open view web desk NEW DELHI- India is cutting prices of gasoline and diesel by 2.50 rupees ($0.03) a litre, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday, the government’s latest step to tackle the impact of a sharp rise in crude oil prices and a weak local currency. […]
open view web desk US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to medicine. Arnold, just the fifth woman to clinch chemistry’s […]
open view web desk New Delhi, Oct 3:Â In a major setback to Opposition unity ahead of Lok Sabha elections due next year, BSP supremo Mayawati Wednesday announced that her party will contest assembly elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh either on its own or in alliance with regional […]
open view web desk Delhi, Oct 3: Justice Ranjan Gogoi was sworn in as the 46th Chief Justice of India He succeeds Justice Dipak Misra President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath to the 63-year-old Justice Gogoi at a brief ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan’s Darbar Hall Justice Gogoi […]
open view web desk NEW DELHI – Police on Tuesday fired teargas and water cannons to halt and scatter a march by thousands of protesting farmers heading for the capital New Delhi to demand better prices for their produce. Reeling from a crash in commodity prices, more than […]
open view web desk Wardha (Maha), Oct 2:Â Mahatma Gandhi aimed to unite the country but Prime Minister Narendra Modi was working to divide it, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said at Wardha in Maharashtra on Tuesday. Addressing a rally marking his party’s programmes on the commencement of Mahatma Gandhi’s […]
open view web desk MUMBAI- The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that there was minimal risk of children contracting the polio virus in India from a tainted batch of vaccines. The public health scare, which potentially affected thousands of children, put a renewed spotlight on lax […]
open view web desk LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI – The deadly shooting of an Apple manager by police in Uttar Pradesh prompted human rights activists and opposition parties to demand reform, saying it was only the latest in a series of extrajudicial killings by local police. The government of Uttar […]
open view web desk It’s hard to miss the message Sivakasi sends when driving into town after acres of dry, uncultivated land: this is a place for combustion. This town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu built its reputation on fireworks, firecrackers and matches. Posters and […]
open view web desk Fresh from clinching an updated North American commerce pact, U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday criticized Indian and Brazilian trade tactics, describing the latter as being “maybe the toughest in the world” in terms of protectionism. Addressing reporters at a White House event to […]
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