While the opposition leaders in Corporation and others think it a shame the Mayor not knowing the official language some among the residents are willing to condone it saying in a cosmopolitan city it’s all right if mayor Majid Hussain does not speak Telugu. They say the mayor should be judged by his working skills, [...]
It’s time to say au revoir to the enfants terrible of men’s fashion. For all those that have been repeated fashion sinners, six gods of haute couture give their verdicts on the six deadly sins of fashion that men commit Tim Gunn No pleated pants please! For Timm Gunn pleats on pants is akin to [...]
Argentine soccer legend Hernan Crespo became the hottest property of a new Indian soccer league starting next month when he fetched $840,000 in an auction of players and coaches in Kolkata city on Monday Kolkata: Crespo was snapped up by the Barasat franchise of Premier League Soccer (PLS), which is modelled on cricket’s highly successful [...]
Katrina Bowden has become engaged. The 30 Rock star revealed that her boyfriend Ben Jorgensen proposed on the eve of the Screen Actors Guild Awards while the two were staying at a Four Seasons Hotel. “I was so shocked,” Bowden said on the red carpet at the SAG Awards on Sunday evening. “And I said, [...]
In a State where a lot of emphasis is laid on students learning its official language, Telugu, while in school, it comes as a surprise to many that the newly elected mayor himself doesn’t know the language. Mohd Majid Hussain, the new mayor, requires a translator to understand the proceedings during the standing committee meetings, [...]
Sydney: Boys exposed to high levels of testosterone in the foetal stage are twice as likely to experience retarded language development. “An estimated 12 per cent of toddlers experience significant delays in their language development,” said Andrew Whitehouse, associate professor at Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. “While language development varies between individuals, boys [...]
ABU DHABI: Left-arm spinner Monty Panesar expressed his disappointment on Monday over England’s humiliating 72-run defeat against Pakistan in the second Test, saying he would swap his six wickets for his team’s win. England, playing their first Test series as world number one, went down to Pakistan’s spin duo of Abdul Rehman (6-25) and Saeed [...]
WASHINGTON: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy; email spam and ‘phishing’ attacks. The Web giants said on Monday they have teamed up with Bank of America, PayPal and others to combat spam and phishing, where emails seeking to obtain passwords or other information are [...]
Martin Freeman will lend his voice to the lead character in Saving Santa. Noel Clarke, Joan Collins, Tim Curry, Pam Ferris, Craig Fairbrass and Chris Barrie will also feature in the cast of the festive animation, reports Variety. This film marks the Adulthood and Shank producers’ first forays into animation. The movie will centre on [...]
Cancer incidences in India are growing among both men and women. The causes of cancers are largely unknown but a variety of methods to diagnose and treat cancer are also available. When it comes to women the two most common cancers in India include breast cancer in urban areas and cervical cancer in rural areas. Dr [...]
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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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