Day: May 20, 2020

Bihar's "cycle girl" interacts with PM Modi

15-year-old girl brings father from Gurugram to Bihar on bicycle

8:03 pm May 20, 2020

Darbhanga (Bihar): Cycling almost 1,200 km with a debilitated person riding pillion could be a daunting task even for professional athletes, leave alone an ordinary teenager and that too amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In this case, the heavily-stacked odds against Bihar girl Jyoti Kumari were no match for her grit. Kumari, a lion-hearted 15-year-old, cycled […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Even COVID-19 crisis has not made tensions abate in Indo-Pacific region: France; Says monitoring developments

7:56 pm May 20, 2020

New Delhi: Even the coronavirus crisis has not made tensions “abate” in the Indo-Pacific, and both India and France are aware of the ongoing activities in the region, French Ambassador said on Wednesday, in an oblique reference to China’s muscular military deployment in the strategic waters at a time when the world is battling the […]

Rolls-Royce to cut some 9,000 aerospace jobs due to virus, decline in air travel

6:04 pm May 20, 2020

London: Aerospace engine maker Rolls-Royce has announced plans to cut some 9,000 jobs globally as it grapples with the collapse in air travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company employs 52,000 people overall, and it is not immediately clear where the cuts will fall. The reorganization will lead to cuts resulting in some 700 […]

Four more corona patients die in Uttarakhand

70 fresh COVID-19 cases reported in Uttar Pradesh, tally nears 5,000 mark

5:56 pm May 20, 2020

Lucknow: With 70 fresh coronavirus cases reported in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, the COVID-19 tally reached near 5,000-mark in the state, a senior health official said. There are a total of 4,996 COVID-19 cases in the state, of which 1,995 are active cases and 2,918 patients have been discharged after recovery, Principal Secretary (Medical and […]

Japan suspects missile data leak in Mitsubishi cyberattack

5:51 pm May 20, 2020

Tokyo: Japan is investigating a possible leak of data including details of a prototype missile in a massive cyber attack earlier this year on Mitsubishi Electric Corp., officials said Wednesday. The suspected leak involves sensitive information about a prototype of a cutting-edge high speed gliding missile intended for deployment for the defense of Japan’s remote […]