Indigenous groups urged world leaders on Sunday to back a new target to protect 80% of the Amazon basin by 2025, saying bold action was needed to stop deforestation pushing the Earth’s largest rainforest beyond a point of no return. Amazonian delegates launched their campaign at a nine-day conference in Marseille,…
The fifth season of Bigg Boss Telugu began on Sunday with a grand four-hour launch event. Actor Nagarjuna has returned to host the new season for the third time. He introduced 19 contestants, who had gone through a slew of tests and mandatory quarantine period to make sure none of them carries the virus into the house.…
The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved emergency use of drug firm Hetero’s Tocilizumab for treatment of hospitalised adults suffering from Covid-19, said Hetero in a statement. Hetero’s statement added that medical practitioners would be able to use the drug for treating Covid-19 in adults who…
The Greater Chennai Corporation Saturday opened 24×7 vaccination centres in all the 15 zones of the city. Minister for Municipal Administration and Water Supply KN Nehru inaugurated the camp at Urban Community Health Centre in Adyar. The initiative comes after the state health department had opened such 24×7 centres…
President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday awarded the President’s Colour to the Indian Naval Aviation at INS Hansa in Goa. The President’s Colour is the highest honour bestowed on a military unit in recognition of exceptional service rendered to the nation both in peace and in war. “Naval aviation has contributed…
The Tamil Nadu government has decided to celebrate every year the birth anniversary of reformist leader E V Ramasamy Periyar on September 17 as “Social Justice Day,” Chief Minister M K Stalin announced in the Assembly on Monday. Periyar’s ideology was all about social justice, self-respect, rationalism and…
Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis resigned from their respective roles with the senior national team on Monday, citing bio-bubble fatigue. The decision helps raise a few eyebrows as it comes with just a month to go for the T20 World Cup. Both Misbah and Waqar had a year left in their…
HIGHLIGHTS Raducanu became the first player this century to make the second week of her first two Grand Slam main draw appearances As the only American left in the women’s draw, Rogers can expect enthusiastic backing throughout the contest admitted she would have to do some “scouting” on her opponent…
The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Monday said it has increased prices of its entire product range, except Celerio, by up to 1.9 per cent with immediate effect. In a regulatory filing, the company noted that it has taken the decision to hike prices due to an increase in various input costs.…
In 2011, when the Trinamool Congress ended the Left Front’s three-decades-long rule, Mamata Banerjee, who did not contest the polls then, had fallen back upon Bhabanipur constituency to retain the chief minister’s seat. Cut to 2021, she is coming back to her bastion in order to continue as the Chief…