Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the centre of an Indo-US diplomatic spat, is to be soon reunited with her family. The 39-year-old Khobragade returned to India Jan 10, leaving behind her Indian American husband and two children. Her children and husband are to join her in India soon, according to sources. Khobragade’s Dec 12 […]
Delhi Transport Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj Wednesday defended his cabinet colleague, Law Minister Somnath Bharti, for trying to bust a sex-and-drug racket after women’s rights groups demanded action against him by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Bhardwaj told reporters that people should be asked and a survey should be done in the area to know the truth. […]
Himachal Pradesh’s picturesque resorts Shimla and Manali woke up Thursday to a white blanket of snow, turning the hill stations even more picturesque. The residents of Shimla shivered as icy winds brought down the minimum temperature to 0.1 degree Celsius. It saw 8 cm of overnight snow. According to the Met Office here, Manali recorded […]
The licence and tax bills for the BJP’s prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi’s rally Jan 12 near Panaji have not been paid, an official said. Mayor of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) Surendra Furtado told IANS Wednesday that the banners and posters promoting and advertising Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate’s […]
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at 30.11 points or 0.14 percent down in the pre-noon trade Thursday. Good buying was observed in capital goods sector, while selling pressure was seen in auto and banking index (bankex) sectors. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which […]
A natural pest-control plan from US-based Virginia Tech that halted the papaya mealybug – that created havoc in southern India causing mold and stunted growth of several crops – has saved up to $309 million in the first year itself. For a relatively modest cost of $200,000 during the first year of the intervention, financial […]
collA distinguished Indian-American scholar and teacher, Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School (HBS), has been named dean of Harvard College, a prestigious Ivy League institution. Khurana, who earned his PhD through a joint programme between HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1998, is also […]
The West Bengal Commission for Women Thursday ordered a probe into the gang rape of a tribal woman allegedly at the behest of a kangaroo court. Taking suo motu cognizance of the horrific incident ghat has raised the heckles across the state, it demanded harshest punishment for the perpetrators. The 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped […]
Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj, a 69-year-old India-born professor at Stanford University, has won the prestigious Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive data at high speeds. “Paulraj’s contributions to wireless technology and the resulting benefit to humankind are indisputable. Every WiFi (wireless fidelity) router and 4G phone uses […]
The Indian Coast Guard Wednesday launched an awareness campaign to sensitise the fishing community in West Bengal and Odisha to integrate them into the coastal security mechanism. Aiming to use the community as additional “eyes and ears” for vigil across the coast line, West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan flagged off a coastal security awareness and […]