NEW DELHI: The government will likely put some money in your bank account every month if it goes ahead with a proposal currently being considered at the highest levels. The plan is to expand the direct cash transfer scheme, by deducting a portion of the subsidy each family receives through ...
Bio-diesel is both renewable and less polluting in comparison to diesel. B100 vehicles have been plying in Brazil and cities such as California and Berkeley in United States.
WASHINGTON: Oil giant Shell has resumed offshore drilling operations in Alaskan waters, the company said Friday, after one of its icebreakers was delayed for nearly two days by protesters dangling from a bridge. Greenpeace activists were suspended fro...
Senior scientist V Sivakumar said once combined, they undergo a curing process in which heat is passed to harden or toughen the material.
MUMBAI: Suresh Narayanan, Al Rajwani, Manoj Kumar, Issam Bachaalani — they've all come back home. These Indian executives have all returned in the recent past to head the local units of global consumer firms and help further the parent's emerging markets growth strategy. Of these, Narayanan is a bit ...
NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold reversed earlier losses on Friday as the dollar fell after weaker-than-expected US data, but prices remained on course for their biggest monthly decline in more than two years on expectations the Federal Reserve will soon raise in...
Most food historians in West Bengal believe it was invented in then Calcutta in 1868 by iconic confectioner Nobin Chandra Das, whose son later founded the famous sweetmeat chain K C Das.