salman_jobs US President Barack Obama Tuesday said India and the US had much in common like being great democracies and innovative economies.
“It is wonderful to speak to you directly. India and United States are natural partners because we have so much in common. We are two great democracies, innovative economies and diverse societies dedicated to empowering individuals,” Obama said speaking on a special episode of the “Mann Ki Baat”.
The National Stock Exchange (NSE) Tuesday said it will participate in next month’s International Kolkata Book Fair for spreading awareness about capital trading.
“We are fully committed to creating awareness in Kolkata and the East to encourage people to invest in productive assets, so that they can manage their finances better and build a prosperous future,” the Stock Exchange’s business development head Ravi Varanasi said here.
US President Barack Obama Tuesday said he never imagined he would enter the White House some day.
Speaking during the radio programme “Mann Ki Baat” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Obama said: “When I first went to White House, I stood outside the same fence, I did not imagine I will be visiting it.”
Obama’s comment came after Modi’s description of the first time he saw the White House and clicked a picture outside it.
Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court challenging her offloading at the airport here, when she was on her way to London to brief British MPs on the rights of forest-dwelling communities affected by coal mining.
Justice Rajiv Shakdher will hear the plea Wednesday.
Pillai said her offloading was “illegal and arbitrary” and she had a valid business visa for six months to visit London where she was scheduled to address British parliamentarians Jan 14. Pillai was offloaded Jan 11.
Kerala Finance Minister K.M. Mani, who is facing allegations of corruption, Tuesday said he will be presenting his 13th budget and the number 13 was lucky for him.
Mani was interacting with the media for the first time Tuesday after whistle-blower bar owner Biju Ramesh alleged that the minister was given Rs.1 crore in October last year as the first instalment of the Rs.5-crore bribe he demanded to help reopen closed bars in the state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday chose to start his radio address Man Ki Baat by explaining the meaning of US President Barack Obama’s first name which is “one who is blessed”.
“Some people wonder what is the meaning of Barack… in Swahili, Barack means he who is blessed,” Modi said in the radio programme which he recorded with President Obama.
“I believe his family has blessed him with this name,” he said.
At least 23 militants were killed in airstrikes by the Pakistani army in the country’s northwestern tribal area of North Waziristan Tuesday afternoon, media reported.
The troops backed by jet fighters pounded five militant hideouts in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, a semi-autonomous tribal area along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Xinhua news agency reported citing ARY News.
Quoting official sources, media reported that the killed militants include local and foreign militants, but their identities have not been revealed yet.
Researchers have recently revealed that Milky Way galaxy could be huge wormhole and galactic transport system in theory.
The hypothesis has been put forward that if the research was true then it would be “stable and navigable.”
The paper, the result of collaboration between Indian, Italian and North American researchers, prompts scientists to re-think dark matter more accurately.
Geologists from University of Cambridge have uncovered hidden magnetic messages from the early solar system in meteorites.
The team led by Richard Harrison captured information stored inside tiny magnetic regions in meteorite samples using the dedicated photo-electron emission microscope (PEEM)-Beamline at BESSY II, a research establishment in the Adlershof district of Berlin, Germany.
This information provides a sneak preview of the fate of the Earth’s own magnetic field as its core continues to freeze.
Having set an ambitious goal to increase bilateral trade from USD 100 to USD 500 billion, the US hopes that the upcoming India trip of US President Barack Obama would elevate trade and investment ties.
“In the trade and investment space, we’ll be looking for ways to elevate the relationship, to open up greater exports in both directions, greater investment in both directions,” Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes told reporters.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who is in Davos to attend the ongoing World Economic Forum Summit, met several top corporate heads there to attract investments in the state.
During the AP Investment Session, Naidu gave a presentation on advantages and investment opportunities in AP. Top Indian businessmen like Adi Godrej, Prakash Hinduja, Rajeev Mittal, Atul Punj, Vinod Mittal and a Siemens’ representative spoke at the session. They praised Naidu for his vision, leadership and expressed interest to invest in Andhra Pradesh, an official statement said here Thursday.
Wooing global investors, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday hinted at rationalising subsidies, rebuilding credibility of taxation structure and calling a joint session of Parliament to get the insurance bill passed if it is not cleared in the coming session.
Laying the fiscal road map ahead of his first full- fledged Budget, he sought to assure investors at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) that subsidies will not be completely eliminated but only rationalised to cut expenditure.
Sanitation is the most relevant aspect of improving India’s reproductive, maternal and newborn health, according to Bill and Melinda Gates.
In their annual letter about the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropist couple has said the lives of people in poor countries will improve faster in next 15 years than at any other time in the history.
