Day: August 29, 2020

Men have 30 pc higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than women: Study

UP: COVID-19 takes toll on mental health

3:31 pm August 29, 2020

Lucknow: At a village in Barabanki district, 37-year-old Vivek allegedly poisoned his wife and three children and then took his own life. And some 250 km away in Banda, migrant labourers Chutku and Rambabu killed themselves in their native villages. The three cases tell the stories of people unable to cope with the stress, often […]

BSF detects tunnel along India-Pak border in Jammu

3:26 pm August 29, 2020

New Delhi/Jammu: The Border Security Force (BSF) has detected a tunnel just beneath the India-Pakistan international border fence in Jammu, officials said on Saturday. The force has launched a major search operation in the area to look for other such hidden structures that aid infiltration even as it analyses the spotted structure that could have […]

ICC Board Meet: No outcomes likely as BCCI to ask for time on T20 WC

BCCI announces Unacademy as Official Partner for IPL

3:19 pm August 29, 2020

New Delhi: Bengaluru-based edu-tech firm ‘Unacademy’ has been roped in the as official partner for the Indian Premier League for three seasons, the BCCI announced on Saturday. The 13th IPL is scheduled to be held in UAE from September 19 to November 10. “We are pleased to have Unacademy on board as the ‘Official Partner’ […]

Tesla targeted in failed ransomware extortion scheme

3:12 pm August 29, 2020

Boston: In a tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk solved a mystery involving a 27-year-old Russian, an insider at an unnamed corporation and an alleged million-dollar payment offered to help trigger a ransomware extortion attack on the firm. Prosecutors declined to name the target, but Musk was happy to oblige. According to the billionaire, the scheme […]

Indore sero survey: Antibodies found in nearly 8% people

3:08 pm August 29, 2020

Indore: Of the total number of people tested in Indore under the sero survey earlier this month, 7.72 per cent were found to have developed antibodies to COVID-19, an official said. Indore is the worst-hit district in Madhya Pradesh in terms of the number of coronavirus positive cases and fatalities. “Blood samples of 7,103 people […]