Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Thursday said that country’s foodgrain production is estimated to rise by nine per cent to an all-time high of 135.03 million tonnes in the 2016-17 ‘kharif’ (summer sowing) season with record output of rice and pulses following a good monsoon. According to the first advance estimate of foodgrain […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed surprise that at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be focussing on the Uri terror attack, his machinery was targeting the AAP. “I am amazed at a time when PM should be working on Uri, his machinery is working overtime to get AAP MLAs arrested […]
Between January and June this year, the Indian government made 139 account information requests and requested for 42 accounts to be removed from the micro-blogging website, Twitter’s biannual transparency report revealed on Thursday. Twitter is, however, yet to remove any account requested by the Indian government or court order. According to the report, the US […]
Indian skipper Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test of the three match series against New Zealand at Green Park stadium here on Thursday. India in its historic 500th Test is playing with six batsmen, two fast bowlers and two spinners while the visiting New Zealand are playing with […]
A British consumer watchdog has told technology giant Microsoft to compensate customers whose computers have been adversely affected by the Windows 10 upgrade. Last year Microsoft rolled out a free Windows 10 update to all its customers. However, the widely accepted new operating system did not come out as good as people hoped it would. […]
The first meeting of the newly-constituted Goods and Services Tax Council, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as chairman, is scheduled for two days from Thursday amid high expectations that the country will see a new indirect tax scheme in place from April 1, 2017, as targeted. Among the items on the meeting’s agenda is the […]
The annual mEYE World Photographic Competition, an initiative of Macular Disease Foundation Australia, is now open with over $8,000 worth of prizes, including a cash prize of $3,000, to be shared among winners. The competition theme is ‘See My World’ and Foundation’s CEO, Julie Heraghty, said she is looking forward to seeing photographs that reflect […]
Dr. Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent Charge) paid an official visit to Australia from September 18 to September 20. On September 18 he attended a Gala event in connection with Confluence-the Festival of India at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Dr Sharma had a series bilateral engagements in Canberra on […]
With an aim to boost digital transformation, HCL Technologies will increase investment on SMAC (Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud) — especially Cloud — in next couple of years, a top company executive has said. “Currently, 60 per cent of our IT budget is focused on SMAC. It will go up to 80-90 per cent of total […]
One of Hollywood’s highest profile marriages has come to an end, after actress Angelina Jolie sought to divorce husband Brad Pitt, who said he was “saddened” but the well-being of their kids matter the most now. Angelina filed for divorce from the actor, 52, on Monday after just two years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. […]