Patna: A Singapore company has donated $10 million to build the central library in the newly revived Nalanda International University, a varsity official said on Tuesday. Vice Chancellor Gopa Sabharwal said a five-member team of a Singapore-based RSP construction company visited the university site in connection with the construction of the proposed library. Spread over 446 acres, the university’s new […]
» Read moreTwelve fishermen were injured and 20 boats damaged when they were attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan naval personnel for fishing in their territorial waters. One of the boats was sunk and the four fishermen in it jumped into another boat to save themselves, Sahayaraj, president of the local fishermen’s association said. He alleged that Lankan naval personnel came to the […]
» Read moreTyphoon Goni killed at least 26 people in landslides and floods in the Philippines, officials said Monday, as the storm bore down on Japan. Rescue teams clawed away at a mountainside near the remote mining town of Mankayan in the country’s north, after recovering the bodies of 13 miners buried by a landslide that struck the area two days earlier. […]
» Read moreA moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.0 has struck 15 kilometres south-east of Kodari in Nepal. Nepal was hit by a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake on April 25 which resulted in widespread devastation and killed over 8,000 people. Whole villages were destroyed in the quake while large parts of Kathmandu were destroyed, leaving nearly 18,000 people injured and tens of thousands […]
» Read moreDubai: An Indian-origin Gaurang Desai has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange in the UAE. Gaurang Desai, one of the founding members of the team that setup DGCX in 2005, is ideal to take the Exchange to its next stage of development, the company said in a statement. Desai was previously […]
» Read moreColombo: At least four Indians have been arrested in Sri Lanka’s eastern province for allegedly abusing visa conditions, police said. The four were arrested at Kalmunai in the east as they were doing business having arrived on tourist visas. They were in possession of herbal oils and other herbal products, police said. The police said it had arrested Indians in […]
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