Friday, 17 February 2017

QUESTIONS ON New Marriage Bill seeks to check extravagant spending in weddings

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1: How  to put a cap on extravagant spending in Indian weddings by ........ A] limiting the number of guests B] increasing number of t...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Freedom fighter Pandit passes away

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MARGAO: Madhav Pandit, a freedom fighter and educationist, died after a brief illness at Margao on Wednesday morning. He was 82. The fu...
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ORNL wins 4 awards for technology transfer

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Two of the awards went to innovations in the field of mass spectrometry, a method of measuring the characteristics of individual molecul...
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Vikings win multiple honors at ADchievement Awards

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The Minnesota Vikings may not have won on the field in 2016, but they did win off of it.  The team collected a host of honors during th...
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China awards Trump valuable new trademark

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The government of China awarded U.S. President Donald Trump valuable rights to his own name this week, in the form of a 10-year trademark...

Canadian government using kittens and selfies to spark little girls interest in science and technology

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A new government of Canada campaign used selfies and kittens and fashion to entice young girls to pursue jobs in science, technology, e...
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Engineers shrink microscope to dime-sized device

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Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created an atomic force microscope on a chip, dramatically shrinking the size — an...

Rooftop solar power plant, Science Park inaugurated at GGMSSS-18

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A 50 kWp rooftop grid tied Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant and Science Park were inaugurated at Government Girls Model Senior Secondary S...

BrahMos range likely to be increased to 450 km

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BrahMos range likely to be increased to 450 km Bengaluru, Feb 15 (IANS) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is likely ...

Astronomers spot rare pulsating star 7,000 light years away

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Astronomers spot rare pulsating star 7,000 light years away New York, Feb 15 (IANS) Astronomers have spotted a rare pulsating star whic...
Saturday, 9 July 2016

Freeze Aircel spectrum, stop deal with Airtel, RCom: Prashant Bhushan

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NEW DELHI: Activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan today demanded immediate freezing of spectrum held by Aircel, alleging that its Malaysian pare...
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US economy posts largest job gains in eight months in June

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WASHINGTON: U.S. job growth surged in June as manufacturers and other employers boosted hiring, confirming the economy has regained speed ...

L&T Infotech 'actively' scouting for buys in analytics, consulting

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NEW DELHI: IT company L&T Infotech today said it is "activity" scouting for acquisitions to strengthen its offerings in area...

Facebook Messenger to offer strong encryption

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WASHINGTON: Facebook announced Friday it would roll out optional "end to end encryption" for its Messenger application, followin...

Post-Brexit, UK now spawns M&A Bargain Hunters

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LONDON: In the wake of the country's June 23 vote to leave the European Union, the UK's stocks and currency dropped, presenting an...

4G smartphones under Rs 3,000 now a reality, much before expected

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NEW DELHI: Prices of smartphones supporting 4G technology have broken the Rs 3,000 price barrier, benefiting users wanting high-speed inte...

US probes brake failures on Harley-Davidson motorcycles

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WASHINGTON: The US automotive safety regulator said Friday it is investigating complaints of brake failures on Harley-Davidson motorcycles...
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Congress has scored self-goal on telecom issue: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley

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NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the Congress has scored a "self-goal" by calling under-reporting of Rs 46,00...

Started delivery of Rs 251 phones today: Ringing Bells

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NEW DELHI: Ringing Bells, the Noida-based company that courted controversy after announcing a phone at an astonishingly low price of Rs 25...

India eyes place in top 100 on ease of doing business list

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NEW DELHI: India hopes to figure among the top 100 nations in the ease of doing business ranking, counting on significant improvement achi...

Telecom losses reported during UPA rule: Ravi Shankar Prasad

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NEW DELHI: Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad attacked the Congress over its allegations of a Rs 46,000 crore telecom scam, saying that the ...

Among Dallas sniper victims: A newlywed, a navy veteran and parents

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One slain officer was a newlywed. Another had survived multiple tours in Iraq, only to be killed back home in the US. A protester who does...

Ajay Jayaram, Anand Pawar set up all Indian quarterfinal at US Open

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EL MONTE: Fourth seed Ajay Jayaram and Anand Pawar set up up an all-Indian quarterfinal in the US Open Grand Prix Gold badminton event her...

NASA's new airborne mission to map Earth's atmosphere

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WASHINGTON: NASA is launching an airborne mission that will map the contours of the Earth's atmosphere to discover how much pollution ...

'Bomb Robot' kills Dallas gunman, but opens ethical debate

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WASHINGTON: Dallas police ended a standoff with a gunman Friday morning by remotely detonating a "bomb robot," an unprecedented ...

