Modi to visit Facebook HQ in California Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on 13th September, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit Facebook�s headquarters in California for a town hall question-and-answer session on September 27. Mr. Modi and Mr. Zuckerberg will discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic...
Minimum qualification set as Haryana passes Panchayati Raj Bill The State Assembly on Monday passed a Bill, fixing the minimum educational qualification for elections to the Panchayati Raj institutions besides laying down other conditions including making it mandatory for the candidates to have functional toilets. The Assembly on the concluding day of...
Mission Indradhanush gaining ground in Kerala Mission Indradhanush, an initiative launched by the Union Health Ministry in December last year, as a special drive to vaccinate all unimmunised and partially immunised children and pregnant women by 2020, under the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) in the country, seems to have gained much...
Uday Prakash decided to return his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the murder of Kannada scholar and rationalist M.M. Kalburgi. The former assistant professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University here announced his intent through a Facebook post in Hindi. Currently in a village in Chhattisgarh, he will officially communicate his...
Vijayawada native Yellepeddi Padmasree, now Padmasree Warrior, is in the race for the post of Twitter CEO, according to a report by Bloomberg Business. The news agency said Twitter’s search firm Spencer Stuart has reached out to three or four senior business executives, including Ms. Warrior, to lead the company. Twitter...
DAC clears projects worth over Rs. 13,000 cr. The government cleared the purchase of 48 additional Mi-17 V5 helicopters and seven squadrons of Akash short range Surface to Air Missiles for the Air Force. These were part of the projects worth over Rs. 13,000 crore cleared by the Defence Acquisition Council...
Supreme Court lifts stay on Santhara ritual of Jains The Supreme Court on Monday restored the Jain religious practice of a ritualistic fast unto death by staying an order of the Rajasthan High Court, which compared it to an act of suicide. A three-judge Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India H.L....
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...
Govt launches portal for students seeking education loans The government on Thursday said it has a launched a website, vidyalakshmi.co.in, for students seeking educational loans and five banks including SBI, IDBI Bank and Bank of India have integrated their system with the portal. The portal has been developed and maintained by NSDL...
India Post, 10 entities get nod for payments banks The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gave approval in principle for 11 entities on Wednesday to set up payments banks. They are India Post, Reliance Industries Ltd., Aditya Birla Nuvo, Tech Mahindra, Sun Pharma, National Securities Depository Ltd., Airtel M Commerce Services Ltd.,...
Modi surprises with Rs. 1.25-lakh cr. largesse Ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a package of Rs. 1.25 lakh crore for the State at a function in Ara on Tuesday. The package would change the “face and fate” of the State, he said. Inaugurating several national highway...
Politicians, writers unite against move to honour Shivaji’s chronicler The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena government’s decision to confer the prestigious Maharashtra Bhushan (Pride of Maharashtra) award on Babasaheb Purandare, a right wing chronicler of King Shivaji, has raised a political storm in the State. A Public Interest Litigation (PIL)...