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Tokyo Olympics’21: Citizens protest as IOC, Japan Govt go ahead

New Delhi: Even as the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and the Japan Government are forging ahead to kick off the Tokyo Olympics 2021 next month, the Japanese citizens are protesting against the world’s foremost sports festival, concerned as they are with the possible outbreak of the fourth wave of Covid-19. Japan is set to host […]

WB polls: Police quiz Mithun Chakraborty, 71, for controversial speech

New Delhi: Actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty, who turned 71 on Wednesday, was questioned in a virtual session by Kolkata Police in connection with one of his controversial speeches during campaigning for the recently-held Assembly elections in West Bengal. On a day many people greeted the actor on his 71st birthday, Chakraborty was busy […]

Covid-19: 30% more youngsters bought life insurance in second wave

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Young professionals usually postpone buying life insurance, often until marriage. Shocked by rising infections and death toll during the second wave of Covid-19 in April and May 2021, however, many of them hurriedly bought term life policies. Working from home, many of these professionals bought term insurance policies online to […]

Roving Periscope: Ashamed, China still keeps Galwan losses under wraps

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: This is the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. While a transparent India is solemnly observing the first anniversary of the Indian Army martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the Galwan Valley in East Ladakh, China has let the losses it suffered pass by almost uneventfully. The reason is […]

Covid-19: With curbs relaxing, the unemployment rate falls

New Delhi: With the pandemic-battered situation improving in the Indian states because of easing of the Covid-19 related restrictions, the unemployment rate has fallen in the country, in what is seen as a good sign for the economy to recovery soon. The second wave of Covid-19, more devastating than the first in terms of human […]

Covid-19: Bhutan King, PM patrol borders to check virus spread!

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Now, this as amazing as it is unprecedented any country has done so far to check the spread of Covid-19 virus: a nation’s king, and the prime minister, patrolling border areas to prevent illegal human crossings lest it spread the killer virus. Media reports on Tuesday said that, amid the spread […]

Covid-19: ‘Pfizer, AZ vaccines ‘highly effective’ against Delta variant’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the United Kingdom delayed lockdown relaxation period by a month on June 14 because of the spread of the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) of Covid-19, global vaccine maker Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s two jabs are ‘highly effective’ against this strain, according to government agency Public Health England (PHE)’s latest analysis. It suggested […]

Kareena-as-Sita: Netizens outraged over her role, “Rs.12 crore” fee

Mumbai: Netizens have expressed outrage over speculations that Bollywood actor Kareena Kapoor Khan has been selected to play the role of Sita, wife of Lord Rama, in an upcoming movie, and that she will be paid Rs. 12 crore to essay the role. Their anger was evident on microblogging site Twitter after this ‘news’ broke […]

Checking the Dragon: NATO may brand China a ‘security risk’

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With a resurgent Turkey breathing down their neck and an expansionist China trying to find a toehold in Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Continent’s 70-year-old security arm, is likely to brand Beijing as a global security risk. The NATO leaders, meeting at Brussels on Monday, are expected to […]

Business: Adanis refute reports of NSDL action as ‘erroneous’

New Delhi: The Adani Group on Monday informed the stock exchanges that reports on National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) freezing the accounts of three foreign funds — Albula Investment Fund, Cresta Fund, and APMS Investment Fund — are “blatantly erroneous”. “It is done to deliberately mislead the investing community. This is causing irreparable loss of […]
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