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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Vadodara: A large chunk of textbooks meant for children of the backward classes in Bhavnagar may have been sold to a  Scrap dealer in Vadodara. Bhavnagar Polic are investigating a case of the pilferage of these books to sell them to scrap dealers after the scam came to light last week.
The Gujarat Patyapustak Mandal has [...]

Former chief minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi on Tuesday stayed away from House proceedings on the first day when the 14th Assembly met to discuss the Governor’s address.
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, too, was a permanent absentee when the DMK was in power, and used to merely sign the register kept outside the hall to [...]