In focus, 5th Oct 2021, News & Stories from India

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05 Oct 2021

In focus, 05 Oct 2021

US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models and the understanding of physical systems. (Photo:AP)

Nobel Physics Prize honours climate work

US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models

05 Oct 2021 10:40 PM

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Dr. Adarsh Tripathi Is Your Best Hope Against Hair Loss!

If you face hair loss at 25, get a hair transplant then; if you face it when you’re 60, get it then

05 Oct 2021 9:24 PM

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Gaming Laptop Vs Gaming Desktops - Which one should I Buy?

Usually, gaming laptops have a maximum storage capacity of 512 GB or 1 TB to choose from

05 Oct 2021 9:20 PM

Earlier in August, in a filing to BSE, Cadila Healthcare had said that it plans to seek approval for the two dose regimen of the vaccine. (Representational Image: ANI)

Cadila Healthcare gets DCGI nod to conduct phase 3 trials for two-dose COVID vaccine

The company has got the permission for conduct of phase III trials for two-dose Covid vaccine, Cadila Healthcare said in a regulatory filing

05 Oct 2021 5:22 PM

The second half of the prize was awarded to Giorgio Parisi for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. (AP File)

Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for climate discoveries

The winners were announced Tuesday by Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

05 Oct 2021 4:59 PM

The cache of almost 12 million files shows how wealthy people around the world reportedly set up offshore companies to buy property and avoid taxes. (Representational Image)

'Pandora papers' show London is a key hub for tax avoidance

Treasury chief Rishi Sunak said Britain's tax authorities will inspect the Pandora Papers

05 Oct 2021 4:57 PM

Earlier on Monday, the Uttar Pradesh government has urged Lucknow airport not to allow Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder S Randhawa to land at the airport ahead of their scheduled visit to Lakhimpur Kheri yesterday. (ANI Photo)

Chhattisgarh CM Baghel claims he is not being allowed to leave Lucknow airport

Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel had earlier said that he will visit Lakhimpur Kheri where eight people lost their lives on Sunday

05 Oct 2021 3:34 PM

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been detained in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur while on her way to visit violence-hit Lakhimpur district, speaks to the media virtually. (PTI Photo)

Lakhimpur violence: Priyanka Gandhi says detained beyond 24 hours without FIR

Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders have been in detention beyond 24 hours and a drone camera is monitoring her

05 Oct 2021 3:30 PM

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan leaves for hospital from Narcotics Control Bureau's office, in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

No permission taken for cruise ship party: Mumbai Police

As per Mumbai Police sources, the matter comes under Yellow Gate police station's jurisdiction

05 Oct 2021 2:52 PM

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve, left, hands copies of the report to Catholic Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops' Conference of France (CEF), during the publishing of a report by an independant commission into sexual abuse by church officials (Ciase), Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Paris. A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon. (AP)

330,000 children victims of church sex abuse: French report

About 80% of the victims were boys, as per the 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission

05 Oct 2021 2:45 PM

In this photo, a nurse reaches for a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a pop up vaccine clinic. (Photo: AFP/File)

Pfizer vaccine highly effective against Covid hospitalisations for six months: Study

The study underscores the importance of improving COVID-19 vaccination rates worldwide

05 Oct 2021 1:24 PM

Twitter Inc.’s network stayed online, with Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey tweeting his endorsement of Signal as a suitable WhatsApp alternative and amplifying Snowden’s urging of his followers to move away from the Facebook-owned app. (Bloomberg)

Millions flock to Signal and Telegram after Facebook outage

Signal’s focus on privacy has made it a favorite for secure communications

05 Oct 2021 11:28 AM

A health worker prepares a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus, at a vaccination centre in Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai. (Photo: AFP)

India records 18,346 new daily cases of Covid, lowest rise in 209 days

Of the 263 deaths in the last 24 hours, as many as 149 deaths were from Kerala

05 Oct 2021 10:10 AM

Facebook says outage caused because of 'faulty configuration change'

The company apologized and said it is working to understand more about the cause

05 Oct 2021 9:56 AM

Several states which had declared 100 per cent ODF in March 2018 were found by the survey conducted six months later to not have achieved this. (Photo: Twitter/@Swachh_Jalaun)

Aakar Patel | Why focus on sanitation is essential for a cleaner India

This focus on littering and rubbish is what separates Swachh Bharat from the two other programmes for sanitation that were run earlier

05 Oct 2021 7:54 AM

A few days ago a Supreme Court bench gave expression to its ire during the mentioning hour in the morning when a senior advocate sought to mention the case of a corporate entity for an early hearing. (Photo: PTI/File)

Mohan Guruswamy | What makes elite think that they are smarter?

The CJI’s observation comes against the backdrop of considerable difficulties being faced by litigants and many lawyers

05 Oct 2021 7:42 AM

Union Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Poultry Minister Parshottam Rupala. (Photo: File)

Govt plans to slap higher penalty for cruelty against animals

The ministry will take the Cabinet approval and place the draft bill in the next Parliament session

05 Oct 2021 12:25 AM

Farmers shout slogans as they burn an effigy of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a protest in Amritsar on October 4, 2021, a day after clashes involving farmers who were protesting against the agricultural reforms at Lakhimpur in Uttar Pradesh in which at least nine people were killed. (Photo: AFP)

Apex court to decide: If case is in SC, can protest go on?

The court asked the Centre to give a 'comprehensive reply' to the Kisan Mahapanchayat challenging the farm laws

05 Oct 2021 12:09 AM

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