Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Industrialist Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Friday announced the launch of ‘intelligent smartphone’ JioPhone, which will be available for beta testing from August 15. “The JioPhone will be available…
Panaji, July 21 (IANS) All 38 MLAs in the Goa assembly on Friday voted for the lone Rajya Sabha seat which falls vacant on July 28. Bharatiya Janata Party state President Vinay Tendulkar and Congress…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Global software giant Adobe on Friday announced that Shanmugh Natarajan has been appointed Managing Director for Adobe Systems in India. Natarajan was formerly Executive Director and will continue to lead…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 21 (IANS) An official probe began on Friday into an alleged medical college scam involving BJP leaders in Kerala. “I gave the orders for a probe based on a complaint that I got….
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday filed a fresh supplementary chargesheet against the chartered accountant of RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter Misa Bharti in connection with an alleged money laundering…
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Seven scholars from IIT-Bombay and IIT-Kharagpur are among 10 selected for six Qualcomm Innovation Fellow (QInF) programmes in India for the academic year 2017-18, an official said. They will conduct research…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Goggle on Friday rolled out a latest update in its Search engine which will help users discover, promote and attend their favourite events in town. “Starting today in India, doing…
Chandigarh, July 21 (IANS) The maximum daily electricity consumption in Haryana has crossed a record 2,000 lakh units, the state’s power utilities said on Friday. “The consumption this year was recorded as 2,010 lakh units…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) It was a sunny Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 28 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will be…
Mumbai, July 21 (IANS) Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Friday following global cues. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) was trading 42.08 points or 0.13 per cent higher during the early session. The…
Jammu, July 21 (IANS) A fresh batch of over 1,100 pilgrims set out from here for the Amarnath Yatra on Friday amid tight security, an official said. “Another batch of 1,141 pilgrims left the Bhagwati…
By Komal Ganotra Over 13 million adolescent girls between 10 and 19 years were married in India in 2011, according to census data, but fewer literate women were married as children or had children early…
Srinagar, July 21 (IANS) Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar on Friday to prevent a separatist called protest shutdown. Srinagar District Magistrate Farooq Ahmad Lone said restrictions under section 144 CrPc were imposed in…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Discover the touching fictional tale of a joint family at the centre of which is “mai” or the mother, who holds the entire family together; flick through a manual that…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people to share their inputs for his July 30 Maan Ki Baat radio programme. “This month’s Mann Ki Baat will take place on…
Bengaluru, July 21 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday congratulated Ram Nath Kovind on his election to the office of the President. “Under your stewardship, let there be a bright future for India, with…
Bengaluru, July 21 (IANS) A 37-year-old musician played guitar while a nerve disorder in his brain was stimulated at a private hospital in the city recently, said a neurosurgeon on Thursday. “We conducted a live…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) A young Kashmiri woman who was unable to conceive for the last seven years has got pregnant after receiving medical advices from doctors of Sir Ganga Ram hospital on a…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has initiated a probe into the recovery of 2kg of morphine mixture from a catering food trolley which was used on an Air India aircraft, the…
New Delhi, July 21 (IANS) Most of the cross-voting in presidential election favoured NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind, but significantly in Rajasthan, where the BJP is in power, opposition-backed Congress nominee Meira Kumar was the…