Hyderabad, Aug 9 (IANS) Ion Exchange (India) Limited, a leader in water and environment management solutions, on Friday announced the launch of its new Research & Development Centre at Patancheru in Telangana. The centre will focus on the company’s chemicals, resins and membranes business. It will also provide technical and[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Dabang Delhi pulled off a narrow but thrilling 8-7 victory to steal a place in the final of the Ultimate Table Tennis here on Friday. India’s Sathiyan G and Romania’s petite Bernadette Szocs set the stage for Dabang, with a grand display of attacking TT.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The owner of British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized by Iran on July 19 with 23 crew, including 18 Indians on board, has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene to seek the release of the vessel. In a letter to[Read More…]
Jodhpur, Aug 9 (IANS) The Bhagat ki Kothi railway station here on Friday wears a gloomy look with stranded passengers seen sobbing and pleading with media to convey their message to Pakistan, which has announced it will also shut down the Thar Link Express from here to Munabao in Pakistan,[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 9 (IANS) It was an award that never actually came for seven-time Kerala State Film Award winning cinematographer, M.J. Radhakrishnan. When the national film awards were announced on Friday, his name figured, but he is no longer around to hear the news. It was last month that the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) A Kerala man who went missing last year and later joined the Islamic State (IS) has been killed in an operation conducted by the Afghan-US forces in Afghanistan, a senior intelligence official said on Friday. Saifuddin, the deceased person, is the second resident from Kerala[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, saying that the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor’s (EDFC) Bengal section was “fledging” due to lack of clarity in the centre’s “course of execution” and urged him to address the “strategic policy gap”[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) Bengali director Sagnik Chatterjee who bagged the National Award for Best Debut Non-Feature Film for his documentary on Satyajit Ray’s sleuth Feluda, rates the recognition as a big encouragement, and says it would inspire more people to come up with such efforts. His documentary “Feluda: 50[Read More…]
Tripoli, Aug 9 (IANS/AKI) More than 105,000 people have fled their homes since eastern warlord Khalifa Haftar began an aerial and ground offensive to capture the Libyan capital Tripoli in early April, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Those displaced by the deadly conflict between Haftar’s forces and[Read More…]
Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar), Aug 9 (IANS) The Indian men’s U-23 team created history on Friday by defeating Australia 3-1 for a place in the semifinal of the Asian Mens U-23 Volleyball Championships here. This is the first time that an Indian team has made it to the semifinal of[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) In a brilliant manoeuvre, Rahul Gandhi enlarged the scope of how his successor would be chosen by bringing in a multitude of leaders into the meeting that will pick the next Congress president. At 11 a.m. on Saturday when the meeting takes place at the[Read More…]
Beijing, Aug 9 (IANS) Amid fears of getting cut off from the Android systems due to the US-China trade war, Chinese tech giant Huawei on Friday launched its own operating system called HarmonyOS or HongMeng in Chinese. Introducing the software in China’s Dongguan city, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 9 (IANS) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his India counterpart Narendra Modi had the mindset of Adolf Hitler, the late German dictator and leader of the Nazi Party. Addressing a gathering of international journalists in Islamabad, Imran Khan said: “The BJP is now deploying the[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Aug 9 (IANS) The Telangana government will be a setting up dedicated industrial park for furniture manufacturing here, a top official said on Friday. The Furniture Park will come up over 100 acres of land on the outskirts of the city. It will house various furniture manufacturers. State’s Principal[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 9 (IANS) Pakistani flags will fly half-mast in residential areas and government buildings across the nation on August 15, the Independence Day of India, which Islamabad has decided to observe as ‘black day’ in protest against its Kashmir moves. August 14, the day Pakistan celebrates its Independence Day,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Congress will certainly get a new President on Saturday after the party holds a broader discussion, senior party leader K.C. Venugopal said. Speaking to reporters after the meeting of the party general secretaries, state in-charges, PCC chiefs, CLP leaders and AICC department heads and MPs,[Read More…]
Sao Paulo, Aug 9 (IANS) Brazilian prosecutors have decided to drop a rape charge against star footballer Neymar. According to reports, the prosecutors could not affirm as to whether there was violence in the said sexual act although it seemed an amorous relationship. Former Brazil captain Neymar was in May[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Delhi Police claimed to have arrested nine members of the infamous Neeraj Bawana gang from Jaunti village in Delhi’s Khanjawala area. The police on Friday said the criminals used to carry out assigned tasks by their gang leader Neeraj. Police have also recovered arms[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) Indian Air Force stunned I-League debutants TRAU FC by a solitary goal at the Sailen Manna Stadium in Howrah in the 129h Durand Cup on Friday. In the 65th minute, Mohammed Aqib scored from a freekick after a barren first half, which proved to be the[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 9 (IANS) George Telegraph made it three out of three wins in the Calcutta Football League (CFL) as they stunned heavyweights East Bengal 1-0 here on Friday. Justice Morgan scored a sensational stoppage time winner to hand his side a stunning victory that took George Telegraph to the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Deepening its ties with India even as it reaffirmed that there is no change in its Kashmir policy, Washington is sending US Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan on a visit to India next week, as well as to Bhutan. Sullivan will travel to Thimphu[Read More…]
New Delhi/Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and his wife Radhika were prevented from leaving the country at the Mumbai airport on Friday. The two have return tickets to India for August 16, but were stopped from travelling abroad over alleged corruption cases filed by the Central Bureau[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) The Indian Navy has put its warships on alert on both the eastern and western coasts over the likelihood of a terror attack from Pakistan, defence sources said on Friday. An attack from Pakistan is anticipated by military intelligence after the Indian Parliament withdrew special[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 9 (IANS) Actress Amrita Rao, who has collaborated with filmmaker Farah Khan in “Main Hoon Na”, has said that she would like to work with the filmmaker again in her upcoming project, which is a remake of “Satte Pe Satta”. “I would love to work with Farah (Khan)[Read More…]
Chandigarh, Aug 9 (IANS) The National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here would conduct a six-month study on food products to validate low glycemic index of products and understand its effects. The glycemic index is a relative ranking of carbohydrates in[Read More…]
