Penny MacRae India’s economic star is fading fast as a spluttering economy and reform paralysis put the country’s prized investment-grade rating at risk and spook foreign investors. The latest bad news came on Wednesday when Standard & Poor’s cut India’s credit outlook to negative, saying the nation’s investment grade rating faced a one-in-three chance of [...]
Paris: President Nicolas Sarkozy rejected Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s claims that he was the cause of the sex scandal that thwarted the ex-IMF chief’s bid for the French presidency. “Enough is enough! I would tell Mr Strauss-Kahn to explain himself to the law and spare the French his remarks,” he said while on the election campaign trail [...]
DAMASCUS: Deadly clashes broke out between deserters and Syrian government forces on Saturday as a veteran Norwegian peacekeeper headed to Damascus to take charge of a UN mission overseeing a troubled truce. Regime troops killed at least 10 rebel fighters in the Damascus region, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Separately, the official SANA [...]
G Aparna Sai feedback@postnoon.com It was a perfect example of the saying “Better late than never”; Deccan Charges finally won a game in the fifth edition of the IPL when they defeated Pune Warriors on Thursday. Though it took time for the victory to come, it did happen and this would certainly silence their critics [...]
New Delhi: Concerned over poor telephone connectivity in remote Naxal-affected areas, the government is planning to install 2,200 mobile towers in nine Maoist-hit states by the end of this year. Following a request by the Home Ministry, the Department of Telecommunication has roped in the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited to carry out the ambitious project [...]
Spain and the UK are in recession, and the world is once more in peril. This time, the problem’s Europe and it’s political. Barry Neild feedback@postnoon.com LONDON: Like a bad movie franchise that refuses to die, Europe’s debt crisis lumbered back into view this week, rehashing weary plot lines of debt and recession while introducing [...]
The State Board of Intermediate Education, handling the Intermediate examinations was mobbed by parents and students with many grievances and clarifications. In light of the recent initiative by the government to extend the deadline and schedule of second year examinations, many students and parents who were present at the Vidyabhavan, were distressed by the Board’s [...]
G Aparna Sai feedback@postnoon.com The Daredevils from Delhi are having a dream run this IPL . DD is the only team to have won six out of eight matches and are currently on the top in the points table. Touted as the underdogs at the beginning of the tournament because of their dismal performance in the [...]
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“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 [...]
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 [...]
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