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Curtin has been ranked ninth in Australia and 271st in the world, a rise of 11 places, in the latest global ranking which measures university performance based on scientific impact and collaboration across more than 1000 universities around the world. Curtin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry said she was delighted with the ranking result confirming … Read more

He was joined by Dr. S. Jaishankar, Union Foreign Minister, Hardeep S. Puri, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State, Health & Family Welfare, and Mansukh Mandaviya, Minister of State, Chemical and Fertilizers, & Shipping. Dr. Vinod Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog joined the meeting through video conference link. At the outset, the … Read more

Other high profile speakers participating at the event will include Dr. S. Jaishankar, Union External Affairs Minister, Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Railways, and Commerce & Industry, Lt Gen of JK, GC Murmu, Isha Foundation Founder Sadhguru, Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, along with UK’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and Home Secretary Priti Patel, … Read more

The U.N. chief said it’s too early to fully assess the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on terrorism, but all these groups seek to exploit divisions, local conflicts, failures in governing, and other grievances to advance their aims. Guterres told the launch of United Nations Counter-Terrorism Week that the Islamic State group, which once controlled a … Read more

The country saw over 4,300 news cases and about 230 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the CSSE data showed. The state of New York reported nearly 400,000 COVID-19 cases, reaching 397,131 on Sunday, of which New York City accounted for 216,969 cases, according to state figures. Its governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced … Read more

During the last 24 hours, a total of 14 thousand 856 COVID-19 patients have been cured. Union Health Ministry said, there are over one lakh 64 thousand more recovered patients than COVID-19 active cases. This takes the national recovery rate amongst COVID-19 to 60.77 per cent. The Ministry said, there are over two lakh 44 … Read more

According to a press release issued by the High Commission of India in Bangladesh, the agreement was signed between the  IOC Middle East FZE, Dubai, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and RR Holdings Ltd., Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, the holding company of Beximco LPG of Bangladesh. The Joint Venture Company (JVC) will … Read more

In the meanwhile, Coronavirus registered a fresh high on Monday with 4014 positive cases being reported from the country. Bangladesh also reported 45 deaths and 2053 recoveries over the same period. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), the death toll in the country has gone up to 1783 and the number of … Read more

In the past 24 hours, 12,010 people have recovered from Covid-19 and with this the recovery rate has reached 58.67 per cent. Meanwhile, the Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that one lakh 70 thousand 560 tests of corona virus samples were conducted by the various laboratories in the country within 24 hours. So far, … Read more

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed its new policy would have meant attaching a link on voting information to U.S. President Donald Trump’s post last month about mail-in ballots. Rival Twitter (TWTR.N) had affixed a fact-checking label to that post. Facebook has drawn heat from employees and lawmakers in recent weeks over its decisions not to act … Read more

He said, due to lockdown, many initiatives taken by the Government and a people driven fight, India is much better placed than many other nations. PM Modi said, India’s recovery rate is rising. He said, a people driven fight has given good results so far but we cannot let our guard down.   The Prime Minister … Read more

The flight carrying Sri Lankans from India had arrived on Monday while the flight from US had reached on Tuesday.  With the fresh cases, the total count of COVID cases in the country has risen to 1,991. Out of them, a total of  1,548 have recovered while 432 active cases are currently under medical care. … Read more

In its latest report on children in South Asia released on Tuesday, the UNICEF says that COVID 19 pandemic is unravelling decades of health, education and other advances for children across South Asia. UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia Jean Gough said that the COVID 19 could destroy the hopes and futures of an entire … Read more

The Vivekananda Yoga University (VaYU) was jointly launched on Tuesday by Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on External Affairs P P Chaudhary during a virtual event held at the Consulate General of India in New York.  Eminent Indian yoga guru Dr. H R Nagendra, Chancellor of … Read more

During the last twenty four hours, 10 thousand 495 people have recovered from Covid-19. Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is one lakh 83 thousand 22.  The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said, 15 thousand 968 new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in the last 24 hours taking the … Read more

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, a Russia, India and China (RIC) meeting discussed probable reforms of the United Nations and India is a strong nominee to become a permanent member of the UNSC.   He said, Moscow supports India’s candidacy and believes India can become a full-fledged member of the Security Council. Foreign ministers … Read more

Indian Railways is making an all out effort to supplement the health care efforts of State Governments. Indian Railways has geared up to provide its 5231 Covid Care Coaches to the States. Zonal Railways have converted these coaches as COVID Care Centres to be used for very mild / mild cases. As of now, Indian … Read more

The first solar eclipse of this year takes place on the summer solstice, which is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere. While people living along the path annular eclipse passing through Anupgarh, Suratgarh, Sirsa, Jakhal, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Dehradun, Tapowan and Joshimath will be able to see the annular phase, people in rest of India … Read more

In response to media queries on passing of Constitutional Amendment Bill revising the Coat of Arms of Nepal by the House of Representatives, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said it is violative of current understanding to hold talks on outstanding boundary issues. He said India has noted that the House of Representatives of Nepal … Read more

