Highlights The government has defended India’s purchase of Russian oil on multiple occasions in the past Some analysts feel India’s imports from Russia could slow down from December onward due to shipping constraints Russia accounted for 22% of India’s total crude imports in October Amidst its ongoing war with Ukraine, […]
Highlights In the first nine months of 2020, India recorded at least one extreme weather event in 241 days, a new report has said. These disasters claimed 2,775 lives, affected 1.8 million hectares (ha) of crop area, destroyed over 4,16,667 houses and killed close to 70,000 livestock The central region […]
Highlights When several attempts to go to her native place failed, the police sent her to a women’s shelter home in Allahabad. In March this year, a speech-impaired 12-year-old girl was reunited with her parents after a gap of two years, with the help of her fingerprints on an Aadhar […]
Highlights China reported more than 2,000 fresh domestic infections on Tuesday for the second straight day, as curbs ramped up in response to a wave of regional outbreaks. Videos shared online over the weekend showed employees escaping the Foxconn campus and returning to their hometowns on foot, in a bid […]
Highlights Built on an area of 80,000 square feet, the temple came up within three years after the UAE government handed land for construction in 2019. On the occasion, Ambassador Sunjay Sudhir thanked the UAE Government for their support to the 3.5 million-strong Indian diaspora in the UAE,” the Indian […]
Highlights The detailed examination of the baggage and personal search of the passengers resulted in the recovery of seven rectangular-shaped pouches containing the chemical paste, appearing to be gold and weighing 7.763 kg in total, it said. Earlier in October, the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Customs at the Cochin […]
Highlights According to Additional Public Prosecutor, Advocate HS Panchal, Parekh made the claim in the court on Wednesday. Panchal also said that during the hearing it was revealed that the cable wires of the bridge were not in the ideal condition to be opened for the general masses Oreva Group […]
Highlights The air quality in Anand Vihar was recorded in the “severe” category throughout Friday. On Saturday morning too, Anand Vihar remained the most polluted part of Delhi with an AQI of 454. Monitoring stations at Wazirpur (439), Narela (423), Ashok Vihar (428), Vivek Vihar (427) and Jahangirpuri (438) also […]
Highlights In 1995, the VMS founded a special school for the rehabilitation of children challenged with metal, orthopaedic, speech and hearing problems. As per doctors at rehab, the centre attends at least 70 patients in a day. On 27th June this year, 17-year-old Syed Aleen suffered Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)- a […]
Highlights “It really shook me when I carried dead children with my own hands as I thought of taking them to the hospital. But they had nothing left in them. It broke me. I can`t even speak about it…..,” said Hasina Bhen as she broke down again. The man who […]