Indian tycoon Gautam Adani has added more billions to his wealth than any one else in the world this year on the back of investor excitement around his ports-to-power plants conglomerate. | Continue reading
A few months back, it seemed as if the coronavirus pandemic would kill off presenteeism -- you know, showing up at work with a sniffle or cough to prove your value or ensure you get your paycheck. | Continue reading
Herd immunity for coronavirus is a "myth" in India because at least 80 per cent people need to have antibodies for the whole of the population to be protected, Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV today. This, he said, would be difficult if one takes into account the new Indian strains f … | Continue reading
Another Made-In-India initiative, Koo, is gearing up to give US microblogging site Twitter some competition. And Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, for one, seems excited about it. "Connect with me on this Indian micro-blogging platform for real-time, exciting and exclusive updates," … | Continue reading
The government hasaskedTwitter to comply with its order to remove contents and accounts related to hashtags linked to farmer protest, | Continue reading
Hours after Twitterblocked around 250 accounts for tweeting, or retweeting, with the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag, and making "fake, intimidatory and provocative tweets" in connection with the ongoing farmers' protest, the social media giant began unlocking some of them | Continue reading
Internet services have been temporarily suspended in some parts of Delhi amid clashes between the police and thousands of agitating farmers, whose tractor rally veered off the permitted course entering several areas including the iconic Red Fort, news agency ANI has reported. | Continue reading
The government has asked WhatsApp to withdraw any change in the messaging app's privacy policy for users in India, people with direct knowledge of the matter have said. The centre has written to the Facebook-owned app's global CEO Will Cathcart detailing concerns over information … | Continue reading
Trials of a coronavirus vaccine have run into fresh controversy in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal where some allege they received shots without informed consent. | Continue reading
Struggling to breathe and pausing between sentences, Susan Moore mustered enough energy to record herself from her hospital bed, where she was being treated for covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. | Continue reading
Elon Musk's Tesla is today counted among the world's most valuable car companies, but there was once a time when the billionaire entrepreneur was treated like an "amateur car builder" by the CEO of one of the world's leading luxury car manufacturers. | Continue reading
The priest of a Gurdwara from Haryana, Baba Ram Singh, who joined the farmers' protest, has died by suicide; he had shot himself.The 65-year-old was at the Delhi-Sonipat border at Kundli, where he reached on Tuesdayevening. | Continue reading
Painkiller aspirin will be evaluated as a possible treatment for COVID-19 in one of Britain's biggest trials, which will assess whether it might reduce the risk of blood clots in people with the disease. | Continue reading
A balloon in the shape of fictional comic character Iron Man let loose in the skies sparked fears of an alien invasion among the residents of Dankaur town in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, the police said. | Continue reading
Another candidate of the highly competitive national exam for admission to medical courses has died by suicide in Tamil Nadu, a day before the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET is to be held amid the coronavirus crisis. | Continue reading
PUBG MOBILE, a wildly popular game in India, is among 118 more Chinese apps blocked by the government amid fresh tension over China's provocation in Ladakh. The move was in the interest of India's sovereignty and integrity, defence and security, the government said in a statement … | Continue reading
The Enforcement Directorate has frozen Rs 46.96 crore in four bank accounts after raiding 15 locations across Delhi, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Pune after some companies were allegedly found running illegal online betting apps linked to China. The chartered accountants of these firms we … | Continue reading
For years Citigroup Inc. has been an anomaly among big banks, relying on an obscure piece of software it helped develop to manage loan payments. Just as the bank tried to replace it, things went terribly wrong. | Continue reading
The Uttar Pradesh government has extended by three months the detention of physician Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act for his alleged provocative speech during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests. | Continue reading
India's drug regulator has approved Itolizumab, a drug used to cure skin ailment psoriasis for "restricted emergency use" to treat COVID-19 patients with moderate to severe acute respiratory distress, officials told PTI on Friday. | Continue reading
A potential COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be developed in India, has been given approval for Phase I and II human clinical trials scheduled to start in July | Continue reading
