New Delhi, (IANS): The Padma awards, namely Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri, are among the highest civilian awards of the country. Instituted in 1954, these awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. The award is given for distinguished and exceptional achievements or service in all fields or disciplines such as Art, Literature and Education, ...

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has met the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in New Delhi today. Both the dignitaries have discussed the various ideas to further strengthen the close and unique India-Bhutan friendship. Shri Modi has also conveyed his appreciation for the guiding vision provided by successive Druk Gyalpos in shaping  relations between India and Bhutan.” In ...

The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Signing of Guarantees for hosting Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India. FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 is scheduled to be held in India between 11th and 30th October 2022. The seventh edition of the biennial youth tournament will be the ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) An Air India Express flight B737 IX-442 MCT-COK (Muscat-Cochin) VT-AXZ witnessed smoke and fire in its engine number two at Muscat airport on Wednesday. The plane was carrying 145 passengers, including four infants, the officials said, adding that all of them were safe and no injuries have been reported. “A DGCA official said that during taxiing ...

Hyderabad, Sep 14 (IANS) A CBI court here on Wednesday sentenced former Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh, Kothapalli Geetha, her husband P. Ramakoteshwara Rao and two bank officials to five years imprisonment in a bank fraud case. Geetha, a former member of Lok Sabha from Araku, and others were arrested and shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. Sentencing them for ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu will represent India at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on September 19. Murmu will be visiting London from September 17 to 19 to offer condolences on behalf of the Government of India. Queen Elizabeth, the former head of state of the UK and Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, ...

Ahmedabad, Sep 14 (IANS) At least six labourers were killed and one seriously injured after the lift of an under-construction building collapsed here on Wednesday. The lift crashed from the seventh floor. The under-construction highrise building, named Aspire-II was located near the Gujarat University campus. “At the time of the accident seven labourers were inside the lift, which was used to ...

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed former BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy to hand over the possession of his government bungalow to the estate officer within six weeks. Citing security reasons, Swamy, who was the former Union Minister, was allotted the government accomodation in the Lutyens zone by the cabinet committee on January 15, ...

As the issue of moonlighting or working elsewhere to make extra money in India is plaguing many tech giants after the Work From Home concession that entailed tech employees work remotely, several Indian tech giants are facing the challenge to keep their workforce committed and focused. The ethical issue has been raised by tech services giant Infosys first, followed by ...

New research published in Current Biology on September 13 demonstrates the importance of carrying crying infants rather than simply holding them. Led by Kumi Kuroda at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, the study details how crying babies are physiologically affected by being held, carried, and laid down. The data yield a simple but cost-free and effective technique that ...

Jammu, Sep 14 (IANS): Twelve persons were killed and 27 others injured on Wednesday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Police sources said that a minibus went out of the driver’s control near Brari Ballah in the Sawjian area of Poonch district. Death toll in the road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district rose to ...

In an interview at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills early this week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai retorted to a question about competition in artificial intelligence stating clearly that it’s not always the competition but lack of focus within that leads to failure. “I have always held the view that you tend to go wrong by focusing too much on ...

Air traffic in France will be severely disrupted this Friday due to a strike over wages, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has warned. French air traffic controllers are taking action to demand higher wages due to soaring inflation. The national strike will last from 6 a.m. on Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday, DGAC announced on Tuesday. In addition ...

Ranchi, Sep 14 (IANS) Peeved by the drinking habit of men coming from adjoining Bihar to villages of Jharkhand to consume liquor, women of a village in Jharkhand have embarked upon a unique liquor prohibition campaign where they stop such men from consuming liquor in their villages and have destroyed local breweries. The liquor ban in Bihar has become a bane ...

Jakarta, Sep 14 (IANS) Representatives of G20 countries have agreed to introduce an assessment instrument to measure how far each country’s policies have accommodated the needs of people with disabilities. The agreement was concluded at the Sixth G20 Employment Working Group (EWG) meeting in Bali, which mainly discussed inclusive job opportunities. “We aim to ensure that workers with disabilities could have ...

Russian troops have surrendered en masse in view of a rapid Ukrainian counter-attack that is pinning them to ground, leading to a turning point in the year-long war, media reports said. Kiev’s military intelligence said large numbers of Moscow’s soldiers had laid down their weapons rather than fight troops advancing east out of Kharkiv as “they understand the hopelessness of ...

As torrential rains wreaked havoc last week in Bengaluru, largely owing to encroachments and illegal unplanned buildings, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) undertook a ruthless demolition drive at 18 locations in Bengaluru on Tuesday for the second day in a row. The official note from BBMP stated that the demolition drive has been carried out in the Mahadevapura zone ...

Robotic surgeons from the US, India and Spain were named the top three winners in the KS International Robotic Surgery Innovation competition, as robotic surgery slowly becomes mainstream. The winners were selected by an international jury form Oxford and Stanford Universities, and New-Delhi based AIIMS, from the fields of urology, gynaecology, general surgery, hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery, colorectal, head and neck, paediatric ...

Hyderabad, Sep 13 (IANS) Jennifer Larson is the new Consul General of the US in Hyderabad. She previously served as Deputy Principal Officer at the US Consulate General in Mumbai and as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for India. “I couldn’t be more excited to be here in Hyderabad. I’ve spent the last five years working on the US-India relationship from Mumbai ...

Starting twice daily flushing of the mucus-lined nasal cavity with a mild saline solution soon after testing positive for COVID-19 can significantly reduce hospitalization and death, investigators report. They say the technique that can be used at home by mixing a half teaspoon each of salt and baking soda in a cup of boiled or distilled water then putting it ...