Tokyo, 7/5: Mayu Iizuka sheds her soft-spoken personality and starts cackling, screaming and waving wildly in a makeshift studio in Tokyo as her avatar appears on a livestream before hundreds of fans. Virtual YouTubers like Iizuka, who voices and animates a character called Yume Kotobuki, have transformed a niche Japanese subculture into a thriving industry…
Washington DC, 4/1:US President Donald Trump has issued a fresh warning to India over its continued imports of Russian oil, saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi “knew he was not happy.” We could raise tariffs on India if they don’t help on the Russian oil issue,” Trump said on board Air Force One on Sunday.
New Delhi, 1/2: Presented on Sunday for the first time and prepared in a new office but printed in the press in the old office, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman created Parliamentary records when she presented her ninth consecutive budget Nirmala, India’s only second woman Finance Minister after Indira Gandhi, had presented the budgets on Saturday…
Moscow, 11/8: Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Thursday in a bid to be the first power to make a soft landing on the lunar south pole, a region believed to hold coveted pockets of water ice. A Soyuz 2.1v rocket carrying the Luna-25 craft blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome,…
New Delhi, 21/1: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here will remain open on Monday, reversing its decision to shut OPD services till 2:30 pm on the occasion of the consecration ceremony at the Ayodhya Ram temples. In continuation with circular dated January 20 of this office, the outpatient department shall remain open…
Dispur, 19/8: Senior BJP leader and former union minister Rajen Gohain on Friday resigned as the chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation in protest against the delimitation of the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency and claimed it will be impossible for the party to win from that seat in the future. Gohain, who had…
New Delhi, 19/2: The central government has taken a big decision to increase the security of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas. The government has given Y category security to Vishwas. If sources are to be believed, the Home Ministry has taken this decision only after the IB report. The central government has…
Chennai, 31/12: Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (TANGEDCO) has cancelled its global tender for installation of smart electricity meters in which the Adani Group emerged as the lowest bidder for one of the four packages. Sources said though Adani Energy Solutions Limited (AESL) emerged as the lowest bidder for installing 82 lakh smart meters…
Bhubaneswar, Dec. 20: The bronze medal winning Indian hockey team at the Paris Olympics had suffered a blow when defender Amit Rohidas received a red card with three- quarters of the vital quarterfinal match against Great Britain remaining. How did the team regroup and fight back to win the tie and enter the semifinal? The…
Joda, : Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) has undertaken a transformative initiative aimed at enhancing agricultural practices and improving the livelihoods of farmers in Joda block of Keonjhar district. Under a pilot project, solar-powered water pumps have been distributed among the farming community in nearby Lahanda, Ramchandrapur, Jagannathpur and Shankarpur villages which are expected to enhance…
