Trojan Asteroid Spotted Near Jupiter’s Orbit for the First Time in Billion Years A ‘first of its kind’ object, which appears to be a cross between an asteroid and a comet, has been detected by astronomers near Jupiter’s oribit. The Wion reported that The Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last…
Dutch Court Asks Grandmother to Delete Photos of Grandkids from FB as They Violate Privacy
Dutch Court Asks Grandmother to Delete Photos of Grandkids from FB as They Violate Privacy An elderly woman in the Netherlands has been ordered to remove photographs of her grandchildren that she had posted on Facebook without the consent of their mother. According to a report on CNN, the grandmother had posted private photos of…
Pak Man Attacks UK Gurdwara, Leaves Note on Kashmir and a Phone Number; Arrested
Pak Man Attacks UK Gurdwara, Leaves Note on Kashmir and a Phone Number; Arrested A Pakistani man, who was allegedly trying to mobilise Sikhs against India over Kashmir in England, attacked the Guru Arjan Dev shrine in Derby on Monday morning. The man was later identified and arrested for causing damages worth thousands of pounds…
Crime Patrol Actress Preksha Mehta Commits Suicide At 25
Crime Patrol Actress Preksha Mehta Commits Suicide At 25 Crime Patrol Actress Preksha Mehta (Photo Credits: Instagram) Can we officially term 2020 as the worst year ever? As almost every single day we are coming across death news from the entertainment industry. It was just a week back when we heard about TV actor Manmeet…
Bengaluru – 46-year-old woman duped of Rs 5.6 lakh by man she met on matrimonial site
Bengaluru – 46-year-old woman duped of Rs 5.6 lakh by man she met on matrimonial site Bengaluru: An Indian man, with a mobile number having England’s ISD code and huge sums of money left by father in Malaysia was searching for a life partner on a matrimonial portal. That’s not a script of some Bollywood…
Doctor shares realities of being emergency room physician during COVID-19 pandemic in video
Doctor shares realities of being emergency room physician during COVID-19 pandemic in video A doctor who survived Ebola in 2014 has shared the realities of being an emergency room physician during the coronavirus pandemicĀ in New York City, the epicentre of the pandemic in the US. With the help of animated illustrations, Craig Spencer, director of…
Indian Stock Markets Closed, Asia Trade Higher
Indian stock markets were close today for a festival holiday, while most of Asia was trading with gains. Dow Futures were trading higher by almost 0.20 per cent, while the SGX Nifty was up 33 points in trade.
The Japanese Nikkei was trading with gains of nearly 1 per cent, while the Australian S&P ASX 200 was trading with gains of 1.5 per cent.
Indian markets had closed weak on Friday, following a slide in banking stocks. This was after the RBI announced a moratorium extension for another three months.
Meanwhile, this week the markets would watch corporate numbers, as well as spiralling tensions between the United States and China.
Coronavirus – India among top 10 countries with highest number of cases
With more than 6,000 COVID-19 cases recorded for the second consecutive day, India on Sunday bracketed itself among the world’s top 10 countries with the maximum number of novel coronavirus infections.
The number of total cases in India is in excess of 1,37,000, whereas death toll has crossed the 4,000 mark.
On the number of active cases, India with over 75,700 cases, stands fifth after the USA, Russia, Brazil and France.
Globally, the number of active cases are in excess of 28 lakh, out of which, more than 11 lakhs are in the USA.
The surge happened during the 61-days of lockdown – announced by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24 at 8 PM, giving a country of 133 crore people only four hours notice – during which lakhs of migrant labourers moved from one place to another.
Coronavirus ‘cover-up’ By China Is Similar To Chernobyl Disaster – White House Adviser
In the latest development of US-China row over coronavirus outbreak, a senior White House official has compared the cover-up done by the Chinese government of COVID-19 pandemic with the handling of Chernobyl disaster in 1986 by the Soviet Union. In an interview with an international media outlet, White House National Security adviser Robert O’Brien said that China was aware of what was happening with the novel coronavirus as it originated in the country in November, but did not tell the truth to the World Health Organisation (WHO) so that it can formulate the global response to the health crisis.
Kerala Man Kills Wife Using Cobra Snake to Bite Her, Say Police
Kerala Man Kills Wife Using Cobra Snake to Bite Her, Say Police In a chilling plot, a man allegedly killed his 25-year old wife by letting a cobra bite her in her sleep near here early this month with police cracking it following suspicions raised by her family as it was the second time she…
Indigo cancels flight last minute, leaves students stranded
Indigo cancels flight last minute, leaves students stranded Atleast nine north-eastern girl students studying in Maharashtra were stranded at the Mumbai International airport’s terminal 2 after Indigo airlines cancelled flight 6E 958 that was scheduled to depart for Guwahati at 5 am. Of the nine girls, some had traveled from Nashik and Pune to make…
Jolted thrice before the crash – The saga of the ill-fated PIA aircraft
Jolted thrice before the crash – The saga of the ill-fated PIA aircraft Islamabad, May 24: The PIA plane was flying very “smoothly” but while attempting to land, it “jolted” thrice and then the pilot “adroitly lifted” the aircraft off the ground, only to crash moments later, recounts Muhammad Zubair, one of the just two…
Kerala woman’s death after second snake bite turns out to be a murder
The death of a young Kerala woman, who suffered two snake bites in a span of two months, turned out to be a well-planned and executed murder, said Kerala police which probed the case after the deceased woman’s father filed a complaint alleging foul play.
The shocking incident has got all ingredients of a crime thriller, said a senior official who was part of the investigating team.
The crime branch said the woman’s husband, along with a local snake handler and another accomplice, was arrested in connection with the murder. S Uthra (25), a resident of Anchal in Kollam district, had suffered a second snake bite while she was undergoing treatment for the first.
Four coronavirus COVID-19 vaccines may soon enter clinical trial stage in India – Harsh Vardhan
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday said that at least four of the 14 candidate vaccines for novel coronavirus in the country may enter the clinical trial stage very soon.
In a social media interaction with BJP leader G.V.L. Narasimha Rao, the Minister said within five months, four of the vaccine candidates in the country may enter the clinical trial stage.
Rao asked the Health Minister about the status of the development of the vaccines in the country. The Minister said, “The whole world is trying to develop a vaccine for COVID-19. There are over 100 candidate vaccines which are at different levels of development.
Govt extends validity of vehicle documents till July 31, waives late fee
Govt extends validity of vehicle documents till July 31, waives late fee (representative image)
The government on Sunday said it has extended the validity of various motor vehicles related documents till July 31. No additional or late fee will be charged for delays in validation of documents pending from February 1, it said.
“In order to facilitate citizens during COVID-19, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH) has issued a statutory order prescribing that the fees paid on or after February 1, 2020 for the activity(s) including renewal (of documents) and in case such activity(s) is not completed due to conditions for prevention of COVID-19 pandemic, the fees paid shall continue to remain valid.
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