Soon after the Tatmadaw, or Myanmar’s military, seized power in a coup d’etat in February 2021 by displacing the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led government, Sumi, 18, fled the country. She crossed the border into India and finally secured a job in Treasury Square, the administrative hub of Aizawl, Mizoram’s capital. Sumi was not too … Read more
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court has directed the Cochin Devaswom Board (CDB) and Thrissur Municipal Corporation to comply in letter and spirit with its earlier directives to ensure that the entire Thekkinkadu Maidan in Thrissur is kept plastic-free and no music concert is allowed during the Pooram festival. The Bench led by … Read more
Soha Ali Khan, along with actor-husband Kunal Kemmu and daughter Inaaya Naumi Kemmu, visited the Melbourne cricket ground. A picture of the trio was posted by the official X (formerly Twitter) handle of Melbourne Cricket Ground and mentioned how she came to check out the ‘hollowed turf’ where her father, cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, … Read more
Women work at a Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme project site at Umachagi village in Hubballi taluk, Karnataka. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The proportion of women workers participating in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has touched a ten-year high in the ongoing financial year. According to the … Read more
A meat company is recalling 28,356 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with an E. coli strain known as O157:H7. Source link
July 22, 2021 — A year ago, scientists looking at the future of the COVID-19 pandemic felt optimistic. Vaccine development was zooming toward unprecedented achievement. And unlike the viruses that cause the flu or AIDS, they thought, this virus couldn’t mutate to evade the fully primed human immune system. “Thankfully, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem … Read more
April 13, 2021 — Ground turkey is the likely source of a salmonella outbreak that’s sickened 28 people in 12 states, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Two people have been hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported. One April 10, federal officials issued a public health alert for nearly 212,000 pounds … Read more
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) spinner Imran Tahir is yet to get a game in IPL 2020 and fans are defintely missing his trademark wild ‘running’ celebration. With 7 defeats in their 10 matches, CSK are at the bottom of the points table and are almost out of the contest for play-offs spot. Considering the given … Read more
The Hathras incident and its aftermath have triggered some burning questions. Do Dalit lives matter? What’s it that the Yogi government is trying to hide? Will there be change on the ground? On India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai’s show News Today at 9, political leaders and Dalit activists answer these and more such … Read more