khan is in the news again, though for something else other than trolling by SSR fans. In a recent interview, Zareen Khan thanked him for giving her a break in Bollywood. At the same time, she went on to add that she hasn’t got all her films because of Salman. Interestingly, […]

Mumbai: Actress Tamannaah Bhatia has been tested negative for COVID-19. She underwent for a test her parents were tested positive for the diseases. “My parents were showing mild COVID-19 symptoms over the weekend and as a precautionary measure everyone at home underwent tests immediately. The results have just come in, and unfortunately my parents have […]

Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday summoned talent manager Jaya Saha in connection to the money laundering probe into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. A senior ED official said that Saha, who was questioned earlier by the financial probe agency, has been asked to appear again. Saha was consultant at Kwann […]

New Delhi: Gujarat has topped the Niti Aayog’s Export Preparedness Index 2020 while eastern coastal state Odisha gets a place in top ten rankings, according to the government think tank’s report released on Wednesday. According to the report, six out of eight coastal states — Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Karnataka and Kerala feature in […]

Mumbai: In a shocking allegation against her Bollywood colleagues, Kangana Ranaut has claimed that if the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) starts investigation, many A-listers could end up behind bars. Kangana made the allegation via Twitter on Wednesday and referred to the film industry as “Bullywood”. “If narcotics Control Bureau enters Bullywood, many A listers will […]

New Delhi: Passengers taking international flights from India need not apply to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and can directly book their tickets with the airlines, said an official statement on Wednesday. A standard operating protocol issued by the Home Ministry on August 22 stated that persons who are eligible to travel on outbound […]

Chennai: Russia’s integrated nuclear power player ‘Rosatom’ will make uranium-plutonium REMIX fuel matrix for India’s VVER-1000 reactors, the company said. According to Rosatom, the remix fuel will be made at the site of the Siberian Chemical Combine (SCC) — part of TVEL Fuel Company, a group company. The shop floor of SCC will be modernised […]

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday sent Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar Sharjeel Imam to four-day police custody in connection with the February Delhi riots case. On Tuesday, the Delhi Police Special Cell had arrested Imam in connection with the riots under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). He was brought back to the […]

New Delhi: With an eye on reducing the Indian military’s dependence on imports, the Central government has set up a five-member panel to prepare the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for “futuristic defence” and battlefield scenarios. The DRDO, which was set up in 1958, is currently headed by Dr G. Satheesh Reddy. He was […]