Against the backdrop of a theme depicting the historic ‘Shivrajyabhishek’ — the crowning of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj — and a large picture of Maharashtra Legislature building, Maharashtra Governor B.S. Koshyari will swear-in Shiv Sena President and Maha Vikas Aghadi leader Uddhav Thackeray as the new Chief Minister, at the historic Shivaji Park on Thursday evening. […]
Fearing rising dehydration among students, the Goa Education Department has instructed all schools in the coastal state to facilitate two water breaks daily to ensure that students drink adequate amount of water. According to a circular issued by the Education Department’s Deputy Director (Academics) Shailesh Zingde and circulated to all schools on Wednesday, the instructions […]
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-XL (PSLV-XL) rocket carrying advanced earth observation satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 US nano satellites lifted off from the second launch pad of the rocket port here on Wednesday. At about 9.28 a.m. the 44.4 metre tall, weighing 320 ton rocket blasted off from the second launch pad at the country’s rocket […]
Union Minister for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday that he is hopeful that concrete offers will come for Air India’s sale as terms for the bid are being revised in a big way. “Last time the government was holding 26 per cent stakes in Air India but now things have changed…and it […]
Researchers have found that the amount of time children are spending each day watching television or using a computer or mobile device is increasing at an alarming rate. The study, published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, found that children’s daily screen time increased from 53 minutes at age 12 months to more than 150 minutes […]
Terror struck Mumbai on the night of November 26, 2008, when 10 Kalashnikov-wielding terrorists from Pakistan attacked India’s commercial capital, striking simultaneously at five major locations, and shooting dead 166 people, including many foreign nationals. The 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists had traveled from Karachi to Mumbai on a fishing trawler they had hijacked. They killed the […]
Dablu Rai, 36, was hospitalized on Saturday after he complained of breathlessness and then fell unconscious in his shop. His family presumed that he had suffered a heart attack but after day-long tests, the doctors said that high pollution levels were the reason behind his problem. Rai’s silk shop is in Ardhali Bazaar which has […]
The Rajasthan police have arrested four students for attacking four Kashmiri students in Rajasthan’s Mewar university after an altercation broke out in the college campus on November 22, said police officials on Monday. According to L.R. Vishnoi, Station House Officer (SHO), Gangraar police station: “An FIR has been lodged on the basis of a complaint […]
Delhi’s Patiala House Court has allowed an application filed by the 2012 ‘Nirbhaya’ gangrape victim’s mother seeking transfer of the case, to expedite the execution of the four convicted rapists, to another judge. Allowing the application, the court has transferred the case to Additional Sessions Judge Satish Arora. Nirbhaya’s parents on November 16 approached the […]
This is the neglected abode of Gandhi and Nehru family in Delhi 6. But for Mrs. Indira Gandhi, perhaps nobody from her family ever visited there. Well, this crumbling house had seen better times in the past. Actually it was the family house of Kamala Nehru, wife of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and […]