May 17, 2021

Amazon on Saturday announced the launch of a free video streaming, in-app feature called miniTV. The adsupported streaming service is its first such initiative globally and the e-tailer is targeting users outside its Prime subscription…

The steady, inexorable spread of the Covid-19 second wave and the inevitable lockdowns that follow have begun to sap the strength of India’s 5.5 million-strong truck fleet. According to industry bodies and research institutes, the road…

Pan-India power consumption data for the first fortnight of May (May 1-15) indicates that the expansion of Covid-19 lockdowns across the country has begun having an impact on electricity demand. While the month of April 2021 had recorded…

Oil marketing companies hiked petrol and diesel prices yet again on Friday, this time by a steep 29 paise per litre for petrol and 34 paise per litre for diesel. This latest hike, the fourth such increase this week, brings the total…

New Delhi , May 16   Former England captain Michael Vaughan on Sunday slammed Salman Butt after the former Pakistan opener questioned his remarks on Indian and New Zealand skippers Virat Kohli and Kane Williamson respectively. Earlier…

New Delhi , May 16  India men's cricket team coach Ravi Shastri on Sunday condoled the demise of former Saurashtra cricketer and BCCI referee Rajendrasinh Jadeja. Rajendrasinh died on Sunday morning after fighting a battle against…

Ohio , May 16   The findings of a new study conducted on 819 demographically diverse American adults aged 18-35, suggest that people are more persuaded by the actual messages contained in social media posts than they are by how many…

New Delhi , May 16   Former India batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday termed the winning of the 2011 World Cup as the "best cricketing day of his life" as his biggest dream came true. India had defeated Sri Lanka in the finals of 2011…

Melbourne , May 16  Australia Test skipper Tim Paine has said that Virat Kohli has the ability to get under the skin of opposition and this makes him a challenging player to play against. Kohli and Paine were seen involved in a heated…

New Delhi , May 17   The first batch of the 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for treatment of Covid-19 will be released by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on…

Kabul, May 17, Fighting in Afghanistan resumed with 31 Afghans, mostly militants, killed in the insurgency-battered Asian country on Sunday after a three-day ceasefire observed with the start of Eid al-Fitr on Thursday to enable…

New Delhi, May 15 (UNI) The Goods and Services Tax Council will meet on May 28 after a gap of seven months amid calls from States for policy measures related to COVID-19 pandemic. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair the…

Bhopal, May 15 (UNI) With surge in cases of black fungus in the state, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday directed officials to make special wards in five Government Medical Colleges of the state for the…

Chennai, May 16 (UNI) Five more people, including two in Southern Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu, were arrested for selling Remdesivir injection, used for treating COVID patients, in blackmarket at higher prices. In Tuticorin, police…

12-member team formed in SGPGI Lucknow to ensure detection, treatment; Haryana notifies the disease

Gangtok, May 16 ( UNI ) Merger of Sikkim with Indian Union in 1975 ,16th May and becoming the 22nd State was commemorated here on Sunday. The Father of Democracy in Sikkim, Padma Vibhushan, Kazi Lhendup Dorjee was paid floral tributes, at…

Chennai, Mar 16 (UNI) IPL Franchisee Chennai Super Kings (CSK) batting coach Mike Hussey has tested negative for COVID-19 and left for Australia on Sunday via Doha. Confirming this, CSK CEO K S Viswanathan after an RT-PCR test returned…

New Delhi, May 16 (UNI) Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal dedicated a 500-bedded COVID Care hospital near Village Baljattan in Panipat in Haryana on Sunday. This hospital has been…

New Delhi, May 16 (UNI) Delhi recorded 6,456 cases of COVID-19 and 262 deaths from the virus in the past 24 hours, a health bulletin said here on Sunday. The positivity rate in the national capital is 10.40 per cent while the fatality…

New Delhi, May 16 (UNI) The second batch of the Russia's Sputnik V vaccine arrived in Hyderabad on Sunday, Russian Ambassador to India, Nikolay Kudashev, said. "A second batch of #SputnikV has landed in Hyderabad today! We are very happy…