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SC Begins Hearing In High Court Contempt Against Centre
IPA Webdesk New Delhi: The Supreme Court today began hearing the Union government’s plea against a Delhi High Court order on oxygen availability in the national capital and the lower court’s threat to pursue contempt charges against officials for non-compliance. The hearing began in the afternoon after Chief Justice...
Vaccine delay could lead to thousands of deaths
IPA Webdesk India’s healthcare has been battered by a vicious second wave of the coronavirus. New Delhi: A third wave of the coronavirus is “inevitable”, the government’s top scientific adviser said on Wednesday, warning that vaccines will need to be “updated” to deal with the new strains that have...
How Bill And Melinda Gates Will Split A $145 Billion Fortune
The couple oversees the largest private foundation in the world. (File) As a married couple, Bill and Melinda Gates spent decades amassing one of history’s largest fortunes. Now that they’re divorcing, they have to untangle that $145 billion. Details of the split have already started to emerge. Cascade Investment,...
Mali Woman Gives Birth To Nine Babies
All babies were delivered by caesarean section (Representational) Bamako, Mali: A Malian woman gave birth to nine babies on Tuesday – two more than doctors had detected inside her crowded womb – joining a small pantheon of mothers of nonuplets. The pregnancy of Halima Cisse, 25, has fascinated the...
Row Over BJP Leader Tathagata Roy Jibe Against Actors Fielded By Party In Bengal
Tathagata Roy said contesting the polls involves large expenses. (File) Kolkata: Veteran BJP leader Tathagata Roy, known for his controversial comments, triggered fresh row Tuesday for his tweet that some actor-turned-BJP candidates who never had anything to do with politics were fielded by the party only to concede electoral...
Fire Breaks Out At UK Nursing Home In West Delhi’s Vikaspuri, All Patients Rescued
Eight fire engines were rushed to the spot, an official said (Representational) New Delhi: A fire broke at a nursing home in west Delhi’s Vikaspuri around 11 pm on Tuesday, officials said. Eight fire tenders were rushed to the UK Nursing Home and all 26 patients were safely rescued,...
UP Woman Forced To Carry Covid+ve Husband’s Dead Body In E-Rickshaw
The woman’s son said his father couldn’t get Covid treatment at any hospital New Delhi: A woman from Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad was forced to carry the body of her husband – who died of COVID-19 – in an e-rickshaw, because she had no money to pay for an ambulance....
India to Take Back Illegal UK Migrants For 3,000 Worker Visas A Year
IPA Web Desk Migration has long been a source of friction between the two countries. (FILE) New Delhi: Britain and India on Tuesday signed an accord on migration and mobility, a foreign ministry official said, as they look to deepen economic, cultural and other ties following the UK’s departure...
Kangana Ranaut Permanently Removed From Twitter
IPA Web Desk Kangana Ranaut’s account violated policy on “hateful conduct, abusive behavior”, Twitter said today. New Delhi: Actor Kangana Ranaut’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended after a controversial tweet related to the post-election result violence in Bengal. The account repeatedly violated Twitter policy on “hateful conduct and...
Oxygen Shortage Claims Lives of 7 Covid Patients In Karnataka
IPA Web Desk A few Bengaluru hospitals raised an alarm against the oxygen shortage. (Representational) Bengaluru: Oxygen crisis deepened in certain parts of Karnataka on Tuesday, with the deaths of seven COVID patients in Kalaburagi and Belagavi allegedly due to oxygen shortage. According to sources close to news agency PTI,...
IPL 2021: BCCI Discussing Moving To Single Venue, Mumbai May Be Hub
By IPA Web Team IPL 2021: The remainder of the league could be moved to Mumbai, with Bangalore, Kolkata legs scrapped.© IPL/Instagram In the wake of Covid-19 cases at Kolkata Knight Riders, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is discussing the possibility of moving the...
Mumbai Reports Lowest Single-Day Covid Cases In Over 5 Weeks
Mumbai’s death count stands at 13,372 (File) By IPA Web Team Mumbai on Monday logged 2,624 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, registering its lowest one-day spike in over 5 weeks. The number of Covid tests also saw a sharp dip – from a daily average of 50,000 to...
Bill And Melinda Gates Announce Divorce After 27 Years Of Marriage
By IPA Web Team Bill and Melinda Gates said they decided to end the marriage after “a great deal of thought” (File) Washington: Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife and fellow philanthropist Melinda announced on Monday they are divorcing after a 27-year marriage. One of the world’s wealthiest...
Second Covid Wave To Peak In Mid-May, National Committee Warned Centre
On Monday morning India reported more than 3.68 lakh new cases and over 3,400 deaths in 24 hours (File) New Delhi: The centre was given advance warning – on April 2 – of a surge in coronavirus cases that would peak around the middle of May, Dr M Vidyasagar,...
Sweat-Drenched After Hours In PPE Suit, This Doc's Photo Went Viral
Sweat-Drenched After Hours In PPE Suit, This Doc's Photo Went Viral With inputs from NDTV
Government Sets Deadline For New Prime Minister’s House Amid Covid-19 Crisis
The government has defended the project saying the current buildings are in a state of disrepair. New Delhi: A new Prime Minister’s residence is to be built by December 2022 as part of the Central Vista project which has received an environmental all-clear in the middle of a raging...
Adar Poonawalla, In UK, Says “Comments May Have Been Misinterpreted”
New Delhi: Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla has moved to further clarify comments made last week to British newspaper The Times – in which he spoke about “aggressive” phone calls from influential people in India demanding increased supply of the Covishield coronavirus vaccine. Mr Poonawalla tweeted Monday afternoon to...
Mamata Banerjee On Bengal Voters After Poll Victory
Mamata Banerjee said, “This is the first time a prime minister did not call”. Kolkata: Bengal’s soon-to-be three-time Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who pulled off a stupendous victory yesterday in face of an all-out fight by the BJP, today declared that the party, which rules at the Centre, is...
