The ethnic Indian minority community in Malaysia played a major role in the victory of the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN), according to political analysts. Barisan would not have won in several areas if the ethnic Indians had not voted for the coalition comprising candidates from the Malaysian Indian Congress, which is the country’s largest [...]
Troubled star Lindsay Lohan has revealed she would love to adopt her first child. The 26-year-old, who recently checked into the Betty Ford Center in California for 90 days of court-ordered treatment, said she would love to start a family, reported Contactmusic.
Pop star Mariah Carey reportedly wants to quit American Idol because of her feud with Nicki Minaj. “One night Nicki tried to be kind of nice, but Mariah didn’t bite, so I guess she figured ‘screw that’. She’s done with it all. She’s also under fire from the producers for not being critical enough of [...]
Melbourne: A 36-year-old Indian doctor, who won an appeal in an Australian tribunal against his deportation, may face fresh trouble as immigration authorities have said they could challenge the verdict. Suhail Durani had been held at an immigration detention centre in Perth since his release from Casuarina prison in February, where he served more than [...]
Asserting that China has signed agreements for arms exports worth USD 11 billion from 2007 to 2011, the Pentagon has said that Pakistan remains Beijing’s primary customer for conventional weapons. “From 2007 to 2011, China signed approximately USD 11 billion in agreements for conventional weapons,” the Pentagon told the Congress in its annual report on China. It [...]
Actress Zoe Saldana has revealed she suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) as a teenager and it was with the help of ballet that she learnt to deal with the condition. The 34-year-old Star Trek: Into Darkness star lost her father, Aridio in a car crash when she was only nine. Following his death she [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama has lost a golf match while playing with two Republican senators Saxby Chambliss and Bob Corker, a White House official said. Obama, paired with his fellow Democrat Mark Udall yesterday, got defeated by the duo Republican lawmakers. “This afternoon, the President, who has the highest handicap of the foursome, paired [...]
Doctors are warning of a new sexually-transmitted superbug which they fear could ultimately prove to be even deadlier than AIDS. The antibiotic-resistant strain of gonorrhoea, HO41 — now considered a superbug with other bacteria such as MRSA and CRE — was discovered in Japan two years ago in a 31-year-old female sex worker who had [...]
New Delhi: The controversial Communal Violence Bill, which aims to protect minorities from targeted attack, is unlikely to be passed during the UPA-II rule with the law ministry raising objections to its draft and the home ministry mulling further consultations with state governments.
For decades, not a single woman in the dusty Pakistani village of Mateela surrounded by orange trees has voted. And they aren’t likely to in next week’s parliamentary election either. The village’s men have spoken. “It’s the will of my husband,” said one woman, Fatma Shamshed. Mateela is one of 564 out of the 64,000 [...]
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Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
This must be the greatest moment of crisis that Barack Obama has faced till now in his entire time at the White House. There’s the tax agency scandal, 100 emails regarding the Benghazi attacks have been released and also the scandal of the justice department hacking the phones of reports of the nation’s biggest news [...]
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