Day: January 8, 2022

Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan has tested positive for Coronavirus.

IIM students and faculty wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over intolerance, religion and caste based violence and the recent hate speeches.

A lunchtime explosion at an office cafeteria killed 16 people in southwest China on Friday and injured 10 others, authorities said.

A winter storm stretching from the US states of Maine to Virginia has blanketed large parts of the East Coast, causing school closures, power outages and flight cancellations, and particularly leading the governors of New Jersey and Virginia to declare a state of emergency.

Amid an ongoing resurgence across the world, the global coronavirus caseload has topped 302.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.47 million and vaccinations to over 9.37 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

One of Asia’s life insurance giants, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), closed December 2021 with about 20 per cent decline in new premium as compared to the premium earned during the corresponding period of 2020.

Xiaomi India has launched another series of ‘premium’ smartphones – 11i HyperCharge with 120W HyperCharge technology and Xiaomi 11i with 67W Turbocharge technology.

The year 2022 is slated to be the biggest year for Skoda Auto India ever since its entry into the Indian market in 2001, said the carmaker.

With 1,41,986 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 3,53,68,372 today.  Also, the Omicron variant tally touched 3,071 spreading across 27 States and Union Territories.

Expressing concerns over the starvation level in Afghanistan, the World Food Programme has said the organisation needs up to USD 2.6 billion to provide food to Afghan people.