Government has set up a National Power Committee to ensure strict discipline and resolve inter-state issues in utilisation of electricity grids in the country. The panel will address issues among Regional Power Committees that work towards improving operational performance of grids in a particular region. The committee’s role will be crucial in evolving a common […]
Taking its probe to the doorsteps of former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, CBI on Saturday questioned his cousin and member of state legislative council Akshay Pratap Singh in connection with the violence in Balipur village in which DSP Zia-ul-Haq was killed. CBI sources said Singh was questioned in detail about his whereabouts on […]
Former Odisha minister Raghunath Mohanty and his wife were arrested from neighbouring West Bengal in a dowry torture case slapped by their daughter-in-law, police said. “Mohanty and his wife Pritilata Mohanty were arrested from a place in Howrah district of West Bengal by a team of Human Rights Protection Cell of Odisha police,” highly placed […]
The Internet may have been slowed by one of the largest cyber attacks ever seen, which targeted a European group that patrols the Web for spam. The attacks targeted Spamhaus, a Geneva-based volunteer group that publishes spam blacklists which are used by networks to filter out unwanted email, and led to cyberspace congestion which may […]
At least 28 people were killed and 13 others sustained injuries following a coal mine blast in north-east China. Forty-one workers were trapped after the accident happened around 10.40 PM (local time) last night at Babao Coal Mine in Jiangyuan District of Jilin Province, said a spokesperson with the provincial work safety and supervision bureau. […]
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari expressed concern over communal riots in Myanmar on Friday and called on his Myanmarese counterpart U Thein Sein to prevent violence and protect the lives of the minority Muslim community. In a letter to U Thein Sein, Zardari said he was “deeply saddened” by a fresh wave of violence in […]
North Korea said it had formally entered a “state of war” with South Korea and warned that any provocation would swiftly escalate into a nuclear conflict. “As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol,” the North said in a […]
Mumbai : What started, as an impossible dream five years ago is today a nationwide phenomenon. In July last year (2012), IIT Bombay announced the launch of e-Yantra – a pan India challenge on robotics with a single-minded focus of making robotics accessible to undergraduate students from engineering colleges across disciplines, especially those who don’t […]
Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina are the two Indians to figure in the list of top 10 in ICC Player Rankings for T20I batsmen, while India continue to hold onto the number three slot in the teams category, issued in Dubai on Friday. Kohli with 731 points is at number eight position, followed by Raina […]
The government on Friday rejected the resolution passed by Tamil Nadu assembly that had asked the Centre to stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly nation and to slap sanctions on it while demanding a referendum for a separate Tamil Eelam. “There is no question of accepting them. That is not the only state that […]
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