In their letter, the couple has shared their thoughts about the progress towards the foundation’s goals and the challenges that remain, a release said here Thursday.
The third edition of the Hockey India League (HIL) got off to a glittering start with the opening ceremony, studded with fireworks, laser show and dance performances, enthralling the 6,000-odd spectators at the Kalinga Stadium here Thursday.
Actress Perizaad Zorabian was the emcee of the event and unwrapped a spectacular laser show which gripped the audience followed by a remarkable dance performances of Odisha actors Sabyasachi and Archita.
Asserting that India’s economic growth will be significantly better next year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said the real economic growth potential of the country was over 9 percent.
“We have a roadmap to bring down fiscal deficit below three percent in a few years. Elimination of subsidies in India is not desirable. We need to rationalise the subsidies,” he said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos.
He also said the government has a mandate to act fast and it is moving rapidly on reforms.
A student leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Thursday died of wounds suffered during an explosion while “making bombs” in a house in Dhaka`s Lalbagh.
Mahbubur Rahman Bappi died around 6 a.m. Thursday, said Mozammel Haque, sub inspector of the police outpost at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
Bappi was the general secretary of BNP student front Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal`s New Market unit.
Police said the 25-year old student leader was making bombs at his brother-in-law`s house Wednesday when the explosion took place.
The Odisha government has put all 30 districts in the state on high alert after intelligence agencies warned of attacks by Pakistan-based militant groups.
“We have asked police, including director-general of police and intelligence director, to remain alert over the possible attack. All 30 districts have been put on high alert,” Odisha Special Secretary (Home) Lalit Das told reporters here.
He said 18 marine police stations in the state have also been asked to remain in a state of high alert.
Terrorist organisations are increasingly investing in stock exchanges across the world to raise funds for their operations, a British study has revealed.
Conducted by the Sakinah Campaign in Britain, which campaigns against online radicalisation, the study found that such investments are mainly made in countries where there is a lack of financial controls and supervision, Arab News reported Thursday.
These organisations use bogus names while making investments and they are involved in clothes and textile trading in certain countries, the study said.
Former Iran vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi has been sentenced to five years in prison over corruption charges, media reported Thursday.
The Supreme Court of Iran also ordered Rahimi, who was a close aide to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to pay a compensation of 10-billion-rial (around $365,000 dollar), state run IRNA reported.
Rahimi was also ordered to restitute IRR 28.5 billion (more than $1 million) he had gained in unjust enrichment.
Researchers have identified genetic changes in the current strain of deadly Ebola virus behind the outbreak in West Africa which could interfere with experimental drugs.
Researchers tracked the genetic mutations that have occurred in the Ebola virus during the last four decades and identified changes in the current West African outbreak strain that could potentially interfere with experimental, sequence-based therapeutics.
Saudi Arabia’s health ministry has hired US experts to help combat the spread of infectious and non-communicable diseases, including the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Ebola, in the country, media reported Wednesday.
The decision is part of an agreement recently signed by the ministry with the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which includes training and support for Saudi professionals, Arab News reported.
A man who was admitted to AIIMS yesterday amid fears that he had contracted Ebola, died today morning due to excessive internal bleeding even as doctors said it was unlikely that he was infected by the deadly virus.
According to AIIMS authorities, the patient appears to have been suffering from Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) and not Ebola.
“It appears to be a case of CCHF, which is also highly contagious and can spread with close contact with the blood, secretions or other bodily fluids of infected persons.
After conducting its HIV Sentinel Surveillance, the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has agreed to formulate a special strategy to tackle prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the North East region.
This was announced at the consultative meeting on North East Specific Strategy on HIV in Aizawl today.
Participants of the consultation said Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland, bordering Myanmar, have the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS and the region had unique problems not experienced in other parts of the country.
A new study has revealed that the negative relationship between Facebook use and kids’ bad grades has little to do with Facebook.
Researcher Reynol Junco of Iowa State University found that while freshman struggle to balance their use, social media is less of a problem for upper classmen and the difference relates to self-regulation.
The study found that for freshmen, all Facebook use had a negative impact on their grades, for sophomores and juniors, only time spent using Facebook while doing schoolwork hurt their GPA and for seniors, there was no relationship between the two.
Researchers have developed an instrument that is not only capable of dating rocks but can be miniaturised for spaceflight to reveal the age of planetary materials.
The key to understanding the geologic history of the solar system is knowing the ages of planetary rocks.
The team validated the instrument – a laser ablation resonance ionisation mass spectrometer – by dating a rock from Mars, the meteorite Zagami which formed about 180 million years ago and fell to Earth in 1962.