UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, while addressing the opening remarks to a climate summit on Saturday iterated that world leaders should take the move to declare states of ‘climate emergency’ in their respective countries to take immediate steps to avert catastrophic global warming. The summit has over 70 countries in the one-day virtual gathering which focuses…
Rival US companies UPS and FedEx are collaborating with Pfizer-BioNTech side-by-side to distribute the Covid-19 vaccines, post its approval for emergency use authorization by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday. According to New York Times, the two shipping companies revealed that they had curated the action plan for months and presented it as…
Karnataka has performed better pertaining to all elements of women’s reproductive health and child health, according to the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-20), which was presented by the Government of India on Saturday. The sex ration in Karnataka has also improved, with 979 females to 1,000 males in 2015-16 to 1,034. Alongside, the neonatal mortality…
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister, Dushyant Chautela on Saturday stated that the Centre is taking it positively to resolve on a common ground pertaining to the demands of the protesting farmers and expressed hope about reaching a conclusive result with the final round of discussion to be conducted between the Centre and the farmer unions in…
As the transport staff continued the strike for the second consecutive day on Saturday, which has affected the transport services throughout the state, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa appealed to the staff to restart the work and further urged them to have a discussion with the transport minister Laxman Savadi. Yediyurappa stated in an official…
The strike initiated by the transport corporation employees has continued to affect the bus services for the second day in a row. The KSRTC and the BMTC, which normally have seen thousands of departures by as early as 10 am in the morning, have recorded a meagre of 100 services. As the strike continues for…
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat launched the trial operations of Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) on Friday at the Secretariat for assessing the people living in isolation citing the Covid-19 virus infection for the Haridwar district. The IVRS system is a novel approach which will help in regular monitoring of people living in isolation…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the opening of the virtual summit with Uzbekistan, spoke about the Afghanistan issues, saying in order to revive peace in Afghanistan, the negotiations managed with the Taliban should be Afghan-led, Afghan owned and Afghan controlled. Amid his opening address, PM Modi said, “Both the countries are on the same…
Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat emphasized on the India-Pacific region, stating there are more than 120 warships of extra-regional forces deployed in the Indian Ocean Region for supporting several missions. While speaking on a keynote address at the Global Dialogue Security Summit, Rawat stated, “Most of the countries in the region are seeking…
The local bus services operational under the state government of Karnataka will be affected, as the transport employees have called for a strike with the demand to be considered as employees of the government. The state of Karnataka has over 1.2 lakh workers working with KSRTC, BMTC< NEKRTC and NWKRTC. According to sources, the bus…
