Month: January 2022

BHU starts postgraduate course on ‘Hindu Dharma’

Varanasi, Jan 20: The Banaras Hindu University has started a postgraduate programme in ‘Hindu Dharma’ and according to the varsity, the course is the first of its kind in the country. Professor V K Shukla, who is the varsity’s rector, said that this programme will help in making […]

Fresh snowfall in Gulmarg, Pahalgam in Kashmir

Srinagar, Jan 20: The minimum temperature dropped slightly in most parts of Kashmir where the tourist resorts of Gulmarg and Pahalgam received fresh snowfall, officials said on Thursday. The minimum temperature in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, settled at a low of 2.2 degrees Celsius […]

Rahul slams PM over abduction of teenager from Arunachal Pradesh

New Delhi,? Jan 20: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the reported abduction of a teenager from Arunachal Pradesh by China, and said his silence shows he does not care Gandhi said he is with the family of the missing boy Miram […]

Bronx-raised Cardi B offers to pay fire victim burial costs

NEW YORK — Cardi B has offered to pay the burial costs for all 17 people killed in a fire that ripped through a New York City high-rise. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday that the Grammy-winning rapper had offered the financial relief for victims of the […]

Cut off by volcano, Tongans relieved as contact restored

BANGKOK — As the massive undersea Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Saturday, Tongans from around the world gazed on as their relatives livestreamed images of billowing clouds of ash, gas and steam emerging from beneath the depths. Then darkness. The eruption severed Tonga’s single fiber-optic cable, […]

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, with enhanced capability, successfully test-fired off Odisha coast

DELHI, JANUARY 20: BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, with increased indigenous content and improved performance, was successfully test-fired from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha at 1030 hrs on January 20, 2022. The launch was conducted by Brahmos Aerospace in close coordination with the teams of […]

PM delivers the keynote address at the national launch ceremony of ‘Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav se Swarnim Bharat Ke Ore’

“We are witnessing the emergence of an India whose thinking and approach are innovative and whose decisions are progressive” “Today we are creating a system in which there is no place for discrimination, we are building a society that stands firmly on the foundation of equality and social […]

COVID-19 UPDATE

DELHI, JANUARY 20: 159.67 cr vaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive India’s Active caseload currently stands at 19,24,051 Active cases stand at 5.03% Recovery Rate currently at 93.69% 2,23,990 recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to  3,58,07,029 3,17,532 new cases […]

‘We want peace’: Blinken to meet Russian, Ukrainian officials, U.S. says

WASHINGTON, Jan 18 – U.S. President Joe Biden’s top diplomat will seek to defuse a crisis with Moscow over Ukraine when he meets the Russian foreign minister in Geneva this week following visits with Ukrainian leaders in Kyiv and European officials in Berlin. Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]

India to oppose international arbitration awards to Devas after court ruling – finmin

NEW DELHI, Jan 18 – India’s government will oppose international award granted to the Bengaluru-based Devas Multimedia Ltd, after the country’s Supreme Court upheld the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) order to wind up the company. The government will oppose the international award to Devas after the […]

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