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2019 Pulwama attack: NIA names JeM chief Azhar, brothers in chargesheet

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its chargesheet, in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack case that took India and Pakistan to the brink of war, has named Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar, his brothers Abdul Rauf Asghar and Ammar Alvi, slain JeM terrorist Mohammad Umar Farooq, suicide bomber Adil Ahmed Dar and other terrorist commanders operating from Pakistan

Narora joins select club of Indian nuclear power plants

The second 220 MW unit at the Narora Atomic Power Station (NAPS) in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday completed 731 days of continuous safe operation, India's atomic power plant operator NPCIL said on Tuesday

Ladakh's remote Nubra, Zanskar valleys to get connected to national power grid

As part of efforts to boost infrastructure in the remote Ladakh region, the government has started work on a Rs 1,200 crore project to connect the northernmost tip of the country - the Nubra valley and highly remote central area - the Zanskar valley, with the national power grid

Coronavirus rages in south India, experts say states 'nearing peak'

After unleashing its fury across the country, the coronavirus pandemic has now waned over northern India and instead cast its shadow on the southern states, with health experts claiming that Kerala could be starting on its second wave while Tamil Nadu successfully passed its peak

India's longest river ropeway service launched in Guwahati

India's longest river ropeway of 1.82 km over the Brahmaputra river in Assam was inaugurated on Monday. It is expected to boost tourism in the region

62% Indian parents will not send children to school even if they reopen

A survey has found that 62 percent of Indian parents will not be sending their children to school even if they are reopened on government's orders on September 1

Twelve yrs after 26/11, youngest survivor seeks promised aid

A nine-year-old girl, who was shot in her leg during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 and dreamt of becoming a police officer to crush terrorism, is now running from pillar to post for sheer survival

India to have coronavirus vaccine by 2020 end: Health Minister

India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan has said that the country will have a vaccine against the coronavirus by the end of the year

Saudi Aramco remains interested in India investment plan

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil company, remains committed on its investment plan in India, including a $15 billion deal with Reliance Industries, even though COVID-19 pandemic has made life difficult for oil companies with suppressed demand and falling oil prices and wide-scale erosion in valuations

Covid-hit demand, low prices cut India's oil import bill 58%

In the oil sector, the global health emergency posed by the spread of the novel coronavirus is coming to India's advantage

Indian economy faces rising risk of stagflation

India's economy which is already reeling under immense turbulence unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic, now faces an ever-increasing risk of stagflation, experts opined

Indian health experts back blood plasma therapy to treat COVID-19

After reports that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has put on hold the emergency use authorisation of blood plasma therapy to treat severely ill COVID-19 patients, health experts in India on Friday stressed that the therapy should not be abandoned till the development of an effective vaccine against the virus

COVID-19: Tibetan medicine 'proving effective' in fight

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has claimed that SORIG immune boosters are proving to be highly effective in the fight against COVID-19

Low-indoor air humidity increases COVID-19 spread: Indo-German study

An Indo-German team of scientists has found that the airborne transmission of COVID-19 virus via aerosol particles in the indoor environment seems to be strongly influenced by relative humidity

Nine trapped in Telangana power station blaze dead

All nine persons trapped after a huge fire at an underground hydroelectric power station in Telangana were killed, officials said on Friday