UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon Tuesday said that he has expressed concern to the Syrian government of its “now behind schedule” elimination of chemical weapon and said it was “imperative” Damascus “intensify its efforts.” Ban, in a letter sent to the UN Security Council Tuesday , said that he was aware of the “volatile security […]
Declaring that “for the sake of our national security, we must give diplomacy a chance to succeed”, President Barack Obama has reiterated that he would veto any new sanctions bill from the US Congress. International negotiations on preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon will be difficult and “they may not succeed”, he acknowledged in […]
Led by an Indian-American student Apoorva Kiran, scientists at Cornell University here have 3-D printed a working loudspeaker – seamlessly integrating the plastic, conductive and magnetic parts – and ready for use almost as soon as it comes out of the printer. The thrilling discovery means that rather than assembling consumer products from parts and […]
Police in Puducherry recovered a pipe bomb Wednesday near central minister V. Narayanasamy’s residence, following which security was beefed up, an officer said. “The minister’s driver saw some suspicious object near the house around 8.00 or 8.30 a.m. Police were informed and the object was secured. It was a bomb and was diffused,” Puducherry Director […]
The centre informed the Delhi High Court Wednesday that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has not responded to a notice on its source of its funds. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath asked the petitioner, advocate M.L. Sharma, to include AAP as a respondent in the case and posted the […]
Two people were Wednesday detained and one kg of gold worth Rs.30 lakh seized from them at the airport here, an official said. Another person was arrested at Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Airport for carrying 50,000 euros, the official added. “We have detained two people for illegally carrying gold. Nearly 500 grams of gold […]
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev said tutors from his Patanjali Trust would soon be teaching yoga in Goa’s government schools. On the sidelines of a media briefing in Panaji Tuesday, Ramdev told IANS: “Our experts from the Patanjali (Yogpeeth) Trust will be soon teaching yoga at the government schools here.” He made the announcement after meeting […]
The deadlock over Telangana bill in Andhra Pradesh legislature continued for the third day Wednesday, while the chief minister and ministers from Seemandhra submitted to the speaker affidavits opposing state’s bifurcation. Both houses were adjourned for an hour immediately after they met for the day as legislators from Telangana continued their protest, demanding the presiding […]
Jammu and Kashmir’s National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance headed by Omar Abdullah Wednesday resolved the deadlock over the creation of new administrative units in the state after NC patron and union minister Farooq Abdullah invoked the intervention of 10 Janpath. Authoritative sources told IANS Omar Abdullah and his father finally managed the intervention of Congress president […]
GVK BIO, a leading small-molecule contract research organization (CRO), has announced acquisition of US-based Aragen Bioscience, Inc., a pre-clinical CRO specialising in high-value biologics services. The Hyderabad-based company Wednesday said it entered into an agreement to acquire the capital stock of Aragen Biosciences. It, however, has not disclosed financial details of its first overseas acquisition. […]