- Sarbananda Sonowal feeding baby elephants rescued during the recent floods at Wildlife...
- s army chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, reshuffled top posts on Friday, promoting his intelligence chief and other officers leading efforts to present the military as a responsible partner in a…
- s Aurier returns to Ivory Coast squad for crucial AFCON 2017 qualifier
- Says modernising tax administration is the key
- Says those in Xinjiang who seek independence and even want to go to join the battlefield with IS and other terrorists, choose this route .
- SBI, ICICI Bank continue to be systemically important
- Scandinavian Power: First Female Recruits of Norway's Army
- Scheme for joint projects on housing
- Scherzer stymies Orioles as Nats snap four-game skid
- School dropout biggest crisis in India: Singapore Deputy PM
- Scientists at Leiden University in the Netherlands and Oxford University, have used a new imaging technique to reveal text hidden beneath plaster of a document from the Mixtec civilisation.
- Scientists at NASA's Langley facility used a pendulum and explosives to fling a test capsule into a pool of water at about 25 mph. More than 500 instruments gauged aspects of the impact, including two crash test dummies.
- Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, have revealed that ESA's Rosetta probe was hit by a shower of dust from the comet it is orbiting in February.
- Scientists believe a drug commonly prescribed for type 2 diabetes could be routinely taken by type 1 diabetic patients to slow the development or delay heart disease.
- Scientists discover planet that could support humans after the Sun dies
- Scientists discover structural clues to calcium regulation in cells
- Scientists have captured the fundamental chemistry of the element berkelium, or Bk on the periodic table.
- Scientists have developed a new synthetic methods that facilitate the design and synthesis of bioactive compounds and chemical tools for pharmacological studies, the team reports.
- Scientists have identified a gene that may influence how your body reacts to coffee and how much of it you choose to consume.
- Scientists have identified a new 'multicomponent' virus --one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles -- that can infect animals. This new pathogen was isolated from several species of mosquitoes in Central and South America. GCXV does not appear to infect mammals; however, the team also isolated a related virus, Jingmen tick virus, from a nonhuman primate.
- Scientists in South Africa discover a compound that could eradicate malaria
- Scientists in South Africa discover a compound that could eradicate malaria" Scientists in South Africa discover a compound that could eradicate malaria
- Scientists reveal that a newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable. Astronomers using ESO telescopes and other facilities have found clear evidence of a planet orbiting the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri. The long-sought world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and […]
- Scientists solve puzzle of converting gaseous carbon dioxide to fuel
- Scorpene leak: Australia warns shipbuilder DCNS, says beef up security
- Scorpene leak: French naval contractor DCNS files complaint
- Scorpene leak: French naval contractor DCNS files complaint following data leak
- Scorpene leak: Navy downplays concerns
- Scorpene leak: Navy orders internal audit, contacts French govt
- Scotland Yard approves hijab as part of official uniform
- Scotland Yard has announced that the hijab will become a part of its official uniform in a bid to create a more diverse force by "encouraging women from Muslim communities, who may previously not have seen policing as a career option, to ...
- s counter-terrorism forces killed the leader of a militant group thought to be…
- SC tells Allahabad HC to dispose off Kamlesh Tiwari's plea
- SC tells Bhim Singh, 'You can't criticise J-K govt. sitting in Delhi'
- s Definitive Guide to Social Media Don’
- Sears gets a $300 million loan from CEO Eddie Lampert
- Second Rio Olympian tests positive for swine flu
- s Economy Shrugs Off ‘
- Secretary-General Attends Ceremony for Colombian Ceasefire Agreement, Havana.
- Secretary of State John Kerry called for a unity government in Yemen to end its 17-month conflict, after meeting with Persian Gulf and U.N. officials here in an effort to restart peace talks.
- Security Council holds consultations on Western Sahara…
- ‘Security is the main agenda in Indo-Bangla cooperation’
- Security researchers on Thursday announced they had discovered a new piece of iPhone malware that allowed attackers t
- Security researchers say a little-known Israeli startup exploited previously unknown bugs in Apple's smartphone software to help foreign governments spy on their citizens.
- Security This Week
- Seed industry association split on cards?
- Seed technology major Monsanto says it is suspending plans to introduce an upgraded version of its genetically modified cotton in India because of uncertainty in the “business and regulatory environm...
- Seek necessary official clearances and be sure about your boundary line before constructing your home
- Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy Asia, an autonomous vehicle software startup.
- Select pulses led by gram dropped by up to Rs 500 per quintal at the wholesale pulses market today following fall in demand from retailers coupled with sufficient stocks position.
