WTO talks collapse, no agreement on food security

WTO talks collapse, no agreement on food security

Buenos Aires, December 14 : Bringing disappointment to developing countries like India, the talks at the WTO’s 11th ministerial conference collapsed, with the US going back on its commitment to find a permanent solution to the public food stockholding issue. The four-day conference, which ended without a ministerial declaration or any substantive outcome, did manage to […]

PM commissions India’s first indigenously-built Scorpene submarine

PM commissions India’s first indigenously-built Scorpene submarine

Mumbai, December 14 : Marking an important milestone, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday commissioned and dedicated to the nation the country’s first indigenously-built Scorpene-class submarine ‘INS Kalvari’ into the Indian Navy. This is the first conventional submarine to be inducted into the Indian Navy after more than 17 years even as the navy’s submarine […]

Voting begins for second phase of Gujarat assembly elections

Voting begins for second phase of Gujarat assembly elections

Ahmedabad, December 14 : Voting for the second and final phase of the Gujarat assembly elections began on Thursday on 93 seats of North and Central Gujarat. After an acrimonious campaign, around 2.22 crore voters would be exercising their franchise to choose between the two main contenders, the BJP and the Congress. A total of […]

Writer-actor-filmmaker Neeraj Vora dies in Mumbai at 54

Writer-actor-filmmaker Neeraj Vora dies in Mumbai at 54

Mumbai, December 14 : Bollywood’s multi-faceted talent Neeraj Vora, known for writing ‘Rangeela’ and for directing ‘Phir Hera Pheri’, died here early on Thursday, months after being comatose, his family said. Neeraj’s younger brother Uttank Vora told IANS that Neeraj died at 4 am at an Andheri hospital. He was 54. “He will be taken […]