- Friday, April 04, 2025
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said it is a "big day" in India's nuclear history as the indigenously designed 700 MW Kakrapar atomic power plant-3 in Gujarat achieved criticality. The power plant achieving criticality means that it has reached the normal operating condition of a reactor. It indicates…
The wife of one of the suicide bombers belonging to a local extremist group that carried out the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka killing nearly 260 people may have fled to India to avoid arrest, according to a media report. On April 21, 2019, nine suicide bombers belonging to…
The Delhi government has decided to conduct sero-surveys every month to formulate better policies for tackling COVID-19 in the national capital, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Wednesday. The decision comes after the city government analysed the results of the latest sero-survey which showed that 23 per cent of the…
India’s largest budget airline IndiGo said on Monday (20) it was laying off 10 percent of its workforce in the wake of the financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. IndiGo rose quickly to capture nearly half the domestic market in recent years, reaping big profits on the back of a…
The Indian Premier League on Tuesday (21) seized upon the postponement of the Twenty20 World Cup to propose holding its cash bonanza tournament in the United Arab Emirates from September. IPL chairman Brijesh Patel told AFP that the Board of Control for Cricket in India was seeking government permission to…
India added 37,724 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday taking the country's tally to 11,92,915, while recoveries surged to 7,53,049 with 28,472 people having recuperated in a day, the highest so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to the disease rose to 28,732 with 648 people succumbing to the disease in the last…
New Delhi recorded fewer than 1,000 coronavirus cases for the first time in seven weeks on Tuesday (21), even as more Indian states imposed restrictions to halt the spread of the pandemic. India last week became the third country after the United States and Brazil to hit one million cases…
BRITISH INDIAN boy has won the ‘My life My Yoga’ global contest launched by the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Ten-year-old Ishwar Sharma won the contest held on the digital platform by the Indian ministry of Ayush and the Indian council for cultural relations. It was launched on May 31, by Modi…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday deliver the keynote address at the India Ideas Summit, an event which will see discussions on India-US cooperation and their relationship in a post-pandemic world. The virtual summit is being hosted by the US-India Business Council and this year marks the 45th anniversary…
Medical experts in India have hailed the results of Oxford University's early-stage human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine, with some saying it's the "most scientifically done" among all such exercises, while others expressing hope that the final trials will "bear fruit". From clinicians to pathology experts, doctors in the country…
