India

New Delhi, Mar 25 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday held wide-ranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Ahead of the talks, Jaishankar tweeted, "Greeted Chinese FM Wang Yi at Hyderabad House. Our discussions commence shortly."

It was the first public comment by India on Wang's visit.

The Chinese foreign minister arrived in Delhi on Thursday evening in the highest-level visit between the two countries after the ties came under severe strain following the military standoff in eastern Ladakh that began nearly two years ago.

Mumbai, Mar 25 (PTI) Indian cricket's crown jewel, the IPL, is back home: bigger, better and longer.

It will be the first time since 2011 that 10 teams be fighting it out for the most coveted T20 trophy in world cricket.

Two new entrants, Lucknow Supergiants and Gujarat Titans, fetching a combined price of approximately USD 1.7 billion shows that brand IPL keeps getting bigger.

It took 14 years but the league has now well and truly gone global.

Kanpur: In a shocking incident, a young man died due to shock from a high tension line while unloading sand from a dumper.

The deceased, identified as Rohit Shukla, came in contact with a high tension wire while working and suffered a painful death.

Bithoor police reached the spot and took the dead body into it's possession. Later the police sent it for post-mortem.

Brother of the deceased, Vijay Shukla told that we the three brothers used to work as labourers in Kanpur and our job was to unload the sand from the dumper.

Lucknow, Mar 23 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday accused the ruling BJP of misusing power and alleged that it is using its "goons" to attack democracy.

"The BJP has done no work for the welfare of the common man. The entire country is watching the hooliganism the BJP is doing to get majority," Yadav said referring to the election to the upper house of the state legislature.

New Delhi, Mar 23 (PTI) The country's exports for the first time crossed the USD 400 billion mark in a fiscal on healthy performance by sectors such as petroleum products, engineering, gems and jewellery, and chemicals, according to the commerce ministry's data released on Wednesday.

The merchandise exports rose by by 37 per cent to USD 400.8 billion in 2021-22 until March 21 against USD 292 billion in 2020-21. Previously, the outbound shipments had touched a record of USD 330.07 billion in 2018-19.

New Delhi, Mar 23 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday met BJP president J P Nadda to discuss the formation of government in the state.

The BJP, which stormed back to power in the crucial state, is scheduled to elect its legislative party leader on Thursday.

Senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has been appointed as the party's observer for government formation in the state.

Lucknow, Mar 24 (PTI) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday attacked the BJP on the stray cattle issue in Uttar Pradesh, tweeting a news clipping that claimed two people died this month in the state after being attacked by bulls.

During campaigning for the state assembly elections, Yadav frequently had raised the problem of stray animals.

NEW DELHI (AP) — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic.

COVAX had planned to make available 250 million doses from Novavax by March, but the U.N. agency in charge of deliveries says the first shipments now likely won’t be made until April or May.

Kanpur: Strict parking rules are going to be enforced at Central station here.

Beware, the riders of vehicles coming to drop the family or for any other work at the station.

They should be alert at least over challan if wrongly parked the vehicle.

If the vehicle is parked at any place on the station premises, there will be an e-challan.

This strictness will come into effect from the ensuing March 25.

Railway's checking staff and RPF jawans will take a photo of the vehicle's number plate from the mobile.

Kanpur: Replying to a query one junior doctor said that he had no information about the paucity of medicines at the Hallet Hospital. However, the patients there did not feel awkward in telling that doctors prescribe medicines that remain available outside the hall. A similar case rests with all the departments including orthopaedic, medicine etc.

The shortage of medicines in Hallett Hospital has been going on for the last several months, as reported.

It has now taken a new aspect. Earlier, medicines for only a few diseases were being procured from outside.