New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Rahul Gandhi’s former aide Pankaj Shankar here on Tuesday criticised the former Congress chief over his remarks on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) and asked him to end alliance with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. Shankar’s remark came soon after Rahul Gandhi slammed the Narendra[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Blockchain developers, artificial intelligence specialists and JavaScript developers are the top three emerging jobs in India for 2020, according to a report by professional networking platform LinkedIn. While tech jobs led the list, non-tech jobs, like customer success specialist, digital marketing specialist and lead generation[Read More…]
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By Vivek Tripathi Gonda, Dec 10 (IANS) Being the birthplace of Lord Ram, Ayodhya is considered a holy city for Hindus but Lord Hanuman here in Hanumangarhi gets decorated with the flowers brought by a man, who is actually a Muslim. Moreover, his wife daily prepares a garland especially to[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The European Union’s ambassador to India, Ugo Astuto, has expressed optimism that the spirit of equality enshrined in the Indian constitution will be upheld. He was commenting on the Citizenship Amendment Bill cleared by the Lok Sabha. The EU ambassador’s comment comes in the wake[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Xiaomi-backed wearable brand Huami on Tuesday launched Amazfit GTR 47mm Titanium version and 42 mm Glitter Edition smartwatch in India. The 47.2mm (Titanium) and 42.6mm (Glitter edition) are priced at Rs 14,999 and Rs 12,999 respectively, will be available on Flipkart. “With the launch of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) An elderly fruit-seller’s refusal to accept money for fruits bought by women journalists stationed outside a Delhi hospital after a fire tragedy, has won praise from Twitterati. A Twitter user posted a picture of the old man, appearing to be in his 60s, and wrote:[Read More…]
New York, Dec 10 (IANS) The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade owing to climate change, a new study has found, stressing that the glacier’s melt rate is similar to visiting a terminal cancer patient and documenting the change in[Read More…]
Chennai, Dec 10 (IANS) Forty-two year old Tamil police Head Constable S. Subash Srinivasan, a police gallantry medal winner and grandson of INA veteran, has volunteered to hang the killers of Nirbhaya in Tihar Jail. “I read a news report stating that no hangman was available to hang the killers[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) State Bank of India on Tuesday reported bad loan divergence of Rs 11,932 crore for the last financial year besides disclosing divergence of Rs 12,036 crore in provisioning for the financial year ending March 2019. The bad loan divergence means banking regulator RBI found SBI[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday called for a rigorous campaign to bring awareness about doping. He further stated that a sense of clean sports must be inculcated in the players from the very beginning. Speaking at a function to announce actor Suniel Shetty[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) The Delhi Police have issued an advisory to travellers passing through IGI Airport, to check their baggage for bullets and other ammunition before proceeding for security screening at the airport. The advisory issued on Tuesday cautions that even a possession of ammunition such as bullets,[Read More…]
By Rohit Vaid New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Notwithstanding growth pangs, the Reserve Bank is expected to maintain the accommodative monetary easing pause till the end of FY20 to contain retail inflation levels, say industry observers. Economists and industry experts pointed out that an imminent rise in retail food inflation[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) West Indies coach Phil Simmons said on Tuesday that dropping catches could be a major reason behind the defeat of any team and and if any player drops a catch, it’s his fault and he shouldn’t cite any excuse for it. In the ongoing T20I series[Read More…]
Chennai, Dec 10 (IANS) Forty-two year old Tamil police Head Constable S. Subash Srinivasan, a police gallantry medal winner and grandson of INA veteran, has volunteered to hang the killers of Nirbhaya in Tihar Jail. “I read a news report stating that no hangman was available to hang the killers[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Weeks after pulling out of proposed mega free trade pact RCEP, India would review lopsided trade agreements with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and secure better deals. Making a statement in Rajya Sabha over India’s position in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), Commerce[Read More…]
New York, Dec 10 (IANS) When it comes to identify who is more at suicide risk, scientists have found that physical illness and injury raises the risk of suicide in men but not women, along with a plethora of other insights into the complex factors that may increase a person’s[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Reiterating the government’s commitment to Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister of state for Home Affairs, G. Krishna Reddy said that allowances, running up to Rs 4800 crore, have been cleared for government employees of the newly formed union territory as well as the union territory[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Barely 24 hours after Shiv Sena’s face in Parliament Sanjay Raut vehemently supporting the Citizenship Amendment Bill and equating it with support for India, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray took a complete U-turn. On Tuesday, the Maharashtra Chief Minister and Sena chief said that it is[Read More…]
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San Francisco, Dec 10 (IANS) Owing to lack of time and competing demands, one-third of Americans rely on news platforms they acknowledge are less reliable, mainly social media and peers, says a new report. The other two-thirds of the public consider their primary news sources trustworthy, mainly print news and[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) Former England skipper Kevin Pietersen feels Shreyas Iyer, who has been considered as an option for the No. 4 slot in India’s ODI team, should concentrate on improving his off-side batting and should spend extra time on the nets. Speaking about Shreyas on Star Sports Select[Read More…]
Mumbai, Dec 10 (IANS) Bollywood films are painted on the big-screen canvas with myriad hues of drama, melodrama, music and dance, romance and violence. The genre that has wooed worldwide audience is now being reimagined in the pages of comic books, at ComiCon Mumbai 2019. Among the first set of[Read More…]
By Bharat Upadhyay Shenzhen, Dec 10 (IANS) With OPPO planning to invest $7 billion in research and development globally in the next three years, the Chinese smartphone maker is set to open its second R&D centre in India, a top company executive said here on Tuesday. The company currently has[Read More…]
Madrid, Dec 10 (IANS) A total of 631 institutional investors managing more than $37 trillion in assets have urged governments to step up efforts to tackle the global climate crisis and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement by phasing out thermal coal power and price on carbon pollution. The[Read More…]
