India has proposed “constructive talks” on the contentious issue of transit facility through Bangladesh to reach its north-eastern region once a new government takes office in New Delhi after the general elections.
India is particularly keen on railway connectivity between Akhaura in eastern Bangladesh and Agartala, capital of Tripura in India’s north-east, New Age newspaper said.
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Bharat Earth Movers Ltd (BEML) has informed the BSE that the company has secured a Rs 1,144-cr order from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) for manufacture and supply of 156 standard gauge stainless steal metro cars towards second phase of ope ration.
This order is the single largest historic contract that BEML has bagged. BEML [...]
Residents of national capital New Delhi are a worried lot. If day-to-day problems like power cuts and water shortage were not enough to make their lives miserable, 14 million Delhiites now encounter the growing menace of monkeys in their midst.
Thanks to the declining forest cover in the city, monkeys have been venturing on the streets [...]
World’s third largest software company Oracle today launched Oracle Asia Research and Development Center (OARDC) in India. The new R&D centre is a part of Oracle’s $3 billion planned investment in India over the past five years. As a part of the initiative, Orcale also launched its first partner solution center (PSC) in India.
The two [...]
This photograph was taken at the New Delhi airport, when I was travelling from Dubai to Ranchi. I met with Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images], at the domestic terminal, who I believe was on his way to Mumbai for the South Africa series in 2006,’ writes Manoj.
‘He is really a very cool guy, friendly and willing [...]
Dismissed Assistant Commissioner of Police S. S. Rathi and nine other Delhi policemen, convicted last week in the infamous Connaught Place shooting case, were on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here.
Along with Rathi, the other nine convicts — Inspector Anil Kumar, Sub-Inspector Ashok Rana, Head Constables Shiv Kumar, Tejpal Singh and [...]
The Delhi High Court on Monday ordered police protection for Telugu super star Chiranjeevi’s newly married daughter Srija and her husband Sirish Bharadwaj in view of their perceived “threat to their lives†after she married Sirish against the wishes of her family.
Justice S. N. Dhingra ordered protection for the newlyweds when counsel for the couple [...]
Home Ministers of eight South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries are now discussing the resolution mooted by the secretaries of the grouping to effectively deal with the menace of terrorism.
The deliberations of the SAARC conference will be given a final shape today by the Home Ministers of the eight nations, India, Pakistan, [...]
A declaration of partnership between the state of Haryana and the state of Minnesota of the United States of America was signed to promote the active exchange of ideas, knowledge, and people as it relates to trade and investment, science and technology, education and research, arts and culture for the mutual benefit of both the [...]
Haryana would not be a power deficit state after two-and-a-half years as the state government was working for increasing the generation of electricity within the state, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday.
Mr Hooda was speaking on the occasion of foundation laying ceremony of 400/220 KV gas insulated substation at sector 71 in [...]