Washington, Oct 9 (IANS) Ukraine is the most maligned word in the Washington mix right now. Wherever one goes in the city of intrigue, President Donald Trump remains much vilified and yet his popularity hasn’t lost too much of his sheen. The Twitter warrior took to his favourite socmedia to launch a scathing attack on … Read more
Bengaluru, Oct 9 (IANS) Ahead of the three-day winter session of the Karnataka Assembly from Thursday, Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri here on Wednesday banned national and regional private television channels from covering proceedings live. “State-run Doordarshan’s Kannada channel Chandana will provide the video feed of the Assembly proceedings to the private news channels,” an official … Read more
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) P.K. Gupta, an Indian Railway Service of Engineers officer, has taken over as the Chairman and Managing Director of the state-run construction major NBCC (India) Ltd, it was announced on wednesday. Prior to joining the Navratna company, Gupta was the Executive Director in RITES Ltd, a public service enterprise under … Read more
By Rohit Mundayur New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Mandar Rao Desai is one of many footballers who have earned maiden call-ups to the national squad since Croatian Igor Stimac took over as India’s coach in May this year. Mandar has played as a left full back — a position that he started playing in only … Read more
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) A fresh telecom war between Reliance Jio and older operators — Airtel and Vodafone-Idea — erupted on Wednesday after the Mukesh Ambani-led Jio said it would charge 6 paise per minute for making calls to other networks, even as Airtel described it as pressure tactics by Jio to reduce interconnection … Read more
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) In line with schemes like Start-up India and Stand-up India aimed at young entrepreneurs, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will launch the Yuva Sahakar-Cooperative Enterprise Support and Innovation Scheme 2019 with an annual outlay of Rs 100 crore. The scheme is aimed at cooperatives in the northeastern region, cooperatives registered … Read more
Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) Indias hopes in the Under-18 Open brightened as R Praggnanandhaa outclassed compatriot P Iniyan in the highly anticipated battle between two Indian Grand Masters in the World Youth Chess Championship here on Wednesday. Playing black, Iniyan opted for the Pirc Defence which was easily countered by Pragg, forcing him into inaccuracies … Read more
