New Delhi: With over 85 per cent Covid patients in Kerala isolated at home, the state needs to step up measures to curb the daily surge, Union Health Ministry sources said today, stressing on a “smart and strategic lockdown”. Kerala has not been following the Centre’s advice while reporting the…
New Delhi: Heavy rain lashed parts of Delhi and its neighbouring areas today morning. Many parts of the national capital were waterlogged which resulted in traffic across the city. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert for the national capital owing to the heavy downpour. The city…
Zoom Video Communications Inc shares tumbled nearly 17% on Tuesday, after the video conferencing company signaled a faster-than-expected drop in demand and analysts questioned its future plans as people return to office. Zoom and other video conferencing services such as Cisco, Microsoft’s Teams and…
San Francisco, United States: Google on Tuesday extended the option for its employees to work from home into next year due to the pandemic. Returning to Google campuses will remain voluntary globally through January 10, with local offices given the discretion to decide when to require employees to return to their…
New Delhi: As nine new judges took the oath as Supreme Court judges today, Chief Justice of India N V Ramana posed for pictures with his colleagues. In one of the pictures, he is seen with the four sitting women judges of the Supreme Court — Justice Indira Banerjee, Justice B V Nagarathna, Justice Hima…
New Delhi: The Taliban representative who met Ambassador Deepak Mittal, India’s envoy in Qatar, on Tuesday in Doha, trained under the Indian Army at its elite institutions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. One of the seven persons who call the shots in the terrorist group that recently took over…
United Nations: The UN Security Council, under India’s Presidency, adopted a strong resolution demanding that territory of Afghanistan not be used to threaten any country or shelter terrorists and that it expects the Taliban will adhere to commitments made by it regarding the safe and orderly departure from…
Sao Paulo: Brazilian researchers have found that a molecule in the venom of a type of snake inhibited coronavirus reproduction in monkey cells, a possible first step toward a drug to combat the virus causing COVID-19. A study published in the scientific journal Molecules this month found that the molecule…
Kabul: Hours after the final foreign forces flew out of Afghanistan, Taliban leaders walked victorious through the airport, flanked by guards dressed in special forces combat kit inspecting destroyed US helicopters. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid led a group of officials onto the runway, his usual stoic…
New Delhi: Afghanistan has not simply disappeared merely because the US forces, which had controlled considerable parts of it since 2001, have now left, Amrullah Saleh, the former Vice-President of the war-torn country, has said. The Taliban’s takeover earlier this month only reflects on the…