In focus, 6th Sep 2021, News & Stories from India

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06 Sep 2021

In focus, 06 Sep 2021

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The top three reasons our clients say that they are looking to move countries are for children, better life & religious freedom

06 Sep 2021 10:09 PM

The feature will be made available to Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and Nonprofits customers. (AP Photo)

Google Calendar to show how much time you have spent in meetings

Interestingly, the feature will only be visible to a user, and not their manager, according to Google

06 Sep 2021 3:23 PM

People walk on the beach in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo: AP)

COVID lockdown to be lifted across New Zealand, except Auckland

The nation has been battling an outbreak of the delta variant of the coronavirus since last month

06 Sep 2021 2:52 PM

Mmilitary personnel work onboard the C-17 aircraft after landing at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, England, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. (Photo: AP)

Britain looking carefully at suicides among Afghan veterans

Britain lost 457 armed forces personnel in Afghanistan, or 13 percent of the international military coalition's 3,500 fatalities since 2001

06 Sep 2021 2:40 PM

Chandrayaan-2, aimed at landing a rover on unchartered Lunar South Pole, was launched on July 22, 2019. (PTI file image)

ISRO releases Chandrayaan-2 data as spacecraft completes 2 years in lunar orbit

Chandrayaan-2 data product and science documents were released by Sivan, along with data from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter payloads

06 Sep 2021 2:34 PM

Sidharth died of a heart attack on September 2. (Photo: Twitter/File)

Bigg Boss OTT pays tribute to Sidharth Shukla

The tribute showcased a video montage of several love-filled moments that Sidharth spent in the Bigg Boss house

06 Sep 2021 1:43 PM

A nurse prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the Cecilia Rivadeneira Foundation in Quito. (Photo: AFP/File)

80 per cent COVID-19 immunity lost in 6 months in some after Pfizer shot: US study

The research studied blood samples of 120 nursing home residents and 92 health care workers

06 Sep 2021 12:15 PM

Abhishek Banerjee represents the Diamond Harbour seat of West Bengal in the Lok Sabha. (Photo: PTI)

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee appears before ED in money laundering case

Banerjee, 33, arrived at the office of the central agency at Jam Nagar house in central Delhi just before 11 AM

06 Sep 2021 11:41 AM

In this Aug. 25, 2021, file photo, armored vehicles are seen in Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo: AP)

Taliban say resistance holdout Panjshir Valley 'completely captured'

The Panjshir Valley is famed for being the site of resistance to Soviet forces in the 1980s and the Taliban in the late 1990s

06 Sep 2021 10:57 AM

A health worker inoculates a woman with the jab of Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a branch of State Bank of India in Siliguri. (Photo: AFP)

India logs 38,948 fresh Covid cases, lowest fatalities reported in 167 days

The death toll climbed to 4,40,752 with 219 fresh fatalities

06 Sep 2021 10:13 AM

Health workers bury the body of a 12-year-old Nipah virus victim, at Kannamparambu cemetery in Kozhikode. (Photo: PTI)

Nipah death in Kerala: Centre rushes experts

The Centre has rushed a team of the NCDC, which will provide technical support to the state

06 Sep 2021 7:45 AM

An artisan paints to give finishing touches to a clay idol of Ganesha ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Bangalore on September 4, 2021. (Manjunath Kiran / AFP)

Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations in districts with Covid rate below 2% in Karnataka

As per order, the night curfew will continue in the state even during the celebration period

06 Sep 2021 4:22 AM

The Chief Minister said that teachers who encourage children to ask questions are genuine teachers. (ANI)

Karnataka to recruit 5,000 teachers this year, says CM Basavaraj Bommai

On the occasion of Teacher's Day, Bommai was addressing the Best Teachers Awards programme at Banquet Hall in Vidhana Soudha

06 Sep 2021 3:27 AM

Friends and foes, allies and adversaries, just about everyone is criticising the US President either for his decision to pull American troops out of Afghanistan or for the way in which it was done. (AFP)

Sanjaya Baru | The ‘Biden Doctrine’ for a New America

Mr Biden’s Budget proposals seek to increase public investment across the board

06 Sep 2021 3:19 AM

Bommai said agriculture universities must successfully grow the plant variety, which are researched in the agriculture fields. (PTI)

Lay emphasis on harvest management: CM Bommai

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said efforts will be made to get better prices for the crops grown by the farmers

06 Sep 2021 3:09 AM

DMK, allies to hold black flag stir on Sep 20 in Tamil Nadu

The move is part of the proposed nation-wide joint agitation of the Opposition parties between September 20 and 30

06 Sep 2021 2:51 AM

KPCC president K Sudhakaran said use of 'sir' and 'madam' were remnants of the British colonial rule and were therefore, undemocratic. (DC Image)

Use of 'sir', 'madam' will be banned in all Cong ruled panchayats: KPCC president

DCC presidents of the 14 districts have been instructed to lead the efforts to bring about this change in the state

06 Sep 2021 2:36 AM

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh all-India prachaar pramukh Sunil Ambekar (Twitter)

RSS distances itself from article critical of Infosys

Panchjanya has a cover story on Infosys titled “Saakh Aur Aghaat” (Reputation and Damage), with Narayana Murthy’s picture on cover page

06 Sep 2021 2:33 AM

Farmer's leaders attend 'Kisan Mahapanchayat' over the ongoing farmers' agitation against Centre's farm reform laws, in Muzaffarnagar, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. (PTI/Shahbaz Khan)

Farmers vow to carry on stir till 2024 polls

The leaders made it clear that they will campaign against the BJP in both the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Assembly elections in 2022

06 Sep 2021 2:31 AM

A recent ‘Unisys Security Index 2020’ report that measured the concern among consumers about personal financial security, found that bank card fraud through unauthorised access to individual’s credit and debit card details and concerns around banking and shopping online was amongst the top problems globally. — Representational image/DC

People’s carelessness blamed for card theft

Around 33% of Indian consumers store their bank account, credit, debit card, ATM passwords, Aadhaar details in email, mobile and computers

06 Sep 2021 2:28 AM

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