Poonawalla attracted criticism for heading to London just before Britain put India on a red list of banned countries as infection rates and deaths spiralled back home.
A total of 7,466 of polling stations across the constituencies were monitored live through webcasting, besides drones keeping a watch over the proceedings, the EC said.
Actor Vineet Kumar Singh and his family were struggling to procure medicine in Varanasi.
The top cybersecurity official in the White House on Tuesday directed all government agencies to urgently apply new patches for Microsoft Corp Exchange email servers to head off exploitation by hackers.
Three more COVID-19 fatalities in West Bengal pushed the toll to 10,242 on Friday, the health department said in a bulletin. The coronavirus tally climbed to 5,73,387 with 194 fresh cases, it said.
In its latest financial report, Reliance Jio has said that its indigenously developed 5G network infrastructure has achieved sustained gigabit-class throughput, and its entire equipment set is in advanced development stages.
The NDRF came into existence on January 19, 2006. The specialised task force has been constituted for “special response to a threatening disaster situation or a disaster.”
Russian state oil major Rosneft is courting investments from global trading houses to help develop one of the world's biggest oil deposits, after talks with other possible partners stalled following a collapse in oil prices, four sources told Reuters.
Thirty-nine Indian crew members are stranded on two cargo ships in Chinese waters out of whom 23 who are stuck on board MV Jag Anand are returning to India.
The New York Stock Exchange said it no longer intends to delist three Chinese telecom giants a shock reversal of an announcement made only last week and deepening confusion over a U.S. crackdown on firms said to be linked to China's military.
Margot Robbie, the new Jack Sparrow, would like to take her brand new pirate in an LGBT+ direction to spice up her character a little bit more.
Apple says that the addition of the App Tracking Transparency feature on iOS was delayed to give developers more time to prepare. The feature will rollout next year, the company said.
Actor-comedian Tiffany Haddish will be leading the cast of Apple's upcoming murder mystery comedy series "The Afterparty". The eight-episode show hails from filmmaker duo Chris Miller and Phil Lord, reported Variety.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asked banks to ensure that all accounts are linked with Aadhaar numbers of respective customers by March 31, 2021.
Dubai's nonoil private sector expanded for a third consecutive month in September as it continued to see a modest improvement in business conditions, a survey showed on Sunday.
