Bengaluru, April 18 (IANS) With one away win and one loss on home turf, hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are sweating out for a victory over Mumbai Indians in the IPL-T20 tie here on Sunday. “In T20 format, both teams stand a good chance to win. Mumbai has got some match winners. We can’t take […]
Bhopal, April 18 (IANS) A chartered British plane had to make an emergency landing here after developing a technical snag in its engine. The plane landed at Raja Bhoj airport. Airport Director K. Gunashewar told IANS that the plane was headed to China’s Shanghai city from Abu Dhabi when it developed the problem. A source […]
Visakhapatnam, April 18 (IANS) Condemning the attacks by Israel on Palestinians, the Communist Party of India-Marxist on Saturday called upon the people of India to boycott Israeli goods. In a resolution passed at the ongoing 21st Congress here, the CPI-M expressed its solidarity with the people of Palestine, who are struggling for freedom for their […]
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday said Anil Kakodkar’s resignation from the chairmanship of the board of governors of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) was without any reason. “The issue related to the resignation of Kakodkar was stretched without any reason,” she told Times Now. “Even if he […]
Mumbai/Kochi, April 18 (IANS) INS Tarkash that participated in Operation Rahat, returned to a hero’s welcome at Mumbai harbor here on Saturday, while two passenger ships with the last batch of Indians evacuated from Yemen reached Kochi, an official said. It was preceded by the return of another ship, INS Mumbai, which returned here last […]
Guwahati, April 18 (IANS) The union tribal affairs ministry will cover at least six lakh tribal children in Assam under its sickle cell anaemia screening programme within this year. Sickle cell anaemia is a hereditary blood disorder that results in abnormality in haemoglobin, which carries oxygen from the lungs to the body parts. “Sickle cell […]
Despite poor quarterly earnings by corporate India, foreign investors continued to pump cash into the country’s equity markets during the week ended April 17. The Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) remained net buyers in the Indian equities market for the week ended April 17, they bought stocks worth only Rs.914.12 crore or $146.55 million, according to […]
A teenager was killed in Kashmir during firing by security forces who battled stone pelting protesters on Saturday, the day hardliner separatist Yasin Malik and social activist Swami Agnivesh were taken into preventive custody as they headed to the village where violence broke out. Kashmir was on the boil for the second day on Saturday. […]
The second half of the budget session which kicks off next week is all set to be a stormy affair with the government determined to push through the land acquisition bill and the opposition making all efforts to stall it. Besides the land bill, parliament is also scheduled to take up other important bills like […]
With over 400 farmers in Uttar Pradesh having committed suicide or died of shock in the wake of the freakish weather that has damaged their crops beyond repair, the Agra Mental Hospital has opened a special cell to deal with traumatised agriculturists, large numbers of whom are turning up at its OPD daily. “The Agra […]