Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli. KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Election Commission has advised the government led by embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to conduct the mid-term elections slated for November 12 and 19 in a single phase to prevent the further spread of coronavirus infections during electioneering. After a meeting with Prime Minister … Read more
Cheetah, the world’s fastest land animal which was declared extinct in India in 1952, is expected to be re-introduced into the country in November this year at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, state Forest Minister Vijay Shah said on Sunday. The country’s last spotted cheetah died in Chhattisgarh in 1947 and it was … Read more
Image Source : FILE PHOTO Nepal’s President dissolved the House of Representatives on Saturday for the second time in five months and announced snap elections in November. Nepal’s President dissolved the House of Representatives on Saturday for the second time in five months and announced snap elections in November, rejecting both embattled Prime Minister KP … Read more
Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari today dissolved the Parliament. (File Photo) Nepal plunged into fresh political turmoil on Saturday as President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved parliament and fixed general elections in November amid a worsening COVID-19 outbreak. The surprise announcement comes after a presidential statement said neither the caretaker Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, nor … Read more
IPL 2021: India’s Big Guns & Other Possible World T20 Squad Struggled In The IPL A window will be created later in the year to finish the prestigious league. But given India’s hectic international commitments, it will be a difficult proposition to find a four-week period – the time needed to finish the remainder of … Read more
Sony in its annual earnings report for FY2020 on Wednesday announced that it has sold a total of 7.8 million units of its PlayStation 5 console since its launch in November last year. In comparison, the Japanese technology company sold 5.7 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide in the entire financial year. It also said that … Read more
Months before a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, a parliamentary panel in November last year had suggested the Centre to augment hospital beds and oxygen production while flagging the “new normal” wherein patients were being turned away from hospitals due to lack of vacant beds. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health, … Read more
India added 90,797 cases of coronavirus in two days with 46,951 new infections being recorded in a span of 24 hours, the highest so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to1,16,46,081, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday Registering an increase for the 12th day in a row, the total … Read more
PARIS: French Prime Minister Jean Castex told Parliament on Tuesday that France had entered a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, as the seven-day average of new cases rose above 25,000 for the first time since Nov. 20. French health authorities reported 29,975 new cases on Tuesday, a 4.5% jump versus last Tuesday’s total and … Read more
NEW DELHI: A stitch in time saved India a major power outage and disruption in economic activities. Government insiders said additional safeguards were deployed as early as November to protect the national power grid from hacking, possibly by Chinese state-backed hackers. A New York Times report on Sunday cited a study by Recorded Future, a … Read more