The young Indian mixed doubles pair of Rohan Kapoor – Kuhoo Garg and Shivam Sharma – Poorvisha S Ram entered the second round of the USD 150,000 New Zealand Open Super 300 tournament in Auckland on Tuesday. Rohan and Kuhoo, who had won the 2017 Hellas Open International Challenge and Iceland International challenge this year, […]
WASHINGTON: An Indian-American owned IT company in California was on Wednesday asked to pay $173,044 in wages to 12 of its foreign employees, most of them from India, who were paid salaries well below the levels required under the H-1B programme. Investigations carried out by the US Department of Labour’s Wage and Hour Division revealed […]
New Delhi Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday advised Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s challenge to speak in Karnataka without reading from any paper. Taking to Twitter, Omar said: “I hope @RahulGandhi takes up the Hon PM’s challenge & speaks w/out using notes for 15 […]
NEW DELHI: The Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) will release the PSEB Class 10 secondary examination results 2018 in the first week of May 2018. The exact time of the announcement of Class 10 result is not mentioned on the official website of the PSEB board. However, as per report from sources, the result may […]
Australia’s oldest scientist, who caused a stir when his university tried to vacate his office aged 102, will fly to Switzerland in early May to end his life, reigniting a national euthanasia debate. David Goodall, who is now 104, does not have a terminal illness but his quality of life has deteriorated and he has secured […]
Wuhan Japan’s Kento Momota shocked Olympic gold-medalist Chen Long to be crowned badminton’s Asian champion in a stunning upset on Sunday. The world number 17 had never previously won a game against Chen, but he floored the strong Chinese favourite 21-17, 21-13 at the Badminton Asia Championships in Wuhan. Momota, a compact left-hander, had Chen firmly on the back foot as […]
NEW DELHI: The government is working on a proposal to incentivise digital transactions by providing cashbacks to businesses and price benefits to consumers, a source said. As per the proposal being worked out by the Revenue Department, consumers paying through the digital mode would be offered a discount over the maximum retail price (MRP). The […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, addressing the nation Monday night, April 30, revealed that proofs of Iran’s deceit were provided by Israeli intelligence which, in an amazing feat, got hold of Iran’s secret Atomic Archive. Revealing their content for the first time in public, Netanyahu said the Archive contained 100,000 incriminating Iranian documents, charts, presentations, photos and […]
New Delhi With the Karnataka Assembly election 2018 fast approaching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a campaign blitzkrieg in the poll-bound southern state, to add heft to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) efforts to unseat the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government. In the first of his three rallies scheduled for Tuesday, the prime minister addressed the public in the Chamarajanagara […]