Centre firm on withdrawing Indira, Rajiv stamps Amid a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the government’s decision to discontinue postage stamps featuring the former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that there was no question of reconsidering...
Indian govt\'s new Bharat Operating System likely to replace Microsoft Windows Indian government is finally set to launch the latest version of its own operating system dubbed as the Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS. The operating system which was originally developed in 2007 by National Resource Centre for Free/Open...
IISc, IIT-D in top 200 rankings MIT and Harvard hold the top two positions in the world university rankings India has made its debut in the Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) list of top 200 universities globally. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) have been placed...
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...