The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has met the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in New Delhi today. Both the dignitaries have discussed the various ideas to further strengthen the close and unique India-Bhutan friendship. Shri Modi has also conveyed his appreciation for the guiding vision provided by successive Druk Gyalpos in shaping relations between India and Bhutan.” In ...
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Cabinet approves Signing of Guarantees for hosting FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Signing of Guarantees for hosting Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Under 17 Women’s World Cup 2022 in India. FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 is scheduled to be held in India between 11th and 30th October 2022. The seventh edition of the biennial youth tournament will be the ...
Read More »Smoke, fire in engine-2 of Air India Express plane at Muscat airport
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) An Air India Express flight B737 IX-442 MCT-COK (Muscat-Cochin) VT-AXZ witnessed smoke and fire in its engine number two at Muscat airport on Wednesday. The plane was carrying 145 passengers, including four infants, the officials said, adding that all of them were safe and no injuries have been reported. “A DGCA official said that during taxiing ...
Read More »Former Andhra Lok Sabha MP, her husband get five-year jail in bank fraud case
Hyderabad, Sep 14 (IANS) A CBI court here on Wednesday sentenced former Member of Parliament from Andhra Pradesh, Kothapalli Geetha, her husband P. Ramakoteshwara Rao and two bank officials to five years imprisonment in a bank fraud case. Geetha, a former member of Lok Sabha from Araku, and others were arrested and shifted to Chanchalguda Central Jail. Sentencing them for ...
Read More »President Murmu to represent India at Queen Elizabeth’s funeral in London
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu will represent India at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in London on September 19. Murmu will be visiting London from September 17 to 19 to offer condolences on behalf of the Government of India. Queen Elizabeth, the former head of state of the UK and Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, ...
Read More »Six labourers killed as lift collapses in under-construction highrise building
Ahmedabad, Sep 14 (IANS) At least six labourers were killed and one seriously injured after the lift of an under-construction building collapsed here on Wednesday. The lift crashed from the seventh floor. The under-construction highrise building, named Aspire-II was located near the Gujarat University campus. “At the time of the accident seven labourers were inside the lift, which was used to ...
Read More »Where do high-energy particles that endanger satellites, astronauts, airplanes come from?
For decades, scientists have been trying to solve a vexing problem about the weather in outer space: At unpredictable times, high-energy particles bombard the earth and objects outside the earth’s atmosphere with radiation that can endanger the lives of astronauts and destroy satellites’ electronic equipment. These flare-ups can even trigger showers of radiation strong enough to reach passengers in airplanes ...
Read More »Delhi HC directs former BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy to vacate govt bungalow
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed former BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy to hand over the possession of his government bungalow to the estate officer within six weeks. Citing security reasons, Swamy, who was the former Union Minister, was allotted the government accomodation in the Lutyens zone by the cabinet committee on January 15, ...
Read More »Look inside, not at your competition: Google CEO Sundar Pichai advises
In an interview at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills early this week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai retorted to a question about competition in artificial intelligence stating clearly that it’s not always the competition but lack of focus within that leads to failure. “I have always held the view that you tend to go wrong by focusing too much on ...
Read More »Flight services to reduce in France: Passengers advised to postpone their trips
Air traffic in France will be severely disrupted this Friday due to a strike over wages, the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) has warned. French air traffic controllers are taking action to demand higher wages due to soaring inflation. The national strike will last from 6 a.m. on Friday to 6 a.m. on Saturday, DGAC announced on Tuesday. In addition ...
Read More »Indian, US, Spain surgeons win global robotic surgery innovation awards
Robotic surgeons from the US, India and Spain were named the top three winners in the KS International Robotic Surgery Innovation competition, as robotic surgery slowly becomes mainstream. The winners were selected by an international jury form Oxford and Stanford Universities, and New-Delhi based AIIMS, from the fields of urology, gynaecology, general surgery, hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery, colorectal, head and neck, paediatric ...
Read More »Foreign Service: Jennifer Larson is new US Consulate General in Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Sep 13 (IANS) Jennifer Larson is the new Consul General of the US in Hyderabad. She previously served as Deputy Principal Officer at the US Consulate General in Mumbai and as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for India. “I couldn’t be more excited to be here in Hyderabad. I’ve spent the last five years working on the US-India relationship from Mumbai ...
Read More »Man arrested in Karnataka for firing at wife with pistol
Belagavi (Karnataka), Sep 13 (IANS) Police in Karnataka on Tuesday arrested a man for firing at his wife after she refused to go with him from her parents’ home in Belagavi district’s Athani town. The man, identified as Shivananda of Sindhagi in Vijayapura district, was arrested following a complaint lodged by his wife who escaped unhurt in the incident. According to ...
Read More »Toronto police officer shot dead, suspect in custody
A Canadian police officer was killed and a suspect is in custody following two daylight shootings in Toronto, local media reported. Police said on Twitter that a suspect has been located and is in police custody, reports Xinhua news agency. One person has been pronounced deceased at the scene and two others have been transported to hospital, the police said. ...
Read More »Principal, staff member arrested for sexual assault on students in Karnataka
The Karnataka police on Tuesday arrested the principal and computer operator of a residential hostel in connection with sexual harassment in this district of the state. The facility located in the Kunchavaram police station limits in Chincholi taluk is run by the Social Welfare department for oppressed classes. More than 100 students of secondary classes reside and study here. A ...
Read More »Hungary’s tourism bounces back to pre-pandemic level; International visitors increased
Tourism in Hungary has bounced back to the pre-pandemic level, with 16.4 million guest nights registered this summer, the Hungarian Tourism Agency (MTU) said. This is the same level as the summer of 2019, Xinhua news agency quoted the MTU as saying. MTU welcomed the fact that domestic tourism has maintained its momentum in recent years. “About 10.5 million of ...
Read More »India to assume G20 Presidency for a year from Dec 1; Sets priorities
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) India has listed its priorities ahead of assuming the G20 Presidency for a year from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023. In a statement on Tuesday, the Ministry of External Affairs said: “Our G20 priorities are in the process of being firmed up, ongoing conversations inter alia revolve around: Inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth; LiFE ...
Read More »Gang of wildlife poachers including a software professional busted in Karnataka
The Karnataka Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has busted a gang of wildlife poachers, including a software professional, authorities said on Tuesday. The arrested were identified as Byatappa Gowda, a resident of Arehalli in Tumakuru district; Vaishak from Kadehalli; and Charan, the software professional, from Bengaluru. According to the CID Forest Cell wing, the accused were involved in poaching rabbits ...
Read More »Tata Group’s investment announcement in West Bengal was ‘slip of tongue’ by Mamata Banerjee: Chief Secretary Dwivedi clarifies
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s announcement about a proposed fresh investment by Tata Group at Raninagar in Jalpaiguri district was just a “slip of the tongue” on her part, state Chief Secretary H.K.Dwivedi has said. On Monday afternoon, while addressing an event to hand over appointment letters to various beneficiaries under “Utkarsh Bangla,” a skill development scheme of the ...
Read More »Eight-month-old Infant dies after mobile battery explodes in UP’s Bareilly district
An eight-month-old infant in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district died after the battery of a mobile phone kept next to her on charging mode exploded, police said. The phone, purchased nearly six months ago, already had a swollen battery plugged into a switch connected to a solar panel. Kusum Kashyap, mother of the baby Neha, was not in the room at ...
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