In Anuppur of Madhya Pradesh, petrol is priced at Rs. 100.25 per litre and diesel at ₹90.35. After Rajasthan, petrol price on Thursday crossed the ₹100 per litre mark in Madhya Pradesh after fuel rates were increased for the tenth day in a row. Petrol price was hiked by 34 paise per litre and diesel by 32 paise, according to a price notification of State-owned fuel retailers. While branded or additive-laced petrol, which attracts higher taxes, had crossed the ₹100-mark in some places in States like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, regular petrol crossed the physiological mark in Sriganganagar town…
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Instacart founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta, Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and U.K.’s Finance Minister Rishi Sunak are among the list Five Indian-origin personalities, including Twitter’s top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and U.K.’s Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, and Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad feature in TIME magazine’s annual list of 100 “emerging leaders who are shaping the future”.The 2021 TIME100 Next, released on Wednesday, is an expansion of TIME’s flagship TIME100 franchise of the most influential people in the world and highlights 100 emerging leaders who are shaping the future.“Everyone on this list is poised to make history. And in…
‘We have disappointed our stakeholders and not met the standards we have set for ourselves,,’ says the Group’s CEO Yuen Kuan Moon Personal information of about 1,29,000 customers of Singapore’s leading telecom company Singtel has been stolen after a recent data breach of a third-party file sharing system, the company said.Singtel, an associate of Bharti Airtel, has completed initial investigations into the breach and established which files on the Accellion file transfer appliance (FTA) were accessed illegally, reported Channel News Asia on Wednesday, citing the company’s news release.Also read: How much does a data breach cost in 2020?Singtel’s Group CEO…
The U.S. is the largest funder of the WHO, contributing more than 15% of its total funds. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that his country would pay the World Health Organization (WHO) $200 million by the end of this month. The announcement is significant as former U.S. President Donald Trump had begun the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO, a process stopped by his successor, President Joe Biden.“Today, I’m pleased to confirm that by the end of the month, the United States intends to pay over 200 million in assessed and current obligations to the WHO,”…
Twitter has permanently suspended the account with the menacing post. A Pakistani Taliban militant who nine years ago is alleged to have shot and badly wounded Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has threatened a second attempt on her life, tweeting that next time, “there would be no mistake.” Twitter on Wednesday permanently suspended the account with the menacing post.The threat prompted Ms. Yousafzai to tweet herself, asking both the Pakistan military and Prime Minister Imran Khan to explain how her alleged shooter, Ehsanullah Ehsan, had escaped from government custody.Ehsan was arrested in 2017, but escaped in January 2020 from a so-called…
The bodies of two minor Dalit girls were found in a field in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao on Wednesday, police said.Three minor girls were found in the field in the evening by the villagers when they did not return after they left their house to bring fodder for the cattle, they said.The villagers informed the police and rushed the girls to a hospital, where two of them were declared brought dead while one was taken to the Unnao hospital for treatment, they said.Superintendent of Police Anand Kulkarni, who reached the spot, said that the two girls have died while the other…
The disengagement between Indian and Chinese troops on the north and south banks of Pangong Tso (lake) would be completed in two or three days, a government official said on Wednesday, stating that much of the withdrawal on both the banks had been completed.Majority of de-induction of troops from the frontline had been completed, and most of the personnel now left there are those involved in logistics and movement, the official said, adding that it was quite a humongous task given the scale of the build-up and the stocking that had been undertaken.No tanksOn the south bank, all tanks and…
India announced a gift of 2,00,000 doses of vaccine to the U.N. Peacekeeping Forces on Wednesday.The announcement was made by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar during his remarks at a U.N. Security Council open debate on the implementation of resolution 2532 (2020), passed last year, noting the impact of COVID-19 globally and calling for the cessation of hostilities around the world to help combat the pandemic. The debate was attended by the Foreign Ministers of UNSC member countries.“Keeping in mind the U.N. Peacekeepers who operate in such difficult circumstances, we would like to announce today a gift of 2,00,000 doses…
Social media is an “uncontrollable medium” with a potential to even destabilise society, but “response” to such a problem should be national in nature and come from Parliament, the Centre argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday.Appearing before a Bench led by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the Delhi Legislature’s Committee on Peace and Harmony may lack the jurisdictional competence to pass recommendations to regulate social media.The Centre was responding to a petition filed by senior Facebook official Ajit Mohan against his summons by the Committee to testify about any role played by social media platforms…
LED floodlights will eliminate shadows, making it easier to spot aerial balls. The newly-installed LED floodlights at the refurbished Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera will eliminate shadows, making it easier to spot the aerial balls during the upcoming day/night Test between India and England, starting February 24.The world’s largest cricket stadium will also have 11 centre strips, which is also unique, along with four dressing rooms with in-built gymnasium, according to Gujarat Cricket Association’s joint secretary Anil Patel.The Motera stadium underwent extensive renovation, which started when current BCCI secretary Jay Shah was in charge of GCA.Tickets for saleWith a seating…