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Geneva: In a big jump, India has moved up 16 positions to rank 55th on a global index of the world’s most competitive economies, where Switzerland remains on top. The jump in India’s position underlines the country’s recent economic recovery, improvement in the competitiveness of the country’s institutions and its macroeconomic environment and a “slight…
Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo announced on Monday that he will open 30 soccer schools in China and train Chinese youngsters with his special method. When attending the opening ceremony of his soccer school in Campinas of Sao Paulo state, Ronaldo showed his optimism towards Chinese soccer market, and hoped his understanding of soccer could help…
New Delhi: Beijing Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra produced some excellent shooting to clinch the gold while London Games bronze medallist Gagan Narang failed to finish on the podium in the men’s 10m Air Rifle event of the Asian Air Gun Championships on Sunday. 32-year-old Bindra, who won gold in 2008 Olympics in 10m Air Rifle…
NEW DELHI: Over 2.18 lakh candidates have registered for the Common Admission Test 2015, marking a six-year high, though it is still way behind its all-time record of 2.76 registrations in 2008. The last date for registration of the entrance test to premier management institutes and top B-schools was on September 25 and the computer-based…
Briny water flows during the summer months on Mars, raising the possibility that the planet long thought to be arid could support life today, scientists analysing data from an NASA spacecraft said on Monday. Although the source and the chemistry of the water are unknown, the discovery will change scientists’ thinking about whether the planet…
(Vishnu Som was given access to the Kochi. Having examined its features and technology, he presents here a possible naval scenario involving the Rs. 3,900 crore-ship.) On a dark moonlit night, an Indian warship pierced the waters of the South China Sea at a brisk 25 knots. (In pictures) The only sound to be heard…
BANGALORE: US technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family. Padachuri, who runs a construction business in this city, the center of India’s technology industry, uses his smartphone to reserve movie seats through BookMyShow and to order pizzas from Domino’s. His wife, Vasavi, orders clothes from Myntra and Amazon.com,…
It’s not august 15th! And we are not “happy” it is just Independence Day. A nation cannot be free until its women are free. So are we happy? Are we free? Declaring holiday alone is not enough. Freedom is for everyone, is for rich, for poor, for students, for teachers, for parents, for doctors, for…
CHENNAI: As concerned about the growing number of engineering seats across the country , The All India Council For Technical Education is planning to cut down seats by sis lakh. “We would like to bring it down to between 10 lakh and 11 lakh (one million and 1.1 million) from a little over 16.7 lakh…
In just a day, the uptake for Apple’s iOS 9 jumped to almost 11 percent, according to the latest stats from analytics firm Mixpanel. Rolled out Wednesday across the world, Apple’s latest mobile software reached an adoption rate of 10.9 percent as of Thursday morning, according to the firm’s findings. Mixpanel bases its data on an analysis of…
