New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) want the government to ensure timely payment of their dues and bills from government deparments and large corporates. In its budget recommendation to the Finance Minister Niramala Sitharaman, ‘LocalCircles’, a community social media platform, has told Finance Minister Nirmala[Read More…]
Indore, Jan 7 (IANS) Sri Lanka captain Lasith Malinga said on Tuesday that they missed their “main bowler” Isuru Udana who got injured during warm-up just before they went out to defend 143 in the second T20I against India here on Tuesday. Sri Lanka lost by seven wickets as India[Read More…]
Indore, Jan 7 (IANS) India skipper Virat Kohli said on Tuesday that going into the World T20 in Australia later this year, there will be a “surprise package” in the team, one who can bowl with serious pace and gets bounce, giving Navdeep Saini a shot in the arm on[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW), here on Tuesday, welcomed the decision in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case. “The issuance of death warrant is a huge win for the women of our country and, hopefully, this historical verdict would stop/minimise such crimes against[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday said that onions are available and states can procure it, at the landing price in Mumbai ranging from Rs 49 to Rs 58 per kg. Paswan said that imports began from[Read More…]
Indore, Jan 7 (IANS) Navdeep Saini, who starred with the ball in India’s facile seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second T20 international here on Tuesday, said that he is gaining in confidence with both the white and red ball amid growing calls for his inclusion in the Test[Read More…]
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) A number of BJP workers and leaders were arrested on Tuesday when they tried to take out a rally in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act from south Kolkata’s Tollygunge Metro station. The rallyists were scheduled to go to Hazra Crossing, about 3.5 km away. However,[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Jan 7 (IANS) Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said on Tuesday that agriculture has been facing distress inspite of several measures by the Centre and state governments and asked if science could help, at the valedictory ceremony of the 107th Indian Science Congress here. “Can science throw up answers to[Read More…]
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Three persons were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged gang-rape and murder of a minor girl — a virtual re-run of the Hyderabad incident — at Kumarganj in the South Dinajpur district of West Bengal, the police said. The arrested persons included the lover[Read More…]
Chennai, Jan 7 (IANS) Fourteen young Indian chess players, many of them Grandmasters (GM), will be busy over the next 10 days training for six hours a day in various chess openings under two chess legends — former world champion GM Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik and GM Boris Gelfand, who had[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party had taken its report card, released on December 24, to over 1.5 crore people, and received a positive response from them, its city unit convenor Gopal Rai said on Tuesday. Addressing the media, he said the government’s report card is[Read More…]
Indore, Jan 7 (IANS) All-round India ticked all the boxes on Jasprit Bumrah and Shikhar Dhawan’s return to international cricket and swept Sri Lanka aside by seven wickets to take 1-0 lead in the second T20 international at the Holkar Stadium here on Tuesday. The first match in Guwahati was[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Jan 7 (IANS) Infosys Science Foundation on Tuesday awarded six winners with the Infosys Science Prize 2019 for research and academic excellence, in the fields of engineering and computer science, humanities, life sciences, mathematical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. Amartya Sen, the 1998 economics Nobel laureate and Harvard[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Bollywood star Deepika Padukone’s visit to the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, here on Tuesday, to meet protesting students didn’t go down well with a section of Twitterati who called for a boycott of her upcoming film ‘Chhapaak’. #deepikapadukone trended on Twitter with 34.8K tweets as[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration, here on Tuesday, announced formation of panel to look into the reasons that triggered the Sunday campus violence, leaving many students injured and causing uproar across the nation. “The university is forming a small security committee to look into[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Even as Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), here on Tuesday, to show solidarity with students, the JNUSU president was unmoved and targeted the actor for not speaking at the meet. “When you are in a position you should speak up,”[Read More…]
San Francisco, Jan 7 (IANS) Reviving a bittle legal battle, the state of California has sued billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla over denying access to the public to a beach next to his property in San Mateo County. According to a report in CNBC, Khosla whose net worth is $2[Read More…]
By Nirbhay Kumar New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) A crucial Parliamentary panel meet called to discuss the sale of national carrier Air India ended in a fiasco as most of the members were not able to make it to the deliberations as they were informed about the schedule literally at[Read More…]
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) In yet another promising news on finding life or its signs beyond Earth, a NASA planet hunter has discovered its first Earth-size planet resting in its star’s habitable-zone. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) found TOI 700d in a habitable zone, the range of distances where[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Centre has amended the Cadre Allocation Policy (CAP) 2017 for the all-India services — Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFS). The modification in CAP-2017 shall be applicable to civil services examination from 2019 onwards, said an office[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The government on Tuesday forecast 5 per cent growth for the current financial year, which is the slowest pace in 11 years, and may force the Finance Ministry to think of more measures on fiscal stimulus when the budget is presented next month. Finance Minister[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) here on Tuesday condemned the Sunday’s JNU campus violence. “The executive committee of the SCBA today (Tuesday) resolved to strongly condemn the violence against JNU students by anti-social elements. It further resolved to condemn the inaction on the part[Read More…]
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) The Centre on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it has no role in deciding the reservation policy of any state government, although the Constitution Act, 2019 passed by the Parliament enabled both Centre and the states to provide reservation to the Economically Weaker Sections[Read More…]
Shanghai, Jan 7 (IANS) Tesla CEO Elon Musk ripped off his jacket, tossed it towards the audience and showed some smart dance moves on stage during a ceremony at Tesla’s new $2 billion plant near Shanghai on Tuesday. The billionaire shared the video on Twitter and captioned it: “At Tesla[Read More…]
Mumbai, Jan 7 (IANS) Facing flak from various right-wing groups and activists for carrying a placard “Free Kashmir” at a protest near the Gateway of India, a Mumbai woman claimed it was “intended for peace in Jammu & Kashmir”, and apologised for the misunderstanding it created, here on Tuesday. The[Read More…]
