San Francisco, Oct 23 (IANS) Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday announced the team at Google AI has achieved sort of “quantum supremacy” with developing a chip that performed the target computation in 200 seconds, which would otherwise take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years. Published in the journal Nature,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Congress has issued a show cause notice to five leaders of its Delhi unit for issuing a public statement demanding the removal of the party’s Delhi in-charge P.C. Chacko. The notice has been issued by senior Congress leader Motilal Vora, Member Secretary, Central Disciplinary[Read More…]
By Anjana Das New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), which received a fresh lease of life on Wednesday as the Cabinet approved its revival plan, will float a tender in November for 4G expansion at up to 50,000 sites. Also, as the Cabinet has given[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Union Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah has joined Instagram, a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook. Shah’s account on Instagram shows 513 posts and 2 million followers while he was following only two persons. A tweet posted by Shah’s Twitter[Read More…]
Guwahati, Oct 23 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has called for restoration of the Brahmaputra-Barak-Padma-Meghna riverine waterways to take forward the outcome of the India-Bangladesh Stakeholders’ Meet. The Chief Minister conveyed this to a delegation led by Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, which met him at his office in[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Oct 23 (IANS) The striking employees of the Telangana State Road Transport Corporation (TSRTC) on Wednesday said they have not dropped the demand for its merger with the government. Their statement came a day after Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao announced that barring the merger, the remaining demands will[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Vice President M. Venkaiah Nadu will represent India at the 18th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Baku (Azerbaijan) on October 25-26. For the second time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be skipping the NAM summit. He had skipped the earlier summit held in Venezuela in 2016.[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) Lower tax expenses aided two and three-wheeler major Bajaj Auto to post a higher standalone net profit of 21.68 per cent for the second quarter of 2019-20. According to the company, pursuant to the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Ordinance 2019, it intends to exercise the option to[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) Infosys management’s decision to not disclose the whistleblowers’ letter has cost the investors and the company heavily. And it now comes across that the company showed blatant disregard for the guidelines under which the “materiality” of information has to be disclosed. Market regulator Sebi’s policy mandates[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday dissolved its Gujarat unit but asked the state unit chief Amit Chavda to continue. Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi approved the “proposal to dissolve the panel of office bearers and Executive Committee of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC)”. Congress Gujarat in-charge[Read More…]
BY RAJNISH SINGH New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) The Indo-Tibetan Border Police has been planning to conduct a detailed survey of north-western border to increase the number of its border outposts (BoPs) in the Himalayan range aimed at increasing its accessibility closer to India-China border. The survey would be conducted[Read More…]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Several thousand government jobs, under the reserved quota, were usurped in Uttar Pradesh, in connivance with local administration officials including the District Magistrates. In several instances, which have come to light now, candidates of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) converted themselves into Scheduled[Read More…]
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, Oct 23 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has said people wanted Parliament to function smoothly and he would make efforts to run the House without disruptions. After presiding over a productive first session of the 17th Lok Sabha, Birla is hoping the trend to continue[Read More…]
Guwahati, Oct 23 (IANS) After the death of 20 new-borns was reported in the past one week at the Jorhat Medical College and Hospital (JMCH) in Assam, the state government has rushed a team of doctors to the medical college. Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced this on Wednesday,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing whether the fundamental right to free speech can be curtailed on sensitive matters under probe. On October 5, 2017, the three-judge bench of the top court had referred the matter to the Constitution[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Oct 23 (IANS) Heavy rains and floods across Karnataka wreaked havoc claiming 13 lives and damaged 10,038 houses, said a weather official on Wednesday. “The rainfall witnessed during the last 7-8 days is the highest recorded in the last 50 years,” Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre director (KSNDMC)[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi has send a ‘Chadar’ to the Bareilly Sharif Dargah to pay her respects. The Dargah of Ala Hazrat is celebrating its 101st annual ‘Urs’ ceremony. The Congress in a release on Wednesday said: “Congress President Sonia Gandhi met a delegation[Read More…]
Jaipur, Oct 23 (IANS) Seven Bahujan Samaj Party workers were arrested on Wednesday in Jaipur for parading two party functionaries on donkeys after blackening their faces on Tuesday morning at the BSP headquarters. Those arrested were identified from the video footage of the incident, said Jaipur DCP West Kavendra SIngh[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) Around 2 lakh housing units were sold across the seven major cities in the country during the January-September period 2019, registering a 13 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in sales, according to an Anarock report. Last year, during the same period, around 1.78 lakh units[Read More…]
Dhaka, Oct 23 (IANS) The Federation of International Cricketers’ Association (FICA) executive chairman Tony Irish has thrown his weight behind the striking Bangladesh players. “FICA commends the players in Bangladesh for their unity and for taking a stand together in order to secure fair conditions applicable to them as professional[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) With little over three months to go for the crucial Delhi Assembly polls and with an eye on the Punjabi and Purvanchali vote share, the Congress on Wednesday appointed senior party leader Subhash Chopra as the new Delhi Congress chief and Kirti Azad as the[Read More…]
BY SUMIT KUMAR SINGH New Delhi, Oct 23 (IANS) To provide jobs to war veterans post-retirement, Indian Army and National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) inked collaboration on Wednesday to train their officers and personnel for re-employment in the corporate world. The partnership was announced at NASSCOM Diversity[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Oct 23 (IANS) The Odisha government has decided to develop nine tourist circuits and 13 tourist destinations. The decision was taken at the Tourism Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting, chaired by Chief Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy, here on Wednesday. These would be developed as part of new tourism promotion activities,[Read More…]
Panaji, Oct 23 (IANS) The Union Environment Ministry on Wednesday granted an Environment Clearance (EC) to the controversial Kalasa-Banduri dam water diversion project across the Mhadei river, even as Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant failed to provide a clear response on the issue in the face of opposition attacks on[Read More…]
Jaipur, Oct 23 (IANS) Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday advised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government to follow the Rajasthan government in implementing the EWS reservation to ensure its wide reach to the right beneficiaries. “Central government should take a similar initiative as ours to ensure people[Read More…]
