Kohli becomes co-owner of UAE Royals
Joining the IPTL bandwagon, India Test captain Virat Kohli has become co-owner of the UAE Royals, which will be led by Swiss great Roger Federer.
Federer had played for Micromax Indian Aces in the inaugural season and this season he will be joined by 2001 Wimbledon Champion Goran Ivanisevic, Ana Ivanovic, Daniel Nestor, Kristina Mladenovic and Tomas Berdych.
The UAE leg of the league will be held from December 14 to 16 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium.
Big B, Ratan Tata join hands for TB- free India
The United States Ambassador to India, Richard Varma on 10th September, launched the \'Mumbai Dialogue: Towards a TB-free India\' along with Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan Tata, Chairman, Sir Ratan Tata Trusts.
Aiming to engage the corporate sector to further strengthen the Government of India\'s \'Call to Action for a tuberculosis free India,\' a group of corporate leaders joined the trio for a dialogue to engage this sector directly in effort to eradicate TB.
TB has been one of the deadliest diseases in India. As per the figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) global TB report 2014, around 2.40 lakh Indians die every year and 61,000 suffer from multidrug resistant TB.
UK largest G20 investor in India, currently employs 691,000 people
Since 2000, the UK has emerged as the largest G20 investor in India, pumping in $22.2 billion as of March 2015, more than 30 per cent of all investments made by G20 economies in India in that period, according to a report by the Confederation of British Industry released on Thursday.
British companies currently employ 691,000 people in India, working out to 5.5 per cent of total organised private sector jobs, and have revenues of $54 billion arising out of operations in the country.
Fossil first: Homo naledi may have buried its dead
Humanity\'s claim to uniqueness just suffered another setback: scientists reported on 10th September, that a newly discovered ancient species related to humans also appeared to bury its dead.
Fossils of the creature were unearthed in a deep cave near the famed sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans, treasure troves 50 km (30 miles) northwest of Johannesburg that have yielded pieces of the puzzle of human evolution for decades.
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