India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal was today selected for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the country's sporting honour, for her oustanding achievements on the badminton court.
The RBI has hiked the repo rate by 0.25 percentage point to 5.75 per cent and the reverse repo rate by 0.50 percentage point to 4.50 per cent.The repo rate is the rate at which the central bank lends to banks while the reverse repo is the rate it pays to banks for parking funds with it.
“Consumption (of energy) is a pain. We have not learnt to have a lifestyle wherein we can be happy and contented without increasing consumption,” laments Ramesh Ramankutty, Head, Operations and Business Strategy, Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The Tamil Nadu State Vivasaya Sangam has urged the authorities and the State Government to grant compensation for all farmers in Karur district affected by the effluents discharged into Noyyal River by dyeing and bleaching units in Tirupur.
Geneva: A landmark international treaty to ban cluster munitions took effect on Sunday, requiring signatories to stop the use, production and transfer of the deadly weapons.
Defence group BAE Systems and engine supplier Rolls-Royce have signed a £700m deal to supply India's Hindustan Aeronautics with 57 Hawk training jets.
London Hospital used a genetically engineered herpes virus to treat successfully patients with head and neck cancer.
British Petroleum could begin sealing its oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday night, three months after its rupture led to the worst oil spill in US history.
BUBBLING green tubes filled with algae gobbling up carbon dioxide and producing biodiesel may sound like the perfect way to make clean fuel, but it could generate nearly four times the greenhouse emissions from regular diesel.
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