Day: January 8, 2021

Continue to be bullish on Indian e-commerce market: Snapdeal CEO

10:18 pm January 8, 2021

New Delhi: Snapdeal continues to be bullish on the e-commerce market in India and is focussed on providing customers outside of metros access to great quality products at affordable prices, its co-founder and CEO Kunal Bahl said on Friday. Speaking at the 25th Wharton India Economic Forum, Bahl said India has seen massive growth in internet user base with addition of over 500 million internet […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

India going to be global source of skilled manpower by 2022: MoS MEA

10:14 pm January 8, 2021

New Delhi: India is going to be the global source of skilled manpower by 2022, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said, noting that Skill India programme is aimed towards making the country ready to become the skill capital of the world by then. Muraleedharan made the comments at the Youth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Conference on ”Bringing together Young […]

Nagpur registers 456 new COVID-19 cases; seven more deaths

10:11 pm January 8, 2021

Nagpur: At least 456 persons tested positive for coronavirus, while seven died of the infection in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district on Friday, a district official said. The new infections have taken the district’s COVID-19 tally to 1,27,110, the official said. With the latest casualties the toll in the district has reached 4,000, which includes 2,667 fatalities […]

COVID-19 vaccination dry run held in Maharashtra

9:59 pm January 8, 2021

Mumbai: A dry run to assess the readiness of the mechanism laid out for the imminent COVID-19 immunisation drive, was conducted across 32 of the total 36 districts in Maharashtra on Friday, a health department official said. A similar exercise had been conducted in four other districts of the state- Nagpur, Jalna, Pune and Nandurbar- […]

Dolphin population in Odisha's Chilika Lake rises to 156

Dolphin beaten to death in UP, three held

9:56 pm January 8, 2021

Pratapgarh (UP): A dolphin was beaten to death by a group of men in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh, leading to the arrest of three people, police said on Friday. According to police, some people killed the dolphin on December 31 in the Sharda canal near Kotharia village in the Nawabganj police station area, about 70 km […]