'General Zia was real startled'

'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.''Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.' IMAGE: Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri and her husband Hardeep Singh Puri, currently India's minister of......

Trump wanted me to be Secretary of State: Nikki Haley

Popular Indian-American Republican politician Nikki Haley has revealed that Donald Trump, soon after winning the November 2016 US presidential election, wanted to talk to her about being his......

US President Biden announces COVID vaccine sharing plan

United States President Joe Biden on Thursday announced his plans to allocate 75 per cent -- nearly 19 million of the first tranche of 25 million doses -- of unused COVID-19 vaccines through the......

Nations supporting terrorists should be held guilty: PM at BRICS

The five-nation grouping BRICS on Tuesday adopted a new counter-terrorism strategy to effectively deal with the menace, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that there is a need to ensure that......

Global trademark registration hits 1-mn mark

The international trademark registration touched the one-million mark this month, more than a century after the first trademark was registered by a Swiss chocolate maker. The World Intellectual......

Govt to encourage SMEs to go in for patents

The government, in collaboration with the UN-body World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), has commissioned a study to ascertain whether India's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are......

Patents: Japan beats US to be No.1

Japan granted the maximum number of patents in 2007 and has replaced the United States from number one position, a status it was enjoying for nearly a decade, a UN agency report says. "The USPTO......

Modi urges global tech CEOs to be part of India growth story

Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged CEOs of US majors to take advantage of India's growth story as the country is making all efforts to become the third largest economy of the world in his third......