SAN JUAN: Mitt Romney scored a resounding win in Sunday’s primary race in Puerto Rico to pick a Republican nominee to take on President Barack Obama in November’s election. With the final tally in late Sunday, the former Massachusetts governor had more than 83.4 per cent of the vote, according to the State Elections Commission, [...]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s ruling Maoists were accused of corruption on Sunday after it was revealed they had granted the son of their leader $2,50,000 to climb Mount Everest. Opposition activists burned effigies of Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai and warned they would stage “massive” protests across the impoverished nation if the government did not withdraw the cash [...]
Seoul: South Korea accused North Korea on Monday of trying to develop a nuclear-armed missile through a satellite launch next month, after Pyongyang dismissed international calls to abandon the exercise. “Our government defines North Korea’s so-called working satellite launch plan as a grave provocation to develop a long-distance delivery means for nuclear weapons by using [...]
Hong Kong: Ordinary Hong Kongers will have no say in who becomes their next chief executive on March 25. Instead the ‘election’ will be decided by a carefully selected committee of 1,200 pro-Beijing business and professional elites. That detail aside, the main candidates have turned on a political spectacle that analysts say the former British [...]
VATICAN CITY: From the war on drug cartels in Mexico to reviving faith in Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI will address a series of burning issues in his first trip to Spanish-speaking Latin America beginning this week. On his 23rd visit abroad, the pontiff will tackle the declining number of Catholics in the region, the rise [...]
Kolkata: The continuing suspense drama over the Dinesh Trivedi episode has not been the best advertisement for West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress. But what could be more ominous for the Mamata Banerjee-led party is the way the railway minister is almost pushing the leadership to the wall. Initially, the Barrackpore MP, who has fallen out [...]
The fragrance of naturally perfumed jasmine (Mallepulu) and the aroma of raw green mangoes in City markets mark the onset of Ugadi (New Year) festival. Ugadi is celebrated with much zeal and festive fervour in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. It is called Ugadi in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka while in Maharashtra it is known [...]
Pradipta Tapadar Kolkata: Osama Bin Laden has been resurrected in Kolkata! One of the most controversial characters of world history is now being portrayed on the popular stage theatre of Bengal. The play, christened Osama, revolves round the main protagonist Charles the crook, who considers himself an artist and believes that a man can do [...]
South Indian dining just can’t be complete without the dining on a banana leaf experience. Manny of us love to experience the authentic South Indian dining and Yadaiah helps us do just that. For the past 20 years he has been supplying banana leaf plates to hotels and restaurants in and around the City. So [...]
Rajat Ghai New Delhi: A few years back, a boat trip down the Chambal river in north India would have yielded a surreal sight — groups of gharials basking in the sun on the sandy stretches, their long, slender snouts wide open. Unfortunately, such a sight is rare in the Chambal today. Not only are [...]
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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