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  • Policing the Cyber Highway

    By Jacob Punnoose IPS, Director General of Police,  Kerala Many years ago, in my childhood, there used to be people in my locality who were unable to read letters addressed to them. They would often come to my father for assistance in reading the contents. Such people used to be called illiterates. These days, however, such people […]

    New Zealand team arrives for India tour

    New Zealand cricket team, on a tour of India to play three Test matches and five ODI series, arrived at the Sardar Patel International Airport in Ahmedabada last night. “The entire team has landed at the airport here,” Gujarat Cricket Association(GCA) Spokesperson Jagat Patel said. New Zeleand team will be spending almost one and a […]

    FIFA to go ahead with 2018 and 2022 WCup votes

    FIFA will go ahead with the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding votes on 2nd December, despite the continuing probe into alleged bribery and collusion. FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Friday the vote will proceed ahead as scheduled, but acknowledged that it may have been a mistake to combine the two World Cups into […]

    Railways to Sign MoU with NTPC for JV Captive Power Plant in WB Today

    In a major initiative, the Ministry of Railways takes a step forward in augmenting its own internal power generation to meet its electricity requirements when it is going to sign an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for a Joint Venture captive power plant at Adra in West Bengal on Sunday. The […]

    Indian trio makes cut at Valderrama Masters

    The Indian trio of Jeev Milkha Singh, SSP Chowrasia and Shiv Kapur managed to make the cut despite failing to break par in the second round of the Andalucia Valderrama Masters golf tournament at Sotogrande in Spain. Jeev returned an even-par 71 to be the highest-placed among the three at tied sixth with a total […]

    Explosive recovered from U.S. bound cargo in Dubai

    Police in Dubai said on Saturday that the bomb discovered there in a shipment of air cargo from Yemen that was bound for the United States contained the powerful explosive PETN and bore the hallmarks of al-Qaeda. The white powder explosives were discovered in the ink cartridge of a computer printer, said a police statement […]

    12 convicted, 46 acquitted in Kandhamal riot cases

    At least 12 persons were convicted and 46 others acquitted on Saturday in Kandhamal riot cases by separate fast track courts in Phulbani. The courts pronounced the judgements while disposing six different cases relating to house burning and a murder incident during the ethno-communal riot in Kandhamal in 2008. At least 38 persons were killed […]

    Clinton arrives in China for lightning visit

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived on the southern Chinese island of Hainan late Saturday for talks with Chinese state councillor Dai Bingguo following a regional summit in Vietnam. Her sixth Asian tour in less than two years aims to pursue what an aide called “cool-headed, constructive diplomacy” with China and boost US ties […]

    India-Nepal ink pact to boost cooperation in education sector

    India and Nepal have inked a pact to boost cooperation in the education sector as New Delhi pledged to provide Rs 25 million to improve infrastructure in one of the oldest institutions in the country’s eastern Taplejung district. An MoU was inked between the Embassy of India and the Department of Urban Development and Building […]

    IndiaMART.com to Represent Indian SMEs in the US

    With the United States being seen as a promising market for Indian buyers and suppliers in the automotive and metal forming, fabricating and welding industries, IndiaMART.com, India’s largest online B2B marketplace, has decided to participate in two highly acclaimed trade shows namely ‘Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) 2010’ and ‘Fabtech Expo 2010’ scheduled from November […]