Pradhan, US Energy Secretary chair meeting on energy partnership
New Delhi-- Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette on Friday co-chaired a virtual ministerial meeting of the US-India Strategic Energy...
Mark Zuckerberg slams US response to Covid-19
San Francisco--Slamming the Donald Trump administration for the way it has handled the Covid-19 pandemic, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said the US response...
Watching more porn linked to worse erectile function in men
London-- Watching more pornographic videos is linked to worse erectile function, say researchers, adding that watching more adult videos is also associated with greater dissatisfaction...
Masks, Varanasi’s new holy offering to God
BY VIVEK TRIPATHI
Varanasi--Everything is prohibited or curtailed during the ongoing corona pandemic as are congregations at religious places. However, masks as an offering to...
One rupee coin extracted from Mumbai boy’s food pipe
Mumbai-- In a freak incident, an 8-year-old boy accidentally swallowed a Rs 1 coin which got lodged in his food pipe causing him great pain,...
Andhra Police’s Covid drive to screen orphans reunites mother with son
Amaravati-- A state-wide drive launched to screen orphans and street kids for Covid-19 has united a grieving mother with her son who was missing for...
India’s first visually-impaired IAS officer is Bokaro District Collector
BY MANOJ PATHAK
Ranchi--The Jharkhand government has appointed visually-impaired 2007 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Rajesh Singh as Deputy Commissioner of Bokaro.
He is the...
Clinical trials begin for Bharat Biotech’s Covid-19 vaccine
Hyderabad--Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech on Friday announced that the Phase-I clinical trials of India's first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine Covaxin began across the country on July...
Andhra destroys liquor worth Rs 72 lakh with a roadroller
Vijayawada--Police in Andhra Pradesh's Krishna district on Friday destroyed liquor worth Rs 72 lakh which was smuggled into the state from neighbouring Telangana.
More than...
From drilling machines to N-95 masks, cartels use every item to smuggle gold, drugs
New Delhi--From automatic iron presses to hand held drilling machines and from Covid protective suits to N-95 masks, smuggling cartels are using every possible...
