13 die as train hits car in Jharkhand
Howrah-Bhopal Express hits a car at an unmanned level crossing near Bhurkhunda railway station in Ramgarh district.
Howrah-Bhopal Express hits a car at an unmanned level crossing near Bhurkhunda railway station in Ramgarh district.
India is hopeful of boosting exports to the high–value Iranian tea market following the just-concluded visit of an Iranian team, which included officials from ISIRI, and health ministry officials.
The device triggers alarms and sends signals to pre-identified phone numbers.
Cautions that the centre-plus-states’ debt burden could rise to 68.8 per cent of GDP
In a significant change of tack to project a ‘positive’ approach, India on Monday said it was open to ‘non-binding’ discussions on new issues such as environment and labour that the rich world want...
Says industry’s obsessive focus on tax structures is not ‘progressive’.
A parliamentary panel has recommended the integration of the Central Vigilance Commission and the anti-corruption wing of the CBI to work directly under the control of Lokpal to deal with corrupti...
The Karaikudi police have arrested a textile shop owner for pasting a picture of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on an undergarment and sending a picture of it to his friends on WhatsApp.Acti...
It was a dramatic sight on almost all highways as crowds blocked and sometimes chased down trucks and vans carrying an array of materials such as food, water, milk powder and clothes.
Situation is ripe for an epidemic, health experts sound warning.
Bengalureans are taking to new trends in electronic music as alternatives to the settled EDM fever
The author speaks to hoteliers and restaurateurs who cooked hot meals to ensure that the rain-drenched Chennaiite didn’t go hungry
General Motors India has appointed Kaher Kazem, its Chief Operating Officer (COO) as President and Managing Director of the company effective January 1, 2016. He will succeed Arvind Saxena, who wi...
Syrian refugees are scheduled to arrive in Texas on Monday after the state eased up in its legal fight against resettlement agencies and the federal government. Twelve Syrians, including si...
Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to hold peace talks in Switzerland next week, the U.N. special envoy said Monday. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed told reporters in Geneva that the talks would...
Anand Mahindra, noted industrialist and Chairman of the Mahindra Group, has joined the newly created Sustainability Committee of Formula E Championship, an initiative of FIA (Federation Internatio...
Five days. That’s how long I was stuck in my flat — alone, with one candle, a half-empty water can, half a loaf of bread, and a few tomatoes and onions. As the days went by, the candles were repla...
Even as the Met department has forecast more rains for Chennai, most of the vehicle makers at Oragadam and Sriperumbudur manufacturing belts have resumed operations due to improvements in weather...
Photographs depicting the Madras Sappers, who designed the Bangalore Torpedo were part of an exhibition exploring India’s role in the First World War
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A senior Iranian official said on Monday that negotiations are being held to build a $4.5 billion undersea gas pipeline from Iran to Indian west coast following India’s rejection of the proposal fo...
IDFC Bank has inked a pact with IT services major Tata Consultancy Services to use TCS BaNCS for its core banking solutions. IDFC Bank started operations on October 1 this year with 23 branc...
Country’s largest insurer LIC has extended concessions and relaxations to policyholders affected by the floods in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. LIC has eased the procedure for settlement of cl...
Meanwhile, senior BCCI functionary Rajiv Shukla said in New Delhi that the Board will abide by the government decision.
The agencies are already running short — they say they are only half-funded in their 2015 appeals for $19.9 billion and face a total funding gap of $10.2 billion, which is also a record.