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Fancy a  doctorate on chocolate? Apply by 29 August to University of Cambridge. An industrial, fully-funded 3.5 year PhD studentship is available to study the fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate , based in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, co-supervised by Prof. Malcolm Bolton (Geotechnical Engineering), Prof. Eugene Terentjev (Soft Matter Physics) and Dr Ian…

The Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian Parliament, unanimously passed the Constitution (99th Amendment) Bill to do away with collegium system of appointing Supreme Court and high court judges. The bill, and the National Judicial Appointments Commission Bill, 2014, seek to put the proposed judicial appointment commission and its entire composition in the statute. The…

The Liberal Democrats ave pledged to raise the income tax personal allowance to at least £12,500, in manifesto plans announced on Thursday. The party has also signalled it would seek to increase the amount people can earn before paying national insurance, according to a Guardian report. Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said the…

Up to a quarter of a million European migrants will pay tax in Britain for the first time, under plans being prepared by George Osborne, a Telegraph report has revealed. All expats with rental income will also face the tax fury. Temporary workers from the European Union will be stripped of the right to use…

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately withdraw the instructions by union home ministry to vest control of Hyderabad’s law and order in the governor.In a letter to the prime minister, he said he was greatly disturbed over a communication received from the ministry prescribing intrusive norms.“These norms…

Manchester City Council has agreed a motion to introduce education packs in primary and secondary schools across the city aimed at raising awareness of domestic abuse. The council meeting also supported the on-going effort to address abuse working with statutory and voluntary sectors on preventative work, interventions and multi-agency assessments for high risk cases. The…

Birmingham Airport is celebrating the first anniversary of Air India relaunching its services at a mega event on August 1. Mr Pankaj Srivastava, Commercial Director, of Air India will attend the special event to mark the occasion. Air India is also celebrating its 65th year of India-UK operations. Within six months of its launch, India’s…

Manchester City Council leader, Sir Richard Leese, issued a statement on Gaza during the Final Council Meeting calling for an end to the shocking violence in the Strip and its horrific civilian death toll. North West MEP, Afzal Khan with Manchester City Council leader, Sir Richard Leese The statement comes in response to a meeting…

Newly elected North West Labour MEP, Afzal Khan, has been elected as the Vice Chair of the Security and Defence Committee (SEDE) in the European Parliament. Afzal Khan with GP, GW and key Labour MEPs Other Labour MEPs also assumed key positions. Claude Moraes is the new chair of the civil liberties committee, and Linda…

What if your old smartphone could hide in a forest, listen to poachers and illegal loggers and report incidents directly to the authorities? This is the solution a California-based group Rainforest Connection has found to save our vulnerable forests. Old android smartphones are fixed in a waterproof casing, with a solar charger and mounted high…

The Indian government should reduce tax on aviation turbine fuel, lower airport charges and allow new airlines to operate on overseas routes to fly more people at an affordable price, a top foreign airline executive said Thursday. “We want the Indian government to do three things – reduce tax on ATF (aviation turbine fuel), lower…

Business confidence is up after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government took office, according to the Business Outlook Survey by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). “Indicating a sharp improvement in investors’ sentiments amidst heightened expectations that the new government means business along with some improvement in basic macro indicators, the CII Business Confidence…

India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves rose by $1.38 billion to $314.92 billion for the week ended June 20, led by a sharp jump in overseas currency assets, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed. The reserves had increased by $950.9 million to $313.53 billion for the week ended June 13. According to the RBI’s…

Global search engine Google is offering unlimited storage, advanced audit reporting and new security controls for businesses through its new Drive service at $10 per month, the company said Thursday. “As businesses want more control, security and visibility to check how files are shared, our new version of ‘Drive for Work’ offers unlimited storage for…

The Indian government has given in principle approval to an MoU to allow China to set up industrial parks the country. The move comes ahead of the five-day visit of Vice-President Hamid Ansari to China from Thursday. China, which has established five industrial parks in ASEAN countries like Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam, is keen to…

