Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will officially inaugurate an additional one million sq. ft. of space at the Technopark Phase III here Wednesday, making it the country’s largest such IT facility with a built-up area of 7.2 million sq.ft. The new twin-tower campus, developed in 92 acres of land has been named Ganga and Yamuna. […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Tuesday said the Geneva nuclear deal broke the sanction regime which had been unfairly imposed on his nation. Rouhani made the remarks two days after Iran and the six major powers agreed to start implementing their landmark nuclear deal from Jan 20, Xinhua reported. The Geneva deal means the six major […]
Eight students with engineering background have scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) results declared Tuesday for admission to India’s top B-schools, an official said. “The eight are all boys with an engineering background,” CAT convenor Rohit Kapoor told IANS. There are 10 who have scored 99.99 percentile, one of whom is a […]
Indian and Pakistan soldiers on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday greeted each other on the occasion of Milad-un-Nabi or the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, a defence spokesman said. “A flag meeting between Indian and Pakistan soldiers was held in the Kargil sector of the LoC in Ladakh region today […]
The framework for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project is being readied on a fast-track basis by the four stakeholder nations, Indian Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily said Tuesday. “Apart from gas, this TAPI pipeline would usher in peace among the nations as well. The gas is expected to reach the border of India by August […]
Eight youths accused of raping a minor in Ranchi were arrested Tuesday, police said. “Eight youths, all from Banhora village and accused in Sunday’s gang rape of the minor girl, have been arrested. The medical report of the girl has confirmed the rape,” a police official told IANS. Police said one youth is yet to […]
A Goa court Wednesday will decide on Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal’s petition seeking a bail in the rape case, which had led to his arrest Nov 30, 2013. Tejpal has already spent a month and half behind bars, both in police as well as judicial custody. He has been accused of allegedly raping a junior […]
Around 40 lakh Hindu devout Tuesday took a holy dip in the holy Ganga at the Sangam – the point where the Ganga, the Yamuna and the mystical Saraswati meet in Allahabad, according to official estimates. Hundreds congregated at the banks of the Sangam since day break and the bathing continued till late in the […]
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who attended a kite flying festival here Tuesday along with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, said god would decide who is the best man to become the prime minister. Salman, who was here to promote his upcoming film “Jai Ho”, spent the afternoon with Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Modi […]
Radical Sikh organizations as well as Punjab’s ruling Akali Dal Tuesday come out against revelations that Britain had helped the Indian government in plans to launch Operation Bluestar on the Golden Temple complex, home to the holiest of Sikh shrines ‘Harmandar Sahib’, in June 1984. Radical Sikh organization Dal Khalsa Tuesday shot off a letter […]