New Delhi, 11/2: Government nominees’, including AAP leader Jasmine Shah, appointed to the boards of power discoms in Delhi by the Arvind Kejriwal-led dispensation have been replaced with senior officials, sources at the Lieutenant Governor’s office said on Saturday. Besides Shah, a spokesperson of the AAP, those removed from the boards include Naveen Gupta, son…
Mangalore, 11/2: The Mangalore University campus, situated near here and spread over 353 acres, hosts a variety of bird species including three near-threatened species mentioned in the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a study has revealed. The study, ‘A checklist of avifauna of Mangalore University’ by five…
New Delhi, 11/2: Aviation regulator DGCA imposed a financial penalty of Rs 20 lakh on Air Aisa for violation of applicable DGCA Civil Aviation Requirements, ANI reported. According to the DGCA, few mandatory exercises of the pilots of Air Asia were not done during Pilot Proficiency Check as per schedule. A penalty of…
New Delhi, 11/2: Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth’s crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. Researchers had previously identified patches of melt at a similar depth. But a new study led by The University of Texas at Austin revealed for the…
Beijing, 10/2: Chinese company Alibaba is learnt to have sold 3.16 per cent direct stake in digital financial services firm One97 Communications, which operates under Paytm brand, for about Rs 13,600 crore in a block deal, according to sources. With this deal, Alibaba has sold the entire direct stake in the company. Alibaba had a…
New Delhi, 10/2: In a major development, former Odisha chief secretary Bijay Patnaik, who superannuated from service in 2013, is all set to start a fresh chapter by joining the Congress. The retired bureaucrat, who was in touch with the Congress leadership over the past year, met the party leadership at the AICC headquarters…
Mumbai ,10/1:Ahead of the flagging off of the Vande Bharat Express services on the Mumbai-Solapur and Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi routes in Maharashtra on Friday by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Central Railway announced the fare structure. The one-way fare without catering service on the CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat train will be Rs 1,000 for chair car and Rs…
Mumbai, 10/2: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty declined in early trade on Friday, tracking negative cues from Asian and global markets. The stocks of Adani Group companies will also be in focus as index provider MSCI Inc has reduced the weightage of four firms in its index after a review. In…
Turky, 9/2: Freezing temperatures deepened the misery Thursday for survivors of a massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 16,000 people, as rescuers raced to save countless people still trapped under rubble. The death toll from Monday’s 7.8-magnitude quake is expected to rise sharply as rescue efforts pass the 72-hour mark…
Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat in the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here on Thursday. India’s charismatic middle-order batter in T20I cricket Suryakumar Yadav and wicketkeeper batsman Sikhar Bharat will make their debut.Todd Murphy to make debut for Australia.
