Vatican City: A Vatican scandal involving leaked secret documents and the arrest of the pope’s butler has been exaggerated and misrepresented by the press, Pope Benedict said. “Totally frivolous conjecture has been amplified by means of communication that have gone far beyond the facts creating an image of the Holy See that doesn’t correspond to [...]
TOKYO: An 80-year-old man was being questioned in Japan on Wednesday on suspicion of strangling his wife and keeping her body in the freezer for up to 10 years, police and media reports said. Masaichi Yamada, who runs a fish-processing company, was arrested in the northern Japan port of Kushiro early Tuesday when the frozen [...]
Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi: Life is no longer a gift of love; it is being created with care to fit specifications furnished by parents in the age of surrogacy and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), says award-winning writer Kishwar Desai. Desai’s new social thriller Origins of Love (Simon & Schuster) probes the world of surrogacy and designer [...]
Gulshan Luthra New Delhi: India declined to sell nuclear technology to Iran, Iraq and Libya in the 1980s in spite of being offered “huge” sums of money, said a leading defence journal. According to a report in the current issue of India Strategic (www.indiastrategic.in), all the three countries offered “huge” sums in the early 1980s, [...]
New Delhi: The nationwide shutdown against the fuel price hike hit traffic in several parts of the city today (Thursday) with commuters facing a tough time getting to work with few autorickshaws and roads being blocked in some places. “Autos are not plying. After struggling for an hour, I managed to find one which demanded [...]
Lucknow: An ambitious Night wildlife Safari project — the first in India — might see the light of the day sooner than later at Greater Noida adjoining Delhi. The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday gave the given the green signal to consider the start of the bid invitation process regarding the development of a wildlife [...]
Mumbai: Top-notch Mumbai industrialist and director of Piramal Healthcare Ltd, Swati Piramal has been elected member of the Harvard Board of Overseer selected member, a company statement said on Wednesday. The Harvard Board of Overseers is more than 350 years old and was created in the 17th century. It oversees all the Schools of Harvard, [...]
NC Bipindra New Delhi: Perhaps the most controversial tenure of any Indian Army chief ends Thursday when Gen VK Singh hangs up his boots after over 41 years of service. Much of his 26 months at the helm of a 1.13 million strong army were spent in publicly battling the civilian establishment and his own [...]
Kochi: Smartphone maker Research In Motion (RIM) today announced setting up of Blackberry’s Innovation Zone — the first in the Asia Pacific region — here. RIM would set up two innovation zones in India this year, including the one at Kochi, RIM Vice President Developer Relations and Ecosystems Development Alec Saunders told reporters here. The location of the [...]
In India, tobacco snuffs a life every eight seconds. Snuff the habit as its better to be late than never. Dr Mohana Vamsy who is the chief surgical oncologist at Omega Hospitals says, “One of the most critical facts about lung cancer is that smoking is the major cause.” Dr Vamsy also says, “Lung cancer [...]
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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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 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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