Washington, Oct 19: A US government investigation is said to have found evidence of Wal-Mart Stores Inc allegedly paying thousands of small bribes to Indian officials to get customs clearances and obtain real-estate permits, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Vast majority of payments were below USD 200 (about Rs. 13,000 at current exchange rate)…
KOLKATA: A senior Indian scientist has claimed that the malaria cure artemisinin, the discovery of which fetched a Chinese scientist the Nobel prize in medicine this year, has roots in India. Hyderabad-based Sunil Kumar Verma has fuelled a debate on the basis of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientist Youyou Tu for…
The Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched a pilot project of a ‘station-based e-catering’ service allowing passengers to order meals as per their choice, which will be delivered at stations from popular private caterers. In the first phase of the project, all trains passing through 45 specified railway stations, including nine in…
The country’s retirement system ranks last in the global pension index, says a study by global consulting major Mercer Still, the National Pension System (NPS), which was launched by the government in June as part of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, will help the country improve its index, the study said. The country’s index value…
The front page of a leading daily has a clutter breaking advertisement from Nestle‘s stable today, bringing readers up to date on the Maggi Noodles ruling. The advertisement further goes on to reassure them that they will be able to eat their favourite noodles soon. To be able to break clutter in the festive month…
India would launch six satellites from Singapore, including a dedicated 500 kg earth observation spacecraft, in mid-December, a top space official said on Friday. “The 500 kg dedicated satellite (TeLOS-1)will be a commercial launch for Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd while five other smaller satellites are from Singapore universities,” Indian space agency’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation…
Creative Ways to Improve Your Resume Career experts are unanimous on the importance of customizing our resumes for each new job we apply for. But for many of us, when it comes to revising our resumes, the first question is “How?” It’s easy to get stuck in a rut when you’re working with material you…
Smartphones increasingly hold our lives — our contacts, messages, credit card data, health care information and the controls to our smart homes — within their sleek metallic finishes. So when we lose the devices, it’s a problem. Smart software means we can track, recover and — if it’s clear the devices are gone for good…
BENGALURU: A tiny chip designed in Bengaluru, the size of a postage stamp, might hold the answer to connecting India’s rural population to the Internet, an ambitious goal being chased by the likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft. The chip, called Pruthvi, powers a system which can use television White Space — or wasted spectrum…
Here is a concrete strategy to approach the exam. Attempting the civil services preliminary exam is a different ball game from tackling the main exam. In the preliminary exam there is negative marking, and the question paper is a booklet consisting of many pages. There are 100 questions in Paper I and 80 in Paper…
