Bengaluru, June 2 (IANS) Stanley Black and Decker (SBD) is focussing on localisation and commitment to acquiring companies as its way forward for in India, said a top official of the company while launching the Stanley brand of power tools on Tuesday. “SBD India has seen an encouraging growth rate. With this launch, we now […]
Abuja, June 2 (IANS) At least a dozen people were feared killed on Tuesday in a blast in a livestock market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, capital of the restive Borno State, a security source said. Many traders were hit by the bomb blast at Gamboru, a big market in the city, the source […]
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) AIIMS on Tuesday rejected allegations by its forensic department head Sudhir Gupta, who in a letter to Health Minister J.P. Nadda claimed there was an attempt to oust him from his post following his ethical stand in the Sunanda Pushkar murder case. “There was no extraneous pressure ever put on […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi Can the humble potato really help you make a fortune? So much so that you be crowned as ‘The Potato King’? Sounds a bit unreal, right? You anyway couldn’t be more wrong. Punjab based Jang Bahadur Singh Sangha is here to prove you wrong at this. Sangha and his family are the leading producers of potato and maize […]
Nikita Sharma, New Delhi One built the TajMahal for his dead wife and the other named a city after her. Hyderabad, more famous today as Cyberabad, was named because of the love of Muhammad Quli for RaniBhagmati, later called Begum HaidarMahal. It is a striking example of what inspired lovers are capable of doing. And […]
New Delhi During the week of April 6 to 12, average carbon dioxide (CO2) levels touched 404.02 parts per million (ppm), the highest-ever in recent human history – and 15 percent above the levels of 350 ppm scientists say is ideal for Earth. The months of February, March and April had monthly average CO2 levels […]
By Amit Kapoor The Narendra Modi Modi government, which completes a year in office on May 26, had won last year’s general elections on the plank of development and its promise to bring in ‘Acche Din’. Here is a performance snapshot of the major initiatives undertaken by the government in various broad areas. These include […]
Agra Even as measures — some of them knee-jerk — are being taken to stop the majestic TajMahal from turning yellow, the exact causes for the monument’s discoloration are yet to be ascertained, a recent analysis shows. The analysis was undertaken by science and environment fortnightly ‘Down To Earth’. “We will not be able to […]
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) On the eve of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) bi-monthly monetary policy review, India Inc, stock analysts and even the government have urged the apex bank to cut key lending rates and ease the monetary policy. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (Ficci’s) President Jyotsna Suri […]
London, June 1 (IANS) At a time when the use of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) in clinical practice has gradually reduced, a new article contends that there is ‘no clinically relevant evidence’ for the withdrawal of nitrous oxide. The issue whether laughing gas (nitrous oxide) should be banned from the operating room figured prominently in […]