Jharkhand police on Friday has named 14 persons in the first information report lodged for killing of seven anti-Pathalgadi villagers in Burugulikera village in West Singhbhum district, a day after their bodies were buried in the village amid heavy police presence. Police said another 200 unidentified persons have been named […]
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Tihar jail gave all papers to Delhi gang rape convicts’ lawyer: Prosecution
A Delhi court on Saturday disposed off a plea by the lawyer of the death row convicts in the 2012 gang rape and murder case, seeking additional documents after the court noted that no documents are pending and all the documents have been supplied. Advocate A P Singh representing the three December […]
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Delhi Metro services on Republic Day: Early trains, closed stations and more
Services of Delhi Metro will be restricted partially on Sunday under the instructions of the city police as part of the security arrangements for the Republic Day celebrations. Trains on Delhi Metro’s several lines, including Line 2 from HUDA City Centre to Samaypur Badli and Line 6 from Kashmere Gate […]
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China deploys over 400 military doctors as Wuhan grapples with resource shortages
China is mobilising hundreds of doctors from across the country including nearly 450 medical workers from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to deploy in Wuhan amid reports of severe shortage of medical resources and overworked, exhausted medics treating the large number of Coronavirus patients in the city. Reports in state […]
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Voice of 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy recreated
Scientists have succeeded in accurately reproducing the voice of an Egyptian priest who lived 3,000 years ago, thanks to the mummification process and the use of 3D printing technology. The scientists created the 3-D printed vocal tract based on measurements of the precise dimensions of his extant vocal tract following computed tomography […]
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ICSI CS Foundation Result 2019 declared, direct link to download mark sheet here
Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has declared the result of CS Foundation programme exam at its official website. ICSI has also uploaded the mark sheet for the December exam 2019. Those who had appeared for the ICSI CS Foundation Exam in the month of December 2019 can check their results online at icsi.edu.The ICSI CS Foundation exam […]
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Ethiopians look for love during Orthodox epiphany celebration
Getahun Fetana spent years admiring Emebet Melaku from a distance before plucking up the nerve to speak to her, taking advantage of a chance encounter during Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of epiphany. Breaking off from his friends, the 37-year-old professor walked over to introduce himself, and the sparks that flew […]
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Indian Navy Admit Card for SSR, AA 2020 released, here is how to download
Indian Navy has released the admit card for the online exam to recruit Senior Secondary Recruit (SSR), Artificer Apprentice (AA) and Matric Recruits (MR) . Candidates who have applied for the exam can download their Indian Navy sailor exam admit card from the official website of Indian Navy . They […]
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The many colours of Mandawa, a Sekhawati heritage
Just 170 km from Jaipur and about 260 km from Delhi lies an erstwhile little town full of colours and devoid of noise. Mandawa, a village in the Sekhawati region of Rajasthan, is bordered by the Aravalis in the east and the desert sands in the west. Situated in the district of Jhunjhunu, […]
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Govt won’t let universities become a ‘center of politics’: HRD minister
Union Minister of Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal on Friday said that the government will not let universities become the “centre of politics”. “We cannot keep our students entangled in petty issues. We will not let universities become a center of politics. We will never allow it,” said Pokhriyal while […]
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India faces first fall in direct taxes in at least two decades
India’s corporate and income tax collection for the current year is likely to fall for the first time in at least two decades, over half a dozen senior tax officials told Reuters, amid a sharp fall in economic growth and cut in corporate tax rates. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government […]
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Intel says 2020 will get them better revenue and profit than what was anticipated
Intel on Thursday cemented the market view that the chip industry is turning around after a prolonged slowdown, forecasting better 2020 revenue and profit than Wall Street anticipated, driven by cloud computing demand. The company’s sales in its closely watched data centre business jumped 19%, helping it beat fourth-quarter profit […]
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Budget 2020: Shaktikanta Das bats for more structural reforms to revive growth ahead of budget
With just a week left for the budget, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday called for structural reforms and more fiscal measures to revive consumption demand and the overall growth, saying monetary policy has its own limitations to achieve these objectives. The Narendra Modi government in its second term […]
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Intel, Softbank beware: Open source is coming to the chip business
After revolutionising software, the open-source movement is threatening to do same to the chip industry. Big technology companies have begun dabbling with RISC-V, which replaces proprietary know-how in a key part of the chip design process with a free standard that anyone can use. While it’s early days, this could […]
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Direct tax numbers to put GDP in focus
Reuters reported on Friday that direct tax collections in the current fiscal year could end up being lower than the Rs 11.5 lakh crore collected in 2018-19. The numbers available currently do not indicate this, but do not rule out such a possibility. Total direct tax collection in the […]