New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired a review meeting on the Covid-19 situation in the country through video conference as India witnessed a sharp spike in the cases of the deadly infection. In the meeting that had Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya,Read More

Chinar Corps of the Indian Army received a distress call from Ghagar Hill village at LoC Boniyar seeking urgent medical assistance of a pregnant lady. In heavy snowfall, evacuation team carried the lady on a stretcher for 6.5 km till Salasan & brought her to PHC, according to a tweetRead More

ICICI Bank has reportedly notified that its UPI system is down due to maintenance activities. (Representative image) The services of Unified Payment Interface (UPI), the instant payment interface developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), were restored on January 9 following a brief outage that lasted for aroundRead More

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G will be on sale starting January 11 (Photo credit: Samsung) Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G will be on sale starting January 11 (Photo credit: Samsung) Samsung’s latest smartphone – the – will soon be available in India. The smartphone was unveiled earlier this week andRead More

New Delhi: India’s R-naught value which indicates the spread of COVID-19 was recorded at 4 this week, suggesting a very high infection transmission rate, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras predicting the peak of the third wave between February 1-15. R-naught or R0 indicates the number of peopleRead More

Hours before the announcement of the Punjab assembly election date, the Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government on Saturday appointed VK Bhawra, a 1987-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, as the state’s new director general of police (DGP). Bhawra takes over from acting DGP Sidharth Chattopadhyaya, who is facing scrutiny followingRead More

The Election Commission on Saturday announced the elections for the upcoming assembly elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur. However, CEC Sushil Chandra noted that No political rally, no roadshow, no physical rallies will be allowed till January 15 in the wake of the COVID-19Read More

India’s R-naught value recorded at 4 in 1st week of 2022: What it means for 3rd wave The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 has been the highest in the first week of January, India’s R-naught value which indicates the spread of the infection revealed. According to a study by IIT Madras,Read More

During the fourth Ashes Test in Sydney on Friday, England batters Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes were fat-shamed by a group of supporters as they came off the field for tea. Both batters were returning to the change room for tea after playing some decent cricket in the middle whenRead More

The Centre on Friday announced that all international arrivals to undergo seven-day mandatory home quarantine. The Union Health Ministry has issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) which will be valid from January 11 for all international travellers from all points of entry (airports, seaports and land border. Read all theRead More