The Greater Chennai Corporation on Monday began the second mass cleaning drive of the city. The drive will continue till June 26, across 15 zones in the city. Officials have identified as many as 614 spots by the officials to conduct the drive. The officials aim to eradicate 4,500 tonnes of construction waste and 1,000…
In a major step towards minimising dependence on fossil fuels, Kerala on Monday rolled out its first ever public bus to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). Transport Minister Antony Raju flagged off the green bus service Monday from Thiruvananthapuram’s central bus station. The bus would be operated on the…
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is again drawing flak for his comments blaming women for the rising sexual violence in the country. In an interview with Axios’ journalist Jonathan Swan on HBO, which aired on June 20, the prime minister said, “If a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an…
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal today announced that the party’s chief ministerial face for the 2022 Punjab assembly polls will be from the Sikh community. When asked who will be the chief minister’s face of the party for the 2022 polls, Mr Kejriwal said: “Discussions…
The US special representative for North Korea on Monday offered to meet with Pyongyang “anywhere, anytime, without preconditions”, with no public contact so far between the Biden administration and the nuclear-armed nation. Sung Kim’s remarks came after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week gave…
Iran’s southern Bushehr nuclear power plant has been temporarily shut down over a “technical fault”, the country’s atomic energy body said in a statement. “Following a technical fault at Bushehr power plant, and after a one-day notice to the energy ministry, the plant was temporarily shut…
Gold prices fell by four per cent at MCX to ₹ 46,728 per 10 grams mainly due to rupee depreciation, while silver July futures too slid by six per cent to Rs 67,598 per kg. Silver prices fell due to weak global cues on stronger dollar and heavy selling in industrial metals. Yellow…
Gemstones that sparked a diamond rush to eastern South Africa last week have turned out to be just quartz, according to preliminary findings presented Sunday. Thousands of people flocked to a hillside in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province to dig for mysterious stones first unearthed by a cattle herder and…
In order to ascertain whether the vaccines administered to the residents of Mumbai’s Hiranandani Heritage housing society were genuine or fake, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Sunday wrote to Serum Institute of India (SII) and sought details of the batch number of the Covishield vials used in the…
Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, including commander and one of the most wanted militants Mudasir Pandit, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Sopore area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir. The encounter took place in the Gund Brath area of Sopore in North Kashmir. Pandit was wanted by…