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 [...]
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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 [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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