New York:Facebook Inc’s initial public offering will vastly increase the wealth of its 27-year-old co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, leaving him with over USD 1 billion in cash and stocks worth USD 17.6 billion.In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook said it will sell 337.41 million shares and the Initial public offering (IPO) price [...]
New Delhi: Almost a year after the Indian cricket team lifted the 1983 World Cup, Ireland allrounder Kevin O’Brien said it was Kapil Dev whom he had always looked up to as a budding cricketer.”India won the World Cup in 1983 and I was born in 1984,I have grown up admiring Kapil Dev. And then in 2005 it [...]
Julian Guyer LONDON: Chris Gayle could be on the brink of a return to international cricket after pulling out of a deal with English county side Somerset in a bid to revive his West Indies career. Former West Indies captain Gayle, renowned as a big-hitting batsman, has not played international cricket for more than a [...]
New Delhi:For the second straight year, the top two positions in the Civil Services Examination 2011 have been bagged by women–an AIIMS graduate and a social scientist.Shena Aggarwal, who holds a MBBS degree from the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences(AIIMS) here, bagged the top slot in the exams conducted by the Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) [...]
Anand (Guj): Nine persons were sentenced to life imprisonment today and 30 acquitted by a special court for the killing of three members of a Muslim family in Ode village who were burnt alive during the 2002 post-Godhra riots in Gujarat.The nine accused were convicted by Special court judge R M Sarin on charges of murder, [...]
Hyderabad: After intense consultations at various levels, the ruling Congress in Andhra Pradesh would finally announce its candidates for June 12 by-elections to 18 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency in a day or two.”The candidates will be announced in a day or two and we are confident of getting better results in the [...]
LONDON: Arsenal striker Robin van Persie (above, centre) insisted he had no concerns about his Gunners’ future as he collected the Football Writers’ Player of the Year award on Thursday. The Dutch striker insisted he would “always be a Gunner” after topping a journalists’ poll, having already received the corresponding award from his peers in [...]
Amid this economic calamity, Indians still represent fifteen percent of all international students in America, according to the Open Door’s 2009/2010 report from the Institute of International Education, a leading exchange program in the good ole’ USA. These young adults scrimp and sacrifice everything to leap to America, often reliant on their prosperity, and should [...]
Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar: With zebra crossings, road dividers and fences being painted, even during a downpour, Srinagar is being spruced up as top offices reopen here after six months of functioning in winter capital Jammu. But residents are asking if all this is really necessary in the face of more pressing needs. Under a two-century-old [...]
Proving arms of the law are long enough, the Gandhinagar police have, after over a year, nabbed a man who was accused of putting to torch a bike that belongs to his love-rival. P Mahinder alias Raju has been held on charge of burning the bike on March 22 last year, and since Raju managed [...]
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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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