DUBAI: A nearly three-month long hunger strike has turned activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, awaiting a final court ruling on Monday along with 14 other jailed activists, into a symbol of Bahrain’s uprising that began last year. One of their lawyers told AFP on Sunday that he expects the case, now in Bahrain’s highest appeals court, the [...]
PARIS: French presidential frontrunner Francois Hollande headed into the last round of his battle with Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday, with both candidates threatened by the shadow of scandal. Socialist challenger Hollande is the favourite to win next week’s vote, but his campaign was shaken over the weekend by a new episode in the saga of [...]
Leila Macor LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles community leaders issued a call for unity Sunday on the 20th anniversary of the city’s deadly riots, one of the worst spasms of violence in modern US history. But a small number of African American protestors used the anniversary to lash police at the epicenter of 1992 riots in [...]
New Delhi: The country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India today said its cumulative exports have crossed one million units with the milestone car headed for Denmark. The company said the one millionth vehicle, a red colored A-star, left the Mundra coast line along with 2,200 other vehicles for various international destinations. This includes Switzerland, Malta, [...]
Martin Parry Sydney: One of Australia’s richest men, Clive Palmer, on Monday unveiled plans to build a 21st century version of the doomed Titanic in China, with its first voyage from England to New York set for 2016. Palmer, a self-made mining billionaire, said he had commissioned state-owned Chinese company CSC Jinling Shipyard to construct [...]
The Nehru Zoological Park now owns the largest number of jaguars in the country. With the addition of two more jaguars, the total number has jumped to nine. Today we learn more about this powerful animal Protection status Fast facts The name jaguar is derived from the Native American word yaguar, which means “he who [...]
Lucknow: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today arrived on a three-day visit of his Parliamentary constituency Amethi, the first after his party’s dismal show in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The Congress General Secretary will meet party workers and review the party’s performance during his visit. “During the visit to the constituency, Rahul will be meeting [...]
New Delhi: Giving a new turn to the Presidential race, BJP today ruled out supporting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Hamid Ansari or any other candidate who may be put up by the Congress but is open to supporting anyone chosen by the non-Congress parties. “We will not accept any Congress candidate, including Pranab Mukherjee, for the [...]
Researchers found that males given the antibiotic tetracycline suffer from significantly reduced sperm health Antibiotic tetracycline may affect sperm vitality, says a new study. Researchers found that male pseudoscorpions given the antibiotic tetracycline suffer from significantly reduced sperm health and even pass down this harmful effect to their progeny. “This is the first research to [...]
Shirish B Pradhan Kathmandu: A powerful bomb stuck to a motorbike went off in a crowded market in southern Nepal today, killing at least four people, including a woman, and wounding 31 others and prompting authorities to seal the Indo-Nepal border. The blast at Ramananda Chowk of Janakpur Municipality in Dhanusha district close to the Indian [...]
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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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
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 [...]
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