Haryana reported zero fatalities due to coronavirus on Sunday. This is the first time in four-and-a-half months that the state reported no death cases due to Covid-19. “The Haryana Health Department is happy to announce that no death due to Covid-19 has been reported today (24-hour period),” Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Rajeev Arora was quoted as saying by news agency PTI. Haryana, however, registered 952 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday. The death toll in the state stands at 1,640, according to the health department’s daily bulletin. Arora said it is after a span of 135 days that no death due…
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India forces at the Line of Actual have caught a Chinese soldier identified as Corporal Wang Ya Long. The soldier was seen straying into Ladakh in the Chumar-Demchok area. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldier will be returned to the Chinese Army “as per established protocol after following due procedure”, the army said in a statement. The statement said the soldier had been provided medical assistance including oxygen, food and warm clothes “to protect him from the vagaries of extreme altitude and harsh climatic conditions”. A request had been received from the Chinese army about the whereabouts of the missing…
An eighth grader from Texas has won a USD 25,000 young scientist challenge for a discovery that could provide a potential treatment for Covid-19. Anika Chebrolu won the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, regarded as the US’ premier middle school science competition, for her work using in-silico methodology for drug discovery to find a molecule that can selectively bind to the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus in an attempt to find a cure for the coronavirus pandemic, according to the 3M Challenge website. 3M is an American manufacturing company based in Minnesota. Chebrolu decided to take part in the Young Scientist…
MS Dhoni has set a new Indian Premier League record as the Chennai Super Kings captain became the first player to feature in 200 matches in the T20 league. Dhoni achieved the milestone when he walked out for the toss of their crunch IPL 2020 encounter against Rajasthan Royals in Abu Dhabi. Monday’s encounter is also MS Dhoni’s 170th match for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. Dhoni played 30 games for the now-defunct Rising Pune Supergiant between 2016 and 2017 as CSK were serving a 2-year suspension. MS Dhoni is on top of the charts and Rohit Sharma is…
Legendary Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralidaran, in a statement, has requested Vijay Sethupathi to opt out of his biopic 800. The actor has been facing severe backlash since the project was announced, with many Tamil groups opposing the actor’s decision to play Muralidaran’s character, who allegedly celebrated the killings of Tamils in the Sri Lankan civil war. Vijay Sethupathi has now decided to quit the project after Muralidaran’s statement. Muttiah Muralidaran, in an explosive statement, said he is compelled to put out a statement as a lot of people are protesting against 800 in Tamil Nadu. “I understand that Vijay…
On Saturday, the national capital recorded the season’s highest one-day fire tally with 1,230 cases of stubble burning. But in some marginal respite, the contribution of stubble burning to Delhi’s air fell to 17% on Sunday from 19% on Friday, the Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor, SAFAR’s data revealed. Delhi’s air quality continued to be in the “poor” category on Sunday with a reading of 254 on CPCB’s Air Quality Index (AQI), however, it fared better from Saturday’s 287 poor. Notably, an AQI between 0 and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’,…
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said that Kerala is witnessing a spurt in coronavirus cases for ‘gross negligence’ during Onam festivities. Vardhan said that it serves a good lesson for the country that being negligent in planning for the festival season will result in a rise in cases. The Kerala government had announced considerable relaxation in travel for trade and tourism during the festival. On Saturday, the state’s coronavirus tally crossed 3.3 lakh while the toll climbed to 1,139. Before Onam which was celebrated on August 22, the southern state had reported around 54,000 cases, while the death toll…
In a bid to equip itself for any war-like situation, India has bought high altitude warfare kits from the US. This move comes in the backdrop of stand-off between India and China at the LAC. The Indian Army made the purchase of winter gears for warfare under the Logistics Exchange Memorandum Agreement signed between the militaries of the two countries in August 2016. A report from Bloomberg established this information. The report cited officials aware of the purchase who wished to keep their identities secret. India and China – the two Asian superpower neighbours – has been locked in their…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said necessary changes are being made in every sector to form sure growth and to make this decade India’s. “In the last 6-7 months you would possibly have seen the speed and therefore the ambit of reforms are increasing. Whether it’s agriculture, space, defence, aviation or labour. In every sector necessary changes are being made for growth,” Modi said. Addressing the centenary convocation of the University of Mysore through video conferencing, he said it’s being finished the sake of crores of youth during this country and to form this decade India’s. “This decade are…
Doordarshan is streaming Ayodhya’s Ram Leela, a theatrical enactment of the life events of Bhagwan Ram, live from Ayodhya this year.The city of Ayodhya is all decked up and is in a festive mood this Navratri as a grand Ram Leela is being held. The broadcast by DD National, which started on 17th October, is happening in collaboration with the tourism and cultural department of the Uttar Pradesh government. The first video on Doordarshan’s Youtube channel has already crossed a million views. Prasar Bharti CEO Shashi S Vampati wrote on Twitter that the telecast has already crossed multi-million minutes of…