- Saturday, April 05, 2025
With India's surplus face mask capacity choking production lines, the medical device industry has asked the government to lift the ban on export of non-N95 masks to help manufacturers clear unsold inventories and resume production at full capacity. The government had in March banned export of all kinds of masks…
Having sanitised their premises and equipped with measures to implement social distancing norms, places of worship in Delhi are ready to throw their doors open to the faithful from Monday after remaining closed for nearly two and a half months due to the lockdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due…
India on Sunday reported 9,971 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 287 deaths, another highest spike, were recorded in the last 24 hours, the Union health ministry data showed. With a tally of 246,628 infections, India is now the fifth worst-hit country in the world after the United States, Brazil,…
A DAY after Twitter sparked public outrage by restricting Indian brand Amul’s account, the microblogging platform has clarified the actions was part of its routine security processes. The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation — which owns the Amul brand of food products — found its Twitter account blocked on June…
THE West Midlands Police has arrested a 53-year-old man from Erdington after a video showed a British Asian taxi driver in Birmingham being racially abused. Officers took the man into custody on suspicion of “racially aggravated public order offence”. The police had launched a probe after the video showed a…
Yoga guru and spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev, also known as Sadhguru, has said that hockey was ‘more exciting’ than cricket in college days, though he was ‘an all-rounder in school’. He revealed this to cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin during ‘In Conversation with the Mystic’ online chat. They talked about cricket, Covid-19,…
Rumours were rife lately that Kangana Ranaut’s much-awaited film Thalaivi was in for a massive loss due to the ongoing Coronavirus lockdown. However, the National Film Award-winning actress has confirmed that her film has already recovered a part of its investment by selling digital rights to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Talking…
India’s Yatra Online Inc has terminated a pending merger agreement with the US software firm Ebix Inc, and had filed a litigation seeking “substantial” damages for Ebix’s alleged breach of deal terms. Ebix had agreed to buy Yatra in 2019 for an enterprise value of $337.8 million, aiming to beef…
INDIA went past Italy to become the sixth worst-hit nation by the Covid-19 pandemic with the country registering a record single-day spike of 9,887 cases which pushed the nationwide tally to 236,657. India’s death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 6,642 with a record increase of 294 deaths in the…
India and China have agreed to resolve a dispute over their shared border in the Ladakh region through diplomatic channels, the Indian foreign affairs ministry said in a statement. The statement came a day before top generals of the two countries are due to meet near the site of their…
