New Delhi, Aug 8: Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Congress member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury clashed in the Lok Sabha on Monday as he accused the minister of a “flip-flop” policy on the condition of tea gardens in north Bengal. These, he said, had become “enclaves” of death and destitution. “You are well aware that […]

Hyderabad, Aug 8: A former Maoist turned Gangster was killed on Monday during an exchange of fire with police in Telangana’s Shadnagar town, officials said. Nayeem, who was accused of killing a police officer and many former Maoist leaders, was in a four-wheeler which was intercepted by a police team. While the driver managed to […]

Tokyo: Researchers have found that the spontaneous smiles seen in hominoids are also common in Japanese macaques, revealing that the origin of smiles goes back at least 30 million years when old world monkeys and our ancestors diverged. Spontaneous smiles — considered the evolutionary origin of real smiles and laughter — are facial movements that […]

New Delhi, Aug 8: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who underwent surgery to fix a dislocated shoulder after she collapsed due to exhaustion during a rally in Varanasi, is recovering well and is likely to be discharged later this week, hospital authorities said on Monday. “Sonia Gandhi who has been admitted under the care of Arup […]

New Delhi, Aug 8: Former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Swamy Prasad Maurya on Monday joined the BJP in the presence of party national president Amit Shah here. He was welcomed in the party by Shah, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Om Mathur, who is in charge of the party’s affairs in Uttar Pradesh, […]

London, Aug 8: Researchers have reportedly found major security flaws in chips being used in nearly 900 million Android smartphones globally that could give cyber criminals complete access to the data. According to the team from Israel-based software and hardware giant Check Point, the bugs were uncovered at the software running on chipsets made by […]

Dhaka, Aug 8: Bangladesh authorities have arrested nine foreigners in Dhaka for possessing counterfeit currency notes, police said on Monday. The elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of the Bangladesh police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said the arrests were made from a house at the capital’s Bashundhara residential area during a raid on Sunday night, bdnews24 […]

New Delhi, Aug 8: As the world’s first Generation 3-plus nuclear power unit was connected to the power grid in Russia last week, experts in India say the next nuclear power plant that India and Russia are to set up together may have a similar reactor. The Unit 6 of Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant in […]

New Delhi, Aug 8: Casio India on Monday introduced three new projector models that promise to reduce the power consumption by up to 50 percent and feature a dust-resistance design to ease the maintenance. Part of its EcoLite series of LampFree projectors, the devices come with Casio’s 5th generation laser and LED hybrid light source […]

New Delhi: The union government has spent over Rs 1,000 crore over seven years to modernise madrasas or Islamic educational institutions, according to data released by Minister for Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar in the Lok Sabha. The government increased the spending on the Scheme for Providing Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQEM), launched in 2009-10, […]