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6th October 2025 ‘FALLING APART’: CCPO demands action against contractor over crumbling Pfutsero–Phek road

6th October 2025 Nagaland University develops flexible supercapacitor

6th October 2025 Manipur: Flight operations temporarily suspended at Imphal airport after drone sighting

6th October 2025 Bihar Assembly election schedule announced: Voting on Nov 6, 11; Results on Nov 14

6th October 2025 US, Japanese scientists awarded 2025 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovery on immune system

6th October 2025 Eight killed in ICU fire at SMS Hospital in Jaipur; CM orders probe

5th October 2025 BSNL’s indigenous 4G network to be upgraded to 5G in next 6-8 months: Minister

5th October 2025 Centre directs states to ensure rational use of cough syrups

5th October 2025 Bengal landslide: Death toll rises to 20, rescue operations underway

5th October 2025 Nagaland: 'Our voices are so important'

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Wallet 'curtain-raiser', payments bank will be 'show': Paytm

Mumbai, March 17 (IANS) Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Friday said that the firm's mobile wallet business was only a curtain-raiser and the payments bank would be the main show. "We

/ 17th March 2017
Actors shouldn't take political stands: Vidya Balan

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Vidya Balan says actors should avoid taking political stands. "Actors shouldn't take political stands. I don't take political stands because I don't want to influence my

/ 17th March 2017
90% Indian millennial women face no discrimination at work

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Over 90 per cent of India's millennial -- those born between 1980-2000 -- working women believe that they get equal opportunities regardless of gender, a survey has revealed.

/ 17th March 2017
Eating broccoli may lower prostate cancer risk

New York, March 17 (IANS) An increased consumption of cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, that are high in sulforaphane may lower the risk of developing prostate cancer, a study has claimed.

/ 17th March 2017
Idea Cellular to allow 2G, 3G, 4G data recharge for same price

Mumbai, March 17 (IANS) Idea Cellular on Friday said it will allow data recharges for the same price across 2G, 3G and 4G connectivity. "Idea ... will allow open market data recharges of 1GB and ab

/ 17th March 2017
Rs 8,040 cr loan given to Mallya in 2004, declared NPA in 2009

New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Loans totalling over Rs 8,000 crore were given to absconding industrialist Vijay Mallya during the tenure of the previous UPA government at the Centre, Parliament was informed on Frid

/ 17th March 2017
Philippines tells EU lawmakers to butt out after criticism of drugs war

MANILA, March 17 (Reuters) - The Philippines derided the European parliament on Friday for interfering in its affairs after it issued a resolution calling for the release of a top critic of the president's war

/ 17th March 2017
Chinese firms offer pollution solutions with bottled air, hat filters, smog socks

BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - Even as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang pledges to ensure that blue skies never become a luxury, a state-backed firm is doing brisk business selling 48 yuan ($6.95) cans of fresh air bo

/ 17th March 2017
Indian drugmakers face squeeze in U.S. healthcare market

MUMBAI, March 17 (Reuters) - India's small and medium-sized generic drugmakers say the threat of tougher rules and higher barriers for outsiders in the U.S. healthcare market will force many to find a niche or

/ 17th March 2017
Barcelona to face Juventus in 2015 final repeat

ZURICH, March 17 (Reuters) - Barcelona were pitted against Italian champions Juventus in the Champions League quarter-final draw made on Friday to set up a repeat of the 2015 final which the Spanish side won 3-

/ 17th March 2017
Interpol 'issues red notice' for North Koreans in murder mystery

KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Reuters) - Interpol has issued a red notice, the closest to an international arrest warrant, for four North Koreans wanted in connection with the murder of Kim Jong Nam, Malaysia's polic

/ 17th March 2017
New BJP government in UP likely on Sunday

Lucknow, March 17 (IANS) The swearing in of a new BJP government in Uttar Pradesh will most likely take place on Sunday, party sources said on Friday. The oath taking ceremony of the new Chief Mini

/ 17th March 2017
Trump's budget proposal to limit NASA's role in climate science

Washington, March 17 (IANS) Some of NASA missions in development -- including one to land on Jupiter's icy moon Europa and a few Earth science missions -- will not go forward as per President Donald Trump's bud

/ 17th March 2017
Sirens blare as Japan, fearing North Korea, holds first missile drill

OGA, Japan, March 17 (Reuters) - Sirens blared and loudspeakers broadcast warnings in Japan's first civilian missile evacuation drill on Friday, conducted in a fishing town by officials wary about the threat of

/ 17th March 2017
Dalai Lama opens Buddhist conference

Patna, March 17 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Friday inaugurated a three-day international Buddhist conference in Bihar's Nalanda district. The Dalai Lama lit a traditional lamp

/ 17th March 2017
Giving up fast, marriage plan dissipated Sharmila's support?

Imphal, March 17 (IANS) The roller coaster ride of human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu continues after her maiden foray into electoral politics in her native state of Manipur proved a damp squib.

/ 17th March 2017
Exclusive - Children among hundreds of Rohingya detained in Myanmar crackdown

SITTWE, Myanmar/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, March 17 (Reuters) - Children as young as 10 years old are among hundreds of Rohingya Muslims detained on charges of consorting with insurgents, according to a police do

/ 17th March 2017
China needs to accelerate nuclear power development to meet 2020 target - ex-official

BEIJING, March 17 (Reuters) - China needs to speed up building planned nuclear reactors and make quick new approvals over the next few years to meet a target for 2020 and keep projects rolling beyond that, an e

/ 17th March 2017
Trump, Germany's Merkel to hold first face-to-face meeting at White House

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday for a White House meeting that could help determine the future of the transatlantic alliance and shape

/ 17th March 2017
India to examine if foreign airlines can fully own local carriers through investment partners

NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - India's civil aviation secretary said on Friday it was not possible for a foreign airline to fully own an Indian carrier, but will examine whether it can be done through an inves

/ 17th March 2017