BHOPAL: The ambitious Project Cheetah in India suffered a significant setback on Friday as yet another cheetah was found dead within the confines of Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park. This marks the eighth cheetah death since the project’s inception on September 17, 2022, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The body of a sub-adult male South … Read more
SRINAGAR: The Amarnath yatra has resumed after three days from Jammu and Kashmir’s Panjtarni, Sheshnag camps following improvement in weather, officials said on Sunday.The development comes shortly after reports of suspension of the yatra on Sunday for the third consecutive day owing to bad weather conditions in Jammu and Kashmir.Authorities earlier on Sunday stopped a … Read more
AHMEDABAD: In a setback for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his hope to get back the Parliament membership, the Gujarat high court on Friday rejected his plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark. The HC called for the need for purity in politics and said … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has recorded a single-day rise of 26 new Covid-19 infections and the count of active cases of the disease now stands at 1,468, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.The death toll due to the disease is at 5,31,908 and the infection tally is 4.49 crore (4,49,94,351), the data updated … Read more
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday exchanged special gifts with President of the United States Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House, in Washington during his state visit.Biden and First Lady hosted PM Modi for an intimate dinner at the White House. The dinner featured the president’s favourite foods, … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) is conducting a study to check whether Covid-19 vaccination increases or decreases the risk of sudden death in young people.ICMR is also looking into the role of factors such as age, comorbidity, ‘severe Covid’ and ‘persistent Covid’ symptoms among others behind a spurt in sudden deaths … Read more
NEW DELHI: Days before PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the US from June 21 to 25, Nasa officials are increasingly talking about roping in India for Nasa’s Artemis Accords, which are an American-led effort to return humans to the Moon by 2025, with the ultimate goal of expanding space exploration to Mars and beyond. A … Read more
NEW DELHI: India is now once again determinedly working towards the creation of theatre commands to build an integrated war-fighting machinery in a cost-effective manner, with a “consensus” being achieved among the Army, Navy and IAF after the original plan was tweaked to address all concerns.The plan primarily is now to have three integrated theatre … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society, in a special meeting, decided to drop the reference to former PM Jawaharlal Nehru from its name and rechristen the institution as Prime Ministers Museum and Library Society. Though a natural corollary of an earlier decision to expand the purview of the museum to include all … Read more
NEW DELHI: Several opposition parties on Thursday dubbed the 22nd Law Commission’s decision to examine afresh the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and seek views of stakeholders as pursuance of BJP’s “polarisation agenda” ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls, with Congress expressing shock that the panel should take up the subject after its predecessor in 2018 … Read more