Hyderabad, Dec 18 (IANS) The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Hyderabad chapter Thursday launched the Billion Dollar Babies (B$B) project for the startups. An initiative of TiE Silicon Valley Chapter, the B$B project will select few startups from India which have a potential to become a $1 billion company. The program aims to help select Indian product […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Aurangzeb Road in Lutyen’s Delhi, the address of the city’s many billionaires, will not be renamed, parliament was told Wednesday. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) had recently demanded that Aurangzeb Road be named after Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur. Guru Teg Bahadur was executed by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. The […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Highly classified information about the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose has been made available to the public, the central government informed parliament Wednesday. Files relating to the Justice Khosla and the Justice M.K. Mukherjee commissions have been sent by the ministry of home affairs to the National Archives Oct […]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) The defence ministry Wednesday cleared procurement proposals worth around Rs.4,500 crore, ministry sources said. The proposals were cleared by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar-headed Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), the apex decision-making body in the ministry. The proposals include one for acquiring four survey vessels for the navy worth Rs.2,324 crore. The […]
Kolkata, Dec 17 (IANS) French Ambassador to India Francois Richier Wednesday said investors’ perception about West Bengal was “not the best one”, while referring to the pullout of a French joint venture from Haldia two years ago. Richier who held meets with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, state Finance Minister Amit Mitra, Urban Development Minister Firhad […]
Peshawar, Dec 16 (IANS) It was a day that left the world stunned and grieving when heavily-armed Taliban militants Tuesday launched an audacious attack on a school in this Pakistani city, mercilessly slaughtering at least 137 people — an overwhelming majority of them children — in one of the most savage terror strikes in years. […]
The following are some of the deadliest terror attacks carried out by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since its inception in 2007: Sep 2, 2013: Two suicide bomb attacks took place at All Saints Church in Peshawar in which over 80 people were killed and dozens injured. It was the deadliest attack on the Christian minority […]
Kolkata, Dec 15 (IANS) West Bengal has been selected for “Krishi Karman Award” for the year 2013-14 by the central government as the best performing state in coarse cereals production, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday. “I am happy to share with you that our West Bengal has been selected for “Krishi Karman Award” for […]
Bengaluru, Dec 15 (IANS) Bengaluru has been put of high alert Monday following tweets on Twitter threatening a repeat of the hostage drama at a cafe in Australia’s Sydney, Karnataka Home Minister K.J. George said. “A high alert has been sounded in Bengaluru after police received tweets on its Twitter account threatening to re-enact a […]
Hyderabad, Dec 15 (IANS) The family of Ankireddy Vishwakant expressed joy on learning that he was rescued safely from a Sydney cafe when Australian police stormed it to end a hostage drama. His parents were elated to see him on television channels coming out of the cafe. Clad in a white shirt and with raised […]