Month: February 2020

US President Donald Trump will be on a two-day visit to India on February 24-25, confirms the officials from the White House on Tuesday.   As per the announcement, Trump and the first lady Melina Trump will visit Delhi and western Gujarat during the India visit.   The visit as per announcement is to “strengthen the United States – India strategic partnership.”   The two leaders have pursued a close relationship, with Modi visiting in September and hosting Trump at a huge rally in Houston, Texas, dubbed “Howdy, Modi!”  …

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), a global leader in research and education, recently concluded the 2nd annual Wiley Global Innovation Conclave in Bengaluru. The event congregated digitally determined leaders and industry experts under one roof to deliberate on the challenges faced by leaders and digitally distraught organisations, and shape up potential strategies and solutions to the issues at hand.   More than 50% of organizations today struggle with implementation of an exponential digital transformation strategy around talent, culture, change, financial goals and integrated business and technology strategy (IDC…

Delhi Election Commission in a press conference on Sunday said that Delhi recorded an overall turnout of 62.59% in Saturday’s voting, hours after AAP leader and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal questioned the delay in official declaration of the voting percentage.   Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said the voting percentage in Delhi assembly elections is about 2% more than the last Lok Sabha elections and 5% less than the 2015 turnout when the AAP received a historic mandate of 67 seats in the 70-seat assembly.   The poll panel…

More than 4.5 lakh Swachh loos have vanished from MP along with 540 crores it took to build them. The toilets seems to have been flushed into oblivion, as they can never be found, despite GPS tagged photos of each of them. But the government aims to recover every penny spent on them.   The vanishing toilets were supposed to have been built between 2012 – 2018, but only on paper as they never existed. The officials believed that the photographs submitted as proof were actually clicked elsewhere, perhaps at…

British Airways flight from New York to London this weekend clocked in at less than five hours, the fastest time by a subsonic jetliner for that particular trans-Atlantic route.   Flight 112, a Boeing 747, reached a top speed of 825 miles per hour over the North Atlantic, according to Flightradar24, a flight-tracking platform. The flight left Kennedy International Airport at 6:47 p.m. on Saturday and arrived at Heathrow Airport at 4:43 a.m. on Sunday, a flight time of four hours and 56 minutes. The average flight time on that…

The novel coronavirus has already claimed nearly 600 lives and infected about 30, 000 or more patients and is still spewing on. The doctors, researchers, scientists are trying every bit to reach the vaccine.   Indian scientists from Australia have brought a ray of hope, and are reaching near the research for developing a vaccine against the deadly infection.   The first batch of the virus was developed in a high-security lab at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) by the Indian citizen Professor SS Vasan-led team, when…

Kameshwar Chaupal, Trustee of Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Tirth Kshetra has informed that the Ram Temple is expected to be ready in the next two years by 2022.    The first meeting of the members of the temple body, which was to be held on February 19 in Prayagraj, will now be held in New Delhi. All the members are scheduled to reach Delhi on February 18 for the same.   In the meeting, the process to construct the massive and grand Ram Temple on the birthplace of Lord Ram will be discussed. Also,…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday visited Assam to celebrate the signing of Bodo Pact. During his speech, he highlighted the importance of the Bodo agreement and said that no citizen will die of violence anymore in the North East and that the road for development has opened in the region.   “The road for permanent peace has opened up only due to your help and willpower. This is a new opportunity and a new dawn for Assam and the entire Northeast to welcome the 21st century,” he said addressing…

A type of yarn from human skin cells has been developed by a team of researchers from France, Columbia and the U.S. The yarn can be woven into human textiles. The researchers in their paper published in the journal Acta Biomaterialia, described the process they used and applications for the materials they produced.   Medical textiles are materials that can be used to heal skin and other body parts. They can also replace parts of damaged organs. But not all patients have the same reactions to all textiles, because the materials are often treated…