Sydney, July 25: Australians spend a whopping $282 billion a week on meat consumption, a new survey revealed on Monday. The Australian arm of German supermarket giant Aldi who commissioned the survey said on average the Australian household spent some $34 to cook about four-and-half of meat meals per week, Xinhua news agency reported. Meat consumption […]

Narayanpur (Chhattisgarh), July 24: The motorcycle ambulance is a new concept in India that is saving lives in remote regions where people had been dying because they could not make it to the hospital on time. When eight months pregnant Sukmi’s water broke she was in Ongnarpal, a village deep in the jungle of Chhattisgarh where […]

New Delhi, July 25: As the country moves to attract more people from around the globe for its initiatives like ‘Make in India,’ ‘Digital India’ and ‘Smart India’, the country has already become one of the fastest growing regions for software major Adobe across Asia-Pacific, especially in the Cloud-based IT services and research. The company’s […]

Mumbai, July 25: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore ($754,000) on the Bank of Baroda (BoB) for irregularities in anti-money laundering (AML) provisions that came to light in October 2015, the public sector lender said here on Monday. “The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of […]

New Delhi, July 25: Aimed at curbing call drops, 48,000 new telecom sites have been set up across the country by various operators as part of a 100-day plan which they committed to the government earlier. “They assured that the target for the 100-day programme, as committed to the (telecom) secretary, will be met. They indicated […]

Shimla, July 25:  The Himachal Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved the amended state Hydropower Policy, aimed at ending red-tapism in the state and making it more investor-friendly, an official said. “The developer will now have to submit proposals to the deputy commissioner concerned to obtain approvals or no-objection certificates (NOCs) from different departments, including the […]

New Delhi, July 25: Indian coffee production is likely to decline by around 8 per cent in the current fiscal owing to lack of timely rains, parliament was told on Monday. “It has been estimated that there is a likelihood of decline in Indian coffee production in 2016-17 by 8 per cent compared to that […]

New York, July 25: Verizon Communications, the largest US wireless communications service provider, was set to acquire Yahoo’s ailing core internet business for about $4.8 billion on Monday. The deal will allow Verizon to get Yahoo’s online assets including search, mail and instant messaging, along with its ad technology and land holdings, tech website Quartz reported. […]