Hyderabad, Aug 21: Nine people died in a fire mishap in the Srisailam hydroelectric plant on the Telangana-Andhra Pradesh border on Friday, a senior government official said.

New Delhi, Aug 21: Voters will be provided with gloves to press the EVM button and COVID-19 patients in quarantine will be allowed to vote at the last hour of the polling day, according to broad guidelines issued by the EC on Friday for holding elections during the coronavirus pandemic.

Bengaluru, Aug 21: The mother of Karnataka Health Minister B Sriramulu died in Ballari district, a day after she recovered from coronavirus, he said on Friday.

Bengaluru, Aug 21: Karnataka Common Entrance Test (CET) results for engineering courses, naturopathy, veterinary, agriculture and pharmacy programmes in various colleges in the state were announced on Friday.

New Delhi/Alappuzha, Aug 21: A video conferencing software developed by a company led by a Malayali is ready for India.

Kasargod, Aug 21: A 32-year-old woman and her 6-year-old son were electrocuted to death when they came in contact with the live electricity wire which was lying on the ground after getting snapped under the limits of Manjeshwar police station in Kasaragod district.

Tokyo, Aug 21: A recent poll shows that more than half of Japanese companies want the Tokyo Olympic Games to be cancelled or postponed again.

Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Thursday that in the online survey by Tokyo Shoko Research covering 12,857 companies, 27.8 % want the Tokyo Games to be cancelled while 25.8%said the sporting event should be postponed again.

That means a combined 53.6 % of the responding firms are against holding the games from July 23 to August 8, 2021, writes Xinhua news agency.

Mangaluru, Aug 21: The intention behind the lone accused in the recent case of hoax bomb call to Mangaluru International Airport was publicity, according to Police commissioner Vikash Kumar Vikash.

New Delhi, Aug 21: It is one year since India's second moon spacecraft Chandrayaan-2 was inserted into the lunar orbit, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday.

The Indian space agency said Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft/orbiter was launched on July 22, 2019 and inserted into lunar orbit on August 20, 2019.

Though the soft-landing attempt of the lander Vikram was not successful, the orbiter, which was equipped with eight scientific instruments, was successfully placed in lunar orbit.

Dubai, Aug 21: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will establish an embassy in Tel Aviv, its Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash said Thursday at a video conference with US-based Atlantic Council think-tank, Anadolu Agency reported.