Author: IANS

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The government is making concerted efforts to constitute the National Medical Commission (NMC) at the earliest so that some of the major reforms like a common entrance test and regulation of fees can be implemented from the coming academic year 2020-21. According to Health Ministry[Read More…]

Doha, Oct 4 (IANS) Spanish Orlando Ortega was awarded a late bronze medal after his team made a successful appeal over the result of Wednesday’s 110m hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said in a statement on Thursday its Jury[Read More…]

Los Angeles, Oct 4 (IANS) Iconic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury had once boasted about his “enormous sex drive”, and how he would “go to bed with anything”. The late Mercury looked to push the boundaries when it came to bedroom antics and would go to extremes to satisfy his desires.[Read More…]

Rae Bareli, Oct 4 (IANS) Rae Bareli, which is the parliamentary constituency of Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, may soon end up being ‘Congress-Mukt’ as two of its legislators from here are all set to join the BJP. The Congress has seven MLAs in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly which has[Read More…]

Paris, Oct 4 (IANS) The wife of a man who stabbed to death four police officers outside the central police headquarters in Paris, before being shot dead, has said that he had a psychotic episode, was incoherent and heard voices the night before the attack, the media reported on Friday.[Read More…]

Wayanad (Kerala), Oct 4 (IANS) Coming down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that everyone in the country and the world knows what’s going in our country. “The country is moving towards an authoritarian state and people who speak against the government[Read More…]

–Indo-Asian News Service ak/in

Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) With past rate cuts failing to arouse animal spirits in the economy, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stuck to its “accommodative stance” and again reduced its key lending rate to boost consumption and reverse the slowdown that has plagued India’s economic growth. Accordingly, this was[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Visiting Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seems to have found a new ally in Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb, after years of a blow hot and cold relationship with another Bengali speaking Chief Minister – Mamata Banerjee. Deb flew in to Delhi on Thursday after[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) With inflation expected to remain below 4 per cent, the RBI has space to cut the lending rate further to revive growth which slipped to six-year low in April-June quarter. The CPI-based inflation is projected to be in line with RBI’s estimate in the remaining[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) In an admission that may embarrass the union government, the new IAF chief Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria accepted on Friday morning that shooting down the Indian chopper in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this year was a “big mistake”. An Mi17 V5 chopper was shot down[Read More…]

Bengaluru, Oct 4 (IANS) State-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) on Friday said trade unions of its employees issued an indefinite strike notice effective from October 14 at its 9 locations in seven states across the country for wage revision since January 2017. “The All India HAL Trade Unions Coordination Committee[Read More…]

Patna, Oct 4 (IANS) An FIR was lodged in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district against celebrities including Bollywood actress Konkana Sen, director Maniratnam, Aparna Sen, Shayam Benegal, Ramchandra Guha and 45 others, who had written an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob lynching,[Read More…]

Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Actress and fitness enthusiast Disha Patani, who is also an ardent animal lover, has urged everyone to speak against animal cruelty on social media. Disha on Friday took to Twitter, where she shared a photograph of her pet dog. “The best therapy has fur and four[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The rise in the volume of orders has been a key driver of growth for Zomato which said its revenue for the first half of the financial year 2019-20 saw a massive three-fold jump – from $63 million in the same period in 2018-2019 to[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Low birth weight was linked not only to poor health outcomes in the beginning but also to chronic health conditions later in life, researchers have warned. “Low birth babies are either associated with congenital heart disease or on a long term basis, has increased risk[Read More…]

By Anjana Das New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India has done a good job with the latest rate cuts of 25 bps and along with the recent fiscal measures taken by the government, the second half growth is likely to be much better, Niti Aayog Vice[Read More…]

Panaji, Oct 4 (IANS) The Indian Navy is looking forward to the Central government to take a decision on a third aircraft carrier, Indian Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh said on Friday. Singh, while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Goa Maritime Conclave here, also said, that the[Read More…]

Lucknow, Oct 4 (IANS) The Charbagh railway station and Lucknow Junction have been ranked 150th and 109th among 700-odd railway stations in the country in a cleanliness survey conducted by Indian Railways and Quality Council of India. According to the survey report titled ‘Swachh Rail, Swachh Bharat’, released earlier this[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Congress has released a new list of five candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls. The party has replaced its candidate in Kudai constituency where it has fielded Chetan Namdeo Mondkar in place of Hemant Raghoba Kudalkar. The party has named Mohan Rao Marotrao[Read More…]

New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) The Delhi Police has arrested a man who gave fake information about a bomb in a school here. According to the police, the accused had called the police and informed them about the bomb in the school located in Gol Market. The police launched a[Read More…]