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 […]
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Actress Alia Bhatt says her father and filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt is possessive about her, but adds that he has taken her on-screen kissing with Arjun Kapoor in the forthcoming film “2 States” practically. “Like every father, who don’t want their daughters to get married, even my father is the same,” Alia said […]
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) Essentially “theatre by the people and for the people”, nukkad natak or street theatre (ST) has transformed into more of a “propaganda” tool used by political parties as a crucial election campaign strategy leading to disintegration and corruption of the art form, veterans say. From highlighting candidates to taking satirical digs at […]
Dubai, April 7 (IANS) India pair Virat Kohli and Ravichandran Ashwin have attained career-best positions in the latest Reliance ICC Player Rankings for T20 batsmen and bowlers. While Kohli moved up a place to a career-best second in the batting table at the end of the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014, Ashwin rose three places to […]
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) India’s largest drugmaker by market capitalisation Sun Pharma will buy out Japan’s Daiichi-controlled Ranbaxy Laboratories for $4 billion in an all-share deal, the two companies said Monday. The combined entity will create the world’s fifth largest speciality generic pharma company. According to a joint statement issued by the two companies, Sun […]