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Mann Ki Baat: PM mentions ‘Sophie’ and ‘Vida’, the two award-winning Army dogs

7:26 pm August 30, 2020

New Delhi: In his ‘Mann Ki Baat’ radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid glowing tributes to India’s canine brigade and specifically mentioned about ‘Sophie’ and ‘Vida’, the two brave dogs who were awarded the Chief of Army Staff’s Commendation Cards on August 15. Modi also exhorted those planning to raise a pet dog to […]

Spectacles believed to be worn by Gandhi set auction record in UK

7:26 pm August 22, 2020

London: A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have broken all records for a UK auction house by selling for 260,000 pounds. The glasses, which were dropped through the letterbox of East Bristol Auctions in Hanham, south-west England, four weeks ago […]

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

Matrimonial disputes: From pens to property, HC wants spouses to list every penny spent

8:12 pm August 6, 2020

New Delhi: Brand of mobile, wrist watch, pen, wages of maid, expenditure incurred on functions and festivals are among a long list of details which a husband and wife, embroiled in matrimonial dispute, will now have to disclose in the affidavits to be placed before the courts to determine their true income. This directive came […]

In Africa, stigma surrounding coronavirus hinders response

3:15 pm August 2, 2020

Kampala: After 23 days in quarantine in Uganda — far longer than required — Jimmy Spire Ssentongo walked free in part because of a cartoon he drew. It showed a bound prisoner begging for liberation after multiple negative tests, while a health minister demanded to know where he was hiding the virus. “The impression was that we were a […]

Coronavirus: Latest updates on COVID-19 crisis around the world

1:22 pm July 3, 2020

New Delhi: Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus crisis in India and other parts of the world on Friday. 11:27 a.m. India’s services sector activity contracts for fourth successive month in June, says PMI. 11:24 a.m. Highest single-day spike of 20,903 COVID-19 cases reported in India with total case tally rising to 6,25,544. 11:13 a.m. Goa CM Pramod […]