2022

New Delhi, 18/7: NCP MLA Kamlesh Singh on Monday took many in the political circle by surprise as he announced that he has voted for NDA Presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.     Elsewhere in Odisha, acting against party line, senior Congress MLA Mohammed Moquim also cast his vote in favour of Murmu, who is a…

Kerala, 18/7:A 31-year-old man who arrived in Kerala last week from Dubai has tested positive for monkeypox, state Health Minister Veena George said on Monday.     This is the second case of monkeypox in the state as well as the country. The minister said the patient, who arrived in Kerala on July 13, was…

Madras, 18/7:The Madras High Court on Monday took strong objections to the violent incidents in Tamil Nadu’s Kallakurichi district on Sunday, and directed the state police chief to constitute a SIT to identify the rioters and take stern action against them. Appropriate criminal action should be taken against them following the Special Investigation Team (SIT)…

Washington DC, 18/7: Three people were killed at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, in a mass shooting that ended when another armed individual fatally shot the gunman, city authorities said.     Two additional people were hospitalised in the shooting, which began when a man with a rifle and several magazines of ammunition entered the…

New Delhi, 18/5: Around 4,800 elected MPs and MLAs on Monday will vote on choose the next President of India with the ruling NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu all set to romp home comfortably after parties holding around 60 per cent of votes in the electoral college pledging support to her over her rival Yashwant Sinha….

Mumbai, 17/7: Business tycoon Anand Mahindra has shared a picture of a ‘latest technology to dry clothes on Twitter, and it has left Twitter users amused and in splits. On the microblogging site, Mahindra posted a cartoon of two women conversing by an ordinary rope with washed clothes drying over it suspended from both ends…

Vijaywada, 17/7: A two-year-old girl was suspected to have contracted monkeypox in Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh but a blood test at the National Institute of Virology in Pune confirmed it to be negative.     State Director of Health J Nivas said the two-year-old child returned to Vijayawada from Dubai and was found to have…

New Delhi, 17/7: Urging lawmakers to heed to the “call of conscience”, Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Sunday sought the votes of BJP MPs and MLAs, claiming it is their “last chance” to save the party, as the party once led by AB Vajpayee and LK Advani is “dead and gone”. His call came…