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New Delhi: India saw a record single day rise of 3,79,257 new coronavirus infections pushing the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,83,76,524, while active cases crossed the 30-lakh mark,…

Buenos Aires: Argentine football great Mario Kempes said on Saturday that Lionel Messi should take a break from international football in his and his team’s interests. “As things stand I think that giving Messi a break would not be a bad thing,” the 1978 World Cup winner told TyC Sports. “Or maybe he should take […]

San Francisco: Microsoft’s education arm and NASA have come together to create online lessons to get school students interested about space. The eight online lesson plans range from titles such as Designing Astro Socks to protect astronauts’ feet in microgravity to designing one’s own space station, CNET reported on Friday. The curriculum includes 3D design challenges, […]

Bhubaneswar: Ranjan Kumar Sahoo from Mohammad Nagar Patna village under Jaleswar Tehsil of Balasore district has made the State proud by securing Rank 2 in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)- PG Entrance Examination 2019. The result of the entrance test was declared on June 19. Ranjan appeared for the post graduation entrance […]

New Delhi: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday inaugurated the his country’s Rivatex East Africa Ltd revamped with Indian help, the High Commission of India in Nairobi Rahul Chhabra said on Saturday. The once sick textile factory has been modernised with a concessional loan of $29.95 million from India (disbursed through EXIM Bank). And in […]

South Queen Samantha Akkineni with her back-to-back hits is now one of the most successful actress. Even after her marriage to actor Naga Chaitanya, her movies continue to rule box office. Samantha’s recent movies like UTurn, Super Deluxe and Majili dominated box office and her work was paised by all. Recently, Sam revealed about her […]

Varanasi: Newly-elected BSP MP Atul Rai, who had been accused of rape, evaded arrest and surrendered in a Varanasi court on Saturday. He was sent to a jail on 14 days judicial remand. Rai was accompanied by hundreds of his supporters who shouted slogans in his support. Rai was contesting the Ghosi Lok Sabha seat […]

Srinagar: A Pakistani militant of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) outfit was killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district. The militant, identified as Luqman, was killed in the encounter in Boniyar area of Uri sector in Baramulla district. An encounter had started in the morning between militants and the […]

UPSC Recruitment 2019: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has declared the written examination result of National Defence Academy (NDA) and Naval Academy (NA). The names of the shortlisted candidates can be checked by visiting UPSC’s official website- upsc.gov.in. The NDA, NA Exam I, 2019 was conducted on April 21, 2019. According to the official notification on UPSC […]

Srinagar: Separatist Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was placed under house arrest on Saturday in Srinagar. A spokesman of the Mirwaiz-led Hurriyat said a police party arrived at the Nigeen residence of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on the city outskirts and informed him that he cannot move out of his house. The spokesman said the […]

San Francisco: Apple CEO Tim Cook has appreciated pictures of Mumbai shot on Australian photographer Andrew Kneebone’s iPhone XR. Kneebone took to Twitter on Friday to share colourful shots of Aamchi Mumbai and added the #ShotOniPhone hashtag that caught Cook’s attention. “I’ve always believed that the world is a beautiful place! India has a beauty […]

Sagar: Five members of a family, including a boy, were shot dead allegedly by three relatives after a dispute over a strip of land for constructing a road in a town in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, police said Saturday. A woman member of the family and two boys escaped unhurt as they had locked themselves […]

Hiroshima: Drag-flicker Gurjit Kaur scored a brace as India secured its place in the final round of Tokyo Olympic qualifiers by beating Chile 4-2 in the semifinals of the women’s FIH Series Finals hockey tournament here Saturday. The top two teams from the ongoing tournament have secured their berths in the FIH Olympic Qualifiers to […]

London: Pakistan fans have made their displeasure known on social media ever since the team’s poor show against arch-rivals India in their World Cup encounter in Manchester and a fresh video has surfaced wherein skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed has been compared to a fat pig. Sarfaraz was walking in a mall in England with his son […]

New Delhi: India on Saturday asked Pakistan to address global concerns on terrorism by taking “credible” and “irreversible” steps, after an international body, Financial Action Task Force (FATF), slammed the country for failing to do enough to check terror financing and warned of action if it does not comply with the requirements in four months. […]