Bengaluru, March 20 Thousands of Indian techies working in the US on H-1B visa are highly trained and skilled, the IT industry’s apex body Nasscom said Friday, refuting claims by former Infosys staffer Jack B. Palmer that they had “minimal skills and little business knowledge” Nasscom said the US government had recognised the competitiveness of […]
Rae Bareli/Lucknow, March 20 At least 32 people were killed when the engine and three coaches of a passenger train derailed near Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh after the driver overshot a signal on Friday. Northern Railway spokesman Neeraj Sharma said in New Delhi that nearly 50 people were warded in hospitals. Doctors in Lucknow […]
Chennai, March 19 India is likely to put into orbit its fourth regional navigation satellite on March 28, with the country’s space agency now in the process of loading the rocket with the satellite, an official said on Thursday. “The process of integrating the IRNSS-1D (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System) is underway and it is […]
Panaji, March 19 LGBTs are suffering from “psychological” disorders caused by following American lifestyle, and a health and medicine expo organised jointly by Goa and the central government and an RSS-linked NGO will have “counselling centres to cure such maladies”, organisers said on Thursday. The three-day expo will begin on March 27. Speaking to reporters […]
New Delhi, March 19 Over 200 representatives of Panchayati Raj institutions and urban local bodies on Thursday urged the government to ensure people’s right to water and sanitation with the present context to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet initiative — Clean India Campaign. They said that though the government has set a target of making […]
Mandalay, March 19 The Solar Impulse 2 (Si2), a solar-powered aircraft on a mission to fly around the globe without a drop of fuel, has landed here on Thursday, completing the fourth leg of its historic flight, according to media reports. The aircraft, piloted by the Swiss project chairman Bertrand Piccard, had taken off from […]
New Delhi, March 19 The Congress asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to “apologise” to farmers and to “withdraw” the land acquisition ordinance, calling it a “sinister attempt” to kill the spirit of the 2013 Land Act brought when the UPA was in power. In response to a letter from union Transport Minister Nitin […]
New Delhi, March 19 The Lok Sabha is likely to take up on Friday the cabinet-approved anti-black-money bill that proposes a short window to overseas income tax assessees to declare assets, pay tax and penalty and avoid imprisonment. A senior finance ministry official here told IANS on Thursday that the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets […]
Going against all rules, police in Rampur (UP) have arrested and sent to the district jail a class 11 student of a reputed public school in Bareilly for uploading what they called an ‘objectionable’ post against Samajwadi Party strongman and the state’s urban development minister Azam Khan. Khan’s media in-charge Fasahat Ali also lodged an […]
London, March 18 An Indian-origin man has been convicted for raping a woman in Britain nearly two years ago, after his DNA was linked to samples recovered from the crime scene, according to media reports on Wednesday. Hardeep Sandhu, 39, was found guilty by a jury of rape and injuring with the intention of committing […]