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Corona-hit art and craft look at govt for support

10 Jun 2020 05:32 AM IST

At a time when apocalyptic news has overtaken human lives, our tradition, heritage and roots in the form of our classical art and craft could have acted as an elixir. But unfortunately, it is the most neglected sector during the Covid-19 pandemic. While India has started unlocking itself and the

RSS-backed body to protest today against Centre’s decision to privatise banks

10 Jun 2020 05:32 AM IST

The Delhi Pradesh Bank Workers Organization, an affiliation of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), has decided to stage a protest on 10 June against the Central government’s decision to privatise public sector banks (PSBs). The protest is going to be demonstrated in front of Bank of Maharashtra in Delhi’s Connaught

RSS-ABVP workers conduct thermal screening of 10,000 Dharavi residents

10 Jun 2020 05:31 AM IST

In the fight against coronavirus pandemic, volunteers of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, equipped with PPE sets and directed by doctors on board, have done thermal screening over almost 10,000 people in 24-hour in Mumbai’s Dharavi on Tuesday without any government assistance, report says. The members of

India’s first ‘Divyang’ corona hospital starts in Mumbai

10 Jun 2020 05:30 AM IST

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) in Mumbai, with the help of a private institution, has started India’s first ‘Divyang’ hospital for differentlyabled patients for their coronavirus treatment. The hospital has been started at Neurogen Brain and Spine Institute at Sewood in Navi Mumbai, in which 25 beds have been

Time to embrace human behaviour in cybersecurity

10 Jun 2020 05:21 AM IST

Security solutions need to incorporate human behaviour and cater for the error margins, in the solutions provided by them. There’s need for a paradigm shift in approaching the security solution wherein it is seen as a process rather than a product.

Connectivity projects testimony to India-Nepal friendship

10 Jun 2020 05:20 AM IST

Nepal has been a part of India’s collective national conscience since time immemorial. However, it is only in the last 74 years since India’s Independence in 1947 that it has doubled up as our strategic partner. People to people ties, clearly visible in the unhindered movement of citizens across the

Making things happen: Thermal power, the case of ‘UDAY’

10 Jun 2020 05:18 AM IST

States could have learned from places like Gujarat (where UDAY had happened well before ‘UDAY’ was launched by the Centre) and tried to replicate its model.

Golden window for India to unleash potential of its biotech sector

10 Jun 2020 05:17 AM IST

The only true exit strategy to cope with Covid-19 is science and the onus of finding and distributing the vaccine, which is the only way to win the battle with the virus, lies with the biotech sector.

Delhi LG overrules CM’s Covid orders as Kejriwal goes into self-quarantine

09 Jun 2020 05:18 AM IST

Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal overturns Delhi govt’s decision to reserve state government hospitals only for local residents; Arvind Kejriwal showing corona symptoms, tests today

BSF’s ‘Op Cleanliness’ hurting Pakistan’s dirty plan to push 70-100 terrorists into India

09 Jun 2020 05:17 AM IST

Along the Line of Control (LoC), Pakistan is trying to infiltrate terrorists under the cover of bushes and reeds, reports suggest. According to top Intelligence sources, 70 to 100 terrorists are trying to infiltrate under their cover with the help of Pakistani forces. No wonder, Pakistan is rattled by the

‘Positive’ India-China border talks helped prevent Doklam 2.0, claims Chinese mouthpiece

09 Jun 2020 05:16 AM IST

A Chinese government mouthpiece on Monday claimed that “positive discussions” between India and China at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) during the commander-level talks this weekend prevented another Doklam-like crisis. The Global Times, a daily tabloid of the Chinese Communist Party, citing Chinese experts, however, added that due to

Bengaluru shows other metros how to fight Covid pandemic

09 Jun 2020 05:15 AM IST

With a population of 1.2 crore, the tech-capital has today only 176 active cases, thanks to CM Yediyurappa who started preparing for the pandemic in March.