- India
NDRF Twitter handle hacked, will look into it: DG
New Delhi: The National Disaster Response Force Director General Atul Karwal on Sunday said that the NDRF Twitter handle was hacked. “Yes. Will get it looked into right away,” Karwal further said.…
- Middle East
Iran pays delinquent UN membership fee with funds frozen in S.Korea
Seoul: Iran has paid its dues to the UN with the country’s funds frozen in South Korea in a move to immediately restore its voting power, Seoul’s Finance Ministry said on Sunday. Iran…
- India
Mamata urges Centre to announce Netajis’s birthday as National Holiday
Kolkata: Paying tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his 125th birthday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the central government to declare his birth anniversary, January 23, as National Holiday.…
- Telangana
After Andhra, English medium in schools trigger debate in Telangana
Hyderabad: The decision of the Telangana government to introduce English medium in all government schools in the state from academic year 2022-23 has triggered a debate on whether the move is practical…
- Middle East
Kuwait seeks to restore ties with Lebanon: FM
Beirut: Visiting Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah said that his country seeks to restore ties with Lebanon. “For this to happen, we call on Lebanon to distance itself from internal…
- Bangalore
K’taka hijab row triggers debate on religious practices in educational institutes
Bengaluru: The issue of wearing a hijab (head covering worn in public by Muslim women) to the colleges along with the uniform has sparked a debate in Karnataka over religious practices impacting the…
- Sports
U-19 CWC: Bawa, Raghuvanshi tons help India smash Uganda
Tarouba: Raj Bawa and Angkrish Raghuvanshi smashed fine centuries as India recorded their second-highest score in an Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup match to crush Uganda by a massive 326 runs, as the…
- Technology
Robinhood starts rolling out crypto wallets to 1,000 users
San Francisco: Silicon Valley-based online trading app Robinhood has announced that it has begun rolling out crypto wallets to 1,000 users from the top of the wallets waitlist. By March, the company…
- Science
How trillion-dollar space economy is threatened by debris
New Delhi: The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, but assets such as navigation, weather and communication satellites that serve our…
- World
Global COVID caseload reaches 348.5 million
Washington: Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 348.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.59 million and vaccinations to over 9.77 billion, according…