Month: August 2021

Tamilnadu today registered 1,512 new Covid-19 cases, and the total number of infections has touched 26,14,872.

Chief Minister M K Stalin today issued a warning that strict action will be taken against those who sell banned gutkha near educational institutions.

AIADMK MLAs including Deputy Leader of Opposition and the party’s coordinator O Panneerselvam were detained by the police today for staging a protest near Kalaivanar Arangam, where Assembly session was being held, against the merger of Dr J Jayalalithaa University with Annamalai University.

Indian shooter Singhraj Adana won the bronze medal in the men’s 10m air pistol SH1 class at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics today.

In a shocking incident, a 47-year-old woman, who suffered severe burns after she was attacked with acid by her husband, died here this morning.

China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as spiritual opium.

Kabul: Backtracking from its assurances to respect women’s rights in Afghanistan, the Taliban, who are set to form a new government in the war-ravaged country, have announced a ban on coeducation.

A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which cause Covid-19, has been detected in South Africa and many other countries globally which could be more transmissible and evade protection provided by vaccines, according to study.

As millions of children return to school for the new academic session, vaccinating teachers and other school staff against Covid-19 disease can help make schools a safe place against the infectious disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef said.