Irritated with a pest that doesn't seem to go away even after you have tried using a variety of insect sprays? A helpline on the anvil will soon connect you with experts who will decode the puzzle of the mysterious insect through an identification technology called DNA barcoding and provide solutions, courtesy the iBOL project....
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived here on Friday on a three-day official visit amid expectations that a pact will be firmed up on India's first bullet train and over progress in the talks on a civil nuclear deal....
From being a "failure in chemistry class" to a believer in "slow understanding", the Nobel laureates of 2015 might not have been the brightest of kids in their school days but when it came to discoveries that led to "greatest benefits for the mankind", they were honoured by the King of Sweden at a glittering ceremony here on T...
Amid repeated disruptions by Congress members who trooped near the chairman's podium and raised slogans, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2.30 p.m. on Friday over the National Herald case. The pre-lunch session was wiped out, and Chairman M. Hamid Ansari's attempts to take up the question hour failed, forcing the house's adjournment. ...
No new diesel vehicles would be registered in the national capital, the National Green Tribunal said on Friday. It also questioned the Delhi government's odd-even formula for vehicles to check air pollution and said the move may not achieve desired results. "No new diesel vehicles would be registered in the national capital in the backd...
The Reserve Bank of India has passed on powers to state-run banks to deal with the major issue of their non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad loans, and is now in the process of monitoring their implementation, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Friday. "Much of the last three quarters have been spent devising powers for banks to deal...
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will make a statement in parliament on Monday about her recent visit to Pakistan, the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. "...
A court here accepted on Thursday the request of Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist David Coleman Headley, currently imprisoned in the US, to turn approver and depose in the 26/11 case in return for a pardon....
Asking the Congress to fight the National Herald case legally and not disrupt parliament, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday took a dig at Congress president Sonia Gandhi, saying India "has never accepted the diktat that the queen is not answerable to law"....
December 10: Salman Khan acquitted of all charges in the September 2002 accident case; the Bombay High Court queashes lower court verdict, sets it aside....
