Anup Sharma Guwahati: Almost 70 midgets, ranging from one-and-a-half feet to three feet in height, across Assam will soon have a place to live in with dignity and comfort, with a theatre actor setting up a village with houses adapted to their stature. Pabitra Rabha, a National School of Drama (NSD) graduate and a theatre [...]
Rezaul H Laskar Islamabad: Pakistan today waited with baited breath for the Supreme Court’s ruling on a contempt case against embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that could see him jailed or thrown out of office, as he vowed to appear in person tomorrow to face the verdict. “I will appear before the Supreme Court tomorrow,” [...]
Dr Sunil Kapoor Managing complications of myocardial infarction The most common complications from myocardial infarctions are damage to the heart muscle and abnormal heart rhythms. The longer it takes to open a blocked artery with medications or coronary angioplasty, the more likely it is for these complications to occur. However, even after the blocked artery [...]
New Delhi: Leading private sector lender ICICI Bank’s stake in the troubled air carrier Kingfisher Airlines has come down sharply to 2.9 per cent, from more than five per cent at the end of 2011. As per the latest shareholding pattern filed by Kingfisher with the stock exchanges today, ICICI Bank held about 1.67 crore shares, accounting for [...]
New Delhi: The Congress’ first family has come under criticism by Moody’s Analytics for failing to restart the legislative process for reforms, accusing it of blowing their chance in the recent state elections including UP. “The real power behind the government, the Gandhi family, blew their chance to restart the legislative process at the recent state elections [...]
Bhubaneswar: In a major relief to the Odisha government, Maoists holding BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka for over a month today announced that a ‘praja’ (people’s) court has decided that he would be released tomorrow after giving an undertaking that he would resign from the state Assembly. “Hikaka will put in his papers after his release and has [...]
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government is scouting land in Marathwada region to set up three Solar energy plants as part of its efforts to augment electricity generation in the state. Sources in the state energy department told PTI that the three plants of 50mw each would be set up in Osmanabad and Parbhani. “We need atleast [...]
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry today hit back at Vodafone’s claim that it was not told of the tax liability on the Hutchison deal, saying that the British telecom giant was provided a copy of the notice. “We have provided copies of the letter (about tax liability) to the concerned parties,” Hutchison Essar, which was later [...]
Painfully swollen legs can often bog you down. But with a little extra care it can be managed Who doesn’t like to flaunt endless long legs? That are toned and smooth of course. But imagine a situation where you were forced to hide those pins just because you had unsightly lumpy blue protrusions. Or if [...]
Ours is a curious mind and we are constantly looking for new technology, so much so that most of what we grew up with, will never be seen or used by our future generations. The reason being, the current technology will be extinct then. So, read on to know what all your kids will miss [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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 [...]
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