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kulgam Gurvinder Pal Singh said that a joint team of Kulgam Police, Army’s 19 Rashtriya Rifles and Central Reserve Police Force launched a joint Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) based on a specific input about the presence of terrorists in the area.   He said that as the team of … Read more

The reserves rose to 501.70 billion dollars for the week ended 5th of June, helped by a whopping rise in foreign currency assets. A RBI press release informed that foreign currency assets, a major part of the overall reserves, rose by 8.42 billion dollars to 463.63 billion dollars.    In the previous week, the reserves had … Read more

Ministry of Earth Sciences said, It has been nearly normal advance over most part of the region except northeastern states where it has been delayed by six days. Scattered heavy to very heavy with isolated extremely heavy rainfall is likely over Konkan and Goa.   Isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall over Madhya Maharashtra, Marathawada, … Read more

He will interact with them through video conferencing.   On 16th June, the Prime Minister will interact with 21 States and Union Territories – Punjab, Assam, Kerala, Uttrakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Tripura, Himachal, Chandigarh, Goa, Manipur, Nagaland, Ladakh, Puducherry, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra, Nagar Haveli and Dama & Diu, Sikkim and Lakshadweep. … Read more

The closure of the Xinfadi wholesale market at 3 a.m. local time on Saturday (1900 GMT on Friday), came after two men working at a meat research centre who had recently visited the market were reported on Friday as having been infected by the novel coronavirus. It was not immediately clear how the men had … Read more

The Additional Director General of DGHS Dr. Nasima Sultana told media persons during a virtual briefing on Friday that the death toll in the country has gone up to 1095 while the total number of Corona infected persons is now at 81,523. She said that 15,990 samples were tested in 59 labs across the country … Read more

An order to this effect has been issued today by the acquisition wing of the Ministry, duly approved by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh. It states, “Force Majeure shall be applicable for a period of four months i.e. 25th March 2020 to 24th July 2020.” The order adds, “Duration of this Force Majeure will be … Read more

Shipping activities are lifeline of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, as majority of the development activities are linked to it. To keep the shipping activities alive without any interruption, the ship repair facilities are need to be developed. Due to significant increased ship movements, the existing repairing facilities at Port Blair are being augmented by the … Read more

The advisory sent by Sh Durga Shanker Mishra,  Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’ suggests:-   i. Encourage & Revive Non-Motorised Transport (NMT)-As most of the urban trips are clocked in under five kilometres, NMT offers perfect opportunity to implement in this COVID 19 crisis as it requires low cost, less human resource, easy … Read more

When there is a continuous rise in the number of Covid-19 patients, the recovery rate is also rising. But the Metropolis is always facing different crises along with security issues. Therefore the economic capital of the country is upgrading itself with the help of technology and getting ready to face the crisis in future. Considering … Read more

However, 1875 others were confirmed positive yesterday leading to the total infection climbing to 38,716. Nearly fifteen thousand and five hundred tests have been done in the state on a single day on Thursday. The active cases receiving treatment remain at 17,659. Twenty three patients succumbed to the disease in the last twenty-four hours taking … Read more

A press release issued by the space agency today says that ICC-2020 online competition will involve drawing competition for Class 1 to 3 students, model making competition for Class 4 to 8 and Essay competition for Class 9 and 10th students.   For the students of class 11 and 12, essay competition is organized with … Read more

A bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M R Shah said industries and employees need each other and they should sit together to arrive at a settlement on the issue of payment of wages. The bench asked the state governments to facilitate such settlement process and file its report with the labour … Read more

A health department release said 366 patients were discharged from hospitals in the last 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries to 15,109 in the state. The death toll in the state continued to rise even yesterday. With the death of 38 more patients in the last 24 hours, the death toll in the state … Read more

It was also decided to defer the 10-day annual festival and to conduct it as a mere ritual. Earlier it was decided to open the temple through online reservation. Authorities informed that Sabarimala being a large pilgrim centre where people from different parts of South India congregate in large numbers, the risk involved in throwing … Read more

In a tweet, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, nearly 75 thousand citizens have returned through Vande Bharat Mission flights while around 21 thousand through chartered flights. Over 61 thousand people have returned through land border crossings. Hardeep Singh Puri said, the government continues to bring back stranded and distressed Indian citizens from all … Read more

Mumbai is expecting a generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers. The minimum temperature in the metropolis will be around 26 degrees Celsius and maximum 33 degrees. Chennai will have a generally cloudy sky with light rain. The minimum temperature will be around 28 degrees Celsius and maximum 35 degrees. … Read more

This meeting of the GST council will be for the first time after the nationwide lockdown and the council is expected to discuss the revenue shortfall and the compensation to states. In the last meeting in March, Nirmala Sitharaman had said that the Centre will look into the legality of GST Council borrowing from the … Read more

Dr Bansal,  however, said it is important to undertake preparedness and mitigation measures to reduce the earthquake risk. Speaking at a meeting convened by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in New Delhi, Dr Bansal said given the seismic history of Delhi and its vicinity, the occurrence of minor earthquakes in Delhi-NCR is not unusual. … Read more