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Chennai, Sep 6 : The fire in the burning oil tanker ‘New Diamond’ with about 3,00,000 tonnes of crude oil for Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) was doused on Sunday and the situation is being monitored to prevent any reignition, said an Indian Coast Guard…

Hyderabad, Sep 6 : A start-up company incubated at the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has won a US-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF) ignition grant for its “Novel therapeutic strategy to fight against Covid-19”.The proposal by Nove…

Varanasi (UP), Sep 6 : Two alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University have developed a pregnancy health app that aims to help pregnant women, earning accolades in the process.Developers Ravi Teja and Mayur Dhurpate named th…

New Delhi, Sep 6 : After the complaint of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) over his allegedly “threatening and torturing a girl child through Twitter”, the Delhi Police Cyber Cell and the Raipur Police have filed FIRs un…

Shimla, Sep 6 : Hundreds of primary students living in tiny hamlets of the picturesque Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh have been introduced to a whole new world through picture and story books, courtesy a Delhi-based NGO, to pique their curiosity an…

New Delhi, Sep 6 : AIIMS researchers have sounded a note of caution after finding the presence of malarial parasite ‘Plasmodium knowlesi’ in the north Indian population, while doing a study on patients with Acute Febrile Illnesses (AFI) and pathogens…

Mumbai, Sep 5 : For the fourth consecutive day, Maharashtra’s daily Covid-19 tally jumped to a new high of 20,489, surpassing the previous peak of 19,218 recorded on Friday, while 312 fatalities took the state’s death toll past the 26K-mark, health o…

Srinagar, Sep 5 : Yeshi Tenzin, father of a soldier who was injured in a landmine blast along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on the night of August 30, said that he wants his son to recover and return to his battalion at the LAC.Tenzin Loden from t…

Mumbai, Sep 5 : A notorious criminal wanted in connection with several major crimes, including the murder of a BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh, has been nabbed from Mumbai suburbs where he was quietly engaged in selling fruits, the police said here on …

New Delhi, Sep 5 : Although the “pace was slow due to Covid-19 pandemic”, a review report submitted to the Central government asserted that North India’s first Biotech Industrial Park project in Jammu and Kashmir will be ready by the end of February…