New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) It was a partly overcast Thursday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.2 degree celsius, three notches below the season’s average. Met has forecast a…
Washington, May 5 (IANS) Pluto behaves less like a comet than expected and somewhat more like a planet like Mars or Venus in the way it interacts with the solar wind — a continuous stream…
Mumbai, May 5 (IANS) The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Thursday opened on a highere note during the morning session of the trade. The Sensex of the BSE after opening at 25,187.66 points touched a…
By M.R. Narayan Swamy Title: The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi; Author: Makarand R. Paranjape; Publisher: Random House India; Pages: 331; Price: Not mentioned. A profoundly moving and gripping book, this is an attempt…
Rio de Janeiro, May 5 (IANS) A new round of tickets has been put on sale from Thursday for Olympic gymnastics, canoeing and rowing, Rio 2016 organisers said. An unspecified number of tickets in all…
Sydney, May 5 (IANS) Australia’s housing affordability worsened over the past 12 months to March 31, 2016, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Moody’s said on Thursday homeowners were required to spend a larger proportion of…
Nay Pyi Taw, May 5 (IANS) At least 18 people were killed and 24 injured due to wild weather and strong winds in Myanmar’s second largest city of Mandalay, the media reported on Thursday. All…
(160220) — CARACAS, Feb. 20, 2016 (Xinhua) — A sanitary employee fumigates against Aedes aegypti mosquito, the vector of zika virus, in Antimano sector of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, on Feb. 19, 2016. A Municipal…
(130719) — NEW YORK, July 19, 2013 (Xinhua) — People queue beside the bronze bull in the Financial district which has become a Wall Street icon in New York City, July 18, 2013. U.S. stocks…
Beijing, May 5 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened lower on Thursday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.14 percent to open at 2,987.02 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.18 percent lower at 10,403.55 points….
Moscow, May 5 (IANS) A team of international scientists has developed a device that will help doctors to perform heart bypass surgery without stopping the heart. Scientists from MISiS National University of Science and Technology,…
Panaji, May 5 (IANS) The rape case involving former education minister and unattached Congress MLA Atanasio Monserrate has been transferred to the women’s police station which functions under the crime branch, a senior police official…
Madrid, May 5 (IANS) The Spanish stock market index Ibex-35 fell 1.26 percent on Wednesday to close at 8,654.30 points, down from the 8,764.90 points of Tuesday. On Wednesday session, Banco Santander shares led falls…
Houston, May 5 (IANS) Two people were killed and one was injured in a shooting incident at a transportation company in west Houston, the US state of Texas early on Wednesday. According to local TV…
New York, May 5 (IANS) US stocks traded lower in the morning session on Wednesday as Wall Street assessed a batch of generally downbeat economic reports. By midday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average decreased 96.41…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to permit flexibility in usage of domestic coal towards bringing down the cost of power generation. “The union cabinet has approved a…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) between the women and child development ministry and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for cooperation…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) India needs to devise cohesive strategies of retaining its market share first, and then increase it in a context of global economic slowdown, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday. “The…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Several legal luminaries and media personalities on Wednesday advocated an end to the defamation law in India. They insisted that criminal defamation suites were preventing journalists, researchers and social and…
Bengaluru, May 4 (IANS) Shreya Ukil, a 40-year-old Indian woman who was formerly a senior techie at the Wipro back office in London, claimed to have won a lawsuit in a British tribunal against the…