According to local media, the state has enough cash to pay salaries and pensions until late June. Greece’s European peers have threatened to cut off further loans if promised reforms stall John Hadoulis ATHENS: Greek political party leaders emerged late on Sunday from emergency cabinet talks with no breakthrough in sight, raising the prospect of [...]
The US Navy may be responsible for more marine mammal deaths than previously thought. SFGate reported, in a draft environmental impact statement covering Navy training and testing planned for 2014 to 2018, the Navy estimated its use of explosives and sonar could unintentionally cause more than 1,600 instances of hearing loss or other injury to [...]
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina, the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage, created a fresh stir this week by making sex-change operations and end-of-life decisions by relatives a legal right. The measures, a first in the region, were made possible thanks to a weak conservative opposition and a favorable public opinion in the city. One [...]
New Delhi: Air India is at war, with itself. There are two systems working side by side in the flag carrier and the current pilots’ agitation, if anything, exposes that. In 2007, the government had merged Air India and Indian Airlines. Five years down the road, it has come not to be. Insiders today say [...]
New Delhi/Bangalore: The BJP was on Sunday struggling to save its government in Karnataka, as former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa slammed his successor and party leaders while praising Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, who succeeded Yeddyurappa in August, met BJP president Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi on Sunday to seek an [...]
As students, irrespective of age or course, we all wait for one thing, summer vacations. For us, it is all fun, enjoyment and amusement, but have you ever wondered what our teachers do during the vacations? We spoke to a few of them and here’s what they told us Bhavneet Singh and Sneha Mashetty feedback@postnoon.com [...]
Srinagar: He fought during World War II in Burma, became the 13th chief of army staff, was Punjab’s governor during militancy and also India’s ambassador in Indonesia. And on Saturday, 90-year-old Gen (retd) Om Prakash Malhotra returned to the place he was born and brought up. “It was my desire to come to Kashmir and [...]
Alexander Besant Liposuction may cause deeper, more dangerous fat in the abdomen, a new study says. Brazilian researchers said that just a few months after the fat-sucking procedure, there could be an increase in visceral fat in the midsection. So-called visceral fat increases the risk of type-2 diabetes and heart disease and is thus considered [...]
Anurag Dey Singur (West Bengal): Hope and anticipation have given way to despair and anger in this rural belt where protests against land takeover for industry catapulted Mamata Banerjee to power in West Bengal one year ago. Singur was abuzz with expectations when Banerjee, after becoming chief minister, had a law enacted to give back [...]
Dr Diana Monteiro My 12 year old son has been becoming very aggressive. I’ve been receiving complaints about him getting into fights with other kids. I am worried that he may be turning into a bully. I’ve tried explaining to him, coaxing, cajoling and even scolding him. But nothing seems to work. Bullying is defined [...]
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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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