Kolkata, Dec 13 (IANS) In a goof up, a function to celebrate first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s 125th birth anniversary, attended by President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday began with a vocal rendition of ‘Vande Mataram’…
Hyderabad, Dec 13 (IANS) Five people were burnt to death and six others injured in a collision between an autorickshaw and a car in Telangana’s Karimnagar district on Sunday, police said. The collision occurred near…
Mumbai, Dec 13 (PTI) The bodies of well-known painter and installation artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani have been found packed inside cardboard boxes lying near a drain in suburban Mumbai, police said…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) An online campaign to ban on 5,000-odd websites that carry Santa-Banta jokes at the cost of the Sikh community has received massive support, the initiators of the campaign have said….
Barmer, Dec 13 (IANS) Oil and gas major Cairn India are to launch the world’s largest enhanced oil recovery programme in the Rajasthan desert using polymer injection technology for recovering more oil at its processing…
Chandigarh, Dec 13 (IANS) Inmates of a mental hospital in Amritsar or of an old-age shelter home for widows may not have much to do with assembly elections in Punjab but the premises where they…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Hundreds of squatters were forced to spend the cold winter night out in the open in west Delhi after their hutments were demolished in an anti-encroachment drive, but an infant’s…
London, Dec 13 (IANS) Scientists have developed a first self-sufficient system powered by a wearable energy generator that uses urine to power wireless transmitter. This is the first self-sufficient system powered by a wearable energy…
London, Dec 13 (IANS) Although it brings embarrassment for you at public places, flatulence can, in fact, be a sign that you are eating healthy food. According to health experts, passing air frequently is actually…
King Bhumibol Adulyadej London, Dec 13 (IANS) A Thai man may get 32 years in jail for “liking” and sharing on Facebook a doctored image of the country’s king, a media report said here. Thanakorn…
Washington, Dec 13 (IANS) At least one person was killed when a man opened fire in a US retail giant Walmart store in the borough of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, the media reported on Sunday. The…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, (or Vyapam as it is popularly known), which has conducted admission tests for National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal since its inception in 1997,…
(AP Photo/Carlo Allegri) London, Dec 13 (IANS) If you pay extra attention to the probability of dangerous diseases that you may suffer in future, you are probably suffering from what is being termed as ‘Angelina…
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) India’s packaged food business has grown manifold, and it is estimated to grow to $50 billion by 2017 from $32 billion at present, a survey said on Sunday. “There has…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) The Paris Agreement on climate change clinched on Saturday after 13 days of hard negotiations demonstrates the collective wisdom of world leaders to…
Toronto, Dec 13 (IANS) As Delhi gets choked on record pollution levels and Chennai struggles after unprecedented floods, an Indo-Canadian scientist globally known for pioneering clean technologies said these developments are a wake-up call for…
Hyderabad, Dec 12 (IANS) Jamat-e-Islami Hind president Syed Jalaluddin Umri said solutions to all problems faced by the humanity lie in following the path shown by Islam. Addressing the public meeting on ‘reconstruction of the…
Paris, Dec 13 (IANS) The historic Paris agreement on climate change was on Saturday adopted without any objection by the 196 parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during the 21st…
Kolkata, Dec 12 (IANS) Amid a controversy over the public prosecutor seeking minimum punishment for the three accused in the Park Street gangrape case, the West Bengal government on Saturday removed the lawyer from the…
(INDIA – Tags: BUSINESS SCI TECH) Bengaluru, Dec 12 (IANS) As software professionals (techies) are well paid, they should give more for charity, Wipro czar Azim Premji said on Saturday. “IT firms and their employees…