New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to stay the centre’s decision to extend OBC reservation to Jats in nine states and sought the government’s response to a plea challenging its move. An apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice N.V. Ramana while declining to stay the […]
Los Angeles, April 9 (IANS) Actress Anne Hathaway made an appearance on TV show “Live With Kelly And Michael” and said that she snuck a flask of tequila into the Oscars. The “Rio-2” star’s evening at the prestigious award show began with a seating mix-up, which led to an alcohol-filled gab-fest. “I got a perfect purse-sized […]
Kalpa (Himachal Pradesh), April 9 (IANS) Shyam Saran Negi, who at 97 has never abstained from voting since India embraced parliamentary democracy in 1951, is urging Indians to vote for candidates “who can generate jobs and provide essential services”. Negi, whose musical video appeal posted by Google India under its Pledge To Vote campaign is quite […]
Washington, April 9 (IANS) An Indian-origin researcher at Stanford University has developed a clever chemistry kit for your kid that he/she would love to use, even if he/she hates the subject! Manu Prakash, a bioengineer at Stanford, has developed a new hand-crank operated chemistry set for kids that won him $50,000 (Rs.30 lakh) as first prize […]
Panaji, April 9 (IANS) A proposed greenfield airport at a remote plateau in north Goa is expected to play a role in deciding the electoral fate of the two constituencies in Goa which go to the polls April 12. The proposed airport, which has been a bone of contention and in the eye of a “land […]
Washington, April 9 (IANS) Louisiana’s Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, will headline a major Republican fundraising event in the early primary state of South Carolina. Jindal will address the ‘Silver Elephant Dinner’, the finale of the state Republican Party’s annual convention in Columbia, on June 6, CNN reported noting “the state […]
Washington, April 9 (IANS) Imagine a computer that does not required to be ‘powered on’ all the time to protect your data and can work fine even on ‘normally off’ mode? This would result in eliminating volatile memory, which requires power to maintain stored data, and reducing the gigantic energy losses associated with it – radically […]
Thiruvananthapuram, April 9 (IANS) Kerala, which has 20 parliamentary constituencies, is geared up to vote Thursday. The campaigning ended Tuesday evening. All arrangements are in place for the smooth conduct of the poll that will begin at 7 a.m. and will ends at 6 p.m., Chief Electoral Officer Nalini Netto said Wednesday. A 24 million strong […]
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) Fifteen candidates will battle it out Thursday in the lone Lok Sabha constituency in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a picturesque archipelago of 572 islands situated in the Bay of Bengal. There are 257,856 voters in the union territory, almost evenly balanced between men (136,356) and women (121,500). Voting will take place […]
The crisis-ridden real estate sector, feeling neglected by the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, is warming up to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to lift its fortunes. In the wake of economic instability, the realty industry has been facing severe stress with a clouded investment outlook. Its industry […]