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CH Pratap Reddy named new Bengaluru police chief; replaces Kamal Pant [details]

Who is CH Pratap Reddy; Bengaluru's new police commissioner [details]

Karnataka government on Tuesday appointed senior IPS officer CH Pratap Reddy as the new chief of Bengaluru City police.

May 17, 2022

Yogi's tweet sparks debate of Lucknow's name being changed

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is apparently back to its name changing spree.

May 17, 2022

KTR leaves for UK, Davos visit

Telangana's Industry and Information Technology Minister K. T. Rama Rao on Tuesday left for a three-day visit to the United Kingdom.

May 17, 2022

Two killed as bus overturns on Expressway in UP

Two persons were killed when a bus, carrying at least 50 people, overturned on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.

May 17, 2022

Shanghai reopens commercial outlets with Covid resurgence under control

China's financial hub Shanghai is gradually reopening commercial outlets such as shopping malls, convenience stores and pharmacies after weeks of closed management to ward off Covid-19.

May 17, 2022

K'taka Cong seeks Bajrang Dal leaders' arrest over arms training to students

The Karnataka Congress has demanded the arrest of Bajrang Dal leaders for giving arms training to students in the school premises in the state's Madikeri town.

May 17, 2022

Google ropes in ex-US FDA digital health chief

Tech giant Google has roped in a former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) leader Bakul Patel as its new senior director of global digital health strategy.

May 17, 2022

What explains the heat wave in March this year?

How intense heat waves in North India can harm high BP patients

Even as several parts of North India, including the national capital, sizzled due to intense heatwave, high blood pressure patients may be at particular risk, said experts on Monday, ahead of World Hypertension Day, observed annually on May 17.

May 17, 2022

India reports 1,569 new Covid cases, 19 deaths

At 1,569 fresh Covid cases, India reported a decline in a span of 24 hours against the previous day's count of 2,202, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday morning.

May 17, 2022

Google-led internet giants behind biggest data breach ever recorded: Report

Call it mother of all data security breaches as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) on Monday revealed that Google and other internet giants are processing and passing people's data billions of times per day via real-time-bidding (RTB) system for tracking and ad targeting.

May 17, 2022