December 11, 2021

A day before protesting farmers head home on December 11, preparations to leave behind the sprawling Singhu border protest site after more than a year were overwrought with emotion. Ever since the protest site came up at Delhi’s border…

Winters are the perfect time to take a step away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, and explore new destinations. While the Covid-19 pandemic halted travel plans for quite some time, more and more places are now opening up and…

To lose weight, many people switch to having juices and smoothies instead of proper meals. While that may seem the best way to lose extra kilos, it may not be the sustainable one, said nutrition consultant Ruchi Sharma. On her Instagram…

MUMBAI: Composer and singer Anu Malik has recalled how he was invited by late singer Kishore Kumar to his house on 'The Kapil Sharma Show'. Talking about how lucky he felt when he visited Kishore Kumar's house, Anu Malik shares: "I am…

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued an order to re-verify the SIM of subscribers holding beyond nine connections across India, six connections in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, North East and Assam, and to…

NEW DELHI: Edtech major Byju's on Friday said it has appointed former Bain & Company Partner Rachna Bahadur as the Senior Vice President to lead its global expansion plans. In this role, Bahadur will lead the overall planning,…

NEW DELHI: Paytm payments Bank on Thursday said it has been given the scheduled bank status by the Reserve Bank of India.“The inclusion of Paytm Payments Bank in the second schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, will help us…

NEW DELHI: The chief executive officer (CEO) of mortgage lender Better.com has apologised for the way he handled layoffs at the company after a video of him firing 900 people last week in a three-minute long Zoom call went viral on social…

NEW DELHI: Private bank IndusInd Bank on Friday said the RBI has given approval to Life Insurance Corporation to increase stake in the bank to nearly 10 percent. The bank has received an intimation from the RBI on December 9, 2021, that…

Three-time champion shuttler Carolina Marin’s much-awaited return to competitive action got further delayed as she pulled out of the World Championship after failing to regain fitness following a knee injury. The Rio Olympics gold…

Cricket’s bid for an Olympic spot received a jolt when it was excluded from the provisional list of 28 sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, along with three other sports, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Cricket, which has…

The al-Qaeda extremist group has grown slightly inside Afghanistan since US forces left in late August, and the country’s new Taliban leaders are divided over whether to fulfill their 2020 pledge to break ties with the group, the top US…

The Pakistani Taliban said Thursday they will not extend a cease-fire agreed to last month, accusing the government in Islamabad of not honoring the truce and failing to release 102 of their fighters. The militant group, also known as…

With several countries in Europe reporting a new surge in Covid-19 cases and Omicron emerging as a highly transmissible variant, the government warned Friday that India has “entered the danger zone” with mask usage in the country dropping…

Stockholm, Dec 10: For the second time in a row, the Nobel Prize award ceremony was streamed online on Friday from Stockholm's City Hall due to the coronavirus pandemic. The laureates received their awards respectively at their homes,…

Oslo, Dec 10: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa and Russian Journalist Dmitry Muratov received their Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo City Hall in Norway on Friday. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded them this year's Nobel Peace Prize for…

Washington, Dec 11: The Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund donors today agreed to provide $280 million to UNICEF and the World Food Program by the end of December to address humanitarian issues, the World Bank said. "The Afghanistan…

New Delhi, Dec 10: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Friday the matter of compensation to farmers who died during the year long farmers' protests was with the state governments, and said no one was killed in police action…

Srinagar, Dec 10 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party on Friday announced a 13-member Political Affairs Committee which will be headed by its president Altaf Bukhari. The announcement was made by the Party after thorough deliberations in…