Hyderabad(Telangana State): Charminar – the symbol of Hyderabad – is the most searched historical site in the city on Google, the world’s biggest search engine. Google search trends analysis for the past six months reveals Charminar as the most searched historical site in the city, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Charminar has been searched the most in Andhra Pradesh (combined state) followed by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. “Interestingly, […]

An ancient Indian university has reopened 800 years after it was destroyed in an invasion, it’s been reported. Nalanda University, in the eastern state of Bihar, was first established in the 5th Century during the Gupta dynasty. It was was said to have attracted thousands of scholars and thinkers from around the world but the site was destroyed in the 1193 AD by an invading Turkish army. The new campus […]

Tokyo:  The Indian Navy’s ability to carry out amphibious landing, casualty evacuation, humanitarian assistance and long-range surveillance and reconnaissance received a major boost today, with Japan agreeing to sell and transfer technology to India to build the specialised sea-plane, the US-2 produced by ShinMaywa. A joint statement, issued today in Tokyo after the summit meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said, “Both sides directed […]

Alarmed by a spurt in online child abuse and sex crimes linked to pornography, the Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that social networking sites – including Facebook, Google and Twitter – will be asked to have servers in India so that authorities can keep tabs on objectionable content. “We wish to have some control over the content of social networking sites but the hurdle is that all of […]

Where there is a will, there is a way: this inspirational English proverb has a one word Indian counterpart – jugaad. Jugaad is great a way to deal with things when they aren’t working out. The basic raw material required is sheer determination, and results are often innovative. When Madeshwaran, a street food vendor in Bangalore, was faced with ill-health and exhaustion, he decided to fight back with a solution –jugaad. His job […]

Used as a route between Ladakh and Kashmir, the Zojila mountain pass is located at a staggering 11,580ft above sea level and is enclosed by Kashmir valley on one side and Drass valley on the other. The narrow road is on the western section of the Himalayas mountain range and is part of the 275-mile long route from Srinagar to Leh It is said to be one of the most […]

Kaleem, from India, was born with hands twice the size of an average baby Continued to grow and now weigh two stone meaning simple tasks are hard They each measure 13 inches from the base of palm to end of middle finger Local doctors baffled by condition which has seen youngster be bullied over An eight-year-old boy has left doctors baffled after his hands swelled to giant proportions and now […]

NEW DELHI: Within four days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to corporates to take up building toilets in schools as a priority under their corporate social responsibility (CSR), companies have announced over Rs 200 crore contribution for government’s “Swachh Bharat” campaign. Two major corporates – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Bharti Foundation, an arm of Bharti Enterprises – on Monday announced a total expenditure of Rs 200 crore as […]

India will soon be able to convert its plastic wastes into high-grade petrol and diesel, thanks to a breakthrough by researchers at the Dehradun-based Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP). The IIP, a constituent lab of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has for the first time in the country developed a technology to convert plastic waste into petroleum products. The green technology is so far available only in Germany, […]

The Indian economy could lose $30 billion annually with the IT industry being the hardest hit if the Immigration Bill under consideration in the US Congress becomes a law, Indian American Advisory Council of House Republican Conference of US Parliament has said. The IAAC, which advises US House of Representatives on India related issues, stated the ‘US Immigration Bill S744’ calls for significantly cutting down on outsourcing of work for […]