During the his Mann ki Baat speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to light a lamp for soldiers while celebrating festivals amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Addressing the nation through his monthly radio programme ”Mann Ki Baat”, the Prime Minister began by extending his wishes on Dussehra. PM Modi said “the soldiers are serving the nation away from their family as they guard the country’s borders to ensure that the people in the country are safe from external threats”. “Lots of festivals like Eid, Diwali will take place at this time of the year. During these festivals, we also…
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India has logged 78,64,811 coronavirus cases so far with 50,129 new infections. 578 deaths in the last 24 hours have pushed the total death count to 1,18,534. 62,077 patients have recovered from the infection in the country in the last 24 hours. With 70,78,123 people in the country having recovered since the beginning of the pandemic, the overall recovery rate is 89.9 per cent. India is the second worst-hit country in the world by the pandemic after the United States. The country reported its first case on January 30. The number of coronavirus cases has seen a daily dip with…
Astronomers have found evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows a young proto-stellar disk with multiple gaps and rings of dust. This new result, just published in Nature, shows the youngest and most detailed example of dust rings acting as cosmic cradles, where the seeds of planets form and take hold. An international team of scientists led by Dominique Segura-Cox at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Germany targeted the proto-star IRS 63 with the ALMA radio observatory. This system…
AS world eagerly waits for an antidote for the deadly coronavirus that has wreaked the whole world, scientists have come up with a study saying that antiviral mouthwash could help curb coronavirus transmission. Here’s a roundup by Reuters of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus A paper published in the European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, suggest that large wildfires may be linked to increases in novel coronavirus cases and deaths in the San Francisco area. The study revealed that between March and September, an increase in smoke particles, other wildfire pollutants and carbon monoxide…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuJrtQh5M5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Neha Kakkar and Rohanpreet Singh are married now. Pictures and videos from the couple’s wedding are thrilling the Internet. The couple got married in a gurudwara in Delhi on Saturday in the presence of family and close friends. Photos and videos from the wedding have been shared by several fan pages dedicated to Neha Kakkar on social media. In the viral pictures, the singer looks breathtaking in a peach lehenga set while Rohanpreet Singh looks charming in a pale pink sherwani. It has been reported that the newlyweds will host a grand reception in Punjab. Neha Kakkar’s brother, singer…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will perform the “Shastra Puja” – the customary worship of weapons for the festival of Navratri – at Sikkim’s Sherathang, less than 2 km from the Line of Actual Control – on Sunday and spend Dussehra with soldiers a day later, in a hugely symbolic gesture amid the standoff with China in eastern Ladakh. On Saturday, Mr Singh reviewed the combat preparedness of the Indian Army at the Sukna-based headquarters of its 33 Corps which guards the Line of Actual Control or LAC with China in the Sikkim sector, officials said. On a two-day visit to…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGswgujgG4A/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger took to Instagram to reveal that he underwent a second heart surgery in Cleveland, and is now feeling absolutely fine. In his post, the 73-year-old actor confirmed that he was given a new aortic valve to function well with his pulmonary valve that he got during his last surgery. The actor also shared four photos that showed him giving a thumbs-up from his hospital bed in the first image, and the others in which he was seen exploring Clevela .. The ‘Terminator’ actor said that he has been already walking the streets of Cleveland enjoying the…
Dr Rajalakshmi Menon, a scientist, who contributed towards the indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control system, inducted into the Indian Air Force, is among the four outstanding scientists and engineers selected for the “Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna Award” of the IISC for 2020. These annual awards recognise exceptional contributions made by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) alumni/ae to their profession, society and the Institute, it said in a release. The nominations received are evaluated by a committee appointed by the Director of IISc, it said. Along with Dr K Rajalakshmi Menon, this years awardees include Prof B S Murty, Prof Sethuraman…
A suicide bombing on Saturday at an education centre in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens, officials said. A Taliban spokesman on Twitter denied responsibility for the attack, which came at a sensitive time as teams for the insurgents and government meet in Qatar to seek a peace deal even as violence rises and the United States withdraws troops. A Ministry of Interior spokesman, Tariq Arian, cited security guards as identifying a bomber who detonated explosives in the street outside the Kawsar-e Danish educational centre. Health Ministry spokesman Saeed Jami said 13 bodies had been…
The government has in recent months taken steps to curb Chinese businesses and investments following a border clash in June that killed 20 Indian soldiers. Going by this stand, the government has ordered 4,000 army shops in the country to stop buying imported goods, according to a document reviewed by news agency Reuters, a move that could send an unwelcome signal to foreign liquor firms such as Diageo and Pernod Ricard. Army canteens sell liquor, electronics and other goods at discounted prices to soldiers, ex-servicemen and their families. With annual sales of over $2 billion, they make up one of…