- Self-driving taxis debut in Singapore
- Selfless Olympian sells silver medal to help boy battling cancer
- Senior DRDO scientist Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy was awarded the first IEI-IEEE Award for Engineering Excellence-2015.
- Senior executive of South Korea's Lotte Group has died - Lotte official
- Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, reshuffled top posts, promoting his intelligence chief and other officers leading efforts to present the military as a responsible partner in a democratic transition.
- Sen. John McCain's primary opponent emphatically declared Thursday that the soon-to-be 80-year-old Arizona Republican is too old to be re-elected.
- Separatists' plan to take out march scuttled
- S E Power to hold AGM
- Sepp Blatter fights FIFA ban in marathon final appeal
- Serena shoulders burden of history at US Open
- Serena Williams once again arrives at Flushing Meadows poised to rewrite th
- Serena Williams once again arrives at Flushing Meadows poised to rewrite the tennis record books -- if her own troublesome right shoulder and increasingly emboldened rivals allow.
- Serkan Yonuk, a transgender man in Turkey, was finally able to trade his pink ID card for a blue one last year.
- Seshasayee is also on the advisory board of network equipment maker Cisco India, and closely involved with a couple of tech startups.
- Set in the middle of the Abu Dhabi desert, Masdar City was supposed to be the world's first zero carbon city when it was conceived a decade ago. French photographer Etienne Malapert has captured the reality of Masdar today.
- Seven people were killed in an attack by Shabaab jihadists on a beachfront restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a spokesman for the city authorities said today.
- Several gunman attacked a beachfront restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu today, prompting an exchange of fire with the security forces.
- Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan, Big B: Check world’s highest paid actors list
- Shanmugaratnam has been invited to New Delhi to address top policy-makers on 'Fulfilling India's Potential in the Global Economy'
- Sharp exchange of words comes amid strain in bilateral ties between two nations over continuing unrest in Kashmir with Islamabad
- Shawn Kelley on the Nationals-Orioles rivalry
- She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family...
- She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania that she was alive.
- She denied having said that paternity leave will be just a holiday, in an interview to a national daily
- Sheena Bora murder: Indrani, Peter's judicial custody extended till Sept 13
- Sheena Bora murder: Taped conversations emerging on media submitted in court, says CBI
- Sheen Bora case: Audio recordings been investigated and submitted in court as evidences, says CBI
- Shilpa Medicare consolidated net profit rises 9.08% in the June 2016 quarter
- Shipments of tablets in India, inclusive of slate and detachable, stood at 0.98 million units in the second quarter of the calendar year 2016. This is a 14.4 per cent growth over the previous quarter...
- Shock worldwide after photos this week seem to show police asking one Muslim sunbather to remove her body-concealing tunic in Nice.
- Short film festival winner
- Shortly after Mr. Somayaji's resignation, the government appointed senior advocate R. Muthukumaraswamy in his place.
- Should the Supreme Court, already burdened by backlogs of cases involving issues of national importance, which are awaiting their turn to even be heard for decades, be willing to entertain and decide the maximum height of the human pyramid? The ...
- Shriram Rayons has received green clearance for capacity expansion of rayon tyre yarn cord and captive power generation at its Kota unit in Rajasthan, entailing a cost of Rs 163 crore.
- Sikkim non-profit school helping underprivileged children get quality education
- Silent Protector: Russia Develops Hi-Tech Jammer to Block Enemy Electronics
- Silver futures gain 0.46% aided by global cues
- Silver futures rise to Rs 43,860 per kg
- Silver Oak (India) reports standalone net loss of Rs 0.10 crore in the June 2016 quarter
- Silver Oak (India) to hold board meeting
- Simple economics will be one of Colombia's biggest problems as it seeks to eliminate illegal drug production with the help of FARC rebels.
- Since 2009, the group has killed an estimated 20,000 people, prompted 2.6 million to flee their homes, and kidnapped thousands of people, including hundreds of schoolgirls from Chibok in the northern state of Borno. Representation image
- Singapore bids farewell to Indian-origin ex-president Nathan
- Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday here.
- Singapore trials driverless taxis in world first
- Singer Ariana Grande will perform with rapper Nicki Minaj at MTV Video Music Awards 2016.
- Singer FKA Twigs has put out a public casting call for a new project.
- Singer Jana Kramer and her former footballer husband, Mike Caussin have reportedly taken a break from their one-year-old marriage.
- Singer Pharrell Williams is set to be feted by music mogul Clive Davis for his success as a songwriter.
- Singer Taylor Swift will not attend the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday.
