Rumita Patel
MUMBAI: A day after the IWC responded swiftly to a request from UP police and orders from the Center to take over a ‘TRP scam’ investigation in Lucknow, the Uddhav Thackeray-led coalition government blocked Wednesday to the central agency not to investigate any case. in Maharashtra without the prior consent of the state or the…
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Most of the Android phones in India come with the Facebook app pre-installed. While some brands allow users to remove this bloatware, others only allow the Facebook app to be disabled. But a new trend is being observed in the sale of Android phones this year. Along with the main Facebook application, there are three…
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NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 case count surpassed the 75 lakh mark on Sunday, 33 days after the count had passed 50 lakh. India is the second country after the United States to reach the grim milestone. However, the slowdown in the pandemic was evident as the previous 25 lakh increase in cases had taken only…
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MUMBAI: Rank 1 may have chosen an American university over leading Indian Institutes of Technology, but all of India rank 2 opted for the most popular desi option: Computer Science at IIT Bombay. The seats in this engineering mecca got thick and fast and the CS stream closed at rank 63, reflecting the choice of…
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MUMBAI: Mumbai police, who are investigating allegations that Republic TV and two Marathi channels bribed households with meter bars so they could inflate viewership ratings, said they have found a larger money trail than previously known. was initially suspicious, linking the channels to a key suspect who is under arrest. There are transactions that show…
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NEW DELHI / HYDERABAD: The number of active and symptomatic Covid-19 cases in India already peaked at around 10 lakh on September 17, a report by a government expert committee said on Sunday. Total cumulative cases may reach Rs 1.06 crore, with negligible growth at the end of February, signaling a steady recession, the panel,…
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NEW DELHI: Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said Sunday that certain districts in some states are witnessing community transmission, but that “it is not happening across the country.” “In different areas of various states, including West Bengal, community transmission of Covid-19 is expected to occur, especially in densely populated areas. However, this is not happening across…
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NEW DELHI / JAIPUR / HYDERABAD: Northern and Southern states continue to dominate the UG 2020 national income eligibility test results (undergraduate) with states such as Delhi and Haryana registering more than 70% qualification with respect to candidates who appear in these states. From the south, while Kerala and Karnataka continued with more than 60%…
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NEW DELHI: At a time when relations with China and Pakistan remain in free fall, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joined by President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Imran Khan at the SCO summit that Russia will host virtually, as Indian officials confirmed in November. 10. As previously reported, Modi and Xi will also…
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NEW DELHI: Xiaomi, the Chinese mobile phone company, was embroiled in a controversy after users reported on social media that the company’s smartphones were not displaying the Arunachal Pradesh weather. The company blamed a “technical error” for the problem and said “the same has been fixed.” The confusion surrounding Arunachal comes at a time when…
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