PM Narendra Modi traces back Mahatma Gandhi's historic South African train ride

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DURBAN: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to mark a historic train journey by Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi durin...

Chemists to take e-pharmacies to court

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NEW DELHI: The fight between brick-andmortar chemists and online pharmacies is set to reach courts now. The All India Organisation of Chem...

Spell out policy governing export of US satellites to India: American lawmakers

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WASHINGTON: Two weeks after ISRO successfully launched 20 satellites - including 13 from the US - in a single mission, two influential Ame...

Pentagon to use Indian weather satellite in war-torn Afghanistan

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The US is planning to use the services of an Indian satellite to get quicker weather information in war-torn Afghanistan, crucial for the ...

Govt will stand firm, says Ram Madhav after violence escalates in Kashmir

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BJP leader Ram Madhav asserted on Saturday that an “uncompromising” fight against terrorism is important for Jammu and Kashmir’s developme...

This is the birth place of Satyagraha: PM Modi tells Indian expats in South Africa

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India is working to achieve over 8 per cent growth in the coming years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Johannesburg on Friday, while...

India's first female captain to be honoured for bravery at sea

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Captain Radhika Menon, Master of the oil tanker Sampurna Swarajya of Shipping Corporation of India, is to receive the 2016 IMO Award for E...

Bitcoin “miners” face fight for survival as new supply halves

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Marco Streng is a miner, though he does not carry a pick around his base in south-western Iceland. Instead, he keeps tens of thousands of ...

Govt working on cyber law amendments, new encryption

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Government is working on amendments in cyber law and new encryption policy to protect data by addressing rapid changes in technology domai...

Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Olympic edition up for pre-order

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Samsung has launched a new variant of its flagship Galaxy S7 smartphone in Brazil to celebrate the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The company sai...

Wimbledon sexism row: Have women’s sports become today’s butt of jokes?

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What do you love about watching a game? Do you love the exhilaration of a breakpoint that leaves your nerves tingling?  Do you love rail...

Arvind Kejriwal accuses Gujarat CM of not allowing his Surat programme

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Rajkot: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday accused his Gujarat counterpart Anandiben Patel of getting his programme in Surat...

Dhaka investigating Zakir Naik's Islamist links: Bangladesh Minister

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Dhaka: Bangladesh government on Saturday said it was investigating the Islamist links of India-based controversial preacher Zakir Naik and...

PM Modi keen to talk to China, but not Hurriyat: Mani Shankar Aiyar

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New Delhi: Advocating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to learn lessons from Congress` experience to restore normalcy in the valley, Congr...

NASA's Dawn found ice-friendly craters mapped on dwarf planet 'Ceres'

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Washington DC: The US space agency NASA's Dawn has identified ice-friendly craters mapped on the dwarf planet Ceres."The conditio...

Milos Raonic beats Roger Federer, sets up Wimbledon final date with Andy Murray

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New Delhi: Roger Federer's dream of winning a eight Wimbledon title ended on Friday after losing his semi-final match to big serving M...
Friday, 8 July 2016

Anil Madhav Dave: New environment minister has a tough task ahead

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New Delhi: There could not have been a better birthday gift for new environment minister Anil Madhav Dave, who got the portfolio on the ev...

Live Tennis Scores, Wimbledon 2016 semifinals: Roger Federer vs Milos Raonic; Andy Murray vs Tomas Berdych

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Roger Federer expected “to lose in the first week” of Wimbledon and Andy Murray expected to be heading for a final collision with his neme...
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Happy Birthday Sourav Ganguly! Dada wished by teammates, fans as he turns 44

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Former India cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly celebrates his 44th birthday on Friday. The flamboyant left-handed batsman, who is currently t...

U.S. tax agency investigates Facebook's Ireland asset transfer

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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said Facebook Inc (FB.O) may have understated the value of intellectual property it transferred to...

UK launches bilateral trade talks for post-Brexit deal with India

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Britain said it would start preliminary talks with India on Friday about an eventual bilateral trade deal after last month's referendu...

Take a deep breath, India, and switch to electric cars

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India is going shopping for hydrocarbons.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi, faced with the world's fastest growth in oil consumption, h...

Access to mobile internet can positively impact farmers’ lives: Vodafone report

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KOLKATA: Mobile internet access via smartphones can lead to a 50% increase in a small farmer's revenue in India, especially if the cor...

It’s ladies first at global B-schools

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NEW DELHI: Of the 42 women that applied for MBA programmes abroad through Admissions Gateway , a Delhi-based admissions consultancy, 41 ma...

Ferrero overtakes Nestle in India chocolate revenues

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MUMBAI: Nearly eight years after entering India, Italian chocolate maker Ferrero India, the maker of Kinder Joy chocolates and Nutella cho...
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