Ashwani Lohani, Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) official, was appointed as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of national carrier Air India Ltd, for three years. He will be replacing Rohit Nandan, whose extended tenure ends tomorrow. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved appointment of Mr. Lohani, a 1980 batch IRSME officer, as CMD, Air India Ltd, for […]
» Read moreNagapattinam: The carcass of a 33-feet-long whale was washed up on the shores of a village beach near Tarangambadi in Nagapattinam district. Forest Ranger Gopinath said the carcass was sighted by fishermen of Chinnagudi village. The whale weighed five tonnes, Gopinath said. Since the carcass was highly decomposed, the forest department did an autopsy on the spot. It was later […]
» Read moreDespite losing the World Championships final in Jakarta on Sunday, ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal regained the top spot in women’s singles in the latest rankings of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) released on Thursday. The 25-year-old Saina rose a place to overtake her conqueror in the summit clash, Carolina Marin of Spain, to once again be ranked No.1. The […]
» Read moreBengaluru: Watch out Sundar Pichai. There’s a high school project that tops Google’s main cash cow, the search engine. Sixteen-year-old Anmol Tukrel, an Indian-origin Canadian citizen has designed a personalized search engine that claims to be as high as 47% more accurate than Google, and about 21% more accurate on an average. Tukrel, who just completed his tenth grade, said […]
» Read moreCAIRO: A car bomb near an Egyptian state security building and courthouse wounded at least 29 people early on Thursday, state television said. Security sources who inspected the site of the blast in Shubra al-Khaima, a Cairo suburb, said there was a burned-out vehicle and crater. Comments on Twitter indicated the blast, which heavily damaged the face of the state […]
» Read moreTop seeded doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis beat Julia Goerges of Germany and Klaudia Jans-Ignack of Poland 7-6 (3), 6-4 to win their second round match in the Cincinnati Masters on Wednesday. The Indo-Swiss pair clinched the set 7-6 (7-3) after being level at 3-3 during the tie-breaker. Julia Goerges and Klaudia Jans-Ignack established a good 3-0 […]
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