India joins GPAI as founding member to support responsible, human-centric development, use of AI By PTI NEW DELHI: India has joined the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) as a founding member to support responsible and human-centric development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), an official release said on Monday. With this, India has joined…

India Supplies 25 Tonnes of Malathion to Iran to Curb Locust Menace State-owned insecticide manufacturer HIL (India) Ltd has supplied about 25 tonnes of Malathion 95 per cent ULV to Iran to help the country control the locust menace, the government said on Monday. The consignment, which has been supplied on government-to-government basis, is expected…

Govt receives over 1 lakh COVID-related grievances; Jitendra Singh launches feedback call centres PTI, As many as 1.28 lakh coronavirus-related public grievances have been filed with the central government, according to an official statement. Call centres in different cities and languages to seek feedback on such public grievances was launched on Monday by Minister of…

Early lockdown helped India convert exponential growth in COVID-19 cases into linear trend – Harsh Vardhan PTI, An early lockdown imposed by the government helped India in converting the exponential growth rate of coronavirus cases into a linear trend, Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Monday, even as the country saw a jump of over…

Highly toxic, dangerous – CBI warns against fake methanol-based hand sanitisers flooding the market The Central Bureau of Investigation has alerted all Central and state law enforcement agencies against highly toxic methanol-based hand sanitisers which they say “can be dangerous to the human body”. Due to the growing demand of hand sanitisers amid increasing cases…

From the Newsroom – Delhi CM says no plans for another lockdown From the Newsroom, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday that there was no plan for another lockdown in Delhi even as the number of novel coronavirus cases continues to spurt. Two officials of the High Commission of India in Islamabad went…

Indian Student in Singapore Fined for Breaching Covid-19 ‘Circuit Breaker’ Rule A Singapore court on Monday imposed a fine of over USD 1,400 on an Indian student for attending a gathering at a rented apartment, in violation of the country’s “circuit breaker” rules enforced to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Bhullar Jasteena, 23, pleaded…

Four killed, over 50 injured in oil tanker explosion in China Four people were killed and over 50 others injured when an oil tanker exploded on an expressway in East China’s Zhejiang province on Saturday. The explosion damaged nearby residential houses and factory workshops in Tai Zhou city, local authorities said. According to the state-run…