Top Stories

Udupi, Feb 12: Rashmi Samant, an alumna of Manipal Institute of Technology, created history by winning the prestigious position of Oxford Student Union Presidency on Thursday. Samant is the first Indian woman to occupy the position of president of the Oxford Student Union. Samant bagged more than the combined votes of the other three contestants for the post. Samant is a student of MSc in energy

Mangaluru, Feb 12: A youth lost his life after falling off a building near Bejai in Mangaluru city this evening. According to reports, the victim was a cleaning staff working for a contracting company. It is learnt that after finishing his work on the balcony of the 7th floor of the building, he was about to get down when he slipped and fell to his death. Details are awaited.

New Delhi, Feb 12: Karnataka - which is expected to have a debt of over Rs 4 lakh crore at the end of this fiscal year - will become a revenue deficit state if the Centre does not extend the GST compensation period, Congress MP G C Chandrashekar said on Friday in the Rajya Sabha. 6Participating in a debate on Budget 2021, Chandrashekar pointed out that the GST compensation provided to Karnataka

Bengaluru, Feb 12: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Friday asked police officials to be polite and considerate to complainants approaching police stations. "I have a piece of advice to the senior officials that people visiting the police station should be treated with utmost respect and humility. Listen to their grievances and address them sincerely, Yediyurappa told reporters after

Jerusalem, Feb 12: The majority of the people can produce neutralising antibodies against the novel coronavirus in severe cases of Covid-19, according to a study that supports the use of combination antibody therapy to prevent and treat the disease. The researchers noted that neutralising antibodies that specifically target the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein -- which

Mumbai, Feb 12: The Bombay High Court hearing the TRP scam case on Friday extended till March 5 the interim protection against coercive action granted to journalist Arnab Goswami and other employees of ARG Outlier Media that runs Republic TV channels. The interim relief was extended after the high court adjourned the hearing on ARG's plea challenging the investigation of Mumbai police in the TRP

Varanasi, Feb 12: Police in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi had booked Google CEO Sundar Pichai and 17 others last week over a video that allegedly defamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi but later removed the tech giant officials' names from the FIR, police officials said on Friday. The names of Pichai and three other Google top officials were removed after they were found “not involved” in the case, a

Tejashwi Yadav, leader of the Opposition in the Bihar Assembly, on Friday demanded an impartial probe into media reports that alleged massive fudging of data in the state over the last six months to prove that “Bihar was testing highest in the country and the pandemic was not alarming in the state”. The RJD leader took to microblogging site and tweeted a national daily report which said that

Thakurnagar, Feb 11: Union home minister Amit Shah Thursday said the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the CAA, including to the Matua community of West Bengal, will begin once the process of Covid vaccination has ended. Accusing the opposition parties of misleading the minorities about the Citizenship (amendment) Act, he said its implementation will not impact the

New Delhi, Feb 11: Former High Commissioner to Canada Vishnu Prakash on Thursday slammed the World Health Organisation (WHO) for investigating the origins of coronavirus in China after 14-15 months of the incident. Speaking to media in an interview, the former envoy said that he is "not inspired by the WHO findings under the present dispensation" and especially due to its track record amid the