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Jaipur: Media journal ‘Communication Today’ has brought out two special issues to commemorate 100 years of media education in India. The journal’s editor, Professor Sanjeev Bhanawat said the January-March and April-June issues include…

New Delhi: Tea, chai, cha - call it by whichever name, it is one beverage that unites the whole world, with each country swearing by its tea flavours while appreciating those from other countries too. Although every day is tea day for those…

New Delhi: Chemists in the country are annoyed. The government has not accepted their request to be treated as frontline workers for priority in vaccination. So now, they have threatened to join the lockdown. The medical devices makers’…

New Delhi: Five pharmaceutical companies have got the go-ahead to manufacture the anti-fungal drug Amphotericin B, used to treat mucormycosis or black fungus. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has cleared their applications. The…

Moga: An Indian Air Force pilot was killed after a MiG-21 Bison aircraft crashed in Punjab's Moga district, officials said on Friday, PTI reported. The aircraft was on a routine sortie from Suratgarh when it crashed near a village in Moga.…

New Delhi: The controversy over the alleged toolkit prepared by Congress to target the Modi government got murkier on Friday by Twitter labelling a tweet by BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as “manipulated media”. Twitter further said it “may…

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has started a movement called Young Warrior. The movement entails engaging 5 million young people to lead action against COVID-19 with an aim to impact 50 million people. CBSE has…

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday revealed that around half of the country’s population does not wear a mask. Only 14 percent of the population wears the mask correctly, it said in a briefing The numbers are based on a study…

Uttarakhand: Environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna, the man behind Chipko Movement, died on Friday at the age of 94. He was admitted to AIIMS Rishikesh on May 8 for treatment of COVID-19. Reports said he was suffering from pneumonia and had…

Panaji: A Goa court on Friday acquitted the founder-editor of Tehelka magazine, Tarun Tejpal, in a rape case dating back eight years. Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a colleague on the sidelines of a conference at a five-star…