Lucknow: Mango named after Delhi braveheart

New Delhi, May 22: As the Congress entered the last year of its current term besieged by troubles and pollsters' forecasts of electoral defeat, its leadership refused to lose hope and dismissed the apparent lows as part of the normal ups and downs of ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University will soon start offering three-year Bachelor of Arts and Science (undergraduate) courses, for which the varsity has recently sent a proposal to the University Grants Commission. At present, it offers only undergraduate language ...

The Yeshwantpur railway station is facing a crunch situation as its train traffic has been increasing every year while its terminal capacity has remained unchanged for over a decade. Handling an average of 88 trains daily, the station seems to have reached ...

Eleven new engineering colleges have come up in the state this year, but at least five existing ones are unlikely to take part in the single window counselling. There are more than 520 engineering colleges in the state. Senior All India Council for Technical ...

A 30-year-old bookstore on the Visva-Bharati campus that used to be a haunt of writers such as Sunil Gangopadhyay will make way for a bookstall complete with tea and coffee facilities. The varsity authorities served a notice on Subarnarekha after its owner, ...

Litchi farmers may reap more profits this year with a marketing team from National Horticulture Board, New Delhi, visiting Muzaffarpur to explore the possibilities of selling their products overseas. Principal scientist of National Research Centre for Litchi, ...

The Pimpri Chinchwd Municipal Corporation (PCMC) this year is expected to start inviting bids for 12 new development projects, including setting up of a 3,000-capacity auditorium on the lines of Pune's Ganesh Kala Krida Manch. Municipal commissioner Shrikar ...

UK managed services provider Redcentric has signed two new multi-year contracts. The first is a 3-year managed network and cloud contract with a major automotive company worth around GBP 1.1 million over the duration of the contract, of which around ...

New Delhi: BJP today targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the "failures" of the UPA-II government in the last four years, saying the presence of two power centres and his "indecision, inability and silence" have led to an environment of "gloom and ...