In focus, 25th Jul 2021, News & Stories from India

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25 Jul 2021

In focus, 25 Jul 2021

Barring all hurdles, Yash Tuteja expands Meenakshi Salon & Academy across Chhattisgarh

When you trust yourself and your vision, nobody can stop you from being successful

25 Jul 2021 10:15 PM

This photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows rescuers working to clear a flooded tunnel after 14 construction workers were trapped in an underground section of a new highway construction site after it collapsed in Zhuhai in China's southern Guangdong province. (Photo: AFP)

Six detained over fatal tunnel flooding in south China

The construction site of the Shijingshan tunnel, part of Zhuhai's Xingye expressway, flooded on July 15

25 Jul 2021 3:34 PM

NDRF personnel rescue stranded villagers from flooded areas following heavy monsoon rains in Balinge village of Kolhapur district of Maharashtra. (Photo: Twitter/@NDRFHQ)

150 NDRF teams engaged in rescue operations in flood-affected areas across India

Other than Maharashtra, 8 NDRF teams have been deployed in Telangana, while 7 teams are working in Karnataka

25 Jul 2021 3:21 PM

WarnerMedia faced significant backlash when it announced earlier this year that its 2021 slate of films would debut under its same-day streaming and theatrical release model. (Photo: AFP)

HBO Max slated to release 10 Warner Bros. titles straight-to-streaming

However, it's not clear which titles these 10 will include

25 Jul 2021 3:14 PM

The sensitivity filter allows people to set limits around how much potentially sensitive content they might see on their 'Explore' page. (Photo: AP)

Instagram's new sensitivity filter is censoring its users work

While posting on both the feed and in Stories, account holders have been warning their followers that the setting is limiting their reach

25 Jul 2021 12:44 PM

Awaken India Movement activists protest against the government's mandatory mask-and-vaccine policy and demand an end to the lockdown, at Dadar in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India logs 39,742 new Covid cases, 535 fresh fatalities

The active cases have declined to 4,08,212

25 Jul 2021 12:38 PM

Owaisi had earlier visited Lucknow and has been in talks with smaller political outfits. (Photo: PTI)

UP Assembly polls: AIMIM denies reports of alliance with SP

The Hyderabad MP had earlier announced that AIMIM will contest 100 seats in Uttar Pradesh polls

25 Jul 2021 11:21 AM

A billboard with a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is partially submerged in flood waters at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra on Saturday, July 24, 2021. Officials say landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rain have killed more than 100 people in western India. (AP)

India is on the frontline of climate change

In the first seven months of this year the nation has experienced two cyclones, a glacier collapse in the Himalayas, a heatwave and floods

25 Jul 2021 10:13 AM

Rescue workers search for victims at the site of a landslide at Taliye, about 22 km from Mahad city on July 24, 2021, as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains climbed to 76, with nearly 90,000 others evacuated in the western state of Maharashtra. (Photo: AFP)

34 NDRF teams engaged in rescue ops in Maharashtra; BMC sends two teams to Raigad, Kolhapur

Brihanmumbai Mahanagarpalika is also working promptly outside its area in case of emergency

25 Jul 2021 9:43 AM

The study says that 30.2 per cent of children of all age groups have their own smartphones. (Photo: Representational)

59.2 per cent children use smartphones for messaging, finds NCPCR study

Only 10.1 per cent of children like to use smartphones for online learning and education, the study added

25 Jul 2021 9:21 AM

It was Roger Federer we wanted to watch but we watched everything that was on offer.

Ranjona Banerji | Keeping score, for the love of tennis and for mother

It was in the 2000s that this love for tennis was reborn to a fulltime obsession and it was Roger Federer who did it

25 Jul 2021 1:09 AM

Pavan K. Varma | Pegashush! It’s ‘another’ international conspiracy

This is precisely what we are seeing in the response of the BJP and the government to the Pegasus saga

25 Jul 2021 1:07 AM

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. (PTI Photo)

Anita Katyal | Priyanka comes into her own; Vaishnaw debut underwhelming

It is Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who pitched for Sidhu’s appointment as Punjab Congress chief

25 Jul 2021 1:05 AM

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