NEW DELHI: Congress MPs Manickam Tagore and Manish Tewari on Wednesday gave adjournment notices to discuss the delay in census exercise and the issue of eight former Indian Navy personnel on death row in Qatar.

NEW DELHI: The aviation industry in India saw a modest uptick in domestic passenger traffic for November, according to a report released by the credit rating agency ICRA.

Canberra: Australia's spending on the health response to the Covid-19 pandemic topped $30 billion through its first three years, a government report revealed on Wednesday.

NEW YORK: Human deaths from zoonotic diseases like Ebola, Marburg, SARS and Nipah will increase by 12 times due to climate change by 2050, according to an alarming research that calls for "urgent action".

NEW YORK: Scientists have developed a tri-valent vaccine using a nanoparticle that can protect against three different deadly coronaviruses, and has show to be successful in mouse studies.

NEW DELHI: Winning the 1983 Men’s ODI World Cup at Lord’s was a historic moment for India, who weren’t given a chance by anyone to clinch the trophy. Life for India as a cricketing nation was never the same since then, giving the country the belief to dream and achieve big in the sport.

NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday once again attacked Centre over the alleged data breach of the Covid vaccine beneficiaries saying the Narendra Modi government does not care about the fundamental right to privacy of people, and national security.

Helsinki: Incumbent Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has conceded defeat after the opposition National Coalition Party won the parliamentary elections.

Montreal:Air passenger demand will rapidly recover to pre-Covid levels on most routes by the first quarter of 2023 and is expected to exceed the 2019 levels by around 3 per cent by the end of the year, the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) said.

UNITED NATIONS :  World output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3.0 per cent in 2022 to 1.9 per cent in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades, according to a UN report.

Toronto:Economic lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately affected the immigrant population and disrupted their finances more than the Canadian-born population, a Statistics Canada report said.

TORONTO: With the Canadian Municipal elections falling on October 24 -- the same day as Diwali -- Indian-origin community, including councillor candidates, are raising concerns over the two events overlapping.

Bilaspur (Himachal Pradesh):BJP National President J.P. Nadda's ambitious project of commissioning AIIMS Bilaspur, a premier hospital, in his political battleground, whose foundation stone was laid exactly five years ago, is all set to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday just days ahead of the state Assembly polls.

NEW DELHI:In a temporary measure to rationalise cost, airline SpiceJet has decided to place nearly 80 pilots on leave without pay for a period of three months.

OTTAWA: Health Canada has authorised an adapted version of the Moderna Spikevax Covid-19 vaccine which targets the original SARS-CoV-2 virus from 2019 and the Omicron (BA.1) variant.

Islamabad:A meeting between Pakistan Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chinese President Xi Jinping is on the cards during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, scheduled for September 15-16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, diplomatic sources have confirmed.

When Ranbir Kapoor appeared on screens after four years in Karan Malhotra's 'Shamshera', that too along with the flawed star he played in the blockbuster 'Sanju', audience expectations were sky high. But at the end of its first week on a record 5,250 screens worldwide, it has not even been able to surpass a collection of Rs 40 crore.
NEW DELHI: When Ranbir Kapoor appeared on screens after four years in Karan Malhotra's 'Shamshera', that too along with the flawed star he played in the blockbuster 'Sanju', audience expectations were sky high. But at the end of its first week on a record 5,250 screens worldwide, it has not even been able to surpass a collection of Rs 40 crore.

When Ranbir Kapoor appeared on screens after four years in Karan Malhotra's 'Shamshera', that too along with the flawed star he played in the blockbuster 'Sanju', audience expectations were sky high. But at the end of its first week on a record 5,250 screens worldwide, it has not even been able to surpass a collection of Rs 40 crore.
NEW DELHI: When Ranbir Kapoor appeared on screens after four years in Karan Malhotra's 'Shamshera', that too along with the flawed star he played in the blockbuster 'Sanju', audience expectations were sky high. But at the end of its first week on a record 5,250 screens worldwide, it has not even been able to surpass a collection of Rs 40 crore.

Indian fast bowlers Chetan Sakariya and Mukesh Choudhary have been signed up as overseas players by the KFC T20 Max series in Queensland.
NEW DELHI: Indian fast bowlers Chetan Sakariya and Mukesh Choudhary have been signed up as overseas players by the KFC T20 Max series in Queensland.

Malaysian airline AirAsia has announced that it would recommence flights to several Australian capital cities and New Zealand later this year for the first time since the Covid pandemic hit.

Sydney: Malaysian airline AirAsia has announced that it would recommence flights to several Australian capital cities and New Zealand later this year for the first time since the Covid pandemic hit.

In the year 2022, Bangladesh has celebrated her 51st Independence Day since it broke away from the idea of the two nation failed theory. The creation of both East and West Pakistan in 1947, started to show cracks as early as in the 1950s when imposition of Urdu language on the maximum majority of Bengali speakers sowed the first seeds of dissent.

NEW DELHI: Inspired by legend MC Mary Kom to excel in boxing, 2019 World Women's Boxing Championship silver medallist Manju Rani to emulate her idol and bag a medal in the Olympic Games.

NEW DELHI: Investment in renewable energy in India reached a record $14.5 billion in the last fiscal (2021-22), an increase of 125 per cent compared to FY2020-21 and 72 per cent over the pre-pandemic FY2019-20, a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Thursday.

SHIMLA: The BJP's double-engine government is making all-out efforts to boost development in Himachal Pradesh similar to that in other BJP-ruled states.

NEW DELHI: India's economic recovery from the pandemic shock has sustained in FY22 and the momentum is expected to broadly continue through the ongoing FY23, though with risks of downside from the geopolitical shock and its spillovers, said the RBI's Annual Report for 2021-22 released on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced that preliminary results of the city's biennial homelessness count showed a 15 per cent decrease in unsheltered homelessness and a 3.5 per cent decrease in overall homelessness.

MANILA: Less than 10 days before the national and local elections in the Philippines, presidential aspirants are campaigning the archipelago, wooing voters with plenty of promises despite the Covid-19 threat.

NEW DELHI: Various waves of the Covid pandemic could not sweep off India's growth story completely. Showing resilience India has registered 1.67 lakh companies in the financial year 2021-22 (April-March), according to a report by Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA).

SHIMLA: Setting aside speculations of the change in leadership just ahead of the assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh, BJP president JP Nadda on Sunday said Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur would continue his full term, and the next election would be contested under his leadership.

SHIMLA: Facing the challenge of retaining BJP's dominance for the second consecutive term, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur says despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the state borrowed less than the previous Congress government.

MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India on Friday lowered India's FY23 GDP growth projection to 7.2 per cent from an earlier estimation of 7.8 per cent.

SHIMLA: The economy of Himachal Pradesh has recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic with the state's GSDP set to grow at 8.3 per cent in 2021-22 as compared to minus 5.2 per cent in 2020-21, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Thursday.

NEW YORK: In a three-contest winning streak by Indian-American students, Jaskaran Singh has won the premiere quiz tournament for students, the National College Championship Jeopardy with a prize of $250,000.

SAN FRANACISCO: Tech giants Twitter and Google blocked advertisements of a special issue of medical journal Health Affairs that focused on racism and health, the companies have claimed.

CHANDIGARH: Unlike the 2017 Assembly polls, the father-son duo of the prominent regional party Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), elderly Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir Badal, were facing tough battle in their respective seats, this time all eyes are on other constituencies in Punjab that will go to the polls on February 20.