Hyderabad: A team of five students from an engineering college in Telangana has been selected for the prestigious NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.

The team from SR Engineering College, Warangal, will participate in the fifth annual challenge to be held on April 12-14, 2018, in Huntsville, Alabama, US.

New Delhi: The dates for the assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh are likely to be announced on Thursday.

The three-member Election Commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner A.K. Jyoti will address a press conference at 4 p.m. at which the full poll schedule for the two states was likely to be rele

Geneva: Brutal attacks against Rohingya in northern Rakhine State have been well-organised, coordinated and systematic, with the intent of not only driving the population out of Myanmar but preventing them from returning to their homes, a new UN report based on interviews conducted in Bangladesh, has found.

The report by a team from th

Singapore: India and the EU need to work out a long-term comprehensive agreement on aviation safety and modernisation of air traffic management to enhance cooperation, a top official of the 28-member bloc has said.

The agreement has to be mutually beneficial, Henrik Hololei, director general for mobility and transport

Washington: Identifying real estate as the one sector where maximum amount of tax evasion takes place, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said there was a strong case to bring it under the ambit of the GST.

The matter will be discussed in the next meeting of the GST, which will be held on November 9, in Guwahati, Jait

Tokyo: Toyota Motor Corp is planning to halve the number of car models it sells in Japan to about 30 by 2025 to focus on more popular models in a shrinking market, a person briefed on the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

The automaker currently offers about 62 car models in Japan, including the Prius gasoline hybrid an

Mumbai: The State Bank of India today said it has launched a new product to provide a short-term working capital demand loan to its MSME clients.

The new initiative, called SME Assist, would offer loans to MSME customers on the basis of their input credit claims under Goods and Services Tax (GST).

The loans will be offered at

Hyderabad: Veteran Indian pacer Ashish Nehra today announced that he will retire from international cricket after the opening T20 against New Zealand at his home ground of Delhi on November 1, ending a prolific but injury-plagued career.

“It is always good to retire when people are asking why then why not,”

In a major relief for the Talwars, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday acquitted Nupur and Rajesh Talwar in the Aarushi Talwar Murder Case.

The court rejected the CBI court order sentencing the Talwar couple to life term for the murder of daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj.

Allowing the appeal by the Talwars, the cour

Chennai: Deposed AIADMK leader V K Sasikala today left for Bengaluru by road to report at the Parappana Agrahara Prison in Bengaluru as her parole for visiting her husband in a hospital here ended yesterday.

Sasikala left from the residence of Krishna Priya, her close relative in T Nagar here this morning.

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