- s Lake Chad basin, which includes Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger, have led to a worsening humanitarian crisis that has displaced 1.4 million children and left at least one million still trapped in hard-to-reach areas, the United Nations Children’
- SMEs fuelling India growth story: Adaire Fox-Martin
- Smoke billows after air strikes by regime forces on the town of Douma in the eastern Ghouta region, a rebel stronghold east of the capital Damascus, on December 13, 2015
- Smoke rises from buildings at the site of a car bomb explosion at a police headquarters in Cizre
- Smokers with newly discovered genetic markers have higher lung cancer risk
- Snapping its two-day rising streak, gold prices slipped by Rs 100 to Rs 31,150 per ten grams at the bullion market today on weak global cues amid slackened demand from jewellers in domestic spot market.
- SNP's new EU negotiator 'doesn't appear to believe in closer union with Brussels'
- Social activist Traffic Ramasamy on Thursday protested against the corporation for erecting a banner near the Government Multi- Speciality Hospital without permit. Eventually, the authorities removed ...
- Social activist Traffic Ramasamy on Thursday protested against the corporation for erecting a banner near the Government Multi- Speciality Hospital without permit. Eventually, the authorities removed...
- Social media bad-mouth bakery over transgender Ken doll cake
- Social media use may benefit older adults: study
- Socio Economic Transformation: Through Ex-Servicemen
- So far two Indian corporates, HDFC and NTPC have made use of this facility to raise over Rs 5,000 crore
- Solar plant commissioned
- Solar variations affect the abundance of clouds in our atmosphere, a new study suggests. Large eruptions on the surface of the Sun can temporarily shield Earth from so-called cosmic rays which now appear to affect cloud formation.
- Solid waste from Ghazipur site to help make national highway
- Solving a 48 year old mystery: Scientists grow noroviruses in human intestinal cell cultures
- 'Son' of Boko Haram's founder named jihadi head
- Sony HT-RT3 Soundbar Home Theater System Review
- Sourav Ganguly deserves his day in the sun now that Bollywood has finally embraced — and purchased — sports
- Sources it was because of the delays caused by the company to a hardware project for modernisation of post offices
- South Africa and New Zealand go into a one-match shootout for series honours when they meet in the second and final Test starting at SuperSport Park here tomorrow.
- South Africa: Finance minister in hot waters, rand tumbles
- Southern Air Command chief visits Thanjavur Air Force station
- Space. The final frontier.
- SpaceX's CRS-9 Dragon spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, following a highly successful Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the orbital outpost. Known…
- SpaceX's CRS-9 Dragon spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, following a highly successful Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the orbital outpost. Known as End Of Mission (EOM) operations, Dragon's safe return will be marked by a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean later in the day.
- SpaceX Dragon Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Released From ISS
- S P Apparels extends gain on strong Q1 results
- S P Apparels extends post result rally
- S P Apparels was locked at 5% upper circuit at Rs 339.25 at 12:00 IST on BSE, with the stock extending previous session's 5% jump triggered by the company announcing stellar Q1 results.
- Speaking on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Lodhi said Pakistan had implemented a comprehensive export control regime, participated in the Nuclear Security Summit process, ratified the 2005 amendment to the Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
- Special prayers on Mother Teresa' s 106th birth anniversary
- Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Kosovo Zahir Tanin told the United Nations Security Council today that while opposition parties in Kosovo continue to try to generate, exploit and, if possible, prolong moments of 'crisis,' they appear to have become aware that the use of violence is counterproductive to their objective of gaining more political influence.
- Special thanksgiving prayers were organised to celebrate Mother Teresa's 106th birth anniversary today, coming just a few days ahead of her proposed canonization in Vatican on September 4.
- Spice Digital divests entire stake holding in Vavia Technologies
- Spice Girl Emma Bunton says designer Victoria Beckham is in favour of a reunion of the pop group.
- Splashdown for Orion! Watch as Nasa tests craft that could one day take man to Mars in giant pool
- Splashdown for Orion! Watch as Nasa uses explosives to throw craft that could one day take man to Mars into a giant pool
- Splashdown! Watch as Nasa uses tests Orion capsule in giant pool
- Splunk Revenue Up 43%, Net Loss Widens
- Sports: Sindhu stands still, Saina drops in world ranking
- s president signs bill capping interest rates
- Sree Krishna Jayanti was celebrated with festivities in the city on Wednesday. Special pujas were conducted in Sree Krishna temples. At the Padmanabha Swamy temple, puja and abhishekam were held. A c...
- Srijit directs first Bengali 3D film
- Sri Lanka is seeking an investor from India to build and operate a container terminal in Colombo port, amid a strong Chinese presence in the port.
- Sri Lanka seeks Indian investor for Colombo port
- Sri Lanka's heavy reliance on its spin bowlers threatens to undermine their chances at the next cricket World Cup on the faster pitches of England, according to former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga.
