As per 12th edition of the biennial ‘Environment Performance Index’ (EPI) 2020 released by Yale University and Columbia University, India has...
Archive - June 2020
A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) official has succumbed to COVID-19, taking the total number of deaths in the paramilitary force to five, officials...
With the Government now announcing unlocking of the country in three planned phases, citizens are getting anxious due to the growing numbers of COVID-19 cases...
Sony has announced that the upcoming PlayStation 5 online event has finally been rescheduled for June 11 (June 12, 1.30 am India time). Sony was originally set...
It was a spam email seeking donation for an old age home that directed New-York-based chef Vikas Khanna’s attention to the plight of lakhs of migrant...
Odisha”s COVID-19 tally on Tuesday crossed the 3,000-mark, with 146 more people testing positive for the infection, a Health department official said...
In the darkness, the bodies of suspected victims of coronavirus are carried in silence, one after the other, to be buried in several cemeteries across northern...
Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday said the central leadership of BJP had discussed him before finalising the names of two “low...
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale struck Indonesia”s Maluku province on Tuesday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said. The quake...
Police in Dhaka have arrested another nine people with alleged links to the killings of 26 Bangladeshi migrants in Libya, the media reported. The Detective...
The Indian deaf cricket team is set to take part in the the ”DICC Cricket ODI World Cup – 2021”, scheduled to be held in UAE from October 19...
VVS Laxman on Tuesday paid tribute to former Indian skipper MS Dhoni, saying the veteran wicketkeeper-batsman was blessed with the rare equanimity of viewing...
An organisation representing Kashmiri Pandits in the US has condemned the targeted killing of a Pandit Sarpanch who was shot dead by militants in Anantnag...
Saying that he had to move “heaven and earth” to get his wife tested for COVID-19, Congress lawmaker and spokesperson Manish Tewari on Tuesday...
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 7,466 and the number of cases climbed to 2,66,598 in the country after it registered 266 fatalities and a record single...
Rahul Dravid has no qualms conceding that he wouldn”t “survive” international cricket of today by batting at the pace he did at his prime but...
Joe Biden diverged Monday from activists pushing to “defund the police” in the United States, arguing that an overhaul of policing in America can be...
The head of the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus pandemic is worsening globally, even as the situation in Europe is improving. At a press...
South African banking major Absa Group has announced that it will discontinue issuing cheque books to its clients from July onwards in view of decline in use...
Nine more people died in West Bengal due to COVID-19 on Monday, taking the death toll to 405, even as 426 fresh cases were reported in the state, officials...
Russian authorities have charged the director of an Arctic power plant that leaked 20,000 tons of diesel fuel into the ecologically fragile region with...
As many as 13 monkeys have been found dead on a reservoir in Assam”s Cachar district, officials said. The bodies were found floating on a reservoir of...
The High Court of Manipur on Monday restrained seven Congress MLAs, who defected to the BJP, from entering the Assembly till Speaker Yumnam Khemchand Singh...
Odisha on Monday reported 138 new COVID-19 cases, taking the state”s virus tally to 2,994, an official said. The day also witnessed recovery of 99...
A 41-year-old security guard was held for committing burglary at a jewellery shop in south extension where he was employed, police said. He stole gold, silver...
Three persons, including a woman and a girl, died of malaria in Manipur this season, while 12 more cases of the vector-borne disease were reported on Monday...
Assam crossed 2,800-mark in COVID-19 cases with 154 persons testing positive on Monday, Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. Sarma said...
The Jammu and Kashmir BJP on Monday night condemned the brutal killing of a Kashmiri Pandit Sarpanch, saying it was a desperate attempt by Pakistan-sponsored...
A 24-year-old highly obese woman claimed to have become the first COVID-19 patient in the country to defeat COVID-19 and survive after being put on...
At least six people have died and over a dozen were injured when a multi-storey building collapsed here, officials said on Monday. The residential building in...
Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar on Monday slammed the Centre over the ordinance allowing barrier-free trade in the farm sector calling it a “conspiracy” to...