Panaji, Nov 28 (IANS) Goa’s multi-million dollar iron ore mining industry will be operational within “two to three months”, Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar said Friday after conducting his first cabinet meeting. “Mining will start in Goa after two to three months,” Parsekar said in response to a query from reporters. Mining had been banned in […]
Shillong, Nov 24 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma Monday said that he is yet to accept the resignation of his woman Home Minister Roshan Warjri. “She (Warjri) had told me that she wanted to go for her treatment. Therefore, I have no accepted her resignation,” he told journalists after the assembly session was adjourned […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 24 (IANS) As the Supreme Court Monday questioned whether sidelined BCCI chief N. Srinivasan was not in a position of conflict while heading the cricket body and also holding a franchise in the IPL, he made a quick visit Monday evening to the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in the Kerala capital. Srinivasan was […]
Kathmandu, Nov 22 (IANS) Nepal Police shot dead an Indian national along the Nepal-India border while he was smuggling weapons from India. The incident took place Saturday afternoon in Bishnupura village of Rupandhei district, 20 km south from Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Rajendra Dhakal, superintendent of police in Rupandhei district, said an Indian […]
Mathura, Nov 21 (IANS) Six unidentified armed bandits looted Rs. 30 lakh in broad daylight from a branch of the Syndicate Bank on at Chaumuhan town on the Delhi-Mathura national highway, police said. Police said a customer and a bank official were injured in the scuffle with the robbers. Senior police officers, including the inspector […]
New York, Nov 20 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the list of 50 contenders for Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Time’s Person of the Year will be announced Dec 10. Modi, “once a controversial regional leader”, became India’s prime minister after leading his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a “landslide electoral […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 20 (IANS) The opposition in Kerala Thursday demanded that strong action be taken against a senior bureaucrat whose office and house were raided by the vigilance and anti-corruption bureau. The bureau officials seized documents and cash from the possession of T.O. Sooraj, Kerala PWD secretary. He was under the lens of the vigilance […]
Greater Noida, Nov 20 (IANS) Stressing the need for greater convergence of industry and academia, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani Thursday asked the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to provide inputs for the government’s ‘Think-in-India’ movement. ‘Think-in-India’ is aimed at rewarding and funding, innovators and designers within India. The programme is meant to […]
Mumbai, Nov 20 (IANS) Maharashtra Thursday signed an agreement with Wenzou province of China declaring both to be ‘sister states’ and to promote trade and industry, officials said here. The memorandum of understanding, signed by Industry Minister Prakash Mehta and Wenzou’s Deputy Secretary General Zhao Dianlin, will help Maharashtra secure the latest technology and machinery […]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) The Museum of Sacred Art (MOSA) in Belgium is bringing a multi-dimensional arts project conceptualised around the notion of the spiritual and devotion in Indian art to the capital in March next year, the organisers said Thursday. The exhibition “Forms of Devotion: The Spiritual in Indian Art” will include about […]