- Srinivasan C R flagged government concerns about accuracy of data being stored, going forward
- SRK: The 8th highest paid actor in the world
- SRM Group chairman T R Pachamuthu arrested in Chennai
- SRM group chief Pachamuthu arrested over admission scandal
- SRM University chancellor Pachamuthu arrested in Chennai
- SRM University chancellor T.R. Pachamuthu alias Pari Vendhar was arrested on Friday by the Chennai Central Crime Branch (CCB) after an overnight interrogation in connection with the mysterious disapp...
- SRM University Chancellor T.R.Pachamuthu arrested on various charges
- s ruling on the South China Sea Arbitration (RP vs. PROC) during a meeting with media persons held at the Social Hall of the Department of National Defense, Camp Aguinaldo.
- Stand By Every Word I Said on RSS: Rahul Gandhi
- Stars grace A Flying Jatt premiere
- STARS or Strategic TARget System is a launch vehicle family that uses modified Polaris-A3 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles and utilizes a commercial Orbus-1 third stage and an optional ODES Post Boost Module. STARS is tasked with simulating the launch of missile warheads as well as flying payloads on reentry trajectories for organizations such as MDA.
- Star striker Cristiano Ronaldo, who was named UEFA's Best Player in Europe, has reiterated his desire to call curtains on his illustrious career at Real Madrid.Describing Real Madrid as 'the best club in the world', the Portugal international ...
- Startups are no more cool
- State Bank of Mysore announces cessation of director
- State ignoring scheme meant for girl child, alleges former MP
- State Power Minister Shobandeb Chatterjee promised all support to the clean energy initiative by the BCCI
- State ties up with India Inc to develop villages
- State Water Resources Minister Vijay Shivtare has raised objections to the water sharing pact signed this week between Telangana and Maharashtra. Mr. Shivtare in a letter expressed his unhappiness ove...
- Status Check: Despite Delhi Govt Order, Private Vans Still Plying as School Cabs?
- Staying awake at night and a prolonged failure to achieve a good night's sleep may increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and attempts, a new study has warned.
- Stock picks from Motilal Oswal Securities; buy IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance
- Stocks in focus: Biocon, Welspun India
- Stolen by a French former employee and that has raised concerns over a $38 billion contract with Australia
- Stressing that development now depends on the quality of institutions and ideas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said if India is to meet the challenge of change, mere incremental progress is not enough, a metamorphosis is needed.Addressing a ...
- Striking miners in Bolivia kidnapped and beat to death the country's deputy interior minister after he traveled to the area to mediate in the bitter conflict over mining laws, officials said.
- Striking miners kill deputy minister in Bolivia: Official
- Strong aftershocks rattle devastated earthquake zone in Italy
- Strong aftershocks rattle devastated Italian earthquake zone
- Strong aftershocks rattled residents and rescue crews alike Friday as hopes began to dim that firefighters would find any more survivors from Italy's earthquake. The first funerals were scheduled to be celebrated for some of the 267 dead
- 'Strong Indo-US ties to strengthen both economies'
- Strong Indo-US ties to strengthen both economies: White House
- Student suicide: Special team conducts probe
- Studies show that men are not as environmentally friendly as women. But could men be persuaded to go green? New research indicates the answer is yes — and it’s all about branding.
- Study examines financial conflict of interests among NCCN guideline authors
- Subramanian Swamy expressed his approval over Urjit Patel's appointment as the new RBI governor, said Patel was Rajan's deputy for many years, and his next post should not feel new to him.
- Success should make true leaders more obedient and responsive but repeated victories appear to have made the ruling party in Tamil Nadu arrogant and intolerant towards its opponents (“SC raps Tamil...
- Sudanese Antonov plane makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
- Sudan plane makes emergency landing in Saudi
- Sudhakar Darade said his entire produce of 13 quintals was offered a rate of Rs 65 in total.
- Sudhan Thomas, a business professional who has been active in the Indian-American community, is running for the Jersey City Board of Education
- Sudhan Thomas, a business professional who has been active in the Indian-American community, is running for the Jersey City Board of Education.
- Sugar market continued its bearish trend as producers sold the commodity at ₹10-20 a quintal lower than previous day to ease stocks. Weak mill tender rates kept spot and naka rates also under pressu...
- Sumit Nagal upset top seed K. Majchrzak of Poland 6-3, 6-4 to enter the quarterfinals of the $25,000 Talex Open ITF Mens’ Futures tournament in Poznan, Poland.
- Supertech plans to enter healthcare sector
Saturday, August 27, 2016
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