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Serving the government as the Principal Secretary of Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh for seven years, T.K.A. Nair is appointed as the new advisor. Nair is a retired Punjab cadre IAS officer and will handle the responsibilities in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). He will become the Adviser on October 3 to the Prime Minister with the [...]
During the wee hours at the IGI airport a parked IndiGo aircraft was scrapped by a SpiceJet plane, structurally damaging of the former. Following the incident a SpiceJet’s aircraft maintenance engineer and two technicians have been called off from the job. The aircrafts did not have any passengers at the time of the incident and no individual [...]
Foreign Minister, SM Krishna along with his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar has begun the round of talks pertaining to issues between the countries. Both of them will begin their talks today in Delhi. Thirty-four-year-old, Hina Rabbani Khar along with Mr. Krishna made short statements and struck a conciliatory note. According to the government sources [...]
Doordarshan, the first public television transmitter of India is all set to get a face lift in order to hook more viewership and enhance the quality content of its programmes. According to a source from the Information and Broadcasting Ministry the scheme is initiated by Ambika Soni, I&B minister. She will enable DD to have [...]
India might face another epidemic with Hepatitis virus, as according to recent health reports from various parts of India access that about 8 to 10 million have silent Hepatitis C virus infection and about 20 million people are Hep. B carriers, said Professor S K Acharya, HoD of gastroenterology at AIIMS. It is presumed that approximately [...]
The official disclosure by the Swiss Central Bank claims that Indians are having $2.5 billion deposits in various Swiss banks. The recent unveiled facts have given a chance to the opposition to question the government that is already censured by the Supreme Court over its failure in the Black money issues. The disclosure came in [...]
Cheerful citizens at Manipur welcomed the decision of award committee which decided to recommend two athletes from the state for this year’s prestigious Arjuna Award. The committee on Friday decided to name Wushu player W. Sandhyarai Devi and boxer Mayengbam Suranjoy for the award.
The decision came after recent storm when Renubala Chanu, India top woman weightlifter proclaimed [...]
To gather a more foothold in the small car market, General Motors launched a diesel variant of its compact car-Beat. The launch has been timed well to cash in on the boom in the car segment after steep increase in petrol prices and increasing difference in the price of the two fuels.
The diesel version is [...]
Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) made its delivery of the seven train rakes to the Bangalore Metro on Monday. Earlier BEML made a train that is undergoing static tests at the Byappanahalli metro depot. VRS Natarajan, chairman of BEM was ecstatic with the company’s development commented that it is the first time that BEML is [...]
After a nerve-wracking competition between India’s two prime woman cueists, Vidya Pillai edged Chitra Magimairaj, and made an entry into the semifinals in the senior women’s snooker segment of the National Snooker and Billiards Championship on Sunday. The game included five frames after which the player advanced further. Chitra was at ease in the first [...]