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INDIA

  • India now past 24L Covid cases, recovery above 71%
    India / 14th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 14 (IANS) India's Covid-19 tally crossed the 24-lakh mark on Friday with 64,553 new cases in 24 hours, while the toll climbed to 48,040 with 1,007 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry. Out of the total 2,461,190 cases, recoveries have surged to 1,751,555 with
  • Covid-infected Amravati MP taken to Mumbai as health worsens
    India / 13th August 2020 /
    Amravati (Maharashtra), August 13 (IANS): The condition of Amravati MP, Navneet Kaur-Rana - who tested Covid-19 positive last week - has worsened and she is being rushed to Mumbai, her husband and Independent legislator Ravi Rana said on Thursday. After initial treatment in Amravat
  • Modi replaces Vajpayee as longest-serving non-Cong PM ever
    India / 13th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 13 (IANS): Narendra Modi has yet another milestone to his credit - becoming the longest serving non-Congress Prime Minister of India. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who held that distinction so far had three runs at India's top post - first for 13 days from May 16, 1996 til
  • Congress revokes suspension of 2 Pilot camp MLAs
    India / 13th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 13 (PTI): The Congress on Thursday revoked the suspension of Bhanwarlal Sharma and Vishvendra Singh, two MLAs who had rebelled against the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan. They were suspended from the party's primary membership last month over their alleged in
  • Recovery rate from Covid-19 infection crosses 70% in India
    India / 13th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 13 (IANS): The government on Thursday stated that 70.77 per cent people infected of deadly coronavirus have recovered and left hospital and quarantine centres. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare stated that 66,999 new Covid-19 cases have been detected in the last 2

BUSINESS

  • India's consumer price inflation rises to 6.93% in July
    Business / 13th August 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, AUGUST 13 (IANS): A substantial rise in food prices lifted India's Juy retail inflation to 6.93 per cent from 6.23 per cent in June, official data showed on Thursday. Accordingly, India's consumer food price index during the month under review rose to 9.62 per cent fr
  • Equities end flat; banking, healthcare stocks fall
    Business / 13th August 2020 /
    MUMBAI, AUGUST 13 (IANS): The Indian stock market ended on a flat-to-negative note on Thursday, weighed down by selling in banking, healthcare and telecom stocks. A largely negative trend in the global markets also reflected on the domestic indices, analysts said. However, healthy bu
  • Godrej Industries logs Rs 106 cr consolidated net profit in Q1
    Business / 13th August 2020 /
    MUMBAI, AUGUST 13 (IANS): Godrej Industries on Thursday reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 106.17 crore for the April-June quarter. During the corresponding period of the last fiscal, the company had reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 178 crore. In a regulatory filing, th
  • PM unveils 'transparent taxation', Rights' Charter for taxpayers
    Business / 13th August 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, AUGUST 13 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the 'transparent taxation' platform, which brings into effect faceless assessment of taxpayers, and the Rights' Charter for the taxpayers. With the 'Transparent Taxation Honouring the Honest&#
  • PM to launch platform for honouring honest taxpayers
    Business / 12th August 2020 /
    NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a platform to honour honest taxpayers on Thursday. The launch of the platform for 'Transparent Taxation - Honoring the Honest' will further carry forward the journey of direct tax reforms, said an official sta

