Nation/World

UNCTAD predicts India’s GDP growth to decline to 5.7% in 2022, 4.7% in 2023

United Nations: The report noted that after a rapid but uneven recovery in 2021, the world economy is in the midst of cascading and multiplying crises, with incomes still below 2019 levels in many major economies

BY / Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

Rahul turns heat on BJP govt in Karnataka, Yatra gets festive response in Mysuru

Mysuru/Pandavapura: Rahul Gandhi started the 26th day of his Bharat Jodo Yatra at the crack of dawn and walked through the streets of the old Mysuru town and reached Mandya

BY / Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

Mizoram police accuse Assam of constructing huts in disputed inter-state border area

Aizawl: The border dispute between the two states is a long-standing issue, which stemmed from two colonial demarcations – 1875 and 1933

BY / Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

Mass drive against liquor on in Manipur, says CM

Imphal: The Manipur cabinet had decided to partially lift the ban on brewing, consumption and sale of liquor last month while women's bodies and pressure groups demanded revocation of the Cabinet decision

BY / Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

ISRO’s Mars Orbiter craft “non-recoverable, and attained its end-of-life”

Bengaluru: Despite being designed for a life-span of six months as a technology demonstrator, the MOM has lived for about eight years in the Martian orbit with a gamut of significant scientific results on Mars as well as on

BY / Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

IAF scrambles fighter jets after bomb scare on Iranian civilian plane in Indian airspace

New Delhi: An intimation was received of the bomb scare on the Mahan Air flight W581 which was on its way from Tehran to Guangzhou in China

BY / Monday, 3 October, 2022

Researchers discover how COVID damages the heart

Melbourne: The researchers noted that while COVID-19 and influenza are both severe respiratory viruses, they appeared to affect cardiac tissue very differently

BY / Monday, 3 October, 2022

IAF to formally induct indigenously built Light Combat Helicopter

New Delhi: The Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), developed by state-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), has been primarily designed for deployment in high-altitude regions

BY / Monday, 3 October, 2022

Markets fall in early trade on weak global trends

Mumbai: The 30-share BSE benchmark declined 288.8 points to 57,138.12 in early trade. The broader NSE Nifty dipped 79.4 points to 17,014.95

BY / Monday, 3 October, 2022

Govt report on toilet access: 74.6% public places have toilets; 84.2% premises see minimal littering

New Delhi: According to the report by Jal Shakti ministry released on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the observation teams visited 85,872 public places such as shrines, bazaars, health facilities, anganwadi centres and government schools

BY / Monday, 3 October, 2022

Nationwide fitness movement: Fit India Freedom Run 3.0 launched on Gandhi Jayanti

New Delhi: Fit India, one of the biggest nationwide movements started during the peak of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, was jointly launched with a Fit India Plog Run (the activity of picking up trash while jogging)

BY / Monday, 3 October, 2022

PM Modi pays tributes to Gandhi, Shastri

New Delhi: The prime minister visited Raj Ghat and Vijay Ghat, memorials to Gandhi and Shastri, respectively, to pay tributes to them

BY / Sunday, 2 October, 2022
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