Rescue efforts on to get back Navy Commander who was part of the Golden Globe Race In a positive development in the massive global search and rescue effort for Commander Abhilash Tomy of the Indian Navy, injured and stranded in his sailing vessel in the Golden Globe Race (GGR), a …

A meeting of Uttar Karnataka Horata Samiti to discuss the demand for statehood for North Karnataka, which faced a protest from Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (Narayanagouda faction), here on Sunday, resolved to take up the agitation on the Telangana model. Samiti’s State president Bhimappa Gadad said that 80 % of the …

Calls scheme a global ‘game changer’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the mega healthcare scheme Ayushman Bharat, also known as the Pradhan Mantri-Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY), from Ranchi in Jharkhand on Sunday and declared the scheme would be a “game changer” globally in health insurance. Vote bank He also hit …

‘HR&CE staff had removed it years ago’ A panchaloha idol of Chola queen Sembiyan Maadevi, which was stolen from the Kailasanathaswamy Temple at Sembiyan Maadevi village in Nagapattinam district, has been traced to the Freer Art Gallery in Washington D.C., United States of America. The idol measuring 107 centimetres in …

Janardhan Poojary says CM called him and agreed to inaugurate it Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy will inaugurate the Mangaluru Dasara to be held at the Gokarnanatheshwara temple in Kudroli here between October 10 and 19, said senior Congress leader and long-time associate of the temple B. Janardhan Poojary here on …

Attacked during visit to interior village in Visakhapatnam agency area Araku MLA Kidari Sarveswara Rao of the Telugu Desam party (TDP) and former MLA of the same constituency Siveri Soma, also of the TDP, were shot dead on Sunday morning, allegedly by cadres of the banned CPI (Maoist). The incident …

Using metal-organic framework (MOF) made of cadmium chloride and synthesised under ambient conditions, a research team has been able to detect organophosphorus pesticides such as azinphos-methyl, chlorpyrifos, and parathion both in water solution and in apples and tomatoes. The MOF is highly sensitive such that the presence of pesticides as …

Investors can safely ignore glimmers of hope in the trade war between the United States and China. The latest round of U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, and Beijing’s response, could have been worse, and that buoyed markets. The S&P 500 Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq …

The U.S. is increasingly diverse and census calculations project that by the year 2044, the White population of the country will be less than half of the total. The growing diversity appears to be reflecting on the political arena, though differentially, for the Democrats and the Republicans. In the current …

On a recent August evening, fishing boats from France and England were filmed ramming each other, in the Baie de la Seine in the English Channel, off the northern French coast, while rocks and other projectiles were tossed at one another. The sight, while alarming, is not entirely unknown in …