New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The road transport and highways ministry in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Thursday said that it has given “in-principle” approval to convert 51,300 km length of state…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) In a bid to inspire cross-cultural connectivity between Bengal and Britain, the communities along the Thames and Hooghly rivers have come together for a year-long artistic exchange programme to create 20…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government has spent around Rs 19,000 crore in the last two years for strengthening road infrastructure in the north-eastern region of the country, Minster of State for Road Transport…
By Nikhil M. Babu New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Fourteen days after an Ola cab driver kidnapped a 29-year-old Delhi doctor, the cab service provider company is yet to fix a policy loophole that favoured…
Cairo, July 20 (IANS) The Arab League (AL) warned on Thursday against the growing cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen, urging the international community to respond to the pleas of UN organisations to control the epidemic….
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and sought from the central government one-time settlement of the Rs 6,000 crore loans taken by…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Tata Industries on Thursday said that laboratory testing major Eurofins Scientific will acquire its preclinical contract research company Advinus Therapeutics. “Tata Sons, Tata Industries and Rallis India announced today that they,…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government on Thursday said that it has conducted various stakeholder consultations to evolve a procedure that would mandate air passengers to furnish a digital identification number for booking tickets….
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The government has set a target of constructing 15,000-km of national highways during the current fiscal, Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Pon Radhakrishnan said on Thursday. Of…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Delhi saw some respite from the heat on Thursday, as the maximum temperature dropped two degrees due to a rainy morning even as the weatherman predicted light rain on Friday…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Thursday reviewed the progress of the work to set up multi-modal logistics parks across the country. In a meeting held…
Shimla, July 20 (IANS) The ‘Queen of Hills’ Shimla wore a deserted look on Thursday as the opposition BJP called for a complete shutdown over the gang-rape and murder of a schoolgirl, with all business…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) on Thursday announced it will invest $25 million in a technology incubator — the Jerusalem Innovation Incubator (JII) — which will reinvest in early stage start-ups…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Professional services firm KPMG in India on Thursday said that it will merge the transactions (M&A) and risk consulting businesses of BMR. According to the company, the merger will combine…
Mumbai, July 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has served a notice to Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri to appear before it personally on August 23 in an ongoing FEMA case,…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) With a 10 kg cake and a special treat of two kg chicken — his favourite, the National Zoological Park (Delhi zoo) celebrated the tenth birthday of white tiger Vijay…
Bengaluru, July 20 (IANS) Global software major Wipro Ltd on Thursday reported Rs 2,080 crore net profit for the first quarter of fiscal 2017-18, registering 8 per cent sequential decline from Rs 2,260 crore a…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) A day after he was rescued from kidnappers who held him hostage for 13 days, 29-year-old Sreekanth struggled to find words as he faced questions on Thursday evening. Shaking and…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday observed that ignorance of citizens on how personal data furnished by them was being used could not be the basis for not testing the validity…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) The acquisition of the central government’s majority stake in Hindustan Petroleum by state-run explorer ONGC is the more effective and smoother way of merging these two entities, which are in…
