ZIFI-FDC Ltd breaks world record for pledges received for a health campaign
Mumbai: ZIFI-FDC Ltd has officially broken the Guinness World Records title of the most pledges received for health campaign of completing antibiotic course. Antibiotic Resistance is one of the major challenges that doctors are facing today worldwide. Antibiotic Non-Compliance has...
Maharashtra polls: BJP releases manifesto
Bharatiya Janata Party Working President JP Nadda and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis release the party's manifesto or the Sankalp Patra for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Elections for the 288 member assembly will be held on 21st of this month while...
PMC depositor dies after losing life savings
The Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank crisis has claimed another life. A 51-year-old man, identified as Sanjay Gulati, died from a cardiac arrest after returning home from a protest against the PMC Bank scam in Mumbai. Sanjay Gulati, a resident of...
‘Ban RSS’, Demands Akal Takht Chief
Amritsar: Akal Takht chief Giani Harpreet Singh on Monday asked for a ban on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Singh said that allowing the RSS to operate freely would create unrest in the country and would result in dividing the nation....
Nobel winner Banerjee shares prize with wife
Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics jointly with his wife Esther Duflo and another economist Michael Kremer on Monday, is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Finance Minister husband advise Modi Govt to Embrace Manmohan’s economic model
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's husband Parakala Prabhakar has advised the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government to "embrace" the economic model put forward by former prime ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh. In a column for The Hindu, Prabhakar has...
India-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee, 2 others win Nobel
The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. In a statement, the Nobel committee said that...
Sec 144 in Ayodhya till Dec 10 ahead of SC verdict
The district administration of Ayodhya has imposed Section-144 in the district in anticipation of a verdict in the Ayodhya land case. Section 144 will be in effect till December 10, District Magistrate Anuj Kumar Jha said in the order. "Decision to impose...
10 dead in cylinder explosion in UP’s Mau
At least 10 persons died and some others were injured when a cylinder exploded at a house in Walidpur area in Uttar Pradesh's Mau distirct on Monday, a senior government official said. Additional chief secretary-home Awanish Awasthi said, "As...
5 injured in grenade attack in Srinagar
At least five persons were injured in a grenade attack by suspected militants in a market area in Srinagar on Saturday, police said. The militants hurled a grenade in Hari Singh High Street Market, which is a few hundred...
PM, Xi’s one-on-one, lunch to cap seaside summit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping will hold their second round of informal talks today after the two leaders on Saturday bonded over a tour of the temples of Mahabalipuram, followed by cultural programmes and dinner that went well...
Alexei Leonov, first man to walk in space, dies
Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first person to perform a spacewalk back in 1965, has died in Moscow at the age of 85, Russian space agency Roscosmos Space Corporation announced on Friday. Leonov performed his spacewalk on March...
Fire breaks out at chemical warehouse in Delhi’s Shastri Park
New Delhi: A massive fire broke out at a chemical warehouse in Shastri Park here. 12 fire tenders have been pressed into service to douse the flame, news agency ANI reported. The reason of the fire is yet to be ascertained....
Modi to campaign in Sakoli on Oct 13
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be campaigning in poll-bound Maharashtra from October 13 to October 18 to guide and encourage candidates of Bharatiya Janata Party. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Union Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani said:...
Will we succumb to militants? Ads in J-K papers
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday issued a full page advertisement in local newspapers urging people to end the self-imposed shutdown that took shape after the government started lifting restrictions put in place post the scrapping of the states...
Former Fortis promoter Malvinder Singh arrested
The Delhi Police on Friday arrested former Fortis Healthcare promoter Malvinder Singh for allegedly misappropriating funds of Religare Finvest Limited and causing losses to the tune of Rs 2,397 crore, officials said. Malvinder's brother Shivinder Mohan Singh, Sunil Godhwani, the former...
Sharad Pawar joins Rafale ‘shastra puja’ row
NCP leader Sharad Pawar has joined the debate over the 'shastra puja' performed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in front of the Rafale fighter jet handed over by France on Tuesday. Pawar, while acknowledging the Rs 59,000 crore deal was...
‘Tamasha’: Kharge mocks Rajnath’s shastra puja
Mumbai: Dubbing the entire episode of Union defence minister Rajnath Singh accepting Rafale fighter aircraft in France a "tamasha" (drama), senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said that his party did not show off when they bought weapons-like the...
Centre Announces 5% Hike in Dearness Allowance For Government Employees
New Delhi: In good news for 50 lakh government employees and 62 lakh pensioners this festive season, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said that Dearness Allowance has been raised by five per cent from the existing 12 per cent,...
INX case: Karti Chidambaram appears before ED
Karti Chidambaram, the son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, on Wednesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the INX Media money laundering case. Speaking to media person outside the agency's office, Karti said, "I just thought to come...
Rajnath receives IAF’s 1st Rafale jet from France
The Indian Air Force will be ready to fully operationalise one squadron of the Rafale fighter jets in the western sector dealing with threats from Pakistan by February 2021, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told India Today TV. Sources was at ground...
