India

Hyderabad, Mar 2: Sunayana, the widow of Srinivas Kuchibhotla killed in the US in an apparent hate crime, today urged the leaders of global tech industry to keep defending human rights as they too employ a large number of immigrants. "Thanks to people like Satya Nadella (CEO-Microsoft) and Kamala Harris for supporting through your tweets. It means a lot to us. My sincere request to Mark Zuckerberg

New Delhi, Mar 2: State-run oil marketers raised the price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) by a steep Rs 86 per cylinder effective from Wednesday. "With effect from 1 March, 2017, non-subsidised price of LPG cylinder has increased by Rs 86. This is in line with the rise in global LPG product prices," a Petroleum Ministry statement here said. Non-subsidised LPG, which customers buy after

New Delhi, Mar 2: The CBI has registered two separate cases against State Bank of Mysore officials for alleged illegal exchange of scrapped currency notes worth Rs 2.88 crore with new ones. The first case has been registered on the basis of a complaint by deputy general manager of SBM alleging that head cashier B Dinesh posted at currency chest branch, Periyapatna, Mysuru, and Manoj Kumar, a

New Delhi, Mar 1: BJP leader Shazia Ilmi today accused Jamia University of putting "pressure" on organisers of an event to drop her name from a panel of speakers for a seminar on triple talaq, a charge denied by the varsity. According to Ilmi, she was invited by RSS supported Forum for Awareness of National Security (FANS) to speak at a seminar on "Triple Talaq" and the university had pressurised

Maharajganj (UP), Mar 1: Mocking economists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said "hard work is more powerful than Harvard" as the latest GDP data shows demonetisation did not affect growth rate, rather the figures improved. "On the one hand are those (critics of note ban) who talk of what people at Harvard say and on the other hand is a poor man's son who through his hard work is trying to

New Delhi, Mar 1: A futuristic technology in the transport system could see one whiz from Delhi to Mumbai in a pod-like car in just under one hour. The system, unveiled by Hyperloop One here on Tuesday as part of its "vision for India", promises to revolutionize the advanced surface system by moving people and things at airline speeds. Hyperloop One is developing the world's first operational

New Delhi, Feb 28: Hundreds of students and teachers of Delhi University, JNU and Jamia today hit the streets with a call to "save" the varsities from the "onslaught" of ABVP and "curbing" of dissent. The students held posters with messages like "Your nationalism is not above our democracy". The protesters, mainly comprising students of left forums like AISA, shouted slogans "ABVP Go Back" and

Imphal, Feb 28: A bomb was recovered here on Tuesday ahead of the visit of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for campaigning for the Manipur assembly elections. Police said the bomb was found near the gate of a residential building around 6am in Khongman Bashikhong Turel Mapal area in Imphal East district. The bomb was later defused. The bomb was recovered about 6 km from the venue where the Congress

New Delhi, Feb 28: Branches of public banks remained either closed or non-operational on Tuesday as staffers and officers went ahead with their day-long strike pressing for various demands, including accountability of top executives in the wake of mounting bad loans. Services like cash deposits and withdrawal from branches and cheque clearances have been hit hard by the strike, which has been

New Delhi: Delhi University student Gurmehar Kaur, whose campaign against the ABVP has gone viral, found herself at the centre of a major row on Monday as the ruling BJP and the Opposition traded charges over the Ramjas College clashes, re-igniting the intolerance debate. On the other hand, with ABVP holding a 'Tiranga march' on Monday, the DU and JNU campuses are set to witness more marches and