NEW DELHI: Insurance regulator IRDA proposes to make it mandatory for insurers to provide cover to people suffering from HIV or are exposed to the threat. According to the exposure draft released by IRDA today, all life and non-life insurers will “have to put in place an underwriting policy on health insurance coverage for persons [...]
HYDERABAD: India’s credibility indeed took a drubbing with the 2G scam. This was palpable at the recently-concluded World Economic Forum at Davos. Responding to a query at a press conference of the third quarter results of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories here on Friday, Managing Director of the company K Satish Reddy said that this feeling was [...]
Kuldip Lal NEW DELHI: England spinner Graeme Swann and Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene head a star cast of cricketers who will be auctioned on Saturday to join the Indian Premier League. As many as 144 foreign and Indian players have thrown their hat in the ring in an auction restricted to players not already [...]
Samm Audu FRANCEVILLE: Ghana’s quest to end a 30-year wait for an Africa Cup of Nations title will face its biggest challenge yet on Sunday when they battle Tunisia for a place in the semi-finals of the 2012 tournament. The winners will tackle the victors of the other quarter-final between Zambia and Sudan in Bata, [...]
How can a book about teenagers succumbing to cancer be funny and joyous and full of life? Read John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars to find out There is nothing quite like the experience of a book that seduces you into reading just one more page, even after you have a hundred more than [...]
LOS ANGELES: US prosecutors said on Friday they had dropped their investigation into seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and other cyclists without bringing criminal charges. A statement by US attorney Andre Birotte jnr said Birotte’s office “is closing an investigation into allegations of federal criminal conduct by members and associates of a professional [...]
Kids they say, know no fear of death. Maybe that is why when they are faced with a dreaded disease like cancer they face it head on and smile all through. And this very spirit came to fore at the ‘Colours of courage’ event organised by Yashoda Hospital on the eve of World Cancer Day. The [...]
The audio launch of Nithin, Nithya Menen starrer Ishq was a glitzy affair, except for an unfortunate incident. Soon after Pawan Kalyan, who was the chief guest, left the venue, a bunch of Nithin’s fans approached him with a big garland and in the process a thief stole Nithin’s mobile phone. As soon as the [...]
Chris Lefkow WASHINGTON: Millions of American football fans will be watching the Super Bowl on television this Sunday with one hand in the potato chips and the other holding a smartphone. The ‘second screen’ experience will be fueled by Facebook and Twitter and a host of Super Bowl-related applications for mobile devices providing everything from [...]
WASHINGTON: US economic recovery was speeding up with the labor market improving, but the nation needed to take more steps to bolster the faltering recovery, President Barack Obama said Friday. Obama welcomed the latest job market report as good news about the economy, but he cautioned that there were still too many unemployed Americans, Xinhua [...]
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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 [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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