NEW DELHI: An assessment of one lakh students on various skills has found that only 34% were employable and women fared better than men in the tests. The survey also found that Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha and West Bengal were among the top

Indonesia: An explosive volcanic eruption on Indonesia's most populous island blasted ash and debris 18 kilometers into the air, killing three people while forcing authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 and close seven airports. The overnight eruption of Java island's Mount Kelud could be hear

Best mobile phone: 20-16 What's the best mobile phone? Our verdict on the best smartphone/best phones - constantly updated We've all got at least one mobile phone each, right? We've probably got about three or four nowadays, and that counts giving your old Nokia 3310 to your Mum a few year

Melbourne:  At least 20 homes have been razed in the worst fire conditions Australia has seen since a deadly 2009 inferno which killed 173 people, with flames threatening the country's second-largest city, officials said on Monday. Hot, dry winds and soaring temperatures fanned scores of major bl

بھٹکلیس نیوز8فروری14 سنگاپور )ایجنسیBCCI ) صدر این سری نواسن آجICCکے اگلے صدر کے عہدے کیلئے منتخب کرلیے گئے ہیں۔ BCCI نے اس ارادے کی ایک تجویزبھیجی تھی جسے منظوری مل گئی . سنگاپور میں ICC کے اجلاس میں انہیں صدر منتخب کیا گیا . شری نواسن جولائی 2014 میں اپنا عہدہ سنبھالیں گے . وہ دو سال کے لئے ICC

8 February 2014 Dubai Cares’ event highlights rigours faced by children in developing countries On a breezy Friday morning, several dozens of families wearing sneakers stepped up to walk three kilometres for a good cause. Twins in matching pink track suits, classmates from school, cousins, rel

8 February 2014 Ceremony opens with the Russian alphabet projected on the stadium floor Fireworks are seen over the Olympic park during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi on Friday. — AP Music, dance and plenty of Russian bravado unleashed the ultimate achievement o

A petition will be filed in the Supreme Court soon for safe disposal of about 1,500 tonnes of the dangerous agrichemical, endosulfan, still lying across the country, according to Dr Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of Udupi-based Human Rights Protection Foundation. The Karnataka Cashew Developmen

Dubai: Plans to extend sections of Dubai Metro are on track with the designs of the expansion on three ends of the network currently being worked out, a senior Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) official told Gulf News. The extension will include doubling the length of Green Line, extending th

Ten tourists from Porbander in Gujarat died and 35 others injured late on Monday when a luxury bus in which they were travelling fell into a deep ditch on the ravines of the Khambatki Ghat along the Pune-Solapur highway.  The police said the Kolhapur-Mumbai luxury bus was travelling through the s

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Madan Lal has accused the BJP of offering him Rs. 20 crore to split his party and pull down the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi. Madan Lal today alleged that he had been approached by men close to BJP leaders Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley but gave no proo

NEW DELHI: Rickshaw pullers to non-resident Indians (NRIs) are among the swell of people who have donated more than Rs 7 crore to theAAP coffers in just 50 days to fight the coming Lok Sabha election even as the party membership surges to an impressive ten million. A large part of this has come f

AMP is organizing a Job Fair in association with Habib College of Commerce and Arts, Mumbai.   Keeping in mind AMP's core objective of supporting the community in Economical Empowerment, these Job fair's give a chance to candidates to give interview for vacancies in Sales, Marketing, Back Of

KATMANDU: Nearly 200 Nepali migrant workers died in Qatar last year, many of them from heart failure, officials said Monday, figures that highlight the grim plight of laborers in the Gulf nation. Tens of thousands of impoverished Nepalese head every year to Qatar, where a construction boom is gat

Abu Dhabi: The UAE has emerged as the front runner to host IPL 2014, Gulf News has learned. India’s general election in April has forced the IPL governing council and team representatives to find an alternative venue due to fears over security, according to a BCCI insider. The Indian c

Luminous e-Techno Academy in Bangalore offers Free CET coaching for PCMB, IIT-JEE, AIEEE, COMED-K students appearing for exams in 2014. Few salient features of this program: Completely Free as it is sponsored by Directorate of Minorities Stipend Rs. 1,000/- for qualified students Complete

India is looking to create as many as 100 million skilled jobs in the manufacturing sector by raising its share of GDP to 25 per cent from 16 per cent, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said. Sharma is here for the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meet where he would also have interact

Abu Dhabi: With an online presence on several social media sites an initiative, titled UAE Together,  is making the roads safer 140 characters at a time. Launched by the General Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police, UAE Together regularly updates its Twitter page, informing users on police instructi