‘Govt considering amendments to Companies Act’
New Delhi : To further improve ease of doing business, the government is considering amendments to the Companies Act, Corporate ...
Sharapova confirms failed drug test
Los Angeles: Five-time Grand Slam tennis champion Maria Sharapova has announced that she failed a dope test at the Australian Open, ...
89 lakh children not fully immunised: Govt
New Delhi: Government today admitted that 89 lakh children in India are either partially immunised or have received no immunisation, ...
1,398 capital punishment during 2004-14: Govt
New Delhi: As many as 1,398 people were awarded capital punishment and three were executed in the country during 2004-14, Lok Sabha ...
Bolivia, Russia ink deal on nuclear research lab
La Paz (Bolivia): Bolivia signed a USD 300 million deal with Russia to build a world-class nuclear research lab in the South American ...
N Korea threatens nuke strike on S Korea, US
Seoul: North Korea threatened “indiscriminate” nuclear strikes against South Korea and the US mainland if the two allies ...
Email inventor Ray Tomlinson dies at 74
Washington: Ray Tomlinson, the American programmer widely credited with inventing email, has died. He was 74.
Before Tomlinson ...
Former first lady Nancy Reagan dies at 94 in California
Nancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president – ...
Government for merger of public sector banks
With public sector banks under pressure to tackle their dismal bad loan scenario, consolidation is the way forward, and this could ...
The deepest part of the ocean is noisy
Using a titanium-encased hydrophone scientists record sound on the ocean floor, and discovered an incessant hum of both man-made ...