Kathmandu: As many as 71 heritage sites in Nepal’s Pashupatinath area that were badly damaged in the country’s devastating 2015 earthquake have been restored, a media report said on Wednesday. Ninety heritages in the Pashupatinath area, which comes under the UNESCO World Heritage list, were damaged by the 2015 quake, My Republica newspaper reported. “As many…
New Delhi: The border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh have taken a “momentous” decision to initiate joint civil works on five development projects along the 4,096 kms of shared boundary which will help the local population on both sides, a senior officer said Wednesday. At the end of their four-day biannual border talks conference…
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday attacked the Centre over the Reserve Bank of India allowing banks to go for a compromise settlement of fraud accounts and wilful defaults and demanded that the central bank immediately repeals its instructions and also reveal if there was any “pressure” from the government to issue the notification. Congress general…
New Delhi: Churning the Arabian Sea, Cyclone Biparjoy on Wednesday was set to re-curve towards Gujarat’s Kutch area and adjoining south Pakistan, slightly weakening in the process but still threatening to swamp the region with storm surges, strong winds and heavy rains. Since its formation on June 6 in the southeast Arabian Sea, Biparjoy had…
Ahmedabad: Authorities have so far shifted 50,000 people from coastal areas of Gujarat to temporary shelters ahead of the expected landfall of powerful cyclone ‘Biparjoy’ near Jakhau port in Kutch district. With the cyclone barrelling towards the Gujarat coast, parts of the Saurashtra-Kutch region received heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, the Met department said on…
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is strengthening the health department by increasing budget allocations to improve public health and to effectively deal with emergencies like Covid-19 should they arise, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said on Wednesday. Speaking after laying the foundation for a new block in the state-run Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) here, he…
Bhubaneswar: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra is expectedly not competing but all the other top athletes of the country, led by long jumper Murali Sreeshankar, will look to seal Asian Games berths when the National Inter-State Championship begins here Thursday. Chopra is recovering from an injury but he would have got exemption even if he was fit…
Washington: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s State Visit to the US, American corporate sector leaders have said they are upbeat and excited about India and want to see a deepening of technological convergence between the two countries in industries like semiconductors, defence, cybersecurity and telecoms. On Tuesday, the US India Business Council (USIBC) hosted its…
Washington: A trade advocacy group that represents US businesses has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joe Biden to work towards achieving bilateral trade of USD 500 billion per annum. The two countries achieved bilateral trade of USD 190 billion last year. “By reaching that ambitious bilateral trade target (of USD 500 billion), together we…
Vijayawada (AP): The 2023 Andhra Pradesh EAPCET results were announced by State Education Minister Botcha Satyanaraya on Wednesday. Engineering, Agriculture and Pharmacy Common Entrance Test or EAPCET is the annual entrance examination conducted by the state government to determine admissions to undergraduate courses in colleges. Challa Umesh Varun from Nandigama in NTR district scored 158 marks…
