Jaipur, This Ganesh Chaturthi a fresh start has been made in Udaipur under which garlands and flowers offered to gods on a daily basis in temples and households will be converted into incense sticks. This will involve training and employing hundreds of unemployed and poor women.

It is a two-pronged initiative. Fir

Kochi,  Pineapple growers in Kerala have been hit hard as fruit prices continue to nosedive amid the coronavirus pandemic, and have appealed from help from the Centre and the state.

Amid the crisis, pineapple grower KK Anil committed suicide at Vazhakulam near here on Friday. His son Abhijith said that his fa

Chennai, Political leaders in Tamil Nadu on Saturday demanded action against Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary at the Ministry of AYUSH, for allegedly asking non-Hindi speaking doctors to leave a training session.

Condemning Kotecha for his act, DMK President M.K. Stalin said it was shameful on the part of the Secr

San Francisco, Jeff Wilke, the CEO of Amazon's worldwide consumer division, is set to retire early next year after serving the company for over two decades.

Dave Clark, Amazon's Senior Vice President of Retail Operations, will succeed Wilke, Amazon said in a statement on Friday.

In a memo to

New Delhi, The government, which has started work on drafting the new foreign trade policy, is set to focus on boosting the manufacturing sector amid altered world dynamics in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

While there has been pressure to reduce imports, an insider who is closely working on this issue said

New Delhi,  NDTV will file an application within 15 days to seek waiver of the penalty imposed by NSE and BSE for non-compliance in appointment of director.

In a regulatory filing on Saturday, NDTV said that it had been seeking an extension for the appointment of a sixth director to the board of the comp

Washington,  The US Postal Service (USPS) is "fully capable" of delivering election mail "securely and on time", Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said.

DeJoy was testifying before a Senate panel in a virtual hearing on Friday that came amid greater scrutiny over the agency's operations a

Ankara, Turkish prosecutors on Saturday ordered the detention of 47 military personnel over their suspected links to a network believed to be behind the failed 2016 coup attempt.

Police launched simultaneous operations in 40 provinces across the country to catch the suspects upon the order of the Chief Public

Dhaka, The coronavirus infection rate among slum dwellers in Bangladesh is only 6 per cent, it has been found.

The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research and International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research found that the infection rate in the slums is relatively low as most of the residents wh

Kabul,  US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad said there was "no legitimate reason" to delay the intra-Afghan negotiations that have been postponed over differences on the release of controversial Taliban prisoners by the Kabul government.

Khalilzad made the remarks in a tweet on Friday condemn