Airline strikes leaves tens of thousands of passengers stranded SYDNEY: Tens of thousands of passengers were stranded around the world on Sunday after Australian airline Qantas made a shock decision to ground its fleet indefinitely in a bid to end a bitter industrial dispute. Stunned flyers who had been booked on Qantas queued up at [...]
New Delhi: Dal makhani, butter chicken, aloo gobhi, pakoras… The Ferrari team from Italy is living the soul of India at the Hilton Eros in the capital, which has laid out an exquisite and elaborate spread for the guests. The team of experts at Hilton is working behind the scenes to ensure a smooth run [...]
Greater Noida: It is fascinating to watch the men in a Formula One Grand Prix pulling off a pit stop in less than four seconds. They say it is just practice that makes them change tyres at a mind-boggling speed. No wonder, pit stops are a spectacular part of motorsports and an efficient crew can [...]
Lucknow: With a UN report saying that the world’s seven billionth baby is expected to be born in the country’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh Oct 31, NGOs have zeroed in on seven expectant mothers in a village near here and made arrangements for a grand reception. Even though United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) has [...]
UNITED NATIONS: The world’s seven billionth person will be born on Monday into what UN leader Ban Ki-moon calls a “world of contradiction” — and facing an uphill battle if it is on the wrong side of the poverty line. While many countries around the world will be choosing their own symbolic baby, holding rallies [...]
Welcome to the land of mystery, sand dunes, pristine beaches, the hot summer sun, gently swaying palm trees and gold shops. Dubai is all this and much more. From its skyscraping towers to its bustling malls, the city can feel like a westernised, futuristic introduction to the Middle East Not 10 years ago, mentioning I [...]
Heat, cold surfaces and other elements like snow or toxic garbage dumps contribute to unhealthy paws in dogs. Here are some of the precautions to take, to make your doggies be paw-happy Paws are one of the most sensitive parts of an animal’s body, and are also the most vulnerable. Unfortunately, for many owners, they [...]
It’s time to turn your urban space into a shrub – hub – giving your plants a head start before winter, says Pattie Barron Evergreens are the solution for the town garden that is always on view, so it’s hard to understand why people don’t plant one of the most glamorous, Japanese native Pittosporum tobira, [...]
If you are reading this on the bus, you might be seeing red. The chances are you’ve either elbowed your way into the only available space or you’re stuck on a crowded platform deliberating over whether to scream at whoever beat you to it. Beat that rage with some innovative activities. Mike Fisher, author of [...]
The Baroque’s breathed and bled this belief. For them, attention to detail and elaboration was so sacred that they gained the patronage of the Roman Church itself To put it simply, Baroque was a style that became prevalent in art and architecture during the 17th and 18th centuries across Europe, England and the Americas characterised [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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