Daily Archives: December 22, 2021

No loss of funds for Assam due to withdrawal of special category tag: Minister

Guwahati, Dec 21 (PTI) Assam Finance Minister, Ajanta Neog said on Tuesday that financial inflow to the state from the Centre has increased after...

Speaker gives 10 minutes to Assam MLAs to talk at will in Assembly

Guwahati, Dec 21 (PTI) Apparently frustrated by repeated verbal duels between ruling and opposition benches that disrupt proceedings, Assam assembly Speaker Biswajit Daimary on...

Pressure on border residents of Assam to choose Meghalaya: Minister

Guwahati, Dec 21 (PTI) Assam Border Areas Development Minister Atul Bora on Tuesday said that there are reports of "pressure" on people in disputed...

Heartbreak for title holders India in ACT hockey, suffer 3-5 loss to Japan in...

Dhaka, 21 Dec: Defending champions and Olympic bronze medallist India dished out a below-par performance to suffer a stunning 3-5 defeat against Japan in...

I thought missing Olympics is not the end of the world, says Srikanth after...

Hyderabad, 21 Dec: When he missed the Tokyo Games due to a mix of injuries and cancellation of qualifiers owing to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

ISL: ATKMB pip NEUFC 3-2 as coach Juan Ferrando begins tenure with thrilling victory

Margao, 21 Dec: Juan Ferrando got off to a winning start as ATK Mohun Bagan coach after his side scraped past a spirited NorthEast...

Gashimov Memorial chess: Anand’s poor run continues

BAKU, 21 Dec: Indian chess maestro Viswanathan Anand lost both his matches in the Rapid event to end his campaign with just one victory...

Unstoppable Advani wins 11th National Billiards title

BHOPAL, 21 Dec: Ace cueist Pankaj Advani successfully defended his national billards title after outclassing PSPB teammate Dhruv Sitwala 5-2 in a best of...

India among world’s top 3 dope violators in latest WADA report

New Delhi, 21 Dec: An uptick in the number of offenders has taken India into the top-three of the world's biggest doping violators in...

Japan entry controls to stay until more known about omicron

Tokyo, Dec 21 (AP) Japan will keep in place its recently reimposed strict border controls, which ban most foreign entrants, until more information is...

Putin blames West for tensions, demands security guarantees

Moscow, Dec 21 (AP) The Russian president on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the US and its allies that NATO will not...

Pak successfully test-fires ‘enhanced range version’ of Babar cruise missile

Islamabad, Dec 21 (PTI) Pakistan on Tuesday successfully test-fired an "enhanced range version" of the indigenously-built surface-to-surface Babur cruise missile that can strike targets...

Two TTP terrorists arrested by law enforcement agencies in Pakistan: Officials

Lahore, Dec 21 (PTI) Pakistan's law enforcement agencies have arrested two terrorists of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Punjab province and recovered...

AstraZeneca Covid vaccine protection wanes after three months: Lancet study

London, Dec 21 (PTI) The protection offered by the Oxford-Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccine declines after three months of receiving two doses of the preventive,...

US announces $5 mn reward for info on terrorist attack on atheist blogger Avijit...

Washington/Dhaka, Dec 21 (PTI) The US has offered a reward of up to USD 5 million for information on the henious terrorist attack in...

Situation at Sino-India border ‘generally stable’: China

Beijing, Dec 21 (PTI) The situation at the China-India border is "generally stable" and both sides are maintaining dialogue and communication through diplomatic and...

Hindu temple’s statues destroyed in Pakistan’s Karachi

Karachi, Dec 21 (PTI) The statues of deities at a Hindu temple in this Pakistani city have been destroyed, the police said on Tuesday,...

Protesters in Kabul call for release of Afghanistan”s assets

Kabul, Dec 21 (AP) Hundreds of protesters marched through the streets of Kabul toward the shuttered US Embassy on Tuesday, urging the release of...

Likely order of Covid symptoms depends on coronavirus variant: Study

Los Angeles, Dec 21 (PTI) The most likely order of symptoms that patients with COVID-19 experience is different for different variants of the SARS-CoV-2...