New Delhi, 23/7: A 34-year-old man from the national capital with no history of foreign travel has tested positive for monkeypox virus, official sources said on Sunday. This is the fourth case of the disease being reported in India. The man had attended a stag party recently in Manali in Himachal Pradesh, official…
New Delhi,24/7:Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra scripted yet another history as he became only the second Indian and first male track and field athlete to win a medal in the World Championships by clinching silver in the javelin throw final here. The 24-year-old Chopra, who had come into the showpiece as a hot medal…
New Delhi, 23/7: The World Health Organisation said the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that now qualifies as a global emergency, a declaration Saturday that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the decision…
New Delhi, 23/7:In a statement that created ripples in Maharashtra’s political circles, state BJP president Chandrakant Patil said that with a “heavy heart” the party had to make Eknath Shinde the Chief Minister instead of Devendra Fadnavis. However, the order of the day is to move on, Patil, a former revenue minister, said addressing the…
Telengana, 23/7:Five people died in rain-related incidents in Telangana, police said on Saturday. According to Warangal Police Commissioner Tarun Joshi, two persons died and one was injured on Friday night when an old building collapsed and fell on an adjacent hut where the duo lived, due to incessant rains. It is an old building and…
New Delhi, 23/7: During the 23 days that he was in custody, Mohammed Zubair, the 40-year-old co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, always wore a baseball cap and a facemask in public. He looked diffident and camera-shy. But on Friday, two days after the Supreme Court ordered his release, Zubair was in a completely different…
Kolkata,23/7:Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee after overnight interrogation in connection with the teacher recruitment scam case.The agency sleuths started the interrogation at the residence of the minister at 8 am on Friday. ED officials have recovered Rs 20 crore in cash from one of the properties of…
New Delhi, 22/7: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of the Karnataka High Court against former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa that had refused to quash the criminal proceedings pending against him under the Prevention of Corruption Act on charges of de-notifying several acres of land in 2006-07. A bench of Chief Justice…
Mumbai, 22/7: Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Friday met Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar at the latter’s office in south Mumbai, officials said. The actor arrived at the Mumbai police headquarters, located opposite Crawford Market, in his car around 4 pm and met Phansalkar, an official said, adding that it was just a courtesy visit…
Bhubaneswar, 22/7: As many as 358 Allopathic Medical Officers, 116 Homoeopathic Medical Officers and 36 Homoeopathic Lecturers today joined the State Government in the Health & Family Welfare Department. An orientation programme was organised for the new recruits at convention centre in the Lok Seva Bhawan. Congratulating the new recruits on virtual platform, Chief…
