Washington, Sep 18 (PTI) A top US military commander has conceded as a "mistake" the drone strike by the American forces in Kabul last month, targeting ISIS-K terrorists days after a suicide bombing at the city airport, that killed 10 civilians, including up to seven children.
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New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) Former Bengal left-arm spinner and Mizoram U-19 head coach Murtaza Lodhgar died of cardiac arrest on Friday night in Visakhapatnam, Cricket Association Bengal president Avishek Dalmiya has confirmed.
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New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) India on Friday administered a record number of over 2.50 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 71st birthday, which Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya described as a golden chapter in the world history.
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New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) Life may come to a full circle for Anil Kumble as the Sourav Ganguly-led BCCI might ask him to apply for the post of head coach of the Indian team along with VVS Laxman once Ravi Shastri finishes his term after the T20 World Cup.
Espoo (Finland), Sep 17 (PTI) Prajnesh Gunneswaran yet again lost to a lower-ranked player in the Davis Cup while Ramkumar Ramanathan went down fighting in the second singles as India trailed 0-2 in the World Group I tie against Finland, here on Friday.
Health & Lifestyle
New AI tool can help treat COVID-19 patients globally: Study
New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) The Congress' Scheduled Castes Department on Friday passed a resolution calling for senior leader Rahul Gandhi's appointment as the president of the party.
New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) The government on Friday extended by six months till March 2022 the deadline to link PAN with biometric ID Aadhaar.
Bharuch (Gujarat), Sep 17 (PTI) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he gets Rs 4 lakh every month as royalty from YouTube, as viewership of his lecture videos posted on the platform has increased during the pandemic period.
Kabul, Sep 17 (PTI) Asserting that India is Afghanistan's "all-weather friend", prominent Afghan activist and author Amina Zia Massoud has expressed hope that New Delhi will support the resistance forces fighting the Taliban in the war-torn nation.
New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Friday approached the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of summons issued to them by the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal, saying they are residents of Kolkata and should not be compelled to join the probe in the national capital.
New Delhi, Sep 17 (PTI) "We have enough burden on our shoulders" and don't want to add to it, the Supreme Court said on Friday while dismissing a plea seeking transfer of a matter pending before the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the apex court.
East
Sikkim reports 57 new COVID-19 cases, one more fatality
Gangtok, Sep 10 (PTI)Sikkim's COVID-19 tally rose to 30,501 as 57 more people tested positive for the virus while one more fatality pushed the death toll to 377, a health department bulletin said on Friday.
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Mumbai: Woman raped, brutally assaulted
Mumbai, Sep 10 (PTI)A 34-year-old woman was raped and brutally assaulted inside a stationary tempo in suburban Sakinaka and her condition was said to be serious, police said on Friday.
Chandigarh, Sep 17 (PTI) Casting director-filmmaker Mukesh Chhabra believes a good actor will always be an honest performer and his attempt is to just enhance their capabilities.
London, Sep 16 (PTI) A team of international researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can predict how much extra oxygen a COVID-19 patient might need during hospital care.
Bengaluru, Sep 16 (PTI) Twelve books on subjects as diverse as Naxalism to Emergency and Hindutva and the Northeast to percussion instrument mridangam among others have made it to the longlist of the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize.