Tag: The News Minute

Early indications of COVID-19 cases plateauing have been reported in some places but the trend needs to be observed, the Union government said on Thursday, January 27, whilst noting that 400 districts have logged over 10% positivity rate in the week ending January 26. Simultaneously, a decline in COVID-19 cases and positivity rate have been […]

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, has given approval for the project. The chief investigators of the project, who will also lead it are Dr AP James of DUK and Dr A Seema of C-MET. Graphene is known for its extraordinary electrical and electronic properties, and as per latest research, it […]

A band of the pirates in a fast craft approached the fishermen, jumped into their fishing boat and attacked them with iron rods. P Sesuraja, secretary of the organization told IANS, “We will have to take extreme steps like relinquishing our Indian citizenship as we have been driven to the wall, not one, two or […]

The domestic equity market on Monday, January 24, logged the steepest single-day drop in about two months, with the benchmark Sensex crashing nearly 1,546 points to crack below the 58,000-level due to panic selling across counters tracking subdued global stocks. This was the biggest single-session fall for both Sensex and Nifty since November 26 last […]

The South Central Railway has cancelled 36 MMTS trains in Hyderabad on Monday, January 24, due to operational reasons and maintenance activity. The SCR has cancelled MMTS trains almost every day in the last week due to operational reasons and track maintenance activity. …Read the full story

The Omicron variant of COVID-19 is in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros where new cases have been rising exponentially, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium has said in its latest bulletin. “Omicron is now in the community transmission stage in India and has become dominant in multiple metros, […]

The Karnataka High Court has quashed proceedings against Viren Khanna, a Delhi-based event manager and socialite, in two drug cases and underlined procedural lapses by the Bengaluru police who lodged the cases against him. K+hanna also maintained that he was implicated as accused number 4 based on statements of another accused Ravishankar in FIR number […]

The High Court had on Saturday, January 22, granted interim protection to Dileep from arrest but directed him and other accused to appear before the investigating officers on January 23, 24 and 25 for interrogation. Justice Gopinath P had directed the accused to fully cooperate with the investigation and directed them to be available for […]

Gold valued at Rs 1.36 crore was seized from a passenger at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, Customs officials said on Saturday, January 22. On January 11, the customs officials seized 1.48 kg gold valued at Rs 72.80 lakh from three women passengers who arrived from Dubai. A day earlier, they recovered gold in […]

A youth has been arrested for threatening, on Twitter, to assassinate Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, police said on Friday, January 21. Acting on a complaint by state Jagan Seva Dal Vice President Mylam Srikanth, Tirupati police on January 17 registered a case against unidentified person under various sections of the Indian […]

Bollywood star Preity Zinta on Thursday, November 18 announced that she and her husband, financial analyst Gene Goodenough have become parents to twins — a son and a daughter — through surrogacy. Hi everyone, I wanted to share our amazing news with all of you today. The actor also thanked the medical staff and their […]

The labels, which the company has been testing since July, are an update from those Twitter used for election misinformation before and after the 2020 presidential contest. But they can also allow social media platforms to sidestep the more difficult work of content moderation that is, deciding whether or not to remove posts, photos and […]

Vijay Deverakonda took to social media on Tuesday, November 16 to share that he is excited to work with the popular American boxer. Helmed by director Puri Jagannadh, the technical crew comprises Vishnu Sarma as the Director of Photography , Jonny Shaik Basha as the art director, Junaid Siddiqui as the editor and Kecha as […]

The incident occurred at a cooperative bank in Kozhikode district on Monday when a man named Biju barged into the bank, took out a knife and slashed the woman thinking she was his former wife. The woman who was attacked was sitting in the chair where his former wife, a staffer, usually sat, when Biju […]

Several people took to social media on Monday, November 15, to back actor Suriya after the Vanniyar Sangam state president issued a legal notice to the people behind Jai Bhim, including director TJ Gnanavel. The notice came after PMK leader and former Union Health Minister, Dr Anbumani Ramadoss had lashed out at the actor, accusing him […]

Several social media users have shared an image of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan wearing a T-shirt with the text ‘Vote for MIM’ and a logo of a kite. The image has a Hindi caption that reads, “Shah Rukh Khan has no issues promoting Owaisi who spoke about killing 100 crore Hindus in 15 minutes. […]

Out of these, 2.4 crore received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as of Friday, November 12, according to a bulletin released by the Karnataka Health Department. According to a bulletin by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike , Bengaluru has administered the second-highest number of vaccine doses among metropolitan cities, at over 1.54 crore doses. […]