The monsoon seems to be playing peek-a-boo with the city but that does not prevent nature from rejoicing. As dark clouds loom threateningly over the city skies, all one can hear is the shrill cry of the peacocks and if one is lucky, you can also catch them displaying their fans. Learn more about these [...]
Pauline Potter, the world’s heaviest living woman last year, is on a mission. She — who weighed 643 pounds that won her the Guinness honour — has decided that she must cut weight and get it to 532 pounds. And she has already succeeded in shedding 98 pounds. Her secret? Marathon sex sessions. In an [...]
BAGHDAD: Syria’s ambassador to Iraq Nawaf Fares has defected to the opposition and urged the army to turn its guns on the regime, becoming the most senior diplomat to abandon President Bashar al-Assad. He called on fellow Baath party members to reject the regime which he accused of using the party as “a tool [...]
NEW YORK: US investment billionaire Leon Black is the mystery buyer who paid a record-breaking $119.9 million for Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” at an auction in May, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The painting, one of the most recognisable in history and the only privately-held version of Munch’s famous scene, was sold at Sotheby’s [...]
Google has recently launched an ambitious campaign titled Legalise Love, one that is aimed to pressure countries where it has offices to give gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders more rights and recognition. While Legalise Love gathers steam, we look at the beginnings of the gay right movements and its progress Pioneers of Gay Rights Frank Kameny [...]
As Islamist rebels rampaged through Timbuktu’s historic 15th-century mosques and shrines, the world remembered with terror the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. This month Unesco added sites from across the world to its Heritage list. We focus on some that are being destroyed by neglect and man’s disregard for history. Everglades National Park, USA [...]
Geneva: Russia, China and Cuba voted against the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution Friday which unilaterally condemned the Syrian government. However, India, Philippines and Uganda abstained from voting, reported Xinhua. While a total of 41 member states voted in favour of the UN resolution, India, Philippines and Uganda abstained. The resolution, tabled by [...]
BERLIN: Librarians in southern Germany have found a lost copy of one of the first maps to use the name “America.” They believe it is a smaller version of the famous 1507 map drawn by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, sometimes refered to as “America’s birth certificate.” The A4-sized copy resurfaced in Munich University Library, where [...]
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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