Month: October 2021

Hindu group urges India to regulate platforms, cryptocurrency

MUMBAI, Oct 16 – A powerful right-wing Hindu group linked to India’s ruling party has called for curbs on streaming platforms and cryptocurrencies, saying regulation was essential. “There is a need to regularise these things for the larger good of the society,” said Mohan Bhagwat, head of the […]

ASEAN excludes Myanmar junta leader from summit in rare move

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Oct 16 – Southeast Asian countries will invite a non-political representative from Myanmar to a regional summit this month, delivering an unprecedented snub to the military leader who led a coup against an elected civilian government in February. The decision taken by foreign ministers from […]

India records 15,981 COVID-19 cases, 166 fatalities in a day

New Delhi, Oct 16:  India recorded 15,981 COVID-19 cases in a day, taking the infection tally to 3,40,53,573 while 166 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 4,51,980, according to the Union Health Ministry’s data on Saturday. The number of active Covid cases has declined to 2,01,632, the […]

DU admissions: Some colleges release third cut-off list

New Delhi, Oct 16:  Some Delhi University colleges released their third cut-off list on Saturday with the required marks to get admissions in undergraduate courses seeing a decline in the range of 0.25 per cent to 1.5 per cent. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College released its third cut-off list […]

I’m full-time, hands-on Congress president: Sonia Gandhi’s message to G23 at CWC meet

New Delhi, Oct 16:  Days after some sections within the Congress questioned the absence of an elected party chief, Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asserted that she is a full-time, hands-on party president and leaders need not speak to her through the media Without naming anyone, Gandhi, in a […]

‘God have mercy’: Tigray residents describe life under siege

NAIROBI, Kenya — As food and the means to buy it dwindled in a city under siege, the young mother felt she could do no more. She killed herself, unable to feed her children. In a Catholic church across town, flour and oil to make communion wafers will […]

Made in India virus kits boost testing, and local industry

NEW DELHI — As the first wave of the pandemic began to take hold in India, Sanchi Jawa and her 59-year-old father, Harish Jawa, realized that they had the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection. They decided to isolate and get tested — but this was no easy task […]

Russia says U.S. naval destroyer tried to violate its territorial waters

MOSCOW, Oct 15 – Russia said one of its military vessels chased away a U.S. naval destroyer that attempted to violate Russian territorial waters during Russian-Chinese naval drills in the Sea of Japan on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. […]

FACT SHEET: DELHI POWER SUPPLY POSITION

DELHI, OCT 15: The maximum demand of Delhi was 4160 MW (peak) and 89 MU (Energy) on 14 Oct 21. As per the information received from Delhi DISCOMs, there was no outage on account of power shortage, as the required amount of power was supplied to them. The […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, OCT 15: 97.14 Cr. vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive 16,862 new cases in the last 24 hours Recovery Rate currently at 98.07%; Highest since March 2020 19,391 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 3,33,82,100 Active cases account […]

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