India has reported its first case with the new mpox strain that has triggered a public health emergency alert by the World Health Organization (WHO), Reuters reports. Called clade 1b, the new variant is highly-transmissible and has been linked to the mpox outbreak in Africa. According to media reports, the strain has been detected in … Read more
Debris at the site after a 100-foot tall illegal billboard fell on a petrol pump on Monday due to rains and dust storm, in Ghatkopar area of Mumbai. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Suspended IPS officer Quaiser Khalid has claimed before Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ghatkopar hoarding crash that incumbent Government Railway … Read more
Tammy Ben-Haim, Consul General of Israel to south India Israel is expanding its invasion into Hamas’s last stronghold of Rafah even without taking note of the concerns expressed by the U.S., their staunch supporter, aggravating the fears of a humanitarian crisis in Rafah where more than a million Palestinians are sheltered. This has even triggered … Read more
JKPC president Sajad Gani Lone. File | Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference (JKPC) president Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday appealed for a relook at the policy adopted by the security agencies in Kashmir. Claiming that individuals, both young and old, were rounded up by the police in the past 24 hours in … Read more
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin releasing the report, ‘Accelerating Tamil Nadu’s progress to becoming a One Trillion Dollar Economy by 2030-31’ at a function held in Chennai on Saturday. Looking on are: (from left) Subhrakant Panda, president, FICCI, T. M. Anbarasan, Minister for MSME, T. Mano Thangaraj, Minister for Information Technology and Anish … Read more
New Delhi: The Delhi government has updated its Corona app, which was launched in early 2020, to help track availability of hospital beds and ventilators for Covid-19 patients, and schedule vaccine doses, among others. Developed by the state Information Technology Department and IIT-Delhi to contain a self-assessment tool, guidelines and all important helplines to ensure … Read more