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Gold declines Rs 231; silver tanks Rs 256

4:37 pm January 27, 2021

New Delhi: Gold in the national capital declined Rs 231 to Rs 48,421 per 10 gram on Wednesday, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the precious metal had closed at Rs 48,652 per 10 gram. Silver also dipped Rs 256 to Rs 65,614 per kilogram from Rs 65,870 per kilogram in the previous […]

IMD warns cold wave in 9 Odisha districts, Phulbani coldest at 7.5 degree Celsius

Delhi’s minimum temperature rises slightly

1:01 pm January 27, 2021

New Delhi: Delhi’s minimum temperature rose to 5.4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, though it was still three notches below normal, the India Meteorological Department said. A cold wave had gripped the city on Tuesday with the minimum temperature dropping to 2.1 degrees Celsius, seven notches below normal. An IMD official said cold wave conditions are […]

UP CM likens anti-Covid vaccine to ‘Sanjeevani Booti’

4:30 pm January 24, 2021

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday compared the Covid-19 vaccines given by India to Brazil to ‘Sanjeevani Booti’, a mythological life-saving herb figuring in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Yogi made the comparison a day after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro invoked Lord Hanuman while thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing two million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the deadly coronavirus infection in his country, one of the worst-hit […]

Nitish wishes speedy recovery to Lalu

4:17 pm January 24, 2021

Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday wished speedy recovery to his arch rival Lalu Prasad,who has been rushed to New Delhi following marked deterioration in health and with whom he has shared a love-hate relationship for close to five decades. The JD(U) de facto leader also rued the fact that he now had […]

States asked to identify children with severe acute malnutrition for referral to hospitals

4:04 pm January 24, 2021

New Delhi: Identifying severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children and their referral to hospitals, using AYUSH concepts and monitoring through ‘Poshan Tracker’ are among highlights of the government’s new guidelines which aim to improve nutritional status of children and women in the country. In a letter to all states and UTs, the Women and Child Development Ministry asked all […]