NEW DELHI: The government on Friday said it had overestimated exports by over $9 billion due to software upgrade and punching errors, which prompted data revision for eight months.
The admission of the mistake overshadowed the other bad news of exports growing by only 4.2% to $22.3 billion in November. With imports growing at 29% to [...]

NEW DELHI: The widening trade deficit with China has the country’s strategic establishment worried, providing backing to the commerce department’s move to restrict imports as part of its ‘China strategy’ while pressing for free-trade agreements with other countries to diversify sourcing.
The National Security Council Secretariat, which recently hosted inter-ministerial consultations on the burgeoning India-China trade gap and [...]

When a man slapped agriculture minister Sharad Pawar recently, he was promptly arrested. But no such action follows when people in power lose their temper and beat up ordinary citizens.
A sarpanch belonging to the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) repeatedly slapped and roughed up a woman teacher in Punjab’s Muktsar district in full public view [...]

Faridabad: Two people died and 11 were injured when a fire broke out in a factory on Wednesday.Theblazewas reported from Imperial Auto Industries in Sector 25 around 11am, police said.
Factory workers were heating some chemicals on a stove and it backfired. The fire quickly spread to nearby drums containing thinner and got out of control. [...]

If you’re planning to dump your Old TV set or personal computer somewhere, beware. For, if the centre has its way, there will make dumping electronic waste an offence. Also in the offing are a set of guidelines to regulate e-waste recycling and check its adverse impact on environment and health.
In the absence of any [...]

New Delhi: Used paper cups thrown outside juice and coffee shops could be behind India’s colony collapse disaster — the disappearing population of honey bees that pollinate 80% of all crops.
The sugary residue in these cups attract honey bees who look at it as an alternative
source of food . A “considerable population” of honey bees [...]

The growing practice of weaving electronics into the fiber of clothing could add to the already monumental challenge of e-waste disposal. Some fifty million tons of electronic waste already accumulate annually in “soaring mountains” of refuse, the United Nations says.

As a Science Times article on wired textiles recently noted, electronic or “smart” textiles have electronics in the [...]

New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the Reserve Bank of India to make public the names and other details of top 100 industrialists of the country who have defaulted on loans from public sector banks. The commission also directed the central bank to post on its website [...]

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It earns MCD almost Rs 1.5 cr in auction fees but lacks basics such as suction pumps, fire equipment and even a power connection
Visitors are too scared to enter it, residents use it only because it is cheap and car thieves think it is a good place to dump cars in. Welcome to Municipal Corporation [...]