Bengaluru Nirav Modi, the billionaire jeweller at the heart of a more than Rs 13,400 crore fraud case in India, has fled to the UK, where he is claiming political asylum, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing Indian and British officials. Britain’s Home Office said it does not provide information on individual cases. Nirav […]
Patna Two years after the infamous topper scam, the Bihar School Examination Board was again in the limelight on Friday when some class XII students claimed that they scored higher marks than the total. Some others complained that they received marks in papers they never appeared for. One of the candidates, Bhim Kumar from Arwal district, got 38 […]
New Delhi Giving a boost to the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO, the central government has approved the over-10,000 crore plan to give an impetus to the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III programmes. The move will help ISRO further its launches of the light and heavy satellites. The cabinet, […]
New Delhi India’s monetary policy committee voted unanimously to increase the benchmark repo rate for the first time in more than four years, as it tries to fend off rising inflation pressures. The repo rate was raised by 25 basis points to 6.25 percent. The last time this benchmark rate was raised was in January […]
New Delhi While Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is leaving no stone unturned to provide quality services to passengers on train, not all efforts are going down well with the company in terms of revenue. For IRCTC to up the food quality in trains, it says it has to bring down the quantity. […]
YouTube is dominating social media use among teenagers, as Facebook fades from popularity, according to a new survey. A Pew Research Center survey shows that 85 percent of U.S. teens, ages 13 to 17, use YouTube, compared with 72 percent for the Facebook-owned Instagram and 69 percent for Snapchat. Use of the main Facebook service […]
Scientists tracked down the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago when Earth had a single continent and dinosaurs were brand new. Scans of the fossilized skeleton of Megachirella revealed the chameleon-sized reptile was an ancestor of today’s lizards and snakes, which belong to a group called squamates, an […]
New Delhi Air India stake sale: After the government failed to receive any bids for Air India, Anand Mahindra called for turning the crisis into an opportunity, and also listed out several measures to be taken. Calling it a matter of ‘national pride,’ Mahindra & Mahindra’s top boss said that there must be a resolve that a sale […]
Mumbai Google on Thursday unveiled a new social app called Neighbourly in India, at an event in Mumbai. The tech giant’s Next Billion Users team has developed the app to help people source local information from their neighbors. With an increased focus on India, Google has been releasing several initiatives in the country, including Tez mobile payments app, Google Areo, Google Station, […]