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BENGALURU: With temperature soaring amid heatwaves, a survey found that 2 in 3 Indian households are facing power outages. The survey further revealed that 1 in 3 households is facing outages of over 2 hours or more each day. The survey by LocalCircles, India’s no.1 pollster on issues of governance, public and consumer interest, was […]

  NEW DELHI: A survey in the Delhi-NCR found that there is a 40% undercounting in COVID cases reported in April. The survey also showed that 42% of Delhi-NCR residents who had symptoms and took the COVID test in the last 30 days took only the at-home Rapid Antigen Test. The survey conducted by LocalCircles, […]

  NEW DELHI: Abdul Hafiz, a cold drink seller from the Jahangirpuri in Delhi, was at his cheerful best that cloaked his anxieties on poor earnings since the lockdown as Eid al-Fitr brought a ray of hope in the post COVID era. Standing by his aluminium cabin, the 28-year-old counted his blessings as his profit […]

  CHANDIGARH: In wake of the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab, a Congress delegation on Tuesday met Governor Banwari Lal Purohit and also highlighted the misuse of police force to file a case against party leader Alka Lamba and poet Dr Kumar Vishwas. The delegation led by Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja […]

  BENGALURU: The recent string of box-office clunkers has revived the debate about the paucity of stars in Bollywood. Big-budget films such as ‘Jersey’, ‘Heropanti 2’, ‘Bachchan Pandey’ and ‘Runway 34’ failed to even take a decent opening and turned out to be monumental bummers. Notwithstanding some bummers at the box office, Bollywood is still […]