Washington: Nisha Desai Biswal, former Indian-American assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia has been appointed as the new president of US India Business Council (USIBC), an official announcement said. Biswal was the assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, in wh

OnePlus devices are reportedly sending sensitive personal data to its servers. The company’s OxygenOS is under the scanner for tracking personally identifiable information like IMEI number,MAC addresses, mobile network names, Wi-Fi SSIDs, and the phone’s serial number. A OnePlus 2 user, Chris D M

NEW DELHI: Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today, ending an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15 despite the ban on child marriage. "If a man has sexual intercourse with a wife who is below 18 years, it is an offence. The minor wife can complain

Lucknow: Around 300 students were taken ill today after inhaling toxic gas emitted by a sugar mill near their school in Shamli district, the police said. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe into the matter by Commissioner Saharanpur. The students of a private schoo

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has suspended 16 students for three years and six others for a year after they were found guilty of ragging their juniors, in the first decision of its kind in the history of the premier institution. The decision was taken by the IIT-K’s

Sixteen children, out of which ten were infants, died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in UP's Gorakhpur, the IANS reported. Ten out of the sixteen children were admitted in the NICU, while the other six were admitted in the ICU. According to reports, 20 patients -- including six

Brahmavar (Udupi) 08 Oct 2017 (Bhatkallys News Bureau): Kavita Trust today organized a poetry reciting competition of Nawayathi and Konkani poems at holy family Church school Brahmavar. Representatives of Nawayath Mehfil Bhatkal also took part in the competition two of whom qualified for the final r

The family of a Mumbai-based engineer, who was declared brain dead after he was grievously injured in a bike accident during a visit to his hometown in Pune, has given a new lease of life to four people by donating the victim's organs. On October 2, two unidentified bikers rammed into Govind Kulkarn

At least 20 farmers in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district, which falls under drought-prone Vidarbha region, have died allegedly after inhaling poisonous pesticides. A farmer leader alleged that more than 700 farmers have been hospitalised while 25 have lost vision due to infection caused by spra

MEERUT: Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the police force in the 21st century could no longer be a "brute force" but would have to function as a "civilised" unit and consider less lethal solutions in carrying out policing tasks and in crowd control. "There are situations when th

Sidney: Adani’s coal mine project is facing mass criticism over his proposed Carmichael coal mine project near Great Barrier Reef in Queensland. There has been a protest launched ‘stop Adani’ against the Indian businessman across Australia. His coal mine project had been delayed over the environm

Mumbai: Abolishing subsidy for Haj pilgrims and allowing women above 45 to travel in a group of at least four without a male member are some of the key highlights of a proposed Haj policy drafted by a committee appointed by the Centre, sources said. The proposed Haj Policy 2018-22 by the panel he

Mumbai,7 October 2017: Around 54,000 petrol pumps all over India will go on a day-long strike on October 13 in support of their long-pending demands, a petrol pump operators association official said here on Saturday. Federation Of Maharashtra Petrol Dealers Association (Fampeda) President Uday L

BENGALURU: Changing his stand, state BJP President BS Yeddyurappa today said he has decided to contest the 2018 assembly polls from his traditional Shikaripura constituency and would not shift to north Karnataka. He said people of Shikaripura who had supported him all along were saying he could f

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New Delhi: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan’s name figures in this year’s list of possible winners of Nobel Prize in economics brought out by Clarivate Analytics. The economics prize will be announced in Stockholm on Monday, according to Nobelprize.org. Clarivate Anal

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is the winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace prize. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, said the award had been made in recognition of “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences

October 6, New Delhi An Indian Air Force (IAF) Mi-17 V5 helicopter crashed early today morning in Arunachal Pradesh's China area. All seven people on board - five from the Indian Air Force and two from the Indian Army - were killed in the crash. The crash took place at around 6 am in China in Arun