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From Ballia to US, with Rs 1.6 crore salary package

Pokhra, a small village in Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, is still counting the zeroes. Animesh Anand, son of Prakash Mishra, a school teacher, has bagged a Rs 1.6 crore (over 217,000 USD) annual package with McKinsey & Company in the United States

Supreme Court no to Muharram processions

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined permission to hold Muharram processions across the country during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

India churning out highest daily Covid cases in the world

India has been reporting the highest number of daily coronavirus cases in the world from the last three weeks, putting it ahead of the US and Brazil

78% Indian parents willing for children to lose a year of schooling: Survey

At least 78 per cent of Indian parents are unwilling to send their wards to school immediately post lockdown, even if that entails repeating an academic year, a new survey said on Thursday

Rs 10L was put in two Pakistani bank a/cs of Jaish's Umar Farooq for Pulwama attack: India's NIA

The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists and their commanders in Pakistan had deposited Rs 10 lakh of Pakistani currency amount in the bank account of Mohammad Umar Farooq, son of IC 814 Indian Airlines hijacking case conspirator Ibrahim Athar, for carrying out the Pulwama terror attack

COVID-19: Phase II trial of Oxford vaccine begins in India

The Phase II clinical trial of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, Covishield, began on Wednesday

16 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members get bail

The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to 16 Tablighi Jamaat members, who are foreign nationals and were allegedly hiding in Prayagraj during nationwide lockdown

Pulwama attack: JeM ultras wanted to make, misuse videos of mutilated bodies to motivate Kashmiri youth

Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists had asked their handlers in Pakistan to prepare videos of the Pulwama terror attack that showed mutilated bodies of Indian soldiers to motivate Kashmiri youths to join militant ranks against India

India's Covid tally crosses 32L, toll nears 60,000

With 67,151 fresh coronavirus infections in 24 hours, India's tally mounted to 32,34,474 on Wednesday, while the death toll climbed to 59,449 with 1,059 more fatalities, said the Health Ministry

Dentists feel the pain of Covid, with many shutting down practice

Indian dentists are feeling the pain of COVID-19-induced setback to their practice

Low possibility of COVID-19 infection from air travel: Indian official

The possibility of getting an in-flight COVID-19 infection is negligible, as borne out by empirical data, a senior Civil Aviation Ministry official said

Ex-President Pranab Mukherjee in deep coma

Former President Pranab Mukherjee is in a deep coma and on ventilator support, the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi said on Wednesday

Decoding India's epic: Now leadership lessons from The Ramayana School

A new EdTech has taken shape, teaching life-skills through Ramayana and other Indian epics in the form of The Ramayana School which marks a new paradigm in online education

JeM's Azhar, brothers gave directions to terrorists for Pulwama attack: NIA

The chief of Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad, Maulana Masood Azhar, along with his brothers Abdul Rauf Asghar and Ammar Alvi, was continuously giving directions and guidance to the Pakistani JeM terrorists who had infiltrated into India, both before and after the 2019 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 Indian paramilitary troopers from the CRPF were killed

Kashmir based trust money-laundered cash from Pakistan: ED

Funding of terror activities on Indian soil unearthed in 2011 was organised by a trust named Jammu and Kashmir Affectees Relief Trust (JKART) that was operating in connivance with Pakistan and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and the funds were sent to India through hawala (money-laundering) channel, barter traders and human carriers