Sydney: Sydney’s fast-growing coronavirus outbreak has become a “national emergency,” state leaders said Friday, as Australia’s largest city reported another record number of new infections. Admitting a month-long lockdown had so far failed to stop a Delta-variant outbreak, the state of…
In a setback for telecom companies, the Supreme Court dismissed the applications filed by telecom majors, including Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices, for recomputing adjusted gross revenue (AGR) owed to the government. Telecom companies had moved the Supreme Court last year seeking modification in the…
Chennai: Dr L Murugan was appointed as a Union Minister of State when Prime Minister Narendra Modi overhauled and expanded his Cabinet earlier this month. But his dramatic rise up the political ladder has had no effect on his parents who live in Konur village – 15 km from Namakkal town in Tamil Nadu. His…
New Delhi: Hitting out at the government on the Pegasus snooping scandal, Rahul Gandhi today alleged that all his phones were tapped and that his security men had been asked to report on everything he said. “I am not a potential target. My phone is tapped, it is clearly tapped. Not only this phone, all my…
New Delhi: A 21-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly befriending women from South Asian countries online and luring them into sending their nude photos and videos in exchange for money and later threatening to leak them if they failed to send more such content, the Delhi Police said Thursday. The accused…
New Delhi: Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi Thursday apologised for her “hooligans not farmers” remarks, saying that her statement on the alleged attack on a media person during the “Farmers’ Parliament” at Jantar Mantar was “‘misinterpreted”. A senior video…
Beijing: President Xi Jinping is on a rare trip to China’s politically sensitive region of Tibet, state media reported Friday, the first such visit by the country’s top leader in more than three decades. Tibet has alternated over the centuries between independence and control by China, which says it…
Washington: An Indian-American engineer and entrepreneur has announced that she will be running for the US House of Representatives from a Congressional District in California. Shrina Kurani, born to Indian immigrant parents in Riverside, will be challenging 15-term Republican incumbent Ken Calvert for the…
Washington: The United States recently carried out air strikes as it backed the Afghan army’s bid to repel a Taliban offensive, the Pentagon said Thursday, with the withdrawal of international forces from the country all but complete. “In the last several days, we have acted through air strikes to…
Zomato IPO is the second largest IPO after the ₹ 15,199.44 crore Coal India in October 20102 Zomato shares have made a stellar debut on the bourses after the share listing was advanced from the scheduled date of July 27. The shares of the food startup opened at ₹ 116, a premium…