After taking such a nasty drubbing in the Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa elections; the manipulation in Uttarakhand may have brought a shade of smile on the disconsolate faces of the Congress dynasty, thanks to the party’s spin doctors. Sonia Gandhi tried to demonstrate her courage when she said every election was a lesson and [...]
It’s been a year since YS Jagan Mohan Reddy formed a new political outfit and christened it after his late father YS Rajasekhara Reddy, though the acronym of the YSR Congress is expanded as Yuvata, Sramika, Rythu Congress. In his chequered journey, he has received more brickbats than bouquets. Jagan has the gift of the [...]
There have been too many red-letter days in the seven-year chequered history of Kingfisher airlines, whose name itself is embossed in red letters literally on the fuselage of the aircraft owned by the company. People jostled to rub shoulders with promoter Vijay Mallya when he was sighted at the venue of India Aviation 2010. Photo [...]
Why has the vociferous Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) suddenly been finding itself on the defensive? Why has it always balked at the idea of contesting all the Assembly seats in the region? Reacting to the resounding victory of the Yadavs in Uttar Pradesh, Telugu Desam supremo N Chandrababu Naidu once again reiterated, wittingly or unwittingly, [...]
HYDERABAD: A 10-year-old girl was burnt to death when raging fire engulfed a colony at Sai Nagar near LB Nagar in the City. According to information available, the fire broke from a thatched house around 3 pm. The huts caught fire and it spread fast. The fire tenders were pressed into service. However, 150 thatched [...]
“Where you live should not decide whether or not you have a right to live “. The innocent victims of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony are invisible, but their tragedy is visible. Kony 2012 is a war with a difference. It will be waged online. It will give heinous criminal a face. And you [...]
It’s the kind of ‘son’rise, which Uttar Pradesh will remember and cherish for long on the horizons of the Ganges, spreading the warmth of his rays. Elsewhere, on the skyline of the murky Yamuna too, a ‘son’set was witnessed at the same time. Rahul Gandhi might have sounded very matured and dignified, albeit with dampened [...]
Have you insured your life? Maybe yes. A lot of us must have, and with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) for its trust-worthy service. I am not getting into the issue of who should be our insurer. Now the question is, have we become insurers for the public sector ‘navratna’ behemoth Oil and Natural [...]
On a day when the stock markets were bleeding since opening and the benchmark BSE sensex fell by 260 points at 2.30 pm, and the NSE tumbled by 75 points; the stocks of Anil Ambani-promoted companies maintained their position in the green. Why? Anil is very close to the Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. [...]
Commercialisation of solar energy has long been elusive because of the exorbitant cost involved in translating the source into a resource. Though the Union Government, through the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, proposed to generate 20,000 megawatts through solar power and 2,000 MW of off-grid solar applications by 2022, there seems to be hardly any [...]
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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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