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People walk near the Rashtrapati Bhavan amid heavy smoggy conditions in New Delhi on November 15, 2021. (Money SHARMA / AFP)

SC to Centre, Delhi, UP: Enforce measures to check air pollution

Centre informed the SC that an Enforcement Task Force had been formed to enforce compliance with the measures laid down...

4 Dec 2021 7:37 AM IST

Naval Officer in Charge (West Bengal) Commodore Rituraj Sahu. (DC image)

Navy sees progress in coastal security in Sundarbans delta

We have been able to reach out to contemporary technologies by our combat platforms; Cmde Sahu

4 Dec 2021 2:35 AM IST

Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti speaks in the Lok Sabha during ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (LSTV/PTI Photo)

Global hunger index flawed, says India

'There is hardly any proof that child mortality is an outcome of hunger, the minister said

4 Dec 2021 12:33 AM IST

Farrukh Dhondy | Style matters: Of dress codes and asserting...

This, gentle reader, is an idle musing on a detail of our great, contemporary, egalitarian world

3 Dec 2021 11:48 PM IST

Over the last week of October 2021, the UN-sponsored Global Media and Information Week in South Africa, with Indias participation, resolved to fight disinformation by improving peoples ability to counter it. (Photo: UNICEF)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Can media literacy efforts ensure info...

In India and many other countries where media literacy is still in its infancy, the discourse is still largely basic

3 Dec 2021 11:14 PM IST

The new rumoured series Vivo V23 5G could feature an in-display fingerprint sensor. (Photo: PTI)

Vivo V23 5G might launch in India this month

For the unversed, the Vivo V23e 5G launched in Thailand last month

3 Dec 2021 2:52 PM IST

Indian travellers arrive at Newark Liberty International Airport via an Air India flight after the US re-opened travel for fully vaccinated tourists, in New Jersey. (Photo: PTI)

Nine international travellers test positive for COVID at Mumbai

Meanwhile, the Centre on Thursday informed that two people have tested positive for the Omicron variant in Karnataka

3 Dec 2021 2:03 PM IST

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (PTI)

Delhi becomes no.1 city in world in terms of CCTV coverage per sq km:...

The Chief Minister further said there are 1,826 CCTV cameras in Delhi per square mile

3 Dec 2021 1:50 PM IST

Covishield, the India-manufactured Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, was added to the UKs approved list last month. (PTI)

Top scientists for COVID booster vaccine dose

Give booster jabs to 40 plus and high risk cases, recommend top genomic scientists

3 Dec 2021 12:53 PM IST

A healthcare worker holds a vial with single-dose Sputnik Light Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo: AFP)

Booster dose of six Covid vaccines safe, increases immunity: Lancet...

Two doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines have shown 79 per cent and 90 per cent protection

3 Dec 2021 11:53 AM IST

Google has previously stated that it has consistently invested in significant product changes, resources, and personnel. (Photo: PTI)

Google announces new Android features

As per GSM Arena, the digital car key functionality is now live on the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, as well as the Samsung Galaxy...

3 Dec 2021 11:41 AM IST

Survivors and victims families of Bhopal Gas Tragedy in Madhya Pradesh during a protest (Photo: PTI/File)

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: 37 years on, children then not born scarred...

Thirty-seven years later, the darkness of that night hangs like an impenetrable cloud over the lives of untold thousands

3 Dec 2021 11:26 AM IST