January 4, 2016
Kolkata: A major earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter Scale rocked Eastern and North Eastern part of India early on Monday morning. At least one person has died and 25 others have been injured in the quake.
The epicenter of the earthquake was at Tamenglong which is located 33 kilometers from Imphal in Manipur.
January 3, 2016
On September 27, 2015, in San Jose in California at the India-US Startup Konnect, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said, “The mega corporations of today were start-ups of yesterday.” This was briefly one-and-half months after he challenged the start-up community, at a Nasscom event, to build new-generation companies like Facebook and Google out of India.
January 3, 2016
Bengaluru: Technology-driven e-tailers from the virtual world are giving a run for the money to retailers in the real world, as they lure away smart buyers with lower prices, heavy discounts and door-step delivery.
January 3, 2016
NEW DELHI – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told scientists that the government would make it easier to do scientific research in the country and asked them to keep the five principles of economy, environment, energy, empathy, and equity at the centre of enquiry and engineering.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Source: PTI Photo
January 2, 2016
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU – Politics is hotting up in Tamil Nadu as all parties come out of a fairly longish silence on pre-poll alliances. Jayalalithaa is showing up more often but not saying much while the Opposition parties have begun jabbing guardedly.
January 2, 2015
The five Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists, who were killed in an encounter with security forces on Saturday, seemed to have sneaked in from the rear side of the Pathankot air force base that is spread in 20-km radius.
The area has dense foliage and elephant grass. The spot where terrorists abandoned the Gurdaspur SP Salwinder Singh’s SUV is about 1.5 km from the wall of the air base.
January 2, 2016
Moscow, Russia – A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia's national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his annual end of year news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015.
January 2, 2016
An ancient femur found in a Chinese cave is unlike any bone formerly discovered, suggesting it belonged to a previously unknown human species that lived alongside modern man just 14,000 years ago.
January 2, 2016
TIRUPATHI, ANDHRA PRADESH – Over 80,000 devotees from different parts of the country thronged the famous hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara on Friday to celebrate the new year.
January 1, 2016
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Friday called for an end to the "arrogance of the powerful" that relegates the weak to the outskirts of society, and to the "false neutrality" toward conflicts, hunger and persecution that triggers a sometimes-deadly exodus of refugees.
