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Bengaluru, Dec 16: The Primary and Secondary Education Department is considering reducing summer holidays so as to make up for the academic days lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The teachers’ associations have extended full support to the government’s decision. The state technical committee for Covid-19 had advised the education department to trim the summer holidays and the department is

New Delhi, Dec 15: A month before its scheduled release, former President Pranab Mukherjee's memoir 'The Presidential Years' has run into a controversy. The publisher, Rupa Publication, has announced that the memoir will be out in January. However, Pranab Mukherjee's son, Abhijit Mukherjee has objected to it and has alleged that the publisher has leaked certain "motivated excerpts". Taking to

Lucknow, Dec 15: A man shot dead his sister in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut town, about 450 kilometres from here, allegedly after she refused to make chapatis for his pet dogs. The man, identified as Ashish Kumar, a resident of Bhavanpur locality in the town, called the cops after killing his sister and informed them about the incident. He was later arrested. Police sources here said that Ashish, who

New Delhi, Dec 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that his government is addressing the concerns of farmers over the new farm laws and accused the opposition parties of misguiding them. Modi was speaking after laying foundation stones of a desalination plant, a hybrid renewable energy park, and a fully automated milk processing and packing plant in his home state Gujarat. "Farmers

Kolar, Dec 15: A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against 7,000 unknown people including 5,000 contract workers in connection with violence and vandalism at the facility of Wistron Pvt Ltd, manufacturer of iPhone, at its plant in Kolar, police said. In the FIR, the company stated that it suffered losses of over Rs 437.7 crores during the violence on December 12. Damages have been

Mumbai, Dec 15: The Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday extended time for the privileges committee to submit its report on breach of privilege notices against Republic TV's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and actress Kangana Ranaut till the last day of the next Legislature session. Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik submitted the breach of privilege notices against Goswami and Ranaut to the office of the

Puttur, Dec 15: A senior leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh was killed in a ghastly road mishap at Polya near Kabaka under the limits Puttur Traffic Police Station in Dakshina Kannada district in the early hours of Tuesday, December 15. Venkataramana Holla (59) was the gram vikas pramukh (rural development chief) of the Mangaluru division of RSS. He was a resident of Agrabail near BC Road in

New Delhi, Dec 15: From vaccinating 100-200 people during each session per day, to monitoring them for 30 minutes for any adverse event, using Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network to track beneficiaries, the Central government has released a set of detailed guidelines for the mass vaccination drive, which will commence once the vaccines get emergency use approval form the drug regulator. The Health

London, Dec 14: With several countries including the US and the UK now approving the use of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, cybercriminals have sensed an opportunity to lure people into buying fake remedies on the dark web, said a report from cybersecurity firm Check Point. Researchers at Check Point said they have found a stream of posts on the darknet from sources claiming to have a range of

New Delhi, Dec 14: Tata Group is seeking to board Air India again after nearly seven decades, with the salt-to-software conglomerate set to participate in the bidding process for the national carrier, sources said on Monday. The last date for submission of Expression of Interest (EoI) for Air India is Monday. At present, the Tata group is operating two airlines -- the full service carrier Visatara