New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Aiming to promote road safety and proper highway management, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will introduce a mobile application integrated with a transport registration network in the coming…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) Minor tremors were felt in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region areas on Saturday after an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter Scale struck. The tremors were…
Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) Overtaking China, India is expected to grow at 7.3 percent in 2015, rising to 7.5 percent in 2016, the International Monetary Fund forecast Friday lowering its April projections by 0.2 percentage…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Congress alleged on Friday that Rs.6,000 crore of “black money” had been sent out of the country from a public sector bank months after the NDA government came to…
London, Oct 9 (IANS) Did you find it hard to believe the climate scenario featured in the disaster movie ‘The Day After Tomorrow’? Now, a researcher has produced a scientific study of the scenario. In…
Oslo, Oct 9 (IANS) The Tunisian national dialogue quartet, a coalition of civil society organisations, has won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Academy announced here on Friday. According to an official statement,…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali has agreed to regale his Indian fans at a concert here in December, says Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. “Ghulam Ali Sahib. Hum apke bahut…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurveda will roll out its noodles across the country on October 15. “We will launch Patanjali noodles all over India on October 15. Maggi used to sell…
Singapore, Oct 8 (IANS) As many as 17 Indian families, led by the Ambanis, figure in the maiden Forbes list of 50 richest Asian families, which is the highest for any country in this part…
Washington, Oct 8 (IANS) Indian-American Bhagwati Agrawal is listed among CNN’s Top 10 Heroes of 2015, for bringing safe drinking water to more than 10,000 drought-stricken people in his native Rajasthan. Each of the ten…
New Delhi, Oct 8 (IANS) Women would soon be inducted as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said here on Thursday. “We have women pilots flying transport aircrafts and…
New York, Oct 8 (IANS) Indian-American groups have called for a campaign on immigration issues affecting the Indian diaspora including the use of H-1B visa by technology companies from India and growing backlog of family…
Bhopal, Oct 7 (IANS) A debt-burdened man in a Madhya Pradesh village allegedly allowed the lender to sleep with his wife in settlement of dues. The man and the lender were arrested after the woman…
Bengaluru, Oct 7 (IANS) Wipro Ltd has sacked an Indian male and a female employee working at its development centre in Britain over a lawsuit filed by the latter, the global software major said on…
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) The union cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of three new All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in as many states. The new AIIMS would be set up…
Stockholm, Oct 7 (IANS) Three scientists will share the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday. The prize was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Former cricket and BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Tuesday admitted to a hospital here after suffering from acute deep vein thrombosis, a deep clot in the blood vessel….
Washington, Oct 6 (IANS) Among Asian countries, India continues to be the top country of birth for scientists and engineers who have made the US their destination for key research and development, latest data has revealed….
Washington, Oct 6 (IANS) As South Carolina Tuesday began a slow recovery from what its Indian-American governor Nikki Haley called a “1,000-year level of rain” President Barack Obama signed a disaster declaration ordering federal aid…
London, Oct 6 (IANS) With the increasing reliance on digital systems and use of commercial “off-the-shelf” software, global civil nuclear facilities are facing growing risk of a serious cyber attack, a report released on Monday…