Nairobi, Dec 4 (IANS) Kenya has made progress in reducing poverty and inequality over the past decade, the World Bank said in a report which was released in Nairobi. Utz Johann Pape, senior economist at the World Bank said that poverty rates declined over the period but remain high by[Read More…]
Tehran, Dec 4 (IANS) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran is ready to normalize ties with Saudi Arabia, official IRNA news agency reported. “From Iran’s points of view, there is no problem in developing ties with neighbours and resuming relations with Saudi Arabia,” Rouhani made the remarks on Tuesday[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday questioned Videocon’s CMD Venugopal Dhoot for over five hours in connection with its money laundering probe in the Rs 1,875-crore Videocon-ICICI loan case. A senior ED official told IANS: “Yes, Dhoot was asked to appear before the agency. We questioned[Read More…]
Las Vegas, Dec 3 (IANS) Aiming to stay ahead in the big data race, Amazon’s Cloud arm AWS on Tuesday announced a plethora of new offerings and solutions to make life simpler for customers as they generate humongous amount of data. Addressing a packed house at AWS re: Invent conference[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Dec 3 (IANS) Campaigning for the crucial by-elections to 15 assembly seats in Karnataka on Thursday ended on Tuesday evening, with leaders and candidates of political parties and others doing their utmost to woo the electorate as the results could influence the state’s future political course. “The 13-day campaign[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Dec 3 (IANS) The Congress on Tuesday complained to the Election Commission against Karnataka’s Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister J.C. Madhuswamy for appealing to voters “on caste lines” in Vijayanagara constituency ahead of the Assembly bypolls. According to the Congress complaint, Madhuswamy, at a meeting of the Lingayat community[Read More…]
Greater Noida, Dec 3 (IANS) NE Rhinos’ Nikhat Zareen drew from the reserves of her energy and skill to edge out Pinki Rani of the Bengaluru Brawlers in the womens 51kg bout on the second day of the Big Bout Indian Boxing League (IBL) at the Gautam Buddha University Indoor[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations has urged the government to introduce a ‘Franchisee Protection Act’ to safeguard the interest of the customers, dealers and employees, in the aftermath of some auto manufacturers exiting India. “Auto manufacturers shutting shops and exiting India overnight now brings[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Dec 3 (IANS) Biotechnology major Biocon’s Chief Financial Officer Siddharath Mittal took over as its new CEO and Joint Managing Director on Tuesday. “Mittal took over from Arun Chandavarkar, who retired on November 30 after 29 years of service to the evolution and success of the company,” said the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra here on Tuesday slammed the Yogi Aditynath government over the alleged suicide of a Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) student at Mainpuri in UP. Priyanka alleged that she was raped and criticised the UP administration for delaying the probe into[Read More…]
Guwahati, Dec 3 (IANS) The Assam forest department officials have seized about 16 migratory birds in captivity from remote Juria in Nagaon district in the early hours of Tuesday and arrested a youth for hunting of these birds. Police believe that there is a huge racket involved behind catching and[Read More…]
Zurich, Dec 3 (IANS) Switzerland have honoured tennis legend Roger Federer by creating a 20-franc silver coin with his image on it. The 38-year-old, frequently rated as the greatest men’s tennis player of all time, is pictured in the coin in the initial stages of serving his trademark one-handed backhand.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Indian’s insurance regulator has approved divestment of 51 per cent stake of Max India in Max Bupa Health Insurance Company to private equity firm True North. Max India, a part of the $3.2 billion multi-business corporate Max Group said that Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) One person was killed and another injured in a clash between two groups, both purportedly owing loyalties to West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, in the state’s South 24 Parganas district on Tuesday, sources said, Sources said the clashes occurred due to a turf war between two[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) To check onion hoarding, the central government here on Tuesday decided to reduce by 50 per cent the stock limit for the wholesale and retail traders to 25 tonnes and 5 tonnes, respectively. According to the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution[Read More…]
New Orleans (US)/New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) A video clipping about a toddlers’ race on a basketball court in the US evoked some funny responses from the Twitter users. New Orleans Pelicans Twitter handle @PelicansNBA posted the clipping on December 2 with the caption, “A Baby Crawl Race for the[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) In an unprecedented action, West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Tuesday adjourned the House for two days, saying bills scheduled to be placed before the members were yet to get the green signal from Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. In a hard-hitting response, the Raj Bhavan denied[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Dec 3 (IANS) Wipro Consumer Care on Tuesday announced its acquisition of South African personal care firm Canway Corporation. “The acquisition gives Wipro Consumer Care an entry into South Africa and other African markets. It is a milestone for us given our vision of being among the top three[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Tuesday claimed his government eradicated corruption and did away with unwanted expenditure, and said the AAP government and MLAs got clean chit from the CAG for the five consecutive years and other investigation agencies, like the CBI and[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition Left Front on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Centre for the serial fraudulent withdrawals from the bank accounts of customers in the state, and alleged that its policy of linking Aadhaar to all documents had compromised people’s[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The last session of the sixth Assembly of Delhi concluded on Tuesday with Speaker Ram Niwas Goel calling the term historical. Concluding the last session, Goel said the sixth Assembly witnessed 106 sittings. The House gave a standing ovation as the Speaker got emotional while[Read More…]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) The Central Board of Direct Taxes has processed 2.10 crore refund returns amounting to Rs 1,46,272.8 crore or Rs 1.46 lakh crore for the current Assessment Year 2019-20 as on November 28. This, compared to 1.75 crore (AY 2018-19) refund returns for the same period[Read More…]
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS) Amid panic over spate of fraudulent withdrawals from some bank accounts in the past two days in Bengal, the Kolkata Police team reached Delhi on Tuesday to examine CCTV footage, suspecting the role of Romanian and Turkish nationals in the scam. Over 50 complaints of such[Read More…]
By Vinayak Chakravorty New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Actors and makers of a web show titled “D-Code” are crying foul over what they claim is illegal practice on part of the on-demand video-streaming platform, ULLU app. According to the cast and crew, certain bold sequences filmed for the show have[Read More…]
Palm Springs (California)/New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Australian pop star Sia surprised shoppers at a Walmart store on the eve of Thanksgiving festival by paying for their shopped items. She went to the store, moved around, hugged the customers and paid for the merchandise they had bought, a media report[Read More…]
