Online retailing giant Amazon unveiled its India marketplace, ‘Amazon.in’, offering books, movies and television shows for sale. However, currently, Amazon will not own any of the merchandise that...
World Environment Day was observed in India and across the globe on June 5. The day was dedicated by the UN Conference on Human Environment in 1972 for the cause...
Tomas Brunegård, chairman of Sweden’s Stampen Media Group, has been elected as the new president of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-INFRA). He will have a...
The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has agreed to the initiative of Ministry of Tourism for permitting ONGC for adopting six monuments under Campaign Clean India. The six...
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has urged the Centre to review the recent notification declaring the 100 km stretch from Gomukh to Uttarkashi as an eco-sensitive zone. The declaration is...
Japan has successfully performed the first successful test of new generation L0 Series Trains (maglev bullet trains) designed to travel at speeds of 311 mph. These trains have latest Magnetic levitation...
To combat the issue of increasing crimes against the women, the first all-women police station started functioning in Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh). The state cabinet had recently passed a proposal...
With an aim to curb the soaring CAD and depletion in the value of rupee, the government has raised the import duty on Gold and Platinum from previous...
Nawaz Sharif of PML-N party has sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan for his 3rd term after formally being elected as the Prime Minister by the National...
The United States has exempted India and eight other nations from sanctions for importing oil from Iran, keeping in view that these countries have considerably cut their dependence...
