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Gandhinagar: Following the ground-breaking ceremony of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed rail project, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the “new railway philosophy” will be the lifeline to a new India. “This is not just the start of a high speed rail,” Modi said in a joint address to the media with Japanese Prime Minister […]

New Delhi: Joining the digital payment bandwagon in India, Google is reportedly launching a Unified Payments Interface (UPI)-based digital payment service called “Tez” as early as next week. According to The-Ken.com, on September 18, “Google, Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary, will make an entry into India’s fast growing and super competitive digital payment ecosystem”. According to the website, […]

The Hague/New Delhi: India on Wednesday submitted its written pleadings to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that resumed hearing in the case of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court. The judicial body of the United Nations had earlier fixed time limits for the filing of the initial […]

Ahmedabad: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit to India during which he will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and both will lay the foundation stone of the ambitious Rs 1.08 lakh crore ($17 billion) Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project. In a special gesture, Modi personally received Abe with […]

Kolkata: Around 5,000 students of schools and colleges will be provided free tickets by the West Bengal government to watch matches of the FIFA U-17 World Cup scheduled to start from next month at the Salt Lake Stadium here. “They will be provided free tickets to watch ten matches of the U-17 World Cup,” state […]

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel and Korea’s telecommunications company SK Telecom on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership to build advanced telecom network in India. The partnership will work across several areas, including developing software to dramatically improve network experience, leveraging advanced digital tools including machine learning, big data and building customized tools, to improve network planning based […]

New Delhi: Although Samsungs flagship device Galaxy Note 7 witnessed a sad demise last year owing to exploding batteries, users in India still trust the brand and almost two-third of Note users say they would consider buying the new Note device. According to a survey conducted by market research firm IPSOS, nine out of 10 Samsung […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Centre has decided to grant nearly complete autonomy and freedom from regulators to 15% of the “top class institutes” of the country, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. The human resource development minister also said that his government was planning to provide loans for creating research infrastructure in the country. “We […]

Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan remembered Rituparno Ghosh, one of India’s most versatile filmmakers in the post-Satyajit Ray generation, and the megastar says “he left too soon”. Amitabh, 74, worked with Ghosh in “The Last Lear”, which completed ten years of its release on Tuesday. The “Piku” actor on Monday night took to Twitter to remember the filmmaker, […]

Moscow: India finished fifth in the medals tally with one gold and two silver medals at the Moscow Shotgun World Championship, which ended here on Sunday. On the concluding day, India had two teams in the mixed team skeet event but both returned empty handed. While the pair of Angad Vir Singh Bajwa and Maheshwari […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh today sought India’s support in handling the Rohingya issue by mounting pressure on Myanmar to take back the refugees who have taken shelter in the country. According to the United Nations, nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh since August 25 when a fresh wave of violence erupted when […]

New Delhi: Taiwanese technology major ASUS on Thursday brought its gaming laptop ‘ROG G701’ in India for Rs 349,990. ‘ROG G701’ features a wide-viewing-angle 4K UHD display with an overclockable ‘NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080’ graphics for virtual-reality (VR) gaming experience. Powered by Intel Core i7 processor, the laptop runs on 64GB DDR4 DRAM, ‘HyperDrive RAID […]

New Delhi: Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday took charge as India’s first full-fledged woman Defence Minister. Sitharaman was elevated to the rank of a Cabinet Minister and given the crucial charge in Sunday’s reshuffle of the Narendra Modi Cabinet. However, she could not take charge as Arun Jaitley, who has been holding the additional charge of […]

Colombo: Virat Kohli led from the front with some explosive batting as India thrashed Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the one-off Twenty20 International at the R. Premadasa Stadium here on Wednesday. Kohli plundered 82 runs off just 54 deliveries, smashing seven boundaries and a six as the visitors chased down the 171-run target with […]

Vladivostok (Russia): The friendship between India and Russia is solid like a rock, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov here on Wednesday. According to a tweet by the Indian Embassy in Russia, Sushma Swaraj also said that there was no way this friendship could get weak. […]

Nay Pyi Taw: India and Myanmar on Wednesday signed eight agreements, including one between the election bodies of the two countries, following delegation-level talks headed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi here. “#IndiaMyanmar – Strengthening a multifaceted partnership,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted, listing out […]

Chennai: Former Indian cricketer Snehal Pradhan, who has played five One- Day Internationals for India, has come forward to offer her expertise for an upcoming yet-untitled Tamil film on women’s cricket. The project will be directed by actor-lyricist Arunraja Kamaraj, best known for penning the hit song “Neruppuda” for Rajinikanth’s “Kabali”. In a statement, the makers […]

London: England will host India for five Tests, three One-day Internationals (ODI) and as many T20 Internationals, starting July 3 next year, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Tuesday. Virat Kohli’s men will start their tour with a T20I on July 3 at Old Trafford, which will host the first of three […]

Macau: India took a giant step towards qualification for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup, to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 2019, registering a 2-0 win over Macau in an away match at the Olympic Stadium here on Tuesday. In a one-sided contest, substitute Balwant Singh scored a brace with […]

New Delhi: Xiaomi on Tuesday launched ‘Mi A1’ smartphone in India with dual-rear cameras at Rs 14,999. Mi A1 is an ‘Android One’ smartphone and unlike other Xiaomi phones, A1 would come with stock Android operating system. Google had announced ‘Android One’ phones in 2014 which were entry-level smartphones. “Android One runs pure interface, a […]