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Covid: PM calls Ayurveda & Yoga-based protocol 'commendable'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the National Clinical Management Protocol based on Ayurvada on Yoga, calling it "commendable"

India lifts curbs on export of N95 masks

The Commerce Ministry has lifted the restrictions on export of N95 masks. Post the decision, masks of all categories can be exported from India

Naga group wants peace talks in third country involving PM Modi

The NSCN-IM, which has been negotiating with the government to resolve its decades-old autonomy issues, has demanded the involvement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the talks for faster determination of their demands, insisting that the negotiations be held in a "third country"

India, US affirm Indo-Pacific cooperation

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reviewed on Tuesday the efforts by the two countries to combat the COVID-19 pandemic while stressing the need to work together to advance security in the Indo-Pacific region, according to State Department Deputy Spokesperson Cale Brown

India commits to Quad vision for free, open Indo-Pacific

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, at the Quad consultations in Tokyo on Tuesday reiterated that India was committed to the shared vision of the US, Japan and Australia for a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific

India's daily Covid spike lowest since August

India on Tuesday reported 61,267 fresh infections of the novel Coronavirus, taking the case tally to 66,85,082, health officials said. This is the lowest daily spike since August

Cinema halls to open with 50% occupancy: Minister

With just nine days remaining for the cinema halls across the country to open, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday announced standard operating protocols (SOPs), saying the halls will function with only 50 per cent occupancy

ISRO plans to launch new rocket before Dec 2020

The Indian space agency is working towards launching its new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) before December 2020, said a senior official

PM Modi cautions against weaponisation of AI by 'non-state actors'

Stressing on the significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and India's growing role in the segment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned against weaponisation of AI by "non-state actors"

AMU students win NASA Space App Challenge award

An unintended but welcome consequence of the lockdown to contain the coronavirus has been improved air quality, according to a presentation of ALTAIR, a team of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students led by first-year MBBS student Ayesha Samdani, which won the the Judges Choice Award in the International NASA Space App Challenge-2020 for presenting a solution in response to NASA's challenge, 'One Health Approach'

India's supercomputer PARAM Siddhi-AI to use Nvidia tech

Graphics giant Nvidia on Monday said that India's largest high performance computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer PARAM Siddhi-AI will use its technology along with indigenously developed HPC-AI engine, software frameworks and Cloud platform by the country's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Record 600,000 unemployed youths to take Jammu & Kashmir's biggest government job exam

Around 600,000 unemployed youth in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) are preparing to appear in the Union Territory's (UT) biggest job examination to be conducted by the J&K Services Selection Board (SSB) in late October or November 2020

India successfully tests anti-submarine weapon system

India successfully tested an anti-submarine weapon system developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday, in a boost to its naval warfare capabilities

European rights body calls for probe into human rights violations in India

Maria Arena, the Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, on Monday expressed “great concern” over India’s deteriorating rule of law faced by “marginalised communities, religious minorities, particularly Muslims, a vocal and vibrant civil society and critics of government policies” for a long time

ISRO gearing up for rocket launches with Virtual Launch Control Centre

The Indian space agency ISRO is gearing up for three quick rocket launches carrying domestic and foreign satellites, said a senior official