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Telangana is building IT hubs in five more tier-II towns
Hyderabad, Dec 17 As part of its efforts to decentralise the growth of Information Technology (IT), the Telangana government is building IT hubs in five more districts. State Information and Technology Minister K. T. Rama Rao said on Saturday that the IT hubs are coming up in Nizamabad, Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, ...A woman who swallowed 82 cocaine capsules held at IGI
New Delhi, Dec 18 The Customs officials on Saturday said that they have arrested a Guinea national and recovered 82 capsules containing cocaine -- which were ingested by her -- valued at Rs 15.36 crore. The woman was held at Indira Gandhi International Airport while her operation to retrieve cocaine ...India successfully conducts night trials of Agni 5 missile
New Delhi, Dec 15 The night trials of nuclear-capable ballistic missile Agni 5 was successfully conducted on Thursday in Odisha, a Defence official said. The missile is capable of striking targets at ranges up to 5,000 km with a very high degree of accuracy. The range of the missile can ...The pack is complete, says IAF, as last of 36 Rafale jets land in India
New Delhi, Dec 15 With the landing of the 36th and the final fighter jet, the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday received the delivery of all the aircraft for which it had entered into a Rs 58,000-crore deal with France's Dassault Aviation in 2016. "The pack is complete. The ...Cannons dug out by Navy in Kolkata could be over two centuries old
Kolkata, Dec 11 The Indian Navy may have dug up cannons nearly 250-year-old from the Hooghly riverbank in Kolkata. Two of these cannons are presently on display at INS Netaji Subhas, the Navy office in the city. Two more will be mounted soon while the fifth is still in the ...PM Modi to inaugurate Mopa International airport in Goa today
Panaji, Dec 11 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today inaugurate the Mopa International Airport and also address the valedictory session of the 9th World Ayurveda Congress in Goa. He will virtually inaugurate the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) in Goa, the National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) in Ghaziabad ...Govt will work for the development of Himachal: CM designate
Shimla, Dec 10 Expressing gratitude to the Gandhi family, Himachal Pradesh designated Chief Minister and Congress leader Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Saturday said the government would work for the development of the state. "Our government will bring change. We will work for the development of Himachal Pradesh," Sukhu, who started ...Gujarat Polls: CM Bhupen Patel wins big; Rivaba Jadeja opens an account in style
Gandhinagar, Dec 8 With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) set to script a record victory in the Gujarat Assembly elections and return to power for the seventh straight term, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel joined the party on Thursday by routing his nearest Congress candidate by nearly 2 lakh votes at ...Cong likely to shift elected MLAs out of Gujarat; BJP preparing to celebrate victory
Gandhinagar, Dec 7 On the eve of the counting of votes for the Gujarat Assembly elections, the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress have started preparing for D-day. While preparations for a grand victory celebration have started at the state BJP office here, Congress leaders led by the party's Gujarat ...Extreme heat waves may break human survivability limit in India: World Bank report
New Delhi, Dec 7 Extreme heat waves are increasing with alarming frequency across India in the past few decades, and soon the country may become one of the first places in the world to experience heat waves that break the human survivability limit, a World Bank report said. The report ...