Climate change making weather prediction difficult: IMD DG

Climate change has hampered the ability of the forecasting agencies to accurately predict severe events and weather bureaus across the world are focusing on augmenting the observational network......

Five women held in Kerala NEET frisking row, NTA sets up fact-finding team

Five women were arrested on Tuesday in Kerala for forcing girl students, who appeared for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test, to remove their innerwear while the National Testing Agency......

Govt announces post-retirement jobs for Agniveers as protests erupt

The government on Wednesday announced a raft of post-retirement employment possibilities for 'Agniveer' like priority in recruitment to the central paramilitary forces but protests erupted in Bihar......

JNU gets its first woman Vice Chancellor in Santishree Pandit

Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit will be the first woman Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University with the Ministry of Education appointing her to the top post on Monday.   Pandit is......

Over half of NSE 500 stocks deliver 10x return in 20 years: Goldman Sachs

Over half, or 269 NSE 500 stocks, have given over 10-fold (10x) returns in the last two decades, finds a recent report by Goldman Sachs that analysed 10 major markets across emerging and developed......

IMD tweaks monsoon forecast to help agri sector plan better

With rainfall and monsoons becoming highly unpredictable partly due to climate change and partly due to usual changes in weather patterns, it is such innovations by IMD which will help in planning......

Why markets remain unfazed despite GDP shocker

Hopes of revival and earnings growth in 2020, surprise tax cuts, and robust foreign flows - thanks to easy global monetary policies - are a few reasons why the markets have managed to digest the......

More bad news, Goldman pegs FY20 GDP growth at 5.3%

The brokerage said the consolidated fiscal deficit, including that of the Union (3.6 per cent), the states (2.6 per cent) and the off-budget borrowings which are being resorted to increasingly is a......

Indian musician bags Grammy nom

Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, known the world over for his mastery of Hindustani classical music, and more recently his foray into American blues, has bagged the uber-prestigious Best Traditional......

Russell Crowe, Sean Penn in Three Stooges?

Russell Crowe seems to have got himself a dream role asMoe Howard, one of the Three Stooges, in a comedy to bewritten and directed by Peter and Bobby Farrelly (There's Something About Mary).The......

Racial injustice hits home for US athletes

IMAGE: Lance Thomas of the Brooklyn Nets gestures as he and teammates kneel in honour of the Black Lives Matter movement. Photograph: Ashley Landis-Pool/Getty Images When former NBA star......

PIX: Canada's 'Queen B' feted by hometown crowd

IMAGE: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with US Open tennis champion Bianca Andreescu as Canada's Minister of Science and Sport Kirsty Duncan (left) looks on at the "She The North"......

Toronto Raptors NBA victory bash marred by shooting

IMAGE: Police and spectators run as crowds scattered after reports of shots fired in the area where thousands gathered in Nathan Phillips Square to celebrate the Toronto Raptors victory parade.......

Solskjaer is Manchester United's caretaker manager

Former Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will return to Old Trafford as caretaker manager until the end of the season, the Premier League club said on Wednesday. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.......

Football Extras: Denmark's Bendtner gets 50 days in jail for assault

News of all that's transpired on and off the football field  IMAGE: The 30-year-old striker, who plays for Norwegian club side Rosenborg, has appealed against the sentence, his......