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Official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs Anurag Srivastava.

Raising issues of Kashmir and status of minorities ‘deplorable’, India tells U.N.

Special Correspondent U.N. experts connected the Indian policy on Kashmir with the status of religious minorities in India and said they could face discrimination in “employment and land ownership”

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Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressing a Press Conference, in New Delhi on Friday.

National

Parliamentary panel on Defence | Oram told Rahul to be brief

Special Correspondent The panel is believed to have discussed sensitive issues, including the face off with China on the eastern Ladakh border.

Mumbai

For how long will you collect toll on Mumbai-Pune Expressway, HC asks MSRDC

Special Correspondent The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) for how long motorists would pay the toll on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and G.S. Kulkarni was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed by advocate Pravin Wategaonkar and three others challenging the toll collection on the expressway. Mr. Wategaonkar said that the collection of toll had been illegal since August 10, 2019, and sought

States

Direct ACB to question Fadnavis in land grab case, activist urges court

Shoumojit Banerjee Were minutes of meeting erased to protect then Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, states Damania in her submission

Bengaluru

T.N. MP requests Yediyurappa to extend metro to Hosur

Special Correspondent Member of Parliament from Krishnagiri in Tamil Nadu A. Chellakumar has written to Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa requesting him to extend Namma Metro service from Electronics City to Hosur via Attibele. In the letter, the MP said the extension of the metro by 20 km would be a boon to the economy and ease traffic in the area, thereby benefiting both States. He pointed out that Hosur has 3,000 MSMEs and most of their units as well as corporate offices are located in Bengaluru. People in

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Bengaluru

315Work Avenue leases around 1 lakh sq.ft workspace in Bengaluru

Special Correspondent Coworking player 315Work Avenue has taken up around 1 lakh sq.ft of office space on lease in the city to open two new centres as part of its business expansion plans.These two office spaces, located at Koramangala and on Old Madras Road, will have 2,000 seats.According to 315Work Avenue, the expansion comes at a time when companies see merit in setting up satellite offices across multiple locations to help people work nearer home and to enable a distributed workspace model.“We are seeing strong

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Vaccinating the workforce can help quicken India’s economic revival, says T.V. Narendran, president designate, CII. File

Industry

Let industry help with vaccine roll-out: CII

Special Correspondent ‘Expiry of vaccines is a concern’

Business

IT industry can double in size in 4-5 years: Vijayakumar

Special Correspondent Sector can grow by $200 bn, says HCL Technologies’ CEO

Business

Oil India, EIL to bid for BPCL stake in Numaligarh Refinery

Special Correspondent Oil India (OIL) and Engineers India (EIL) will bid as a consortium for the 61.65% stake of Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) in Numaligarh Refinery (NRL). The bid is to be submitted through a formal process. The exact percentage of the stake of OIL and ElL will depend on the extent of right of first offer (ROFO) to be exercised by the Assam Government, that already holds 12.35% stake in NRL. Announcing the decision to bid, OIL said Numaligarh Refinery was the largest customer of the crude

The first image sent by NASA’s Perseverance rover upon touching down on Mars shows its shadow upon the Red Planet's surface, at the Jezero crater.

Science

NASA’s Perseverance rover makes historic Mars landing

Reuters The rover will begin its search for traces of ancient microbial life on Mars

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Ancient DNA retrieved from different mammoth species is illuminating a complex evolutionary picture.Credit: Beth Zaiken/Centre for Palaeogenetics

Science

Teeth from Siberian mammoths yield oldest DNA ever recovered

Reuters Until now, the oldest DNA came from a horse that lived in Canada's Yukon territory about 700,000 years ago

The Russian Progress MS-16 cargo ship blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan have docked at the International Space Station on Wednesday with a load of supplies.

Science

Russia's unmanned cargo ship docks at International Space Station

AP The Progress MS-16 cargo ship has delivered water, propellant and other supplies to the orbiting outpost

File photo shows a 3D print of a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in front of a 3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. Photo: NIH/NIAD-RML via AFP

Health

Coronavirus | Evidence of COVID-19 reinfection without mutations in spike protein

V. Geetanath Joint study by CCMB, Apollo Hospitals provide rare evidence

National

No COVID-19 deaths in last 24 hours in 18 States, UTs: Health Ministry

Special Correspondent India’s cumulative recoveries have been showing a progressive increment on a daily basis, the Health Ministry said

A woman walks past the painting of protective measures against COVID-19 in Vijayawada. File

National

COVID-19: India records 11,610 fresh cases, 100 more fatalities; recovery rate 97.33%

PTI There are 1,36,549 active cases of the coronavirus infection in the country currently, which account for only 1.25% of its total caseload, the Health Ministry data stated

Technology

WhatsApp messaging users on privacy

Yuthika Bhargava Firm says it had encountered misinformation on now-suspended new policy

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