India is set to expedite road projects in Ladakh worth Rs 20,000 crore amid the ongoing India-China border tussle. In a review of all road projects, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given instructions to speed up all projects. Sources said this includes the realignment of a track on the strategically significant Durbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie Road … Read more
Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) today launched a test kit to detect Covid-19 and claimed its test kit minimises human interaction and reduces time because it is automated. Launching the test kit, an Automated Molecular Covid Test Machine, SII CEO Adar Poonawalla said increasing testing rate in India is the “need of the hour”. … Read more
Accident or Israeli sabotage? A mysterious incident in the early hours of Thursday, July 2, badly damaged a building at Iran’s Natanz nuclear complex and sparked speculation over the cause. The incident came at the end of a week marked by two explosions in Tehran, including one near a military site. Officials said the blasts … Read more
Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates have offered to host the IPL but BCCI treasurer Arun Singh Dhumal said the board was optimistic about staging it on home soil. Courtesy by BCCI HIGHLIGHTS IPL 2020 may shift out of India this season due to the Covid-19 crisis in the country BCCI is looking to … Read more
Patrolling by the Indian Army up to patrolling point 14 in Galwan will commence after all phases of disengagement are completed. A joint verification of re-location camps will be done to see that “landform is restored”, the sources said. The Galwan Valley was the site of a violent hand-to-hand clash between the two militaries on … Read more
Prominent American academicians and lawmakers have reacted sharply to the new US guideline to kick out foreign students pursuing degrees in the country if their universities switch to online-only classes, calling it as “horrifying” and “cruel.” The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday announced that foreign students pursuing degrees in America will have to … Read more
MS Dhoni, who turned 39 on Tuesday, has been a successful captain, a master batsman, a wicket-keeping all-rounder and remains one of the world’s biggest cricket icons the game has ever known. There are numerous fairytale stories in the game of cricket but there is one which saw a small town boy from Ranchi develop … Read more
Over 200 policemen have come under the scanner over the sensational Kanpur encounter that turned into an ambush against the police team resulting in the killings of 8 policemen. Police personnel at the Chaubeypur police station along with several other stations in the area are on the radar as investigators look into their possible involvement … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been relentless in his attack on the Narendra Modi government. He has made consistent claims in the last two months that China has captured territories on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC). After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that “no one has entered Indian territory or … Read more
The relaxation announced by the government will help companies freely price, store and market face masks and hand sanitisers, which have been in high demand since the novel coronavirus became a serious threat in the country. As of now, there is no shortage of sanitisers and face masks in India due to a sharp spike … Read more