OCTOBER 26, 2020
FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, arrive at the Endeavour Fund Awards in London. - Reuters/Hannah Mckay
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Britain's Prince Harry said it took him years to realise that unconscious racial bias existed and his eyes had been opened by spending time in his wife Meghan's shoes.
The prince...
OCTOBER 25, 2020
Mumbai: Yes Bank has significantly reduced its exposure to DHFL by selling the troubled housing finance company’s bonds in the secondary market. The sale of these bonds has helped the private bank realise Rs 500-crore investment gains as the exposure was fully provided for.
“In DHFL, our exposure was in bonds. Part of it has already been monetised...
OCTOBER 25, 2020
US President Donald Trump’s opponent Joe Biden launched a scathing attack on him for his “filthy” remark for India over the climate situation.
Biden said that it was not the way how you talk about “friends”.
In a tweet, Biden said, “President Trump called India “filthy.” It’s not how you talk about friends-and it’s not how you solve global...
OCTOBER 25, 2020
After French President Emmanuel Macron criticised Islamists and defended the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused him of attacking Islam.
Imran Khan's comments follow statements Macron made last week after a French teacher was beheaded near Paris after he had shown cartoons of the Prophet during a class he was leading...
OCTOBER 25, 2020
Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das on Sunday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is asymptomatic.
"I have tested COVID-19 positive. Asymptomatic. Feeling very much alright. Have alerted those who came in contact in recent days. Will continue to work from isolation. Work in RBI will go on normally. I am in touch with all...
OCTOBER 24, 2020
New Delhi, Oct 24 (ANI): Hindu priest performs aarti to goddess Durga during the ongoing Durga Puja festival, at Kali Mandir Monto Road in New Delhi on Saturday. (Representational) (ANI)
Dashmi, Dussehra or Vijayadashami is observed on the tenth day of the Hindu calendar month of Ashwin and marks the end of both Durga Puja and Navratri festival....
OCTOBER 23, 2020
A nursing assistant staffs a drive-through coronavirus testing site in Milwaukee, which has been overwhelmed by cases. (Bing Guan/Reuters)
America on Friday hit its highest daily number of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, recording at least 82,600 new infections and surpassing the previous record set during the summertime surge of cases across the Sun Belt.
The rising...
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Kapil Dev, the former India World Cup-winning captain, is stable after undergoing a coronary angioplasty surgery at the Fortis Hospital in New Delhi late Thursday night due to chest pain.
"Currently, he is admitted in ICU and under close supervision" the hospital said in a statement. "Mr Kapil Dev is stable now and he is expected to get...
OCTOBER 23, 2020
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has kickstarted the process of creating a database of workers in healthcare facilities, including pharmacists, technicians, ward boys and security staffers, for administering the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as it becomes available, ThePrint has learnt.
The central government Friday shared a “standard excel-based template” that has been developed for data collection, with...
OCTOBER 23, 2020
In the final presidential debate ahead of the election on November 3, President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden touched on various issues, but plenty of Indians reacted on social media reacted to a comment on the quality of India's air.
During the debate, Trump raked up the issue of air quality in India and called it...
