Volunteer sperm donor has fathered 82 children till date According to his own meticulous record-keeping, Ed Houden has an 80 per cent success rate in impregnating women. That’s not the only procreation-related qualification he gladly publicizes. His website advertising his “private sperm donor services” also lists that he is HIV-negative and does not have chlamydia. [...]
A large-scale, sunset-colored painting by Mark Rothko fetched $86.9 million at auction on Tuesday, setting a new record for any contemporary work of art, and headlining a stunningly lucrative night for Christie’s in New York. Orange, red, yellow was as hot on the Christie’s block as the colours on the bold abstract canvas. A thicket [...]
Bangalore: Greenpeace India activists on Tuesday urged global computer maker Apple to use renewable energy to power its data centres worldwide instead of fossil fuels like coal for protecting the fragile ecology. As part of the worldwide protest against the multinational for burning tonnes of coal to run its data centres, local activists of the [...]
Lalit K Jha Washington: India’s population aged 50 and over is expected to double by 2050 when nearly one-third of its total population would fall in this age group, according to a US census. As per 2010 census, 19,18,53,000 people in India were of 50 years and above, which made about 16.4 per cent of [...]
Mumbai/New Delhi: Four international flights of Air India were cancelled from here and Delhi as the agitation by a section of pilots entered the second day today, even as the management was mulling the option to move court against the agitation. “Four flights have been cancelled today, two each from Delhi and Mumbai,” Air India [...]
Vishal Gulati Kullu (Himachal Pradesh): The presence of the highly endangered, elusive western tragopan can now be felt more clearly in the Great Himalayan National Park in Himachal Pradesh, with its numbers multiplying. Park authorities say the population of this brilliantly coloured pheasant species in the park has gone up and so has its sighting. [...]
New Delhi: Air travel cost from Delhi would go up from Tuesday next when higher user development fee (UDF) becomes effective for all domestic and international passengers while departing or arriving at the IGI Airport. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) had on April 25 decided to raise airport charges, including UDF, by a whopping 346 per cent [...]
Jakarta: A Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 on a demonstration flight with at least 44 people aboard went missing in a mountainous area south of the Indonesian capital Jakarta today, officials said. “The plane disappeared from the radar around the Bogor area. We are still looking for it and we are uncertain whether it crashed,” said Gagah [...]
Sujit Chakraborty Agartala/ Silchar: River erosion has made the job of Border Security Force (BSF) guards increasingly difficult and dangerous along the India-Bangladesh border, says a senior BSF official. “The erosion of river banks along the border has led to the collapse of the barbed wire fence, and damaged roads and border lines in many [...]
Washington: Soft drink major Pepsico’s India born CEO Indra Nooyi is one of the 18 women who have shattered the glass ceiling to lead America’s 500 largest corporations, according to Fortune magazine’s latest ranking. Nooyi, who leads the 41st biggest company in America, is listed fourth among top women executives by the leading US business [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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The final kick-off for passion
Tonight the football season will finally come to a close with the Champions League final being played at Wembley stadium. It’s been a tumultuous season for all the wrong reasons. The four big leagues were wrapped up early: Manchester United in the EPL, Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga, Juventus in Serie A and Barcelona in [...]
Earlier this week, I received an email about the Gayatri Mantra being proven to be the most divine and powerful hymn in the world. An American scientist called Dr Howard Steingeril is said to have collected hymns, prayers, mantras and invocations from all over the world and from all religions. He tested these for sound [...]
Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
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