AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa on Saturday met Governor K. Rosaiah and formally staked claim to form the next government in the state. She will be sworn in as chief minister for a second term at noon on May 23 at the Madras University Centenary Auditorium here. An official statement issued by […]
Breaking his silence on being an integral part of the Make in India initiative, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed at length with Prime Minister Narendra Modi the possibilities of manufacturing and retailing Apple devices in the country as the two met here on a sweltering hot Saturday. Cook not only shared Apple’s future plans for […]
Skipper David Warner headlined with a fine 73-run knock to pull Sunrisers Hyderabad to 158/7 in 20 overs against Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier league (IPL) match here on Friday. Hyderabad got off to a decent start after Delhi skipper Zaheer Khan sent them in. The opening partnership of Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner […]
The union cabinet on Friday gave its nod to an ordinance to defer, for one year, implementation of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which has been made mandatory for medical entrance across India following strong objections from some states, sources said. The ordinance, which puts on hold the Supreme Court’s May 9 ruling ordering the […]
One person was killed and scores of others injured as a powerful thunderstorm wrecked havoc in Hyderabad on Friday, uprooting hundreds of trees and disrupting electricity supply. A man was killed when a water tanker fell on him in Bhavani Nagar in the old city. Two labourers sustained grevious injuries as they fell from third […]
A senior operative of the Indian Mujahideen, Abdul Wahid Siddibapa, was arrested here on Friday after being deported from Dubai. A court later sent him to a week’s NIA custody. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Siddibapa, 32, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. A cousin of Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal, he was described […]
In its bid to stop Google employees from leaving the company and begin their own ventures, Indian-born top executive Sundar Pichai has announced the company plans to set up a startup incubator within Google. According to Forbes, the incubator, dubbed ‘Area 120’, is a new approach – part incubator and part new take on the […]
Support for gay marriage in the US has reached a new record high with 61 percent Americans saying that same-sex unions should be recognised by the law as valid, a poll revealed. According to the poll issued by research company Gallup on Thursday, this is the highest rate recorded in relative since 1996. US public […]
The CPI-M will on Friday choose Kerala’s 22nd chief minister between veteran leader V.S. Achuthanandan and politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan. Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Sitaram Yechury has already arrived for the meeting of the party’s state committee and his predecessor Prakash Karat will also join the meeting to decide who will lead the […]
A translation mistake of EgyptAir’s press release about finding wreckage of the missing flight MS804 has caused misunderstanding, a source from EgyptAir told Xinhua. An EgyptAir source said the Arabic version of a press statement on the “possibility of finding parts of the missing airplane” was mistakenly translated into English by EgyptAir’s official Facebook page, […]