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[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The finance ministry has given Infosys a deadline of September 15 to fix glitches in the new I-T portal. Company CEO Salil Parekh on Monday met finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi, after being ‘summoned’ over the snags in the portal. Sitharaman is believed to have ...

[ad_1] LAUSANNE: The Indian men’s hockey team drag-flicker Harmanpreet Singh and his female counterpart Gurjit Kaur were on Monday nominated for the FIH Player of the Year awards as the country made the short-list of all the categories on the back of its stupendous performance in the Tokyo Olympics. Veteran ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India on Sunday evacuated 400 people from Afghanistan on three different flights. Another group of 87 Indians and two Nepalese nationals were brought back in a special Air India flight from Dushanbe, a day after they were evacuated to the Tajikistan capital in an IAF aircraft. Here ...

[ad_1] India’s health ministry Monday confirmed 25,072 new cases and 389 fatalities, raising the total to 32,449,306 cases (333,924 active cases) and 434,756 fatalities. Worldwide: Over 211.8 million cases and 4.43 million fatalities. Vaccination in India: 581,672,931 doses. Worldwide: Over 4.92 billion doses. TODAY’S TAKE Do doctors need a third ...

[ad_1] 01 / 30 /news/world/30-images-of-afghanistans-collapsed-military/eventshow/85554180.cms 01 <p>An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier inspects passengers at a checkpoint in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on February 23, 2020 – Photogallery An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier inspects passengers at a checkpoint in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on February ...

[ad_1] PITHORAGARH: At least 75 people suffered injuries as devotees at Devidhura temple in Uttarakhand’s Champawat district pelted stones at each other for eight minutes to celebrate the annual ‘Bagwal’ festival. The injured were later treated at a medical camp. The festival is celebrated on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Fuel prices came down by 20 paise per litre on Sunday, marking the first reduction in petrol price in more than a month and the fourth in diesel rate on the back of sliding crude prices. But for the high taxes, pump rates would have dropped further ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The government is against the merger of beleaguered Vodafone Idea with state-owned BSNL and MTNL, multiple sources have told TOI. The stand comes weeks after industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla had said that he is “willing to hand over” his 27% stake in the crippled telco to “any ...

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A day before the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar-led all-party delegation from the state meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a caste-based census, BJP strongly endorsed the move for a caste-wise head count . Senior BJP leader from Bihar and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi said ...

[ad_1] CHENNAI: As uneasy calm settled over the troubled KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces of South Africa, worst affected in the July violence following the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma, cracks are beginning to show. Their prime targets – Indian-origin South Africans in Durban and Johannesburg – say they have ...