Buenos Aires | 15 days ago
Indian conquers the Andes in Latin America
Buenos Aires, March 27 - Thirty-seven-year old Malli Mastan Babu is the only Indian to have scaled the tallest peaks of the Andes in South America. He also holds a Guinness record for having climbed the seven summits of the world in just 172 days.Babu, who comes from a farming family in Nellore in Andhra Pradesh, has been credited with scaling the Aconcagua in the Argentine side three times. At 6, ... read more

18 days ago
Oxford to take Indian school toppers
Kharagpur -, March 24 - Oxford University has decided to allow the toppers of ISC and CBSE exams entry to its undergraduate courses from 2013, an university official said.The vice chancellor professor of Oxford, Andrew Hamilton, Friday expressed his happiness over the decision.'We want to draw the best students from India to Oxford. It has been decided that we will accept Class 12 examination resu ... read more

Kolkata | 27 days ago
Mamata government receives Rs.80,000 crore investment proposals
Kolkata, March 15 - Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's West Bengal government has received investment proposals of around Rs.80,000 crore in the first nine months of its tenure, Governor M.K. Narayanan told the state assembly Thursday.A number of industrial initiatives have been taken by the state government since - May last year.. An estimated amount of Rs.80,000 crore proposals have been received ... read more

Ranchi | 2 months ago
Night trains on key Jharkhand section resume after 19 months
Ranchi, Jan 13 - Night train services on the key Tata-Kharagpur section have resumed 19 months after a horrific rail crash in Jharkhand left 148 people dead, an official said.The Purusottam Express, the Tata-Kharagpur passenger and other trains services were resumed Thursday night. The Purusottam Express left at 12.10 a.m. and the Tata-Kharagpur train left at 12.40 a.m. from the Tatanagar station ... read more

New Delhi | 3 months ago
Indian innovator harnesses sea waves for power
New Delhi, Jan 10 - An Indian innovator has come up with a technology that tweaks gravity power to harness sea waves for clean and affordable energy, a source more readily available than wind or solar power and, unlike fossil fuels, inexhaustible.The non-polluting technology, aptly named 'Gravity Power House' -, is an offshoot of Gravity Power Tower, - both conceptualised, designed and developed b ... read more

Bangalore | 3 months ago
Creating a roadmap for hassle-free transport in India
Bangalore, Dec 30 - With the exponential growth of private vehicles making commuting a nightmare in most Indian cities, experts have come together to form the Transport Research Group of India - and draw a roadmap to tackle the ever- increasing problem.The experts, working in prestigious institutions such as the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science -, say better transportation in India is n ... read more

Patna | 3 months ago
Six people, including three kids, die of mysterious disease
Patna, Dec 28 - Six people, including three children, have died of a mysterious disease in Bihar's Munger district, officials said Wednesday.According to district officials, a team of doctors led by a civil surgeon Wednesday rushed to Bageshwari village, under Haveli-Kharagpur police station in Munger, about 150 km from here, after a mysterious disease claimed six lives. An official from the chief ... read more

New Delhi | 3 months ago
Night ban on trains in Maoist areas lifted
New Delhi, Dec 23 - Following assurances of tighter security for trains passing through Maoist affected areas in states like Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal, Indian Railways Friday lifted the ban on night travel in two out of three sections.Sources said the two sections where the night ban on movement of trains, imposed May 2010, has been lifted are Kharagpur-Adra and Chakradharpur-Rauurkela. Ho ... read more

New Delhi | 3 months ago
With Lucknow in mind, Ajit Singh gets civil aviation
New Delhi, Dec 18 - Rashtriya Lok Dal - leader Ajit Singh was Sunday inducted into the union cabinet and given charge of the civil aviation ministry, days after his party joined the ruling United Progressive Alliance - ahead of upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh.In the fourth expansion of the council of ministers, the Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh was the only one to take oath at a brief ... read more

New Delhi | 3 months ago
Ajit Singh - a political acrobat
New Delhi, Dec 18 - Rashtriya Lok Dal - chief Ajit Singh is an instinctive deal-maker and can quickly see on which side the grass is greener.This technocrat-turned-politician, son of a former prime minister, is set to fly high again with his swearing in Sunday as India's new civil aviation minister. He returns to the union cabinet after seven years, during which he nursed his party's base in weste ... read more