In focus, 26th Mar 2021, News & Stories from India

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26 Mar 2021

In focus, 26 Mar 2021

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows the cargo ship MV Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, Friday, March 26, 2021. A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping. (©Maxar Technologies via AP)

Over 200 vessels blocked as 'maritime traffic jam' grows outside blocked Suez Canal

An initial investigation showed the vessel ran aground due to strong winds and ruled out mechanical or engine failure as a cause

26 Mar 2021 11:22 PM

German Dolinsky: Helping Businesses for Scaling e-com brands to the moon

Having his current base in Dubai, Dolinsky is different from any conventional entrepreneur

26 Mar 2021 8:39 PM

Digital transformation is the only way to remain globally competitive: Raktim Singh

This digital thought leader advises businesses to embrace the transformation so that they can better accommodate the future of innovations

26 Mar 2021 8:32 PM

Talking to Bashir Shikdar, a Bangladeshi artist & founder CEO of Bashir Digital Media

Bashir Digital Media is a Bangladesh-based digital consultancy firm to help you grow your international digital business

26 Mar 2021 8:26 PM

Firefighters attempt to douse a blaze at Dreams Mall, affecting patients admitted in the nearby COVID-19 dedicated Sunrise Hospital, in Mumbai, early Friday, March 26, 2021. (PTI)

10 dead in fire at mall hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Mumbai's Bhandup

The cause of the 'level four' fire (serious emergency call in fire brigade parlance) has not been ascertained yet, BMC sources said

26 Mar 2021 1:57 PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Friday, March 26, 2021. (PTI)

PM Modi arrives in Bangladesh on his first foreign trip since COVID-19 outbreak

Modi is visiting Bangladesh on his first trip to a foreign country since the outbreak of the coronavirus

26 Mar 2021 12:36 PM

A health worker collects a swab sample from a passenger for Rapid Antigen Test for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a railway station In New Delhi on Match 25, 2021, as India recorded over 50,000 new coronavirus cases for the first since October, while a new wave of infections takes hold a year after one of the world's tightest lockdowns was imposed. (Prakash SINGH / AFP)

Surge in fresh COVID-19 cases, India records 59,118 new infections

The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities

26 Mar 2021 11:57 AM

Under India's Vaccine Maitri' initiative, which translates into Vaccine Friendship, the country has been providing vaccines to nations across the world (Representational image: AP)

India's gift of 200,000 COVID vaccine doses will be sent to UN peacekeepers on Mar 27

More than 58 million Made in India coronavirus vaccine doses have reached about 70 countries in the recent weeks

26 Mar 2021 11:40 AM

A group of farmers who were holding a protest in Zirakpur and Kharar towns in Punjab, both on the outskirts of Chandigarh, said they were allowing ambulances and other emergency vehicles to pass. (AFP file photo)

Bharat Bandh: Farmers gather near national highways, key roads in Punjab, Haryana

Farmer leaders have said road and rail transport will be blocked and claimed that markets will also remain closed

26 Mar 2021 10:17 AM

The honourable body would have done greater justice to the Justice if they had considered making the proceeding as transparent as an example the apex court expects from other institutions and lesser mortals. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Welcome Justice Ramana

SC has also wisely rejected a complaint by the AP CM, Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, against Ramana in a case relating to the Amaravati land scam

26 Mar 2021 4:47 AM

MLAs of Opposition parties, men and women, were dragged on the ground by the police who had been called in. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Calling the cops on Opp.? Bihar ruckus probe must

In light of this, what was witnessed in the Bihar Assembly last Tuesday can only fill every Indian with shame

26 Mar 2021 4:35 AM

West Bengal has to decide to be its whimsical wayward self or join the gang. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal to trigger domino effect in Indian politics?

It will not be an easy election for any of the three blocs that are competing for the voters’ hearts and minds

26 Mar 2021 4:30 AM

The elongated session witnessed several protests by the Opposition and repeated stalling of proceedings over the three contentious farm laws, rising fuel prices and the passage of the controversial NCT of Delhi Bill. (PTI)

Budget session of Parliament adjourned sine die, two weeks before schedule

The first part of the Budget Session commenced with the address of President Ram Nath Kovind on January 29 and concluded on February 29

26 Mar 2021 1:56 AM

Senior officials in the Union health ministry said there is no need to panic as the government has ensured that there is no shortage of Covid-19 vaccines in the country. (PTI file photo)

COVID-19 surge: Passengers to Bengaluru will now need a negative test report

Several other states have also started imposing restrictions on movement of people

26 Mar 2021 1:51 AM

I don't think any regional party in the country has objection to Sharad Pawar heading the UPA, said Sanjay Raut. (PTI file photo)

UPA is paralysed and non-Congress leader like Sharad Pawar should head it: Shiv Sena

Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole asked if Raut had been appointed as Pawar's spokesperson

26 Mar 2021 1:47 AM

According to the Samkyukta Kisan Morcha, the nationwide shutdown will start at 6 am and it will be in force up to 6 pm across the country on March 26 which marks four months of the farmer agitation at Delhi's three borders -- Singhu, Ghazipur and Tikri. (Photo: PTI)

'Bharat Bandh': Rail, road transport likely to be affected in parts of country

Farmer unions protesting against the three agri laws have called a complete 'Bharat Bandh'

26 Mar 2021 1:04 AM

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