SC directs states, UTs to submit information on welfare schemes for elderly
New Delhi: The top court was hearing a plea filed by former Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar seeking setting up of old age homes with basic healthcare facilities across the country
BY PTI / Thursday, 6 October, 2022
Tawang helicopter crash: Lt Col from Army Aviation killed, co-pilot injured
Tawang/New Delhi: The accident once again puts the spotlight on the ageing and virtually obsolete fleets of Cheetah and Chetak helicopters which lack modern avionics and need replacement
BY PTI / Thursday, 6 October, 2022
Rajnath Singh performs Shastra Puja at military base in Auli, Uttarakhand
New Delhi: Defence Minister said that Shastra Puja teaches that we must acknowledge the contribution of all things that contribute to our lives, both living and non-living, including 'shastra' (arms)
BY PTI / Thursday, 6 October, 2022
Bodies of Sikh family kidnapped in California found
Los Angeles: The family, originally from Harsi Pind in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, was kidnapped at a business in Merced County, California, on 3 October
BY PTI / Thursday, 6 October, 2022
WHO flags four India-made “contaminated” cough syrups potentially linked to the death of 66 children in The Gambia
New York: The four products that are believed to contain chemicals are Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup, all manufactured by Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited
BY PTI / Thursday, 6 October, 2022
What is click chemistry that won chemist trio Nobel Prize
New Delhi: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 was awarded jointly to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry"
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
Thirteen Indians trapped in Myanmar’s Myawaddy area rescued
New Delhi: The mission said Indian workers are taken to Myanmar illegally without proper documentation leading to their "entrapment"
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
Scientists find new evidence for liquid water on Mars
London: The results are in agreement with earlier ice-penetrating radar measurements that were originally interpreted to show a potential area of liquid water beneath the ice
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
Over 60 new genetic regions behind stroke identified, may lead to new therapies
New Delhi: The latest results, recently published in the journal Nature, are based on the analysis of data from 2.5 million people from five different ancestries
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
Sikh family kidnapping in California: Person of interest in custody, 4 victims still missing
Los Angeles: The family is believed to have been taken against their will while at a business in Merced, central California by an armed and dangerous
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
Cong loses chairmanship of parliamentary committee on IT, Home; key panels with BJP
New Delhi: The new reconstitution gives the chair of six major parliamentary committees, Home, IT, Defence, External Affairs, Finance and Health, which were earlier with Congress to BJP and its allies
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
Ten bodies spotted, four retrieved after avalanche in U’khand: NIM principal
Uttarkashi: The avalanche struck at an altitude of around 17,000 feet about 8.45 am when the team of 34 trainee mountaineers and seven instructors were returning after summitting
BY PTI / Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
