COVID-19 pandemic

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

Delhi HC to resume physical functioning from Monday

8:06 pm March 14, 2021

New Delhi: After a year, the Delhi High Court will resume from Monday its complete physical functioning, which was restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From March 15, all judges of the high court would hold physical hearing of cases. Since March 2020, the high court has been holding proceedings through video conferencing and subsequently, […]

Sonu Sood set to launch India’s biggest blood bank through ‘Sonu For You’ app

6:48 pm March 7, 2021

NEW DELHI: By Aditya Vikram Singh/THE year- 2020 saw Sonu Sood tirelessly and selflessly working for the needy as they struggled through the on-going Covid-19 pandemic. Right from helping migrant labourers stranded in the city reach their hometowns, organising food drives and giving his hotel to frontline workers to distributing essentials to a circus troupe […]

14 missions lined up for launch in 2021: ISRO chairman

8:03 pm February 28, 2021

Sriharikota (AP): ISRO has lined up 14 missions for launch in 2021, including the space agency’s first unmanned mission later this year, its Chairman K Sivan said here on Sunday. He was addressing scientists at the Mission Control Centre here after the successful launch of Amazona-1 of Brazil and 18 other satellites. “Definitely our hands […]

Separatists grow majority in Catalonia despite Socialist win

11:31 am February 15, 2021

Barcelona: The pro-union Socialist Party claimed a narrow win in regional elections in Catalonia late Sunday, but the bloc of parties supporting secession by Spain’s northeastern corner widened their control of the regional parliament. With 99 per cent of the votes counted, the three main parties pledging to carve out an independent Catalan state increased […]

Economic growth will only move upwards: Shaktikanta Das

2:36 pm February 5, 2021

Mumbai: Stressing that economic growth will only move upwards, the Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday pegged the GDP growth rate for the next financial year at 10.5 per cent, though a tad lower than the government’s projection of 11 per cent. The projection is in line with the estimates in the […]