MEXICO CITY: Carlos Fuentes, who died on Tuesday aged 83, was one of the Spanish-speaking world’s best known writers, famous for his prolific output and his use of experimental language. President Felipe Calderon announced the writer’s death in a message on his Twitter account. The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature confirmed he had [...]
The second innings of UPA has been nothing short of tumultuous, marred by massive scams in every sector from rural job schemes to military purchases. When allies themselves are eyeing the jugular of the Centre, relief comes from an unexpected quarters — a divided BJP that is struggling to keep its house in order. The [...]
Janitor graduates from the Ivy League school after 12 years Gac Filipaj, 52, a refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, eked out a living as a janitor at Columbia University while studying at the Ivy Leagues school for 12 years. Filipaj took a break from mopping floors, cleaning toilets and taking out the trash at student union [...]
Movie: Think like a man Director: Tim Story Cast: Chris Brown, Gabrielle Union and Kevin Hart Who gets the upperhand? Based on Steve Harvey’s best-selling book, Think Like a Man follows four interconnected and diverse men whose love lives are shaken up after the ladies they are pursuing buy Harvey’s book and start taking his [...]
British town of Sandwich marks 250 years since the invention of its culinary namesake A British town has marked 250 years since the sandwich was invented by its fourth Earl, John Montagu. According to the Independent newspaper, the first written record of the sandwich dates back to 1762, and the story goes that Montagu asked [...]
As the third instalment of the Men in Black franchise gets set to storm cinemas across the world, all the focus will be on whether Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones can recreate the hilarious back-and-forth that made them such fun. And if they’re looking for inspiration then they should watch these five hilarious buddy [...]
Hyderabad: Sakshi media house, owned by Kadapa MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, today filed an application with the Editors’ Guild and the Press Council of India against CBI’s action of freezing its bank accounts and the state government’s decision to ban issuing advertisements to Sakshi Telugu daily and news channel. In separate representations to the Guild and [...]
French engravings of female genitalia ‘oldest in the world’ Anthropologists believe they have determined that a block of limestone found in southwestern France engraved with depictions of animals and female genitalia is the earliest wall art known to man. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the etchings [...]
Alexander Besant Marijuana may ease the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study says. Smoking pot can relieve muscle tightness, contractions, pain and other disabling symptoms related to the advance multiple sclerosis in patients. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine studied 30 patients with those who were given marijuana [...]
New Delhi: Notwithstanding efforts by the government to conserve tigers, as many as 32 big cats have died in the country in the last four months, even as the latest official data showed an increasing trend in the national animals population estimates. Expressing concern over the endangered status of the tiger all over the world, [...]
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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