Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
The meteorological department has issued a warning of heavy rain and thunderstorm in several parts of the country.
'Everybody knows that any solution would upstage and expose official bungling.' 'That is something Mrs Sitharaman's masters will not allow.' 'No matter how high the cost in human misery, they will squander a fortune on the unnecessary Central Vista extravaganza,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
One person was injured when Puri-New Delhi Neelachal Express hit a road roller and derailed near Bhadrak, about 120 km from Bhubaneswar on Sunday, railway sources said.
App-based taxi aggregator Ola is in talks to raise fresh funding of up to $400 million.
'Many are coming hungry and thirsty.' 'Some told us they were stopped from filling water at roadside village handpumps because villagers told them 'tum Carona ho'.'
In a worrying trend, the BSF has lost four times more troops in off-duty bike accidents than at the borders in the recent past.
Gearing up to roll out the ambitious odd-even scheme, Delhi government on Thursday said an additional fleet of 6,000 buses will be deployed to enhance public transport.
The suspect, named as Akbarjon Djalilov, is a Kyrgyzstan national.
11 students injured in the bus-train collision at an unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district continue to battle for their life on Friday even as the district authorities and police have begun an inquiry into the mishap.
"Under the CO-JEET" plan, personnel of the three wings of the armed forces -- the Army, the Indian Air Force and the Navy -- have been pressed into service to help restore oxygen supply chains, set up COVID beds and provide help to the civilian administration in its fight to control the pandemic," said the Lt General, whose post of deputy chief integrated defence staff (medical) comes under the Chief of Defence Staff.
Mumbai's dabbawallahs are the stars of an unusual exhibition.
A state-of-art computerised system is being deployed by Railways across all crew booking lobbies of both drivers and guards for efficient train operations and safer journey.
Around 500 people have signed up on Ola's platform for the Bike Taxis service.
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The two-day nationwide strike called by central trade unions to protest the Centre's alleged anti-worker policies evoked mixed response all over country on Tuesday.
Fourteen bogies of New Delhi-Diburgarh Rajdhani Express derailed near Naugachia railways station in Bihar's Bhagalpur district on Tuesday morning.
Availability of jobs at India's auto companies has shrunk significantly over the last two years, as the industry goes through one of its worst slowdowns. More than 60 per cent of the total workforce fell by 24 per cent in 2019-20, against 2017-18.
The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested an alleged Students Islamic Movement of India operative, who was wanted in the 2008 serial bomb blasts in the city, from Belgam in Karnataka.
City Police Commissioner A K Khan said Zialul Haq, a taxi driver by profession, was trained in Pakistan and was planning to carry out blasts in Hyderabad.
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Hyundai, which is also toeing Maruti's lines, said special schemes are offered to engage the cab aggregators, including annual-maintenance-contract packages and extended warranty.
Dangerous stunts performed on the sets of Sooryavanshi.
Fatherhood has changed Sergio Perez's life since the end of last season and the Mexican hopes the coming year in Formula One could be just as transformative on the track.
Etihad, Emirates and Qatar Airways have combined hired more than 100 Indian pilots in the last six months.
Women need to stop feeling victimised and helpless all the time, says founder of India's first all-women taxi service, Revathi Roy. For those who are willing to risk, and move ahead of the challenges, the sky is the limit, she beckons.
Twelve passengers were injured on Wednesday as a coach of 13226 UP Danapur-Jainagar Inter-City Express derailed near Bachhwara railway station in Bihar's Begusarai district, official sources said.
It's high time we now turn the popular question on its head -- when there is no growth in jobs for several years, how can the real GDP grow at 7 per cent per annum, says Mahesh Vyas.
The government has sent a special unit of trained commandos to Pakistan to protect top diplomats of the Indian Embassy there. The batch of 16 personnel, trained in commando skills and unarmed combat from the Central Industrial Security Force, was sent to the neighbouring country in February. "They will perform VIP security duties after assessing the situation there," CISF Director General N R Das told reporters on the sidelines of the force's 40th raising day.
'Maharashtra has 34,000 active cases, of which 24,000 are asymptomatic, and hence need no medicines but are under quarantine.' '9,500 cases are showing mild to severe symptoms.' 'While 1,200 are seriously ill, only 200 of them are on ventilator support.' 'Let those claiming that the situation in the state has gone out of control, look at these numbers objectively before damaging the state's reputation for political gains.'
The Indian Railways has decided to introduce a mobile radio communication facility in its trains to ensure security.
'The Modi government is not listening to us. So now we are coming to Delhi to talk with the central government.'
Strikes by train drivers and passport officials threaten major disruptions to the London Olympics, prompting the government to warn unions on Thursday that they risked public anger if the industrial action went ahead.
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The Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that majority of the imported cases are the Chinese nationals returning from abroad.
'Today when people are fighting to get their salary, you are telling them you will privatise airports!'
The number of those rescued has gone up to 25, with five more persons being pulled alive out from the debris since Monday night, police said. The dead include 11 children, aged between two to 15 years, an official said.
Shoieb Ahmad, an auto rickshaw driver from Bihar, is a proud husband. His wife Fatima Khatoon's struggle of being trafficked at the age of nine in the name of marriage and her struggle to gain her freedom, won her kudos from Amitabha Bachchan on the television quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati.
Strikes by train drivers and passport officials threaten major disruptions to the London Olympics, prompting the government to warn unions on Thursday that they risked public anger if the industrial action went ahead.
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