New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The hugely-popular two-month-long Indian Premier League (IPL) will be played in India from March 23 despite the Lok Sabha elections due in April-May, ending the uncertainty over whether it would…
Colombo, Jan 8 (IANS) Sri Lanka is in talks with China to import hybrid buses to upgrade the island’s public transport sector, the media reported on Tuesday. State Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Ashoka…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha was on Tuesday adjourned for the day even as the opposition members refused to leave the House and staged demonstration against the governments “unilateral” decision to extend…
Lucknow, Jan 8 (IANS) Five persons of a family were on Tuesday found dead in their home in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh, police said. The family members went to sleep after having their dinner…
Seoul, Jan 8 (IANS) South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday replaced his Chief of Staff and two other senior secretaries in what was widely seen as a move to put behind a surveillance scandal…
Colombo, Jan 8 (IANS) President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed a 10-member commission to restructure the national SriLankan Airlines after it recorded a loss of nearly $105 million for the financial year of 2017-2018, the media…
Beijing, Jan 8 (IANS) China approved imports of five new varieties of genetically modified crops, paving the way for US agricultural firms to sell more biotech seeds to Chinese buyers, as Beijing and Washington seek…
Kharagpur, Jan 8 (IANS) IIT Kharagpur alumnus Prakash Patnaik has been conferred with the prestigious NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO)’s Panel Excellence Award in recognition for his longstanding service and extraordinary scientific contribution. Patnaik,…
Chennai, Jan 8 (IANS) Actor Varun Tej has confirmed that he has been approached with the offer to star in the yet-untitled Telugu remake of Tamil film “Jigarthanda”. Directed by Karthik Subbaraj, the 2014 gangster…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) India’s tea exports decreased marginally to 225.76 million kg during the January-November period in 2018 from 226.04 million kg exported during same period the previous year, according to data from Tea…
Bhubaneswar, Jan 8 (IANS) The three major political parties in Odisha – the Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party — on Tuesday took to the streets with an eye to gain…
New York, Jan 8 (IANS) Are you a leftie or a righty? The duration for which a child is breastfed may determine handedness or the dominant hand, says a research. The study, from the University…
Chennai, Jan 8 (IANS) AIADMK leader and former Minister P. Balakrishna Reddy will appeal against the special court’s order sentencing him to three years in jail in a rioting case of 1998. “We are discussing…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) West Bengal is exploring the possibility of coffee cultivation in Darjeeling on a large scale, encouraged by the success of some self-help groups, a state minister said on Tuesday. “Some of…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Normal life was partly hit in West Bengal on Tuesday during the 48-hour nationwide strike called by central trade unions in protest against the “pro-corporate, anti-national and anti-people” policies of the…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 8 (IANS) Successive governments in Kerala have been pressing the various Union governments demanding the famed Sabarimala temple be elevated to that of a national pilgrim centre but instead is…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking a ban on the trailer of the movie “The Accidental Prime Minister” saying it has…
Mumbai, Jan 8 (IANS) Broadly positive global bourses, coupled with stock-specific buying on the back of positive quarterly earning expectations pushed the Indian equity market higher on Tuesday. Additionally, hopes of further liquidity infusion into…