New Delhi: Nearly 60 per cent of children adopted in the last six years were girls across states in India, led by Maharashtra which also recorded the highest number of adoptions in recent years, government data showed. Of the 3,276 children adopted in the country in 2017-18, a total of 1,858 were girls, the data … Read more
Voting is scheduled to last from 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) until 7 p.m. (1600 GMT), with unofficial results expected to start coming in overnight and a formal tally announced in the coming days. Election law makes it illegal to publish forecasts of how the parties will perform. Whatever the result, another coalition government including most … Read more
Researchers led by Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health also found that US women and men who maintained the healthiest lifestyles were 82 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and 65 percent less likely to die from cancer when compared with those with the least healthy lifestyles over the course of … Read more
The Congress on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah, accusing the BJP of taking “fake credit” for work done by grand old party in the past 60 years. Taking to microblogging site Twitter, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, “Dear Amit Shahji, India has 6,49,867 villages. Congress … Read more
DUBAI: A Dubai court sentenced three Indians – including two men and a woman – to 517 years each in jail for swindling thousands of people in a multi-million-dollar fraud case, the UAE media reported. Identified as Sydney Lemos, his wife Valany and Ryan D’Souza were convicted on Sunday by the Dubai Misdemeanours Court in … Read more
Udaipur: The 30th anniversary celebration of the non profit company Water Harvest begin by ‘Deep Prajwalan’ by HH Mahendra Singh Ji. It was an auspicious event presided over by the patron Sir Mark Tully and water man of India Rajendra Singh Ji. Chair person Neil Mehta and trustee Nicola Floyd represented Water Harvest UK. There … Read more
Coastal salts (i.e. sodium, calcium and magnesium chlorides) can create a corrosive environment for any infrastructure across the world, the reason being humid and saline climate. The only remedy is to use galvanized steel (the zinc coated steel) that provides the much needed strength to the rebars. Using galvanised steel, Delhi’s Lotus Temple structure has … Read more
