Chennai : Telecom major Vodafone India has offered increased talk-time between nine and 22 per cent for its pre-paid customers across various top-up recharges, in Tamil Nadu.”Vodafone prepaid customers can now enjoy additional talk-time on top-up recharges. The increased talk-times are available on Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 30, Rs 50 and Rs 100 respectively”, [...]
Muzaffarpur : Two boys were today drownedin Nun river near Shahpur Maricha village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, police said.Abhishek Kumar (14) and Ravi Kishan (12) drowned when they were taking bath in the river.The bodies were fished out by divers.
Noida : suicide by jumping from a shopping mall here today, police said.Businessman Ravinder Handa jumped from 5th floor of the Centre Stage Mall at around 1 PM, police said.He was rushed to Max Hospital where he was declared brought dead, they said.The suicide note recovered from him said that he took the extreme step [...]
Jorhat (Assam) : A leopard today strayed into Saguri village here and attacked two school students while they were playing in a field.Maina Tai and Bimal Tai were attacked by the leopard strayed out of the nearby jungles when school students were playing in a field in the area.Both the injured were admitted to the [...]
You have experienced this. An uncharitable neighbour lets out stinking water into your plot or someone uses abusive language or your neighbour encroaches a few yards of your property. You go to the nearest police station and tell them. The poker-faced cop at the desk fobs you off saying, “All civil matters go to the [...]
Use and abuse of alcohol happen to be on the rise as is evident from the number of victims brought to City’s premier public hospital A reality check at the Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, the premier public hospital, reveals startling facts about abuse of alcohol. Alcohol related accidents are on the rise in the [...]
High level committee report on engineering colleges in AP finds that the colleges are far below par in infrastructure and quality education A lot has to be done for engineering education, A report on the engineering education in the State submitted to the high level committee formed by the AP government gives a grim portrait [...]
Encouraged by a record collection of Rs.634 crore property tax, the Corporation sets a new target for officials The lottery scheme exposed them, and now the property owners who had been paying Rs.100-150 per annum tax due to the corporation’s failure in making periodical reassessment are receiving calls from the GHMC officials. The GHMC in [...]
Kolkata: Faced with criticism over transfer of senior IPS officer Damayanti Sen, who had differed with Mamata Banerjee on the genuineness of the Park Street rape case, the West Bengal CM defended the decision saying it was a prerogative of the government. Banerjee, without referring to the transfer of Sen, the former JCP (Crime), said [...]
The multi-crore human organ trade continues unabated despite the law banning it. The involvement of some black sheep in the medical fraternity and in khakhi contributes to the crime Hyderabad has contrary to the general belief, a rampant human organ trade that remains hidden from public view. The secretive trade is mostly aided and abetted [...]
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Ajay Hotchandani As is the routine every morning, I wake up, toss and turn for about an hour trying to find the motivation to get out of bed. Somewhere between eating and showering, I check my email and have a glance at the news on Google. Later that day I had to go pick my [...]
According to a survey of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation officials, there are about 620 buildings and another 100 on the outskirts that need immediate demolition in the twin cities. The GHMC engineers’ wing has certified that these 700 old buildings including 200 in Secunderabad could fall any time. Do we need to lose a [...]
The forest department has taken to task many of Hyderabad’s fortune-tellers for the alleged torture and cruel treatment of parakeets under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. Raids were conducted by the State Forest Department officials and members of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau in Chirkur, Kukatpally and Ameerpet areas that led to the rescue of [...]
One step forward, two steps back
There are positive signals from the G8 summit regarding the plan of action that must be pursed in Syria. Russian leader Vladmir Putin, the man who is the main hurdle to the creation of some means formidable to bringing down Assad, has hinted that he may allow removing Assad provided there is a plan for [...]
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