Kolkata, 15/3: After skipping the opposition meet for a third day in a row, the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said that it will raise issues and agendas on its own in Parliament. Earlier in the day, the party protested in Parliament over the rise of prices of LPG and alleged that the principal…
Mumbai, 15/3: Oil prices rebounded more than 1 per cent on Wednesday, recovering from the previous day’s plunge, as a stronger OPEC outlook on China’s demand helped offset bearish global investor sentiment in the wake of the recent US bank failures. Brent crude futures climbed 93 cents, or 1.2 per cent, to $78.38 a…
New Delhi 15/3: As a Constitutional bench is set to take up the issue of marriage equality in the coming days, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) said it is open to same-sex relationships, but will not accept same-sex marriage. “Marriage is supposed to be between two opposite genders. It’s not a contract or…
Bhubaneswar, 14/3: As many as 184 officers joined the State Cooperation Department in various Cooperative Societies and the State Warehousing Corporation today. While 114 of them joined as Inspector Cooperative Societies, 55 joined as Auditors. Similarly, 15 officers joined the Warehousing Corporation as Assistant Managers, Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents. An orientation programme was…
Washington DC, 14/3: Google on Tuesday began letting some developers and businesses access the kind of artificial intelligence that has captured attention since the launch of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT last year. The tech giant’s cloud computing arm will provide testers with ways to “infuse generative AI” into apps or put them to work on Google’s…
Patna, 14/3′ A BJP MLA in Bihar was on Tuesday suspended for two days on account of unruly behaviour, triggering protests from his party colleagues who staged a walkout though the government praised Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary for setting a “good precedent”. As Chaudhary announced the suspension of Lakhendra Raushan, the latter rose…
New Delhi, 14/3: Animal welfare group PETA has written to the presidents of the BJP and the Congress, urging them to include animal welfare-related policies in their respective election manifestos for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In the letters, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) India chapter has urged the…
Mumbai, 14/3: Professor Manoj Tiwari, the Director of the Mumbai-based National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) has become the first-ever researcher from India to be awarded the prestigious David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). This prestigious award, given once a year, honours individuals who…
Tokyo, 14/3: Japan announced the official start of Tokyo’s cherry blossom season on Tuesday, 10 days earlier than usual and tied with a record early start seen only twice before. In past years the country’s meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change, and temperatures in Tokyo have been unseasonably mild in…
Kulgam, 14/3: In an early morning swoop, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday carried out raids at multiple locations across Kashmir in connection with an alleged terror conspiracy case. Reports said the probe agency sleuths accompanied by J&K police and CRPF personnel conducted raids at nine locations in Anantnag, Kulgam, and Pulwama districts…
