In focus, 11th Jan 2021, News & Stories from India

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11 Jan 2021

In focus, 11 Jan 2021

The court is likely to pronounce orders on Tuesday on issues related to the farm laws and the farmers’ protests at Delhi’s borders and may take a call on setting up a committee headed by a former Chief Justice of India to find ways to resolve the impasse. (Photo:AFP)

Supreme Court hints at stay on 3 farm laws

As the farmer's protest entered Day 48, CJ SA Bobde expressed anguish over the govt’s failure to resolve the strike by the agitating farmers

11 Jan 2021 11:55 PM

Aerosol sources include extensive burning of crop residue and forest fires, besides exhaust from vehicles, as also from other aspects of rapid urbanization and industrialisation. — Representational image/AP

Decreasing trend in black carbon Aerosol concentrations

Aerosols, the tiny particles suspended in the atmosphere, affect life through adverse health effects and have an enormous impact on climate

11 Jan 2021 11:45 PM

Indian cricketer Virat Kohli (Left) and Bollywood actress-producer Anushka Sharma. Kohli announced on twitter that the couple were "thrilled to have been blessed with a baby girl" on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. (PTI)

Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli welcome baby girl

Kohli, who shared the news on Twitter, said both the baby and Sharma were healthy

11 Jan 2021 7:55 PM

Instead of formulating a vague goal such as “I want to be fit in 2021,” be SMART about it. Say “I will jog for 10 minutes, three times a week for three months.”

Why most New Year Resolutions are broken

New Year resolutions are infamous for being abandoned, though they’re made with all good intentions.Is there a way to reach our 2021 goals?

11 Jan 2021 6:53 PM

Toxic habits are to healthy relationships what wood borers are to wood, leaving them hollow over time if not tended to.

What’s poisoning your relationship?

A psychologist lists out five common toxic habits that have no place in healthy relationships

11 Jan 2021 6:45 PM

Penalising heroines?

Given the gloomy box office season, top South actresses skipping film promotional activities compounds producers’ woes.

11 Jan 2021 6:34 PM

Parul Arora, gymnast from Ambala, Haryana

Sari flips hit the right chord

The Internet has been abuzz recently with two videos of Parul Arora going viral on social media

11 Jan 2021 6:16 PM

Mohammed Abrar, expert in strength sports

Bulletproof Shoulders

Some simple exercises with the dumbbells will keep your shoulders moving freely, enabling you to go smoothly about your daily life

11 Jan 2021 6:08 PM

Many earpieces deliver as much as 100dB of sound which can lead to severe sensorineural hearing loss, if exposed even for a short duration of a few minutes

Overuse of gadgets can fry ears & brain too

Loud noise created by man-made materials is not natural to our ears. It can cause noise-induced hearing loss

11 Jan 2021 5:59 PM

Vignesh Anandarajan of KayOne Consulting.

Why Virtual CFOs Are In Demand In The Post-Pandemic World

Companies pursuing CFOs, or even CFOs hiring financial analysts, are also experiencing a rapidly changing recruitment climate

11 Jan 2021 4:46 PM

People walk around in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo on Thursday, January. 7, 2021, after Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced a state of emergency. Japan declared a state of emergency in Tokyo and three nearby prefectures, starting Friday as coronavirus cases continued to surge in the nation. (AP/Hiro Komae)

Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant

Japan was working with other nations, the WHO and other medical experts to analyze the new version of the virus

11 Jan 2021 11:37 AM

There is just no place for racism in sport, whether such overt acts of discrimination come from within the game and its players or from a source beyond like spectators who come to watch games. (AP /Rick Rycroft)

AA Edit | No room for racism

We are often reminded that cricket is a gentleman’s game that prides itself on having been a constant metaphor for fair play

11 Jan 2021 8:53 AM

Langar being prepared for farmers during their ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi, Sunday, January 10, 2021. (PTI/Arun Sharma)

AA Edit | How moving court over agri-row may go wrong

The farmers have consistently made it clear that they are not questioning the constitutionality or legality of the issue

11 Jan 2021 7:36 AM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

Sanjaya Baru | Sitharaman’s Third Act: What’ll be her Big Idea?

The FM can spend money and secure early results and Ms Sitharaman has promised to spend a trillion rupees on infrastructure investment

11 Jan 2021 7:18 AM

In a letter to the PM, 4 NGOs comprising Bhopal gas tragedy survivors have asked to halt the ongoing trial of Covaxin. (Representational Image/AFP)

Bhopal gas tragedy survivors demand halt to ‘unethical’ vaccine trial

The NGOs allege that the consent procedure and other protocol of testing are being thrown to winds

11 Jan 2021 4:56 AM

The ministry has also recommended relaxing detention norms to prevent drop-outs this year as well as a slew of measures to address learning loss due to the coronavirus-induced shutdown of schools. (Representational file photo)

States told to identify kids out of school

A door-to-door survey to identify out-of-school children and prepare an action plan for their enrolment

11 Jan 2021 4:42 AM

Stating that all the players in the steel industry have their own iron ore mines, and do not have to face any hikes in labour or power rates, he wondered how the steel industry has been hiking prices. (Photo:PTI)

Big steel, cement firms operating as a cartel; need to place regulator: Gadkari

The minister said he has discussed the issue with the PM and had a lengthy discussion on it with the Principal Secretary in the PMO as well

11 Jan 2021 4:41 AM

The states have been advised, to seed the mobile numbers of all vaccine beneficiaries with Aadhaar for registration and communications through SMS and to ensure that there are no proxies in this process since the beneficiaries need to be uniquely identified. (Representational photo:PTI)

Aadhar-seeded mobile needed for Covid vaccine

Officials of the Central government guided administrators from the states and Union territories on Co-WIN software management

11 Jan 2021 4:04 AM

There's a security issue too because countries which have already begun rolling out the vaccines have warned us that there is a huge theft of it, so we may not even disclose where it is being centrally stored, Department of Health spokesperson Popo Maja said. (Photo:AFP)

South Africa to store COVID-19 vaccines from India at secret place for fear of theft

South African government had secured 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from India

11 Jan 2021 1:20 AM

Withdrawal of Jammu and Kashmir's special powers and bifurcating the state into two union territories in August last year also evoked a strong reaction from Pakistan, which has been unsuccessfully trying to rally international support against India on the Kashmir issue. (Photo:AFP)

No talks possible with India until restoration of autonomous status of J-K: Pak PM

We don't have adversarial relations with any country except India which is trying to destabilise Pakistan, he claimed

11 Jan 2021 1:01 AM

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