Beijing, 3/9: India’s Parul Chaudhary displayed tenacity and tremendous temperament to clinch a gold medal in the women’s 5000m at the Asian Games here on Tuesday. The 28-year-old stayed in the top two before stepping up in the final moments to pip Japan’s Ririka Hironaka for the top position with a timing of 15:14.75. Mohammed…
New Delhi, 3/10:Four earthquakes, the strongest being of magnitude 6.2, jolted Nepal in quick succession with tremors reverberating through parts of north India including Delhi-NCR, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) said on Tuesday. An NCS official said the first quake of magnitude 4.6 struck west Nepal at a depth of 10 kilometre at 2:25…
New Delhi 3/10: The Supreme Court has posted the hearing of former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s plea seeking to quash the FIR registered against him in the skill development scam case on October 9. The apex court also asked Andhra Pradesh government to place before it the entire compilation of documents that had been filed…
Bhubaneswar, 3/10:Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today laid the foundation for Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre at NISER Campus in Jatani near Bhubaneswar. This State-of-the-Art facility and research centre will be a global standard Cancer Care, Research and Innovation centre. It will be a 200-Bedded cancer hospital and will be fully commissioned by…
New Delhi, 3/10:India has told Canada to withdraw around 40 diplomats by October 10, Financial Times reported. The publication, citing people familiar with the matter, said that the Narendra Modi government has threatened to revoke diplomatic immunity of diplomats who remain beyond the set date. The move marks an escalation of tensions that has been…
Kashmir, 3/10: Two army personnel were injured in a gunfight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, officials said on Tuesday. The encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Monday evening following a cordon and search operation in a forest area of the district, they said. A joint team of the army…
Beijing, 2/10: India’s Parul Chaudhary and Priti secured silver and bronze medals respectively in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, unheralded Ancy Sojan made a grand entry on the big stage with a long jump silver, while the 4x400m mixed relay team got a fortuitous upgrade to second spot due to ‘lane infringement’, on an eventful day…
Mumbai, 2/10: The deaths of 24 patients, including 12 new-born children, within a span of 24 hours at a government hospital at Nanded in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra has sparked a row between the ruling govt and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi. The incident was reported from the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital in…
New Delhi, 2/10: Welcoming the release of the caste survey by the Bihar government, I.N.D.I.A bloc parties on Monday accused the ruling BJP of running away from such an exercise, with the Congress pushing its slogan ‘jitna abaadi, utna haq’ . Top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi cited Bihar’s demographics to argue for proportional representation. “The…
Sweden, 2/10: This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”, The Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced on October 2, 2023. Through their groundbreaking findings, which have…
