MUMBAI: The BSE Sensex rose by nearly 232 points in opening trade today, spurred by a firming trend in Asian markets following reports that the International Monetary Fund is working on a rescue plan for debt-stricken Italy amid the broader euro zone crisis. The 30-share benchmark index, which lost 163.06 points in the previous session, [...]
Chemical that repels invading ants is added by the arachnids while making cobwebs Golden orb web spiders know how to protect their web silk from invading ants — they just add a chemical to repel the latter. The properties of the chemical could pave the way to new pesticides. Spider silk is known to be [...]
Scottish rocker Mark Ronson is taking his own sweet time to make the theme song of London Olympics because he doesn’t want British people to be embarrassed by his efforts. The producer has collaborated with Katy B to produce a track which will become the theme to the 2012 London games, reports a website. “It’s [...]
Sao Paulo (Brazil): Red Bull’s Mark Webber won his first race of the Formula One season in the Brazilian Grand Prix here on Sunday, while Force India ended the year on a high with Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta finishing sixth and eighth at the Interlagos Circuit. Already declared World Champion Sebastian Vettel was [...]
Singer Robin Williams claims drunk fans often mistake him for U2 front-man Bono. The 60-year-old actor was recently approached by a man in Paris who thought he was the 51-year-old U2 singer, reports a website. “I had a guy come up to me in Paris saying, ‘Are you Bono?’ Then he said, ‘Oh no, you’re [...]
Ravi Teja’s upcoming film Nippu is going to be shot in Saudi Arabia for ten days starting December 10. This is perhaps the first Telugu film in recent years which will be shot in Saudi Arabia, although in the last few years, Dubai and Oman have emerged as popular locales in the Middle-East for Telugu [...]
New Delhi: Vikas Krishan carried his good form from the AIBA World Championships to the Olympic boxing test event in London by entering the final of the 69 kg category. Vikas defeated Azerbaijan boxer Ismet Eynullayev 9:6 in the semifinal at the London’s Excel Centre. Dinesh Kumar (81kg) had to settle for a bronze after [...]
Adolescent boys are likely to turn to delinquency if they do not have a father figure in their lives. However, the presence or absence of fathers does not seem to affect adolescent girls, says a new study. It found the presence of a father figure during adolescence was most likely to have a preventive effect [...]
Gone are the days when residents of colonies and apartments got together to celebrate festivals or organise events that the whole community could partake in. While almost every residential colony and apartment block has a welfare association, few of them are active.However, things are different at SMR Vinay Acropolis Apartments in Kondapur. This residential block [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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