Mumbai bridge crash: Railway Minister orders probe

Mumbai bridge crash: Railway Minister orders probe

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday ordered an inquiry soon after a portion of a foot overbridge crashed on the Western Railway tracks in Mumbai, injuring three persons. “Part of road overbridge has fallen on tracks near Andheri Station impacting rail traffic. Directed officials to speed up repair work and rapidly restore traffic in close […]

Sikhs among 19 killed in Afghan suicide blast

Sikhs among 19 killed in Afghan suicide blast

A suicide bomber blew himself up in an Afghan city of Jalalabad, where President Ashraf Ghani was to hold a meeting with provincial officials, killing at least 19 people, many of them Sikhs, officials said on Sunday. The group of Sikhs were said to be on their way to meet President Ghani. Provincial governor spokesman […]

45 killed in Uttarakhand accident

45 killed in Uttarakhand accident

At least 45 people were killed after a bus fell into a 60-metre gorge in Uttarakhand on Sunday, police said. According to the police, the accident took place at about 9 a.m., near the Queens Bridge on the Pipli-Bhaun road when the driver lost control of the 28-seater bus which was headed to Ramnagar from […]

11 of family found dead in Delhi

11 of family found dead in Delhi

In a gruesome sight, 11 members of a family were found dead — some blindfolded and hanging from an iron grill ceiling — at their home in north Delhi on Sunday, sending shockwaves in the neighbourhood, police said. A neighbour was the first to discover the bodies. When he entered the house, he saw the […]

AWS Cloud helping researchers make sense of genomics data

AWS Cloud helping researchers make sense of genomics data

When it comes to genome analytics, data may run in petabytes (PB is 1,000 terabytes). Keeping this data stored in Cloud is paramount and Amazon Web Services is helping Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) achieve that. “We do have a lot of data when we’re studying cancer or heart disease. That’s human data and for […]

Close to 6,000 pilgrims head for Amarnath

Close to 6,000 pilgrims head for Amarnath

A total of 5,791 pilgrims left Jammu in escorted convoys on Monday to perform the Amarnath Yatra. Two groups of 4,047 and 1,744 ‘yatris’ left the Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in 201 vehicles in the fifth batch for the Kashmir Valley, police said. The first group is headed for the Pahalgam base camp while the […]

Five killed as private plane crashes in Mumbai suburb

Five killed as private plane crashes in Mumbai suburb

At least five persons, including a pregnant engineer and a pedestrian, were killed and three others injured when a small private plane belonging to gutka baron Deepak Kothari crashed in the thickly populated suburb of Ghatkopar in north-east Mumbai on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Eyewitnesses said the plane was seen hurtling down in the narrow […]

Rain slows down Amarnath Yatra

Rain slows down Amarnath Yatra

Heavy rains slowed down the progress of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims as authorities allowed only a small batch of 856 yatris from here to move towards the valley on Friday to avoid overcrowding at the base camps. Reports from the two base camps in Baltal and Pahalgam indicate that it has been raining all along the […]

Lenovo India eyes over 500% growth in ultra-slim laptop market

Lenovo India eyes over 500% growth in ultra-slim laptop market

China-based technology company Lenovo is confident of registering triple-digit growth when it comes to the ultra-slim laptop market in India, a senior company executive has said. According to German market research company Gfk, Lenovo India registered a 202 per cent Year-on-Year (YoY) growth in the financial year 2017-18. “In the ultra-thin category, we would want […]

Value buying, global cues push Indian equity indices higher

Value buying, global cues push Indian equity indices higher

Value buying coupled with positive Asian stock exchanges pushed the key indices of the Indian equity market higher during the morning trade session on Friday. According to market observers, healthy buying was witnessed in oil and gas, metals, consumer durables and automobile stocks. However, caution prevailed on expectations of further US trade protectionist measures. Around […]