Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Coal Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said Coal India’s production target of 600 million tonnes for the current fiscal would “not be a difficult” task and also hoped the miner would…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday said that World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” global rankings is “not based on ground reality” as it has not taken into account the impact of…
Mumbai, Nov 1 (IANS) India’s leading IT firm Tech Mahindra on Wednesday reported a 29.7 per cent rise in its consolidated net profit to Rs 836.2 crore in the quarter ended September 30, 2017 as…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to commence hearing on Thursday on Delhi government’s appeal challenging Delhi High Court verdict holding that the Lt. Governor had the primacy over the elected…
Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Claiming there is no controversy over the celebration of Sardar Vallabhai Patel’s birth anniversary in West Bengal, state Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Wednesday said the Trinamool Congress government has “no…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted a football to Bhutanese Prince Jigme Namgyal Wangchuk when the Himalayan kingdom’s royal family called on him at his official residence here on Wednesday evening….
Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) A speeding car of a West Bengal government official knocked down a motor cycle, severely injuring both the riders, here on Wednesday afternoon, police said. According to police, the car belonged…
Chandigarh, Nov 1 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Wednesday announced a Pond Management Authority would be set up for the protection, conservation, development and rejuvenation of each of the over 14,000 ponds…
Chandigarh, Nov 1 (IANS) ‘Green Revolution’ state Punjab has procured nearly 140 lakh tonnes of paddy this season within one month of the procurement process, while neighbouring Haryana has also procured nearly 60 lakh tonnes,…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) A student team of the Delhi Technological University (DTU) has built software which will enable people with certain disabilities to operate computers with blinks of their eyes and movement of…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The 28-month-old conjoined twins from Odisha, who underwent an 18-hour surgery for separation at AIIMS here last week, are stable and their condition has further improved, the hospital authorities said…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday said no poor person shall be deprived of welfare measures just because he or she does not have an Aadhaar card, adding that…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) A court here on Wednesday directed that the lie detector test of arms dealer Abhishek Verma, a witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler, should…
Chandigarh, Nov 1 (IANS) The world’s largest furniture retailer, IKEA, has bid for a 10 acre plot of commercial land in Gurugram, adjoining Delhi, for a whopping Rs 842 crore — making it the single…
Mumbai, Nov 1 (IANS) In a major decision, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has cleared the decks permitting restaurants, bars and cafes on rooftops of buildings, officials said here on Wednesday. The development comes are…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The mastermind of the sensational loot on a bus in the national capital in 2008 has been finally arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur after evading police for nearly a decade,…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday fixed November 8 for passing an order on the maintainability of a plea challenging the appointment of BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra as an Independent…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) The Environment Ministry has proposed to relax the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) plan by reducing the e-waste collection targets for industries. With 1.7 million tonnes of e-waste generated annually (2014…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 1 (IANS) The Odisha government on Wednesday decided to provide all support to set up a world-class state-of-the-art centre of excellence in the Research and Entrepreneurship Park of IIT -Bhubaneswar to boost startups…
Lucknow, Nov 1 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed and more than 80 injured in a boiler explosion at a unit of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareli district,…