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) plans to invest Rs.180,000 crore ($30 billion) across its businesses including oil and gas, retail and telecom, chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani said Wednesday. Addressing shareholders at the 40th Annual General Meeting, Ambani said the company has outlined its expansion strategy across the businesses and aims to become a Fortune…

he wait for a cup of coffee for astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) – 435 km above in the sky – will soon be over. Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is all set to take an “ISSpresso” machine to the ISS this November, courtesy the Italian Space Agency (ISA). “ISSpresso”, made by global coffee…

For the second time in three years, Infosys chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy will Saturday bid adieu to the iconic company he co-founded with four other techies in 1981. On Saturday, he will step down from the top executive post a year after he returned to revive its sagging fortunes. Though Murthy retired from the $8.3-billion…

Manchester council will work with some of the city’s registered housing providers to use unused, spare land – or infill sites – for high quality new housing. The City Council’s Draft Residential Growth Prospectus*, which was released last year, set out an ambitious target for home building in response to a projected surge in population…

Britain-based Truefitt & Hill, one the oldest barber shops in the world, opened its first door in India here with a promise to introduce a new level of indulgence for the metrosexual man. The store’s history began in 1805 during the reign of King George III. Its first store in India has opened at Khar,…

Mumbai will enter a world class era of commuting with the long anticipated inauguration of the Mumbai Metro Sunday, a top official said here Saturday. RInfra’s Mumbai Metro One Pvt. Ltd CEO Abhay Mishra made the announcement at a media conference here Saturday morning. This is India’s first metro railway project implemented on a public-private…

From a persona non grata to a new fashion icon – that’s how a stunning election victory has transformed Narendra Modi in the eyes of the American media as Washington prepares to welcome India’s new prime minister, possibly in September. As if on cue, three major US publications – Time, New York Times and the…

Good news for all those foodies in Manchester. Come Autumn, the city’s dining out scene will usher in ARIL Group’s Asha Indian restaurant. According to sources, Bollywood singing star Asha Bhosle, the inspiration behind the restaurant, will attend the launch party. Asha Bhosle The menu will include contemporary pan-Indian cooking alongside a modern cocktail menu…

Anjana Parikh Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali (song offerings), has a special connection with England. To celebrate the centenary of Tagore receiving the coveted Nobel Prize for his work, Gitanjali, the iconic piece of work which opened dialogue between East and West, Moksha will present ‘Tagore Utsav’at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester…

Saudi Arabia’s health ministry has recruited 1,800 Indian nurses to work in various government hospitals, a media report said. The new nurses would assume their duties within a month after completing their recruitment procedures, the Saudi Gazette quoted Ilham Sindi, director of the ministry’s nursing department, as telling the Makkah daily Wednesday. The nurses would…

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading up 200 points or 0.80 percent up in early morning trade session Friday, a day after it closed above 25,000 point mark for the first time. The early morning rally was led by oil and gas, capital goods, automobile, bank and consumer durables sectors. However, heavy…

Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang received Kuwaiti Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and the delegation accompanying him. Upon arriving at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sheikh Jaber and his host shook hands with a number of Chinese ministers and high-ranking officials. After reviewing an honor guard and listening to both…

By Quaid Najmi  Gopinath Munde, a farmer’s son who became the nation’s rural development minister, was adept at building bridges with other parties in the state and became the foremost BJP leader in Maharashtra after the sudden death of his brother-in-law, party strongman Pramod Mahajan in May 2006. This was until his erstwhile junior ministerial…

India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves declined by $2.26 billion to $312.65 billion for the week ended May 23, led by a sharp fall in overseas currency assets, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed. The reserves have fallen for the first time in the last five weeks. The reserves had risen by $1.09 billion to…

The new low-cost airline AirAsia (India), starting operations June 12 connecting Bangalore and Goa, is expected to fly to 10 cities by the fiscal-end and break even at the end of the fourth month, said a company official. “The bookings for Bangalore-Goa flight and vice versa will open Friday night. The first flight will be…

Infosys president and board member B.G. Srinivas has resigned, the IT bellwether said on Wednesday. “The resignation of Srinivas will be effective June 10,” the global software major said in a terse statement here. Srinivas was one of the front-runners for the post of the chief executive of the troubled company after incumbent S.D. Shibulal…