Day: July 24, 2020

35 children's books in Parag Honour List for 2021

Pak bans over 100 textbooks over ‘objectionable content’, not showing PoK part of country

7:58 pm July 24, 2020

Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab government has banned over 100 textbooks taught at schools after finding in them “blasphemous and objectionable content” such as not showing Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as part of the country. Some books had not even printed the correct date of the birth of Pakistan’s founder ‘Quaid-e-Azam’ Muhammad Ali Jinnah and national poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal, and some had the […]

PVR cinemas counts on content, word of mouth for viewers’ return to theatres

7:55 pm July 24, 2020

New Delhi: PVR Cinemas on Friday said they are counting on good content and a positive word of mouth from viewers for an increase in footfall once the government gives a go ahead to theatres to open their doors for general public. Theatres in India closed in March due to the coronavirus-led lockdown but theatre chain owners […]

Biryani tops India’s food chart during lockdown: Report

7:49 pm July 24, 2020

New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown saw many people turning chefs overnight, but those who could not turned to online delivery of food. And not just any food, as per a new report, Indians “craved the most for Biryani” during the lockdown. The “StatEATistics report: The Quarantine Edition” from food delivery platform […]

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HC stays penalty proceedings against Patanjali Ayurved by anti-profiteering authority

7:35 pm July 24, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the penalty proceedings initiated against Patanjali Ayurved for allegedly profiteering Rs 75 crore through sale of its products, subject to the condition that it deposits the amount in question in the consumer welfare fund in six monthly installments. A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula issued the direction on […]

Siberian heatwave: Wildfires rage in Arctic, sea ice melts

7:33 pm July 24, 2020

Geneva: The UN weather agency warned on Friday that average temperatures in Siberia were 10 degrees Celsius (18 Fahrenheit) above average last month, a spate of exceptional heat that has fanned devastating fires in the Arctic Circle and contributed to a rapid depletion in ice sea off Russia’s Arctic coast. “The Arctic is heating more than twice as fast as the […]