New Delhi, Feb 25 The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, will arrive here Wednesday on a three-day official visit, during which the two countries will sign an agreement on defence and on cooperation in hydrocarbons and security. Crown Prince Salman’s is the highest level political visit from the kingdom after […]
Delhi will see The Trinamool Congress fight for all seven seats in the coming Lok Sabha polls, party national general secretary Mukul Roy said here Monday.Social activist Anna Hazare and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee will address a joint rally next month in Delhi.The rally could be held at the Ram Leela ground, added Roy. He […]
Najeeb Jung, Delhi Lt. Governor, has defended his decision to cancel the “management quota” in the criteria for nursery school admissions, and told the Delhi High Court that “commercialisation of education” cannot be allowed. His response came on a petition by the Action Committee of Unaided Recognised Private Schools against the December 2013 guidelines for […]
An Indian American scientist on Monday said that the application of computers in biology or computational biology was progressing well in India due to its increasing resource of students in the IT field.Computational biology involves application of computational simulation techniques to the study of biological, behavioural, and social systems. “India is advancing well in computational […]
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee Sunday said tuberculosis (TB) cannot be controlled globally unless it is controlled in India. “India has the world’s highest burden of tuberculosis. TB kills one person every two minutes in India or almost 750 people daily,” the president told a conference on TB and allied diseases here. “Global TB control […]
New Delhi, Feb 22 A survey on Saturday said, the BJP-led NDA is likely to bag 236 seats with the main party getting 217 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress will be reduced to double-digits at 73 of the 92 seats projected for the UPA, while the Aam Aadmi Party is likely to […]
New Delhi Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel does not seem to be satisfied with the Feb 14 judgment of the Lagos Court of Appeal and will lodge an appeal at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, a company statement said here Thursday. The ruling of the court means Bharti Airtel will now have to pay up […]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday said 410 students who did not get admit cards for the secondary examinations and were on the verge of losing an academic year, would be allowed to register for the exams Sunday. The students of Kakinara Adarsha High School in North 24 Parganas of the state were denied […]
India has to increase its turnout of quality maritime personnel and its ship-building capacity if it has to emerge as a major economic power, President Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. Delivering his address at the convocation function of Indian Maritime University. he said: “If India is to emerge as a major economic power in future, […]
Ranchi, Feb 22 (IANS) Two opposition parties Saturday called a shutdown March 2 to seek special status for Jharkhand on the lines of that to be given to Seemandra after Telangana is carved out of Andhra Pradesh. The opposition parties wanted to pass a resolution in the assembly, condemning the central government move to grant special […]