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HEALTH

  • Yoga can improve anxiety, nervousness: Study
    Health / 14th August 2020 /
    New York, Augùst 14 (IANS): Researchers have suggested that yoga improves symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder, a condition with chronic nervousness and worry, suggesting the popular practice may be helpful in treating anxiety in some people. The study, published in the journ
  • Experimental Covid-19 vax prevents severe disease in mice
    Health / 14th August 2020 /
    Washington, August 14 (IANS): An experimental vaccine is effective at preventing pneumonia in mice infected with the COVID-19 virus, according to a study. The vaccine, which is made from a mild virus genetically modified to carry a key gene from the Covid-19 virus, is published in the j
  • People should not fear spread of COVID-19 in food, packaging - WHO
    Health / 14th August 2020 /
    GENEVA, August 14 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Thursday it saw no evidence of coronavirus being spread by food or packaging and urged people not to be afraid of the virus entering the food chain. Two cities in China said they had found traces of the coronavirus in i
  • Study reveals why Covid-19 virus impacts patients differently
    Health / 14th August 2020 /
    Toronto, August 14 (IANS): Previously scientists have determined that entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells occurs through a receptor on the cell surface, known as ACE2 but a new study has found that the ACE2 receptor is at very low levels in human lung tissue. Researchers at McMaster Universi
  • Scientists identify hundreds of drugs to treat Covid-19
    Health / 13th August 2020 /
    New York, August 13 (IANS): Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have used machine learning (ML) to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could help treat Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel Coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2. "We have developed a drug discovery pipeli

FEATURED NEWS

  • The Maha village where children speak Japanese
    Featured News / 14th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 14 (PTI): A fascination for robotics and technology has pushed students of a Zilla Parishad-run school in a remote village of Maharashtra's Aurangabad district to learn Japanese. Gadiwat village, located 25 km from Aurangabad city, may not have access to good roads
  • 'Growing body of children's literature beyond usual adventure genre'
    Featured News / 13th August 2020 /
    BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI New Delhi, August 13 (IANS): In India it was long assumed that literature for children must have 'safe topics but in a world where Google knows everything, so do children. Now, a growing body of children's literature beyond the 'adventure genre is helpin
  • India's COVID-19 lockdown threatens efforts to stop spikes in child marriage
    Featured News / 13th August 2020 /
    Rise in child marriages feared as struggling families marry off girls to ease their economic hardship during the pandemic MUMBAI, August 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the police knocked on the door as 15-year-old Muskaan prepared to head to the temple in their village in northe
  • J&K was run like a Ponzi scheme: Chief Secretary
    Featured News / 10th August 2020 /
    Srinagar, August 10 (IANS): Governance in Jammu & Kashmir was "badly managed and broken", and there was no system, no rule and no process, J&K Chief Secretary B.V.R. Subrahmanyam has said. The whole political system was captured by feudalism, and Kashmir remained untou
  • New education policy will boost STEM in India
    Featured News / 9th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 9 (IANS) With the National Education Policy 2020 recognising the need for flexibility in choosing the subjects that a student wants to study, implementation of this policy will boost science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in India, edtech startu

LIFE AND STYLE

  • Manoj Bajpayee, wife lead the cause of generating livelihood locally
    Life & Style / 13th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 13 (IANSlife): Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpayee and his wife Shabana Raza Bajpayee have lent their support to an initiative called 'Shramik Sammaan' that aims to generate employment for the migrant workers who have returned to their home towns and villages during th
  • Women no longer willing to compromise on compatibility
    Life & Style / 13th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 13 (IANS): After 74 years of Independence are women in this country able to choose their own destiny, their life paths or even their own life partner? While matchmaking is still a family affair in India, matchmaking platform Shaadi.com has seen that singles are increasing
  • Princess Diana musical to debut on Netflix before hitting Broadway
    Life & Style / 13th August 2020 /
    LOS ANGELES, August 13 (Reuters) - A new musical about Britain’s Princess Diana will be filmed without an audience and air on Netflix Inc in early 2021 before it debuts on Broadway, producers announced on Wednesday. The unusual arrangement for “Diana” was made as Broad
  • Post-weaning depression: It's time we start talking about it
    Life & Style / 12th August 2020 /
    New Delhi, August 12 (IANSlife): Post-weaning depression is a form of mental illness which can occur after a woman stops breastfeeding. Like other depression, it requires immediate medical attention. It is a result of hormonal fluctuations and/or the psychological stress of weaning the bab
  • Manushi Chhillar: Likes and shares in virtual world add to pressure
    Life & Style / 12th August 2020 /
    Mumbai, August 12 (IANS) Actress and former beauty queen Manushi Chhillar, on the occasion of International Youth Day on Wednesday, said that youth should feel free to be themselves, but also warned against online toxicity. "We, the youth of our country, are riding on the technolog