London: Catbot! Swiss scientists have developed a four-legged cheetah-cub robot that runs like a cat and could be used for search and rescue missions.
Thanks to its legs, whose design faithfully reproduces feline morphology, the robot has the same advantages as its model: It is small, light and fast.
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03:06 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Gurdaspur: In a shocking incident, a step-father allegedly married his minor daughter after forcibly taking her in Jammu on the pretext of getting her 'Aadhar' card. The incident came to light when the girl's mother, lodged a complaint against her husband, Pardeep Malik, following which police conducted raid at his house in Shahzada colony in Gurdaspur and rescued the girl, police said on Saturday. However, the accused managed to escape...
02:12 AM, May 12, 2013
New Delhi: Decks have been cleared for clubbing of allowances with basic pay for PF deductions under the EPFO scheme, a move that will increase savings but reduce take-home pay of over five crore subscribers. A review committee, constituted to look into the nitty-gritty of clubbing of allowances with basic pay for PF deductions, has supported the idea for enhancing the social security benefit under the EPF scheme run by...
01:08 PM, Apr 20, 2013
New Delhi: Over 50 million subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO will be able to apply online for transfer and withdrawal of their provident fund from July 1, a move aimed at speedy settlement of claims. "We have decided to set up a central clearance house which will be operational on July 1. This will enable subscribers to apply online for settlement of the withdrawal and transfer of funds...
05:38 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Retirement fund body EPFO on Monday decided to pay 8.5 per cent interest rate to its over five crore subscribers on their PF deposits for 2012-13, higher than 8.25 per cent provided in the previous fiscal. The decision was taken at the meeting of the Central Board of Trustees (CBT), the highest decision making body of the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). The meeting was chaired by Labour Minister. ...
06:38 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Over five crore subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO are likely to get 8.5 per cent return on their investment during 2012-13, higher than 8.25 per cent paid in the previous fiscal. "... 8.5 per cent rate of interest for the year 2012-13 is feasible", said a note prepared by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation for the consideration by its advisory body Finance and Investment Committee (FIC). ...
06:56 PM, Feb 15, 2013
New Delhi: A fresh decision by the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is slated to slash the take-home salary of those in service. The EPFO has decided that Provident Fund of an employee will now not be deducted on just the basic salary, but will now be calculated on the gross income. However, the good part of the move is that there will also be an increase in the share...
08:19 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Over 50 million provident fund subscribers can now access their account statements online as EPFO on Friday launched its e-Passbook service. Active subscribers whose electronic challan-cum-return is already uploaded, can download their e-Passbook every month under the service launched by the EPFO's Central Provident Fund Commissioner RC Mishra on Friday. The facility shall be available on www.epfindia.gov.in. Holders of inoperative accounts (accounts where there is no contribution in...
05:42 PM, Nov 30, 2012
New Delhi: Interest rate on employees' provident fund will be increased to 8.6 per cent for the current fiscal, a move which will benefit around five crore subscribers. "The rates were brought down due to lower income (on investment in Special Deposit Schemes)...There is no question of minimum or maximum interest rates. We distribute it as per our revenue. Next time, it will be 8.6 per cent," Labour Minister Mallikarjun...
08:01 PM, Apr 26, 2012
New Delhi: Government on Thursday slashed interest rate on deposits in Employees Provident Fund from 9.5 per cent to 8.25 per cent for 2011-12 affecting over 4.7 crore subscribers. This cut was proposed by the Finance Ministry and a notification was issued by the Labour Ministry, official sources said. The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) had provided 9.5 per cent interest rate to its subscribers for 2010-11 after it found...
10:48 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Jodhpur: A three-year-old boy is struggling for life at a government hospital in Rajasthan after his alcoholic stepfather put burning cigarettes on his face, beat him up and clawed him in a drunken condition, police said Friday. Sanyam Jain, a resident of Vishala village near Sanchore in Jalore district, was Thursday admitted to the intensive care unit of Ummed Hospital in Jodhpur, some 400 km from state capital Jaipur. He...
03:40 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Kolkata: The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Wednesday said account details would be available online from July 1. "You can watch the account balance of your PF online from July 1," Assistant PF Commissioner Kanchan Roy said at an interactive session at Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "This indeed would be a great help to about 5 crore PF subscribers in India," he said. EPFO plans to...
06:57 PM, Jun 08, 2011
New Delhi: The finance ministry on Thursday approved higher interest rate of 9.5 per cent to over 4.7 crore depositors with the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) for 2010-11. The EPFO had been paying 8.5 per cent interest on PF deposits since 2005-06. In September 2010, it had recommended an increase in interest rate to 9.5 per cent for 2010-11 after discovering Rs 1,731 crore surplus in their books of...
05:38 PM, Mar 17, 2011
New Delhi: Retirement fund manager EPFO on Thursday decided to suspend further investments in the LIC Housing Finance till CBI completes investigations into the alleged involvement of its top official in the bribes-for-loans scam. "As of now we have suspended further investments in the LIC Housing Finance. Safety of fund is our prime concern. We are doing so because CBI is investigating the case", Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said. Kharge,...
03:53 PM, Dec 09, 2010
New Delhi: In what may be a windfall for crores of employees in public and private sector, the Provident Fund Trustees on Wednesday decided to give a higher interest rate of 9.5 per cent for 2010-11 on their retirement savings. The steep one percentage point increase has taken the interest on PF deposits of 4.71 crore organised sector workers to a five-year high from the current level of 8.5 per...
06:06 PM, Sep 15, 2010
The Stepfather is a predictable old-fashioned thriller. ...
08:43 PM, Jan 01, 2010
Retail chain Subhiksha's top management has already quit. ...
08:22 PM, Feb 11, 2009
Sachin Tendulkar said that India's cricketing structure is not responsible for the team's poor show overseas recently. ...
04:01 PM, Jun 07, 2008
Hobart: England allrounder Luke Wright has broken the record for the highest individual score in Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket, scoring 117 off just 60 balls for Melbourne Stars against Hobart Hurricanes in the ongoing Big Bash League at the Bellerive Oval. Wright's hurricane innings beat the previous record of 111 set by Tasmania's Michael Dighton against New South Wales in Sydney in 2007, in what was then known as the...
02:10 AM, Apr 09, 2008
Perth: Former spinner Ashley Mallett is hardly impressed with the way Nathan Lyon has bowled in the first two Tests but suggested that Australia must keep him in the side for the Perth Test. Lyon has managed to take just two wickets in the four Indian innings so far. Mallett stressed that it was important to have Lyon in the side as he would have a crucial role in friendly...
12:18 AM, Apr 09, 2008
