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Parveen Kumar

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Apple drops iPhone bombshell on already reeling stock market

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple acknowledged that demand for iPhones is waning, confirming investor fears that the company’s most profitable product has lost some of its luster. The reckoning came in a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook to the company’s shareholders released after the stock market closed Wednesday. Cook said […]

Suspects in Khashoggi’s killing brought before Saudi court

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi prosecutors will seek the death penalty for at least five people in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, the kingdom’s state media reported on Thursday as 11 suspects attended their first court hearing. The state-run Saudi Press Agency and state […]

China lands spacecraft on ‘dark’ side of moon in world first

BEIJING — China’s burgeoning space program achieved a first on Thursday: a landing on the so-called dark side of the moon. Three nations — the United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China — have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, which faces […]

Initiatives for Railway Safety

open view web desk Safety has always been accorded highest priority by Railways. Expenditure on safety related activities forms part of both Revenue and Capital segments of Budget. An expenditure of ₹ 60,885 cr has been incurred in 2017-18 on safety related activities. In Budget Estimates 2018-19 outlay […]

Go Green Initiatives in Indian Railways

open view web desk  Railways have undertaken some major initiatives to Go Green. The details of the areas/activities identified and their present status are as under: Ministry of Railways has planned to set up 1000 Mega Watt (MW) solar power by 2020-21 which would help Railways to source […]

Reducing Carbon Emission by Altering the Method of Farming

open view web desk Initiative have been taken to make agriculture more adaptive and resilient to climate variability and in the process to reduce carbon emission.  Important initiatives in this regard include crop diversification programme under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), National Food Security Mission (NFSM) and Bringing […]

Issues of Parali Burning

open view web desk Through the various efforts under the Central Sector Scheme on ‘Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization for In-Situ Management of Crop Residue in the State of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh & NCT of Delhi’ the satellite data indicates that  paddy residue burning events have reduced by […]

Trump has not risen to the mantle of White House: Mitt Romney

Washington, Jan 2: Mitt Romney, the Republican party’s presidential nominee in 2012, has slammed US President Donald Trump, saying his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that he has not risen to the mantle of the office. Romney, 71, who was elected […]

Domestic help commits suicide in Safdarjung Enclave

New Delhi, Jan 2: A young domestic help has allegedly committed suicide in the building where she worked in south-west Delhi’s Safdarjung Enclave, police said Wednesday. The incident took place on December 27, they said. Police said the woman, suspected to be in her 20s, worked as a domestic […]

Rescuers pull more bodies from rubble of Russian gas explosion

Rescuers hunted for survivors Wednesday in the rubble of a Russian apartment building wrecked by a New Year’s Eve gas explosion, but found only bodies as the number of confirmed dead rose to 22. Nineteen people were still missing following the explosion, which destroyed 35 apartments in the […]

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