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Brain dead man breathes new life into COVID-19 patient with severe lung infection

7:21 pm August 29, 2020

Chennai: A brain dead man has breathed new life into a COVID-19 patient with severe lung infection and given hope to a young Mumbai woman as his lungs and hands were transplanted to the respective recipients. The wife of the 34-year-old man from the city agreed to donate his heart, liver and skin also for […]

Former Supreme Court judge Justice A R Lakshmanan dead

2:42 pm August 27, 2020

Chennai: Justice A R Lakshmanan, former Judge of the Supreme Court and ex-chairman of the Law Commission of India died following a heart attack at a hospital, his family said on Thursday. He was 78 and he died at a hospital in Tiruchirappalli on Wednesday at 11.30 pm and is survived by two sons and […]

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

SGS Introduces Solar Simulation Testing at its Automotive Testing Laboratory in Manesar, Haryana

2:43 pm August 24, 2020

Mumbai: SGS is pleased to announce that it has enhanced its material testing capabilities with the introduction of solar simulation testing at its automotive testing laboratory in Manesar, India. Solar radiation causes numerous unwanted effects on materials exposed for extended periods. These changes range from aesthetics (like fading colours) to structural changes (increase in brittleness and […]

Kamala Harris scripts history as she accepts Democratic Party’s nomination for US vice-president

8:24 pm August 20, 2020

Washington: Kamala Harris, who scripted history in US politics as she became the first Indian-American and Black woman to get a major party’s vice presidential nomination, has assailed President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership” that has cost “lives and livelihoods.” Introducing herself as the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants at the virtual Democratic National Convention on […]

Customs Department appraiser arrested in bribery case

11:19 pm August 18, 2020

New Delhi: The CBI has arrested an appraiser of Customs Department and three others in a case of alleged bribery of Rs 7 lakh which led to recovery of a total of Rs 1 crore in cash during searches at multiple locations in Chennai and Delhi, officials said. The agency has also arrested a customs […]