Moscow, 25/12: President Vladimir Putin said Russia was ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine but that Kyiv and its Western backers had refused to engage in talks. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the most deadly conflict in Europe since World War II and the…
Mumbai, 24/12: A 20-year-old actor Tunisha Sharma was found hanging in the set of a TV serial in Vasai in the Palghar district near Mumbai on Saturday. She was rushed to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead on admission. She was found in her make-up room in Naigaon area of…
New Delhi, 24/12: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said RT-PCR test for the detection of Covid-19 would be made mandatory for passengers from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand for their travel to India. Any passenger from these countries found symptomatic or testing positive for coronavirus would be quarantined, he said….
UP, 22/12: Amid rising cases of Coronavirus infection cases in China, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday made Covid test mandatory for entry in the Taj Mahal, which is one of the popular destinations for the international tourists, and directed the health officials to increase the number of precaution doses in the state. …
New Delhi, 22/12: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the government is coming up with “excuses” to stop the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, days after Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya wrote to him to consider suspending the march if Covid protocols could not be followed. The yatra, which started in Kanyakumari on September…
Washington DC, 20/12: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday announced that he will convene a “no-nonsense” climate ambition summit in September next year where countries will have to come with credible and new action plans, with no room for “back-sliders”, “blame-shifters” or repackaging of announcements of previous years. Addressing journalists at his…
Bangalore, 19/12: Seven life-size portraits, including that of Hindu nationalist V D Savarkar, were unveiled in the Assembly hall of the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha on Monday. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, along with Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, unveiled the portraits even as the Congress staged a protest demanding the installation of photos of…
Washington DC, 17/12: The managing director of Elon Musk’s family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter, news platform Semafor reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the fundraising effort. Musk’s money manager, Jared Birchall, reached out to potential investors this week, offering shares of Twitter at the same price, $54.20,…
Dhaka, 16/12: India set Bangladesh a massive victory target of 512 after declaring their second innings at 258 for 2, riding on maiden Test hundred from young Shubman Gill and the 19th ton from veteran Cheteshwar Pujara on third day of the opening match of the series. In the morning, Bangladesh were dismissed…
Balasore, 16/12: Amidst heightened military tension along the India-China boundary in Arunachal Pradesh, India on Thursday successfully conducted a full-range trial of the inter-continental range ballistic missile Agni-5 besides launching a major air combat exercise in the North East involving multiple critical air-bases. Though the Defence Ministry is silent on the Agni-5 test,…
