By Suchita Dutta It’s an industry which employs millions of job-seekers every year. Yet, no specific regulation for operating in flexi-staffing industry is in place in India, leaving the people who work outside the organised…
United Nations, May 4 (IANS) An Andhra Pradesh project to collect very specific climate data from farms and give farmers personalised information through SMS has won the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2016…
Washington, May 4 (IANS) Babies are much less likely to get the flu during their first six months of life, if their moms get flu vaccinations while pregnant, a US study said. Infants six months…
Mumbai, May 4 (IANS) Negative global cues, along with lower crude oil prices and caution ahead of upcoming quarterly results, plunged the Indian equity markets on Wednesday. Consequently, the key indices of the Indian equity…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 27.6 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Lok Sabha has passed the much talked about Compensatory Afforestation Fund bill, 2015 that seeks to establish setting up of a National Compensatory Afforestation Fund and also a State Compensatory…
Beijing, May 4 (IANS) Chinese stocks opened lower on Wednesday, with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.32 percent to open at 2,983.03 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.39 percent lower at 10,401.67 points,…
Beijing, May 4 (IANS) The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 378 basis points to 6.4943 against the US dollar on Wednesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trading…
Toronto, May 4 (IANS) Canada’s main stock market in Toronto slid down to a two-week low on Tuesday as energy and mining stocks led massive losses for the resource-linked market over renewed concerns on global…
London, May 4 (IANS) Metals major Liberty House, founded by Indian-born industrialist Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, has formally submitted its bid for acquiring most of the UK assets of Tata Steel, that has suffered nearly $3…
Munich, May 4 (IANS) German car producer BMW Group reported here on Tuesday that its sales have reached a new record in the first quarter of the year. According to the group’s statistics, sales volume…
Washington, May 4 (IANS) A pedestrian was killed on Tuesday here after a man injured a metrobus driver and hijacked the bus, the local authority said. The whole incident lasted less than three minutes shortly…
Bengaluru, May 3 (IANS) As many as 15 Chinese investors representing nine firms have shortlisted 10 Indian startups, operating in mobile technologies, e-commerce and medical technology, for up to $5 million seed and Series A…
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) The Telangana government has requested the central government to come to the rescue of migrant workers from the state working in Saudi Arabia with the Bin Laden Group of companies where…
Lodi (Italy), May 3 (IANS/AKI) Italian finance police on Tuesday arrested Simone Uggetti, mayor of the northern city of Lodi, on suspicion of rigging bids for public swimming pools. A lawyer in Lodi was also…
Bengaluru, May 3 (IANS) Shivakumaraiah, the suspected kingpin behind the pre-university course (PUC) chemistry question paper leak in Karnataka, has been arrested after a month-long hunt, a top police official said on Tuesday. “We found…
Reggio Calabria (Italy), May 3 (IANS/AKI) Anti-mafia investigators impounded suspected Calabrian mafia property worth 30 million euros during raids in southern Italy and the central city of Florence on Tuesday. Tax police seized assets valued…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) In a major decision to bring about transparency in the housing sector, approvals for housing applications in Delhi will be made online, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said on…
Ahmedabad, May 3 (IANS) Adani Power on Tuesday reported a 64 percent increase in consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of 2015-16 at Rs.1,173.39 crore as compared to Rs.715.05 crore for the corresponding period…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Providing relief to students of the national capital from the scorching heat, the Delhi government on Tuesday ordered all government and private schools to advance their summer vacations to May…