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Mumbai, Oct 29: In a bid to build data centre infrastructure in India, the $13 billion Adani Group on Tuesday announced a partnership with San Francisco-based Digital Realty to jointly develop and operate data centres and cultivate undersea cable provider communities of interest across the country. Digital Realty supports the data centre, colocation and interconnection strategies of more than 2

Srinagar, Oct 29: At least four persons were injured on Tuesday in clashes between protestors and security forces in Kashmir where a complete shutdown was observed in Srinagar and some other parts, officials said. The clashes broke out on a day when a delegation of 23 European Union MPs arrived here for a first-hand assessment of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir following revocation of the state

New Delhi, Oct 29: The free of cost travel scheme for women in Delhi public buses began on Tuesday with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia saying it will ensure their safety and increase their role in the national capital's economy. Women will be given pink tickets in Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and cluster buses to avail the free-ride scheme, which started on Bhai Dhooj. The Delhi

Tiruchirapalli, Oct 29: The two-year-old boy who was stuck in an abandoned borewell near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu since Friday, is dead, an official said on Tuesday. Commissioner of Revenue Administration J Radhakrishnan said the body of the child was "dismembered" and in a "highly decomposed" state. "Efforts are on to retrieve the mortal remains of the child," he told PTI in the early hours

New Delhi, Oct 28: Former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, who is currently in the custody of Enforcement Directorate in the INX Media case, was taken to AIIMS on Monday after he complained of stomach ache and other related issues. Sources said Chidambaram was taken to the RML Hospital in the morning but was later shifted to the All India Institute of Medical

Kochi, Oct 28: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a heavy rainfall warning for several places in Kerala and Mahe in view of the Super Cyclonic Storm Kyarr, which lay over east-central Arabian Sea early this morning. The IMD warned the fishermen and said, 'Sea condition is very likely to be phenomenal over the central Arabian Sea around the system centre. Fishermen are

Oct 28: The Shiv Sena on Monday borrowed an iconic dialogue from Hindi blockbuster movie 'Sholay' to target the Centre over the economic slowdown, seeking to know why there was so much "silence" in markets on the occasion of Diwali and wondered if worse days were ahead. "...Itna sannata kyun hai bhai?" (why is there so much silence) is the question resonating everywhere on "silence" over the

New Delhi, Oct 28: The air quality in Delhi and Noida deteriorated to the "very poor" level after Diwali celebration. The overall air quality index stood at 306 and 356 in Delhi and Noida. Extremely poor pollution levels were predicted in Delhi due to firecracker emissions, unfavourable weather and a significant spike in stubble burning in neighbouring states. In Gurugram, the air quality index

Tiruchirappall, Oct 28: Efforts to rescue a three-year-old boy trapped in a borewell near here for over 48 hours continued on Sunday with officials saying the child has fainted but was breathing. They said that a rig, which could drill up to 100 feet, has been pressed into service to make a hole parallel to the borewell about three meters away. After completion of the drilling a tunnel-like

Srinagar, Oct 27: The shutdown in Kashmir, following the abrogation of Article 370, has crippled the valley's economy as the business community has suffered losses amounting to over Rs 10,000 crore in three months, a trade body said here. The deadlock in Kashmir, after the Centre announced the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, completed 84 days on Sunday with the valley in shutdown as the