Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the body will be handed over to Pakistan. Chandigarh: Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay, who went into a coma after being badly beaten up by a fellow inmate in a Jammu jail last week, died this morning at PGIMER hospital here. “The patient was brought in a brain dead condition and died [...]
The shock finding means that scores of patients with unrelenting lower back pain will no longer face major operations. London: Up to 40 per cent of cases of chronic back pain could be cured with a course of antibiotics. The discovery has been hailed as worthy of a Nobel prize by the medical fraternity. Surgeons [...]
NEW YORK: The prison sentence of disgraced former Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling will be cut by as much as 10 years under a deal announced Wednesday by federal criminal prosecutors. Currently in prison on a 24 year sentence for for securities fraud, false statements and other charges, Skilling will see his jail term reduced [...]
Paris: France has identified its first case of coronavirus infection, a virus akin to SARS, the health ministry announced Wednesday. “This is the first and the only case confirmed in France to date”, with an infection by a new virus from the coronavirus family, the ministry said. It said the infected person had stayed in [...]
Melbourne: Researchers claim that the polyphenols in dark chocolate increase calmness and the sense of contentment. Polyphenols are found naturally in plants and are a basic component of the human diet. These compounds have been shown to reduce oxidative stress which is associated with many diseases. Other benefits Reduces heart attack risk Lowers blood pressure [...]
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 [...]
World War II veterans in the Russian city of Kologriv have shown a laudable disregard for celebrations in their honour. They have asked the administration to scrap a fireworks display to mark Victory Day so as not to scare migrating waterfowl. Since 2005, Kologriv, a city of 3,400 in Russia’s central Kostroma region, has celebrated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A US Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual attacks has been arrested for assaulting a woman, police said on Monday A US Air Force officer in charge of preventing sexual attacks has been arrested for assaulting a woman, police said Monday, in the latest setback for a force struggling to stem a pervasive [...]
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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