New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The AAP’s youth and students wings on Saturday protested in the capital over the alleged banning of a student group at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras for distributing controversial pamphlets. “The Ambedkar Periyar Student Circle (APSC) on the IIT Madras campus must be allowed to function as usual as it […]
Agra, May 30 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Saturday said awareness and lifestyle changes were the keys to prevent cancer. He was speaking during a conference on cancer organised by the Agra Cancer Society and the Rotary Club of Agra city. Stating that awareness was the key to prevent cancer, Naik said lifestyle […]
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Union minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government was committed to provide continuous power to every household in the country by the year 2019. Participating in an interactive programme – ‘Talkathon’ – telecast live on Doordarshan and the ministry of information and broadcasting website, the minister of […]
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee leaves on Sunday for a five-day state visit to Sweden and Belarus, in the first presidential visit to both countries. The visit is set to see bolstering of bilateral ties as well as a push to the government’s initiatives like Make in India, Swachh Bharat and Skill […]
Bhubaneswar, May 30 (IANS) The Odisha cabinet on Saturday approved 14 proposals, including the $175 million Odisha Skill Development Project (OSDP) that will train two lakh youth in the next five years. The project will support the establishment of eight Advanced Skills Training Institutes (ASTI), under an autonomous umbrella society Odisha Skill Development Society (OSDS), […]
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) India has a robust legal framework and it has always been on the side of the law with regard to intellectual property right (IPR) matters and fully compliant with WTO on the issue, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday. “It is pure misinformation that India has poor protection for […]
A woman was allegedly burnt alive after she objected to her husband’s extra-marital affair with his sister-in-law in Bihar’s Nalanda district, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Nijay village. A police case was lodged following a complaint by the woman’s brother, said officer-in-charge Kirpal Kumar of the Rahui police station under which […]
An Indian-origin man in Singapore, along with three others, were charged on Saturday for their alleged role in conspiring to fix a South East Asian (SEA) Games football match. Singapore-based Rajendran R. Kurusamy, 55, was accused of corruptly agreeing to give S$15,000 ($11,130) to Orlando Marques Henriques Mendes — the technical director of the Football […]
Actress Shilpa Shetty, who found popularity in Britain after winning a season of “Celebrity Big Brother” in 2007, has turned into a radio jockey to talk about Bollywood with the people in London. She will be on a special show on BBC Radio 2. The actress, who is married to businessman Raj Kundra, took to […]
A detailed account on musical influences of double Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman found its way inside the White House in Washington through a special screening of “Jai Ho”, a documentary on his work. The 60-minute documentary was screened on Friday. The “Mozart of Madras”, who has hit the right notes with each of his compositions […]