Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:11:28
Mangaluru: With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) virus spreading to more countries and two more confirmed cases reported in India, the seaport and airport here have been put under high alert, officials said on Tuesday.
Dakshina Kannada district is particularly under surveillance as three confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported from neighbouring Kerala earlier.
All the three were dischar
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 19:07:20
New Delhi: Chandrayaan-3 will be launched in the first half of 2021, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, indicating that there could be a slight delay in the launch of the third moon mission.
In written response to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Singh said four biological and two physical science experiments related to microgravity will be conducted d
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:46:33
New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) The government on Wednesday launched the second phase of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen), which has a total outlay of Rs 1,40,881 crore and is aimed at ensuring effective solid and liquid waste management in every panchayat.
SBM (G) Phase-II will focus on sustaining the gains made in the first phase of the programme in the past five years in terms of toilet access and usa
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:44:36
Tehran, Mar 4 (AP) Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 92 people amid 2,922 confirmed cases across the Islamic Republic.
Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced the new figures at a news conference Wednesday in Tehran.
There are now over 3,140 cases of the new virus across the Mideast. Of those outside Iran in the region, most link back to the Islamic Republic.
The
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:40:41
New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) The government on Wednesday cleared more amendments to the companies law, including decriminalising various offences.
As many as 72 changes to the Companies Act 2013 have been approved by the Cabinet.
Briefing reporters, Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the priority is to "decriminalise" provisions in the Act.
Sitharaman, who is also the Financ
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:38:28
New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) Seventeen Indians have been infected with coronavirus abroad, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Wednesday.
Responding to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said 16 cases were reported from Japan on the cruise ship and one from the UAE.
He further said that the government evacuated a total of 766 persons -- 7
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:35:38
Gandhinagar, Mar 4 (PTI) Congress MLAs on Wednesday
staged a brief walkout from the Gujarat Assembly in protest against the Speaker's decision to curtail a discussion on crop insurance following "disturbance" created by a party MLA.
Unhappy over Speaker Rajendra Trivedi's decision to cut short the reply of Agriculture Minister R C Faldu on a query regarding pending crop insurance disbursemen
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:33:55
New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) The Supreme Court Wednesday allowed a batch of pleas challenging RBI's circular of 2018 which had prohibited banks and financial institutions from providing services related to Cryptocurrencies.
Cryptocurrencies are digital or virtual currencies in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of their units and verify the transfer of funds, operating in
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Wed, 04 Mar 2020 18:28:52
BENGALURU: As many as 6,80,498 candidates will be appearing for this year’s second year Pre-University examinations from March 4, Wednesday. 5,61,530 are fresh candidates and the remaining are repeaters. History, Physics and Basic Maths paper will be conducted on Day 1, followed by Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, French, Arabic and Marathi on March 5, Thursday.
In an open letter to students, Minister
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