Day: June 10, 2020

IIT Roorkee stands 1st in citations per faculty

11:34 pm June 10, 2020

Roorkee: Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee secured first position among the IITs in the Citations per Faculty parameter in the QS World University Rankings published on Wednesday, a statement said. The Institute secured the first position among IITs in the International Students parameter as well, it said. The high score (92.7) on citations per faculty […]

Fauci says vaccine goal would cover 67 million

US expert Fauci calls WHO comments ‘not correct’

8:50 pm June 10, 2020

Washington: Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government’s top infectious-disease expert, says the World Health Organization had to backtrack on its statement about asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus being rare because that simply was not correct. WHO’s technical lead on the pandemic has tried to clear up misunderstandings about comments she made that were widely understood […]

Bengal’s Dakshineswar Kali temple to reopen from June 13

8:45 pm June 10, 2020

Kolkata: The doors of the Dakshineswar Kali temple in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal will be reopened for devotees from June 13, more than two-and-half months after the religious institution was shut due to the COVID-19 outbreak, temple authorities said on Wednesday. The temple gates will be opened for the devotees from 7 […]

Study on to restore elephant corridors: TN govt to HC

Two wild elephants found dead in forests of Chhattisgarh

8:36 pm June 10, 2020

Raipur: Two wild elephants, one of them pregnant, were found dead at a forest range in Chhattisgarh’s Surajpur district in the last two days, a forest official said on Wednesday. While the pregnant elephant died because of a liver ailment in the early hours of Tuesday, the carcass of another female pachyderm was yet to […]

Traffic woes continue in Delhi amid farmers' protest

Rain, storm hit traffic movement between Noida and Delhi

8:28 pm June 10, 2020

Noida (UP): Heavy rain and storm lashed Noida and Greater Noida Wednesday evening, uprooting trees, damaging vehicles and bringing down billboards that blocked key roads, including some between the city and the national capital. Traffic snarls were reported on the Delhi-Noida-Direct (DND) Highway as well as on the Kalindi Kunj Road from here due to […]