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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday appealed to citizens to play their part in reviving the economy of the city while taking adequate precautions against COVID-19. He also launched a job portal intended to bridge the gap between potential employers and employees, and appealed to migrant labourers, who had left the city during the lockdown, to return. “It is my appeal to all the 2 crore people of Delhi who have managed to control the coronavirus with their hard work, understanding and care that now we have to fix the economy of Delhi too, we have to bring it back…

The Air India Express plane, carrying 190 people from Dubai, on Friday touched down near a taxiway that is around 1,000 metres from the beginning of the runway at the Kozhikode airport before breaking up into two pieces, according to AAI. The pilot of the ill-fated flight — IX-1344 — could not sight the runway in the first landing attempt due to heavy rains. Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh, who went to the crash site today, said the plane had fuel to attempt a diversionary landing elsewhere. The Air India Express plane came from Dubai carrying 184 people; 18 including…

A new infectious disease caused by a tick-borne virus has killed seven people and infected 60 others in China, official media here reported on Wednesday, warning about the possibility of its human-to-human transmission. More than 37 people in East China’s Jiangsu Province contracted with the SFTS Virus in the first half of the year. Later, 23 people were found to have been infected in East China’s Anhui province, state-run Global Times quoted media reports.A woman from Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu, who suffered from the virus showed onset of symptoms such as fever, coughing. Doctors found a decline of leukocyte, blood…

Former Miss India finalist Aishwarya Sheoran is among the crop of civil service aspirants who cracked the 2019 exam. Scoring an all-India rank of 93, she is thrilled to have secured her ultimate dream job of becoming an IAS officer. The 23-year-old who considers modelling her hobby and civil service her “true passion”, said she didn’t join any coaching classes to prepare for the exam. Instead, she began reading current affairs from the Internet. In an exclusive interview to ThePrint, Sheoran, a native of Rajasthan, said that gone were the days when civil servants “looked cliche”. “Now, a civil servant…

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are being extra cautious during the Covid pandemic. The 38-year-old actress opened up on how the couple is coping during the global health crisis in an interview to People magazine, reports femalefirst.co.uk.I'm asthmatic and my husband's type 1 diabetic, so we have to be even more careful. But there have been a lot of Zoom calls and Zoom brunches. We have a really large friends and family group, and I've had a lot of birthdays in my family that have happened recently, so we've done a few socially distanced lunches," she said. "If you have…

The Delhi High Court on Friday, 7 August, allowed the University of Delhi to conduct its much-debated open book examinations (OBEs) for final-year students, which will now be held from 10 August.Students can either download question papers from the DU portal or receive them on the E-mail ID mentioned by them in the examination form. This means that even if the portal is inaccessible, students will be able to access the question papers in the inbox of their registered E-mail address. The court has asked DU to send auto-generated e-mails to students after they submit answer scripts. DU has to…

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed controversial activist Rehana Fathima's plea seeking anticipatory bail in cases against her for allegedly circulating a video in which she was semi-nude, allowing her minor children to paint on her body, and said the court is a little baffled at the kind of case that has come up before it.The top court further observed as to what kind of impression the children will get about the culture of this country through such videos. "Why do you do all this? You might be activist but why do this? What kind of nonsense is this.. It is…