NEW DELHI: Three more dengue deaths have been reported in the national capital including that of a Delhi Police official, taking the toll to 41. 44-year-old Omprakash, posted as station house officer at Bhalswa police station in northwest Delhi, died of the vector-borne disease at Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh this morning, police said. Omprakash is survived by his wife […]
» Read moreIndia off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him for his marriage which is scheduled later this month. Harbhajan is tying the knot with long-time girlfriend Geeta Basra. PMO India tweeted about the meeting and a couple of photos with Harbhajan and Modi shaking hands. Source: twitter.com
» Read moreEighteen hours aloft, covering more than 9,000 miles and crossing eight time zones: not an endurance test for air force personnel but the future longest commercial flight in the world, intended to start within two years. Qantas plans to connect the UK non-stop with Australia by 2017, using the latest Boeing 787-9 to fly between London and Perth. The airline’s […]
» Read moreChennai: Flipkart is sending half a million postcards to people in small towns to participate in its ‘Big Billion Days’ sale scheduled for next week. The online major is taking the snail mail route to reach its message to places like Jhumri Telaiya in Jharkhand, Barmer in Rajasthan, Buxar in Bihar and Kargil in J&K. “This one-time exercise is our […]
» Read moreWASHINGTON: India’s leading global IT company Wipro has said it will provide new books to tens of thousands of children in need across five cities in North America. For this it has entered into a tie up with First Book, a non-profit social enterprise. Wipro and First Book will distribute 35,000 books to educators and programme leaders in 2015, serving […]
» Read moreSTOCKHOLM: Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage”. Alexievich, 67, used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and its collapse: World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster […]
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