New Delhi: The Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety (CCRS) concluded its inquiry of the deadly Amritsar Train tragedy and blames peoples negligence, as they were standing near the railway tracks to witness Ravan Effigy burning celebration. ‘No information was given about the Dussehra event to the railways’ CCRS Shailesh Pathak[Read More…]
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81% Indians feel their smartphone doesn’t have all the features they need: Report
To understand the dynamically changing preferences of millennials in the smartphone space, 91mobiles.com, India’s largest smartphone discovery platform has today released its Consumer Insights Study 2018. Emerging as one of the largest smartphone markets in the world owing to affordable handset prices and increasing data penetration, India has a considerable set[Read More…]
Delhi’s Connaught Place: World’s 9th most expensive office area
According to the CB Real Estate report entitled ‘Global Prime Office Occupancy Costs 2018’, released on Wednesday, Connaught Place in Delhi is the ninth most expensive office location in the world. Delhi’s Connaught Place moved one notch up to be the ninth most expensive office location with an annual prime[Read More…]
Only 7 per cent of Rs 9,860 cr spent so far under Smart City mission: Report
Only seven per cent, or about Rs 645 crore have been utilised so far out of Rs 9,860 crore released to 60 cities under the Smart City project, says a data report. Of the Rs 196 crore specified to each of around 40 cities, Ahmedabad has spent the maximum amount[Read More…]
Top 10 per cent earners have 55 per cent of India’s wealth, says report
Income inequality in India has increaed since deregulation started in the 1980s, with the top 10 per cent of earners accounting for 55 per cent of the national wealth in 2016, according to a global research report released on Wednesday. The India-specific finding of the ‘World Inequality Report 2018’ authored,[Read More…]
Nearly 4.8 million Indian adults are planning to migrate: Report
A report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has suggested that India has the second highest number of adults planning to migrate to other countries. Notably, the US and the UK are among the most favored destinations for Indians. In report named, Measuring Global Migration Potential 2010-2015, the migration[Read More…]
West Bengal violence: Internet suspended, Section 144 imposed; Centre seeks report
Internet services were disrupted in the Baduria district after clashes in Baduria and Basirhat areas of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas over a Facebook post. The development took place after an angry mob torched police vehicles, vandalised shops and blocked roads leading to the India-Bangladesh border following an offensive post[Read More…]
Muslims saw greatest natural increase among all religious groups: Report
Muslims saw the greatest natural increase among all other religious groups, including Christians, between 2010 and 2015, suggests a global report. Births to Muslims outnumbered deaths by 152 million (213 million births vs. 61 million deaths), shows the Pew Research survey. Generally, all major groups had more births than deaths.[Read More…]
China may intervene in Kashmir issue: Report
Chhattisgarh: ED attaches Rs 36 crore assets of suspended principal secretary
Assets worth Rs 36 crore of suspended Chhattisgarh IAS official BL Agrawal was attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday. Agrawal was earlier detained by the CBI. “ED has attached assets worth Rs 36.09 crore under PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act),” an official from the agency said as[Read More…]
Aadhaar data has been leaked, admits government
The Modi government for the first time has formally acknowledged that the personal identity of individuals, including Aadhaar number and other sensitive information, has been leaked. In a letter written by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology confirms the data breach as per a report in the New Indian[Read More…]
Apple, Amazon, Google bidding for Toshiba chip unit: Report
Top firms like Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Google are taking part in bidding for Toshiba’s NAND flash memory unit, competing with others for the Japanese firm’s prized semiconductor operation, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Saturday. Toshiba shareholders decided to split off its NAND flash memory business. The decision[Read More…]
India: Nearly 63 million people do not have access to clean water
Almost 63 million of people living in rural areas have no access to clean water, as per a new global report released to mark World Water Day on Wednesday. India has the maximum number of people – almost the population of the United Kingdom, who doesn’t have access to clean[Read More…]
Afghanistan second most dangerous country for reporters after Syria
Afghanistan is the second most dangerous place for journalists after Syria, according to a report released on Thursday. As least 13 journalists were killed last year, the Afghan Journalists’ Safety Committee (AJSC) said, adding that the Taliban was behind at least ten of the deaths. The committee also found 101[Read More…]
Rohith Vemulla’s mother ‘faked’ Dalit status, HCU not to be blamed for his suicide says commission report
The one-man judicial commission set up by the HRD ministry has finished its inquiry into the suicide of Rohith Vemula. Constituted on January 28, 11 days after Vemula killed himself in his hostel room, the commission submitted its 41-page report where the report has claimed that Rohith’s mother “branded” herself[Read More…]
Alarming: 75% of casualties due to air pollution in India, says WHO
Majority of deaths in India is not caused by diseases but due to air pollution. Air pollution is killing nearly 8,00,000 people annually in the South East Asian Region with India alone accounting for over 75% of the casualties caused by cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer, according to a new[Read More…]