Four tons of pot found floating in the Pacific More than four tons of marijuana were recovered by US authorities from the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, on Sunday. CNN reported that the value of the pot that was fished out amounted to $3.6 million. The Border Patrol, the US Coast Guard and [...]
With elections today, the deeply entrenched Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will not easily be knocked from its perch Erin Cunningham CAIRO: Egyptians are headed to the polls in a historic election to choose their first-ever civilian president. But with a constitution yet to be written and a parliament still struggling to breathe under [...]
President Joyce Banda plans to make Malawi one of two African countries where homosexuality is not a crime Malawi’s new president Joyce Banda is really shaking things up. She announced that she will work to overturn Malawi’s law which bans homosexual acts, reported the BBC. Banda said she wants to repeal “bad laws” when speaking [...]
Brij Khandelwal Agra: River lifeguard Satish Chandra is like Mitch Buchannon, the popular character from American TV show Baywatch who saved people from drowning in the sea. However, Chandra has received hardly any recognition even after saving 50 lives in 33 years. “Every time I jump into the river to save a drowning person I [...]
Washington: Calling developing the US-India relationship as a priority for the United States, defence secretary Leon Panetta will travel to India in the first week of June, the Pentagon announced. “Developing the US-India relationship is a priority for the US government, and our bilateral relationship is one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century [...]
New Delhi: Air India today filed a contempt petition against striking pilots in the Delhi High Court on grounds that the agitators have failed to comply with its previous order restraining them from undertaking the stir. Filing the petition through counsel Lalit Bhasin, AI management said despite the court’s restraint order, several opportunities were given [...]
Panaji: Scientists of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) have found an Indo-Arabic stone anchor off the Kutch coast in Gujarat that offers significant clues to the Indo-Arabic and Indo-Persian trade of the first and second century BC. It was found at a depth of more than 50 metres. The find has been published in [...]
New Delhi: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-II government completed three years in office Tuesday amid charges of policy paralysis and key initiatives remaining mired in fractious coalition politics. There have been some positives. In the last three years, there have been no big terror incidents, relations with Pakistan have looked ahead and foodgrain production has [...]
Nearly a quarter of all American teenagers have diabetes or prediabetes, a new study has found. The study authors were trying to figure out why American teens have been more susceptible to heart disease in recent years, the Washington Post reported. Heart disease is the number one killer of US adults, and people with diabetes [...]
Heavy snoring can make a person’s chance of getting cancer five times more likely Jennifer Mattson A new study shows sleep apnea can raise the risk for heart attacks, stroke and diabetes and makes a person five times more likely to die from cancer, according to CBS News. The Daily Telegraph reported snoring and other [...]
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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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