Ecuador held a below-strength Brazil to a 1-1 draw on Sunday to secure a spot in the Copa America quarterfinals. Brazil failed to win for the first time in 11 games but still qualified top in Group B. HIGHLIGHTS Brazil failed to win for the first time in 11 games since 2019 Neymar, Thiago Silva and Gabriel Jesus…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday promised 200 units of free electricity for all households in Punjab if Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) wins the Assembly elections to be held in February or March next year. In a tweet, Kejriwal said that it is very difficult for a woman to run a house at such…
Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla said on Monday that he had taken up the issue of the European Union’s new ‘vaccine passport’ scheme not recognising the India-made version of the Oxford jab at the “highest levels”. Adar Poonawalla assured that the matter would be resolved…
Clicking a selfie is probably the most common thing we do in our everyday lives. All it takes is a click and a second. However, things are a little bit different when you are clicking the selfie of a rover 362 million kilometres away on another planet. The April 6 selfie of the Perseverance rover alongside…
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, is scheduled to hold a meeting on Tuesday to hear the views of Facebook India and Google India on safeguarding citizens’ rights and prevention of misuse of social media and online news media platforms. The…
With Covid-19 testing being one of the key strategies to help curb Covid-19 spread, a new technology can help improve detection of the novel coronavirus using samples taken from the screens of smartphones. The non-invasive and low-cost Phone Screen Testing (PoST) method can be a boon for middle and low-income…
India’s sports fraternity hailed Deepika Kumari after the superstar athlete completed a hat-trick of gold medals at the Archery World Cup Stage 3 in Paris on Sunday after winning the women’s individual recurve event. HIGHLIGHTS Deepika completed a hat-trick of gold medals at the Archery World Cup Stage Sachin…
Pushed through in public imagination by Hollywood films and successfully used for terrorism by the Islamic State, drone terror attack made its entry in India in the early hours of Sunday. Two explosions took place at the Air Force Station in Jammu. No casualty was reported. But it is a major security breach and…
HIGHLIGHTS Rs 23,220 crore has been earmarked for healthcare infrastructure First five lakh tourist visas will be issued free of cost: Nirmala Sitharaman The Finance Ministry also announced a Rs 1.1 lakh crore loan guarantee scheme for Covid-affected sectors Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a press…
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Monday cancelled the India Open and Hyderabad Open, which were earlier postponed. HIGHLIGHTS BWF said that Finland will host the Sudirman Cup Finals Hyderabad Open was slated to be held from August 24 to 29 Badminton calendar has been heavily impacted due to Covid-19 The…