Flipkart targets sales worth $8 b in 2015
Leading online market place Flipkart is looking at sales worth $8-billion in the current year. The company has announced its ambitious plan at a Town Hall organised in a college auditorium in the city on Wednesday. The company is also targeting to sell one billion goods on its platform annually... read more »
SBI reports Q3 net profit of Rs 2,910 crore
State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday reported over 30 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 2,910 crore for the third quarter ended December 2014 on the back of stronger other income despite higher provisioning for bad loans. The bank had reported a net profit of Rs 2,234.34 crore in the year-ago... read more »
China’s first female astronaut gives birth
China’s first female astronaut has begun training for her next mission after giving birth to her first child. The China Daily newspaper on Friday quoted Liu Yang as confirming the birth at an award ceremony this week but gave no further details. It quoted her saying she was already in training... read more »
WikiLeaks case: Hormone treatment approved for Chelsea Manning
Defence Department officials said on Thursday that hormone treatment for gender reassignment has been approved for Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst convicted of espionage for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website. The officials said the hormone therapy was approved... read more »
Probe into Neruda’s death to be reopened
Chile will reopen an investigation into the death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda to determine if the poet was poisoned more than 40 years ago by a military dictatorship, after tests on his... read more »
Yemen thrown into turmoil as its president resigns
SANAA: Yemeni leader Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has offered to resign following a standoff with a powerful Shiite militia in control of the capital, throwing his country deeper into political... read more »
China mulls 7,000 km bullet train to connect Beijing and Moscow
China is planning to build a 7,000 km-long high-speed railway line, costing $250 billion, between Moscow and Beijing through Central Asia to provide a fast transport link between the... read more »
Long road ahead for India on Global Entry
With the clock counting down the final days before U.S. President Barack Obama takes off on Air Force One for New Delhi to join India’s Republic Day celebrations as Chief Guest, officials... read more »
Obama visit will tap into “unfulfilled” bilateral potential
Days ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama arriving in India senior administration officials here characterised the bilateral relationship as having reached a “seminal moment,” even as they... read more »
