Australian scientists are developing the country’s first satellite designed to predict where bushfires are likely to start, following months of devastating fires.
Author: PTI
The race to win the Democratic presidential nomination in the US has narrowed down to a two-way race between former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders as the two leaders clinched major victories during the ‘Super Tuesday’ primaries, the most important day in the fight for the White House.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s example, BJP president J P Nadda and Home Minister Amit Shah today said they will not celebrate Holi or hold any Holi Milan function in view of the coronavirus outbreak.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today said,”28 positive cases of corona virus have been detected so far in India and announced that all international flights and passengers will now have to undergo screening, and not just the 12 countries listed earlier”.
“Apart from strengthening its conventional prowess, India is focusing on a dynamic response along its western and northern borders that is below the threshold of an all-out war,” Army chief Gen M M Naravane said today at a seminar .
A week after the communal violence in northeast Delhi, the residents are slowly picking up the pieces as the government’s relief and rehabilitation measures have kicked in amid tight vigil by security forces.
The Delhi High Court today declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to assess the mental and physical health of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case.
Lok Sabha witnessed repeated disruptions today amid Opposition protests over Delhi violence even as the government maintained that the matter will be discussed next week in the House.
Tornadoes ripped through Tennessee early Tuesday, leaving at least 25 people dead, destroying buildings and toppling power lines hours before the southern US state voted in Super Tuesday primaries.