When IAS officers expounded their woes to Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, the tone was almost stoking rebellion. Understandably, their grievance is that why is the thinktank of administration — the bureaucrats of Indian Administrative Service — is being singled out. It wasn’t unexpected at all when the civil servants sought an audience with [...]
Reading Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery is like a climbing a hill and then taking in the view from the top; one may find it a bit hard starting the book; an equivocal beginning taking the reader into the room of the protagonist and describing it and its contents in so much detail leaving him [...]
SCOTTSDALE: Spencer Levin fired an eight-under 63 for the clubhouse lead as the $6.1 million PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open was suspended because of darkness for the second consecutive day on Friday. Levin reached 14-under 128 through two rounds. His closest pursuer was fellow American Harrison Frazer, who was six-under for the day and 11-under for [...]
Puri Jagannadh is in no mood to relax post the success of Businessman. He has already announced that his upcoming film with Ravi Teja, Ileana titled Devudu Chesina Manushulu will begin later this month and it is slated to release in June. After this film, he’ll team up with NTR for the first time in eight [...]
Pirate Irwin DUBLIN: Ireland go into Sunday’s Six Nations match with Wales with revenge very much on their minds after losing to the Welsh twice last year including October’s World Cup quarter-final. While the Irish will want to banish memories of that limp performance against an admittedly sharper and better Welsh outfit, they are also [...]
Have you ever wondered how it is that the human brain is wired? We know for an absolute certainty, what is right and wrong, the acceptable from the unacceptable by the age of twelve. That is when they say our brains are completely grown. To cross over to the dark side is so alluring though. [...]
Open relationships aren’t for everyone. Most people actively desire a stability in their lives and not infidelity. But do all think alike? Let’s find out Talk about love and one can see zillions of varieties in relationship statuses nowadays. From being committed to complicated, live in, engaged, married and the much-loved open relationship. Earlier, things were [...]
Chennai: The DMK party would align with a secular party having the nation’s interest in mind in the next Lok Sabha elections, party president M Karunanidhi said on Friday. Speaking to reporters after chairing the party’s general council meeting, Karunanidhi said: “The Lok Sabha elections are far away. The party will align with only secular [...]
Naga Chaitanya’s upcoming film Gouravam is going to be launched on February 25. Varalakshmi, daughter of Sarath Kumar, is playing the lead role in the film. Radha Mohan is going to direct this film which will be simultaneously made in Telugu and Tamil. Nagarjuna is producing the film under the Annapurna Studios banner. The film [...]
Panaji: An income tax (IT) paper trail claiming controversial Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monserrate got Rs.26.5 crore in kickbacks from shady real estate deals could change the pitch of campaigning ahead of the March 3 polls though the man claims he has done no wrong. The investigation said that a former bureaucrat was a conduit for [...]
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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 [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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