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday. | Continue reading
Manasi Vasavada has less than three weeks left before she loses her legal right to be in the country. The dental practice in Passaic County, New Jersey, where Vasavada, 31, has worked for almost two years closed its doors in mid-March due to Covid-19. She has been on an unpaid le … | Continue reading
Zoom is not a safe platform for video conference, the government today said, issuing a set of guidelines for private users to follow to stay safe in case they use it. | Continue reading
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply Hydroxychloroquine tablets that can be used to treat COVID-19 patients. | Continue reading
Last November, the U.S. Attorney in Missoula, Montana, indicted a 56-year-old man named Bryan Nash on 10 charges of stalking and extortion. | Continue reading
UN economists warned Monday that the raging outbreak of the deadly new coronavirus could cost the global economy between $1.0 and $2.0 trillion this year and called on governments to ramp up spending to mitigate its impact. | Continue reading
India has emerged as the world's third largest publisher of science and engineering articles, according to a latest US report. | Continue reading
A Chennai-based engineer has been credited by NASA for alerting them about the presence of the debris of the lander of Chandrayaan 2, India's ambitious moon mission. | Continue reading
A public health emergency has been declared in Delhi and nearby areas by the pollution control body mandated by the Supreme Court, as the regionhas been struggling with rising air pollution levels since Diwali. | Continue reading
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday the South American nation will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas. | Continue reading
Rescuers in Tamil Nadu are making frantic efforts to save a two-year-old boy who has been trapped in a borewell at a depth of 65 feet without food or water for over 18 hours. | Continue reading
Southwest Airlines Co said Wednesday it found cracks on two Boeing 737 NG airplanes and removed them from service after US regulators last week ordered urgent inspections. | Continue reading
COP 14 UNCCD: Prime Minister Modi speaking at a world climate change crisis meeting in Delhi today reiterated India's decision to impose a ban on single-use plastic, declaring "time has come for even the world to say goodbye to single-use plastic" | Continue reading
A 74-year-old woman has become the oldest-ever to give birth after she delivered twins at a hospital in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur town on Thursday, doctors have said. | Continue reading
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today made a number of announcements to revive economic growth as the country faces a slowdown. At a press brief, she said India's growth rate is "higher than everybody else" and "more than US and China. Ms Sitharaman also said that the governm … | Continue reading
Official meteorologists registered a record high temperature for Belgium on Wednesday as western Europe sweltered under a heatwave that has disrupted transport and triggered safety warnings. | Continue reading
Should everything go according to plan, more than half a million strangers will gather in a remote Nevada town in mid-September, united by a common goal: raid Area 51 in the wee hours of the morning - using a strength-in-numbers approach to reveal any extraterrestrial treasures s … | Continue reading
The first images of Chandrayaan-2 satellite, Indian's ambitious moonshot, are out. The mission to the moon is getting ready for lift off on July 15 from Sriharikota using the country's most powerful rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark 3. | Continue reading
And the apps are down again. Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook users are facing problem in logging in, sharing and downloading content, and using the apps in general. | Continue reading
A massive outage blacked out Argentina and Uruguay Sunday, leaving both South American countries without electricity, power companies said. | Continue reading
In one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by India, the country is planning to launch its own space station, Indian space agency ISRO chief K Sivan said today. | Continue reading
A French woman whose husband was killed in the March crash of a Boeing 737 MAX airliner in Ethiopia has filed a U.S. lawsuit against the planemaker seeking at least $276 million in damages, her lawyer said on Tuesday. | Continue reading
According to the order, the exchange has also been prohibited from accessing the securities market directly or indirectly for six months. | Continue reading
The option to download TikTok, a popular video-sharing app, has vanished from Google and Apple app stores in India after the Madras High Court banned its downloads, in setback for its Chinese developer Bytedance Technology's efforts to tap India's growing internet content market. | Continue reading
Before he started the whole alien spaceship thing last year, the chairman of Harvard University's astronomy department was known for public lectures on modesty. Personal modesty, which Avi Loeb said he learned growing up on a farm. And what Loeb calls "cosmic modesty" - the idea … | Continue reading