New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) People in the national capital will not have to pay anything for consuming upto 200 units of power per month, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday. Kejriwal claimed that Delhi is now supplying the cheapest electricity in the country. The new scheme has[Read More…]
The Hague, Aug 1 (IANS) The prohibition of the use of burqas in public spaces, designed to target women who use the face-covering garments, came into force amid much controversy on Thursday in the Netherlands. The law is aimed at those who wear Islamic garments such as the burqa (a[Read More…]
Pune, Aug 1 (IANS) Renowned Indian scientist Atish Shripad Dabholkar will take over as the new Director of the prestigious Abdul Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Italy’s Trieste, his cousin Hamid Dabholkar said here on Thursday. The Kolhapur-born Dabholkar, 55, is the nephew of the well-known rationalist[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 1 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said IT majors Wipro and Microsoft have agreed to invest in the state. Banerjee said that Wipro would be allocated 50 acres of land at the Silicon Valley IT hub at New Town here, while Microsoft would start[Read More…]
Agartala, Aug 1 (IANS) The central government has accorded top priority to development of eight north-eastern states and has announced the HIRA model for the region. This was stated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vice-President Shivraj Singh Chouhan, here on Thursday. He was here in connection with a membership drive[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Edward Snowden’s memoir “Permanent Record” will be published globally by Macmillan Publishers on September 17. In 2013, former CIA agent and NSA contractor Snowden had shocked the world when he broke away from the American intelligence establishment and revealed the extent of information, including phone[Read More…]
Rome, Aug 1 (IANS) Almost 822 million people suffered from chronic malnutrition and about 2,000 million had food insecurity in 2018, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN has said in a report. New Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Qu Dongyu, faces the challenge of mobilizing[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Aug 1 (IANS) IBM on Thursday announced that it has transformed its software portfolio to be Cloud-native and optimized it to run on Red Hat OpenShift. Enterprises can now build mission-critical applications once and run them on all leading public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Former Maldives Vice President Ahmed Adeeb has been detained at Tuticorin port while he was reportedly trying to enter India illegally as a crew member of a tugboat. The Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday that Adeeb has “not been permitted entry into the[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Senior bureaucrat Guruprasad Mohapatra on Thursday assumed charge as the Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Prior to taking over as DPIIT Secretary, the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 1986 batch served[Read More…]
Aligarh, Aug 1 (IANS) The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has suspended 10 students for indiscipline and creating nuisance at the administrative block, here. According to AMU officials on Thursday, some students from the Syedna Tahir Saifuddin (STS) School misbehaved with the principal and teachers and created ruckus on the campus.[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Ever since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk proposed the idea of a hyperloop architecture in the summer of 2013, there has been a lot of interest in this mode of transportation that promises to run at over 1,000 km per hour — 10-15 times faster than[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Nine Karnataka MLAs on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking directions to quash the former Assembly Speaker’s decision to disqualify them from the House. Earlier, the MLAs had moved the court seeking directions to the Speaker to accept their resignation from the Assembly. However, the[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 1 (IANS) Automobile major Tata Motors on Thursday reduced prices of its electric vehicle (EV) — Tigor EV — by up to Rs 80,000 on the back of the recent cut in GST rates of all electric-powered vehicles. “In light of the recent announcement made by the government[Read More…]
Lucknow, Aug 1 (IANS) Three Uttar Pradesh Police personnel tasked with protecting the rape survivor from Unnao, were suspended on Thursday on charges of dereliction of duty, an official said. Inspector General of Police, Law and Order, Pravin Kumar told reporters here that the suspended police personnel are Sudesh Kumar,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) In a strict direction, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday warned all members to avoid passing comments on other members from their seats, otherwise they will have to tender an apology in the House from the next time. Birla’s ruling came during the discussion[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Telecom major Airtel on Thursday posted a mammoth consolidated net loss of Rs 2,866 crore for the first quarter ending June caused mainly by a one-time hit of Rs 1,445 crore. Such a loss suffered by India’s third largest mobile operator by subscriber base reduces[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Automobile major Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday reported a decline of 33.5 per cent in its total sales, including exports for July. According to Maruti Suzuki India, a total of 109,264 units were sold last month, compared to the off-take of 164,369 units recorded during[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) It was only a few weeks ago when young Kashmiri actress Zaira Wasim said that she had decided to quit the film industry as her “relationship with my religion was threatened”. Director Nitesh Tiwari, who introduced her to the industry with his blockbuster “Dangal”, sees[Read More…]
Jaipur, Aug 1 (IANS) Former President Pranab Mukherjee here on Thursday said the Indian parliamentary system “is the result of the constant struggle and did not come easily to us, nor did we get it as a gift from the British.” On the changes in the Constitution since its adoption,[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Several Indian employees were left in the lurch when ride-hailing service Uber sacked 400 staffers from its 1,200-member marketing team globally to cut costs and streamline operations. In a document posted on LinkedIn as “Ex-Uber Marketers,” nearly 20 Indians employed with Uber who lost their[Read More…]
Florida, Aug 1 (IANS) With the experienced duo of Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine returning to the T20I squad and skipper Carlos Brathwaite leading from the front, West Indies head coach Floyd Reifer expects some fireworks from the team when they take on Virat Kohli and boys in the three-match[Read More…]
Ranchi, Aug 1 (IANS) Jharkhand Congress workers from rival groups on Thursday clashed with each other at the state party headquarters here. The clashes turned ugly and police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the Congress workers. The clashes took places between supporters of Jharkhand Congress state chief Ajay Kumar and[Read More…]
Rampur, Aug 1 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday detained Moradabad MP S.T. Hasan and former Samajwadi Party MP Dharmendra Yadav while they were on their way to Rampur for a show of strength in support for Azam Khan, who has been accused of land grabbing in the district. Samajwadi[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Former England opener and noted pundit Geoffrey Boycott was back commentating on the opening day of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia at the Edgbaston Cricket Ground and he took to Twitter to announce that it was fantastic to be back on the[Read More…]
