May 2021

New Delhi , May 26  Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday reviewed the progress of Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail link Project (USBRL) and instructed officials to put in extra efforts to make up for the time lost due to…

Rio De Janeiro, May 26 (UNI) The death toll from the Novel Coronavirus in Brazil has surpassed the grim milestone of 450,000-mark. According to the country's Health Ministry, 2,173 people died due to coronavirus, taking the death toll to…

Hyderabad, May 25 (UNI) Amidst the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown across the country, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., part of USD 19.4 billion Mahindra Group, on Tuesday announced the extension of warranty and…

Canberra, May 25 (UNI) Australia will close its embassy in Kabul on May 28 during the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne said in a joint statement on…

NEW DELHI:  The Centre on Tuesday asked states to keep a fixed window everyday for publishing the Covid-19 vaccination schedule on the CoWIN portal to make it easier for people to see availability and book appointments. The instruction…

Half of COVID deaths occurred within 24 hours of hospitalization or before in HP

Kolkata, May 25 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said a couple of mini tornados hit Bandel in Hooghly district and Halisahar in North 24 Parganas district. Ms Banerjee said that two people died due to…

Ongole, AP, May 24 (UNI) The 8th Additional Session court Judge M Manohar Reddy here on Monday awarded death sentence to 12 notorious criminals and convicted seven others to life imprisonment. The court awarded the capital punishment to 12…

Visakhapatnam, May 25 (UNI) A fire incident occurred in one of the crude distillation units of HPCLS’s (Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited) Visakh Refinery on Tuesday afternoon. There were no casualties nor was anyone injured in the…

Chandigarh, May 25 (UNI) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) senior leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Punjab Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema, said that the AAP fully supports the decision of the country's farmers to observe May 26 as Black…

New Delhi, May 25 (UNI) CISF DG Subodh Kumar Jaiswal has been appointed the next Director of Central Investigation Agency(CBI) for a two-year period. A 1985 batch of Maharashtra cadre IPS officer, Mr Jaiswal was also Director General of…

Chandigarh, May 21(UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today condemned Rural Development Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa for trying to deflect attention from the Congress government’s abysmal failure to combat Covid-19 on farmers engaged in…

New Delhi, May 25 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the keynote address on the occasion of 'Virtual Vesak Global Celebrations' on Buddha Purnima on Wednesday at around 0945 hrs. The event is being organized by the Culture…

WASHINGTON, May 25 (Sputnik) The US will be opposed to any steps that either of the sides of the Israeli-Palestine conflict takes to undermine prospects of the two-state solution, the Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday. “Any…

Bhopal, May 25 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday urged the members of his Council to pay day-long visits to districts under their charge and focus on the block level. “Crisis Management committees of…

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Sputnik) Seven US public interest groups gathered in front of Facebook’s headquarters in Washington, DC to demand greater accountability from the company for alleged abuses and failures, Public Citizen, a non-profit…

MOSCOW, May 26 (Sputnik) Iran said that its decision to extend the three-month agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for an additional month is a sign of goodwill and shows readiness to work on the restoration of the…