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Braj Rakshak Dal, an NGO fighting illegal mining by organised gangs in the area for the past several years, has demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the mining scam worth hundreds of crores of rupees in Deeg and Kaman in Bharatpur district.

Heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners, according to research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics .

NEW DELHI: A software engineer allegedly poisoned his newly wedded wife in the house of a relative at Shakarpur in the trans-Yamuna area on Tuesday.

New Delhi India today said it had conveyed to China that a dam or a water-diversion project on its side of the Brahmaputra may have 'significant impact' on the socio-economic condition of the population downstream on the Indian side and expressed hope that Beijing would 'not undertake' such a large-scale project.

The state government is set to change the route/alignment of the proposed eight-lane expressway, by aligning it with the Upper Ganga Canal instead of Hindon river.

Three-day International Workshop on Climate Change, Glacial Retreat and Livelihoods-Access Regionally, Act locally is being organized at by J&K Government in collaboration with the University of Kashmir and The Energy and Resources Institute from October 12 to 14, 2009.

Manu A B They are young, passionate, hard working and have a big dream. For them, stories of sibling rivalry are a joke.

The suspected ISI agent, Sudhanshu Sudhakar, arrested by the Special Task Force in Patna on Tuesday, had collected vital information about deployment of different units of the Indian Army in the country, including Pathankot and Jammu and Kashmir.

The next Joint Management Entrance Test will be held on December 13 across the country for admission to the two-year fulltime PG programme in management including MBA conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology at Madras ; Bombay ; Delhi ; Kanpur ; Kharagpur and Roorkee .

Faculty at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management are irked at the new pay scale that was approved by the Cabinet on August 7, prompting many professors in the IITs to go on casual leave as a token protest today.

Mr. Kothari has published 611 research papers in various national and international journals and conferences D.P. Kothari VELLORE: The University Grants Commission has bestowed the UGC National Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Award for 2005 on D.P. Kothari, Vice-Chancellor of VIT University, Vellore, in recognition of his outstanding scholarly ...

New Delhi, Aug 6 : Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy has said the Taj Mahal is in a good state of preservation.

New Delhi, Aug 6 : Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy has said the Taj Mahal is in a good state of preservation.

PUDUCHERRY: The President of India has nominated S.A. Abbasi, senior professor and coordinator of Centre for Pollution Control and Energy Technology of Pondicherry University as member of the court of Banaras Hindu University .

Delhi Policea s Special Cell have said the weapons seized from the six sharpshooters arrested in Delhi had been procured from Uttar Pradesh.

Based on the Sarkar Committee Report, four Indian Institutes of Technology were established in Kharagpur, Bombay, Chennai and Kanpur between 1950 and 1959 as autonomous institutions by an Act of Parliament.

Haridwar : Around 100 close circuit cameras will be installed in and around the 130 sq km-mela-site during the 'Mahakumbh' next year, when hundreds of devotees will take a holy dip in the Ganges.

As many as 10,035 candidates have cleared the Joint Entrance Examination-2009 for admission to undergraduate courses in 15 Indian Institutes of Technology , it was announced Monday.

ON TOP OF THE WORLD: The all-India Civil Services topper of the year, Shubhra Saxena, with husband Shashank Gupta at home in Indirapuram nextdoor to Delhi on Monday evening.

There are not many countries in which an MNC pays a hefty premium just to secure a licence to do business.