America still beckons with promises of high-paying jobs and opportunity, but Australia is growing rapidly as a destination of choice Freya Petersen BRISBANE, Australia: Despite three very good reasons not to leave his homeland, Kevin Dwyer swapped the economic — and literal — gloom of Ireland for the sunny climes of Australia. He said financial [...]
Durba Ghosh Mohuramukh (Assam): The Right to Education Act has brought cheers into the miserable lives of villagers living on the banks of the Brahmaputra in Assam’s Golaghat district who are under constant threat of flood and land erosion. Education and economic empowerment are the latest buzzwords in the villages, courtesy the landmark law, dotting [...]
Iva Roze Skoch It wasn’t quite the level of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, but there was definitely chemistry between the two giant pandas in the Edinburgh Zoo this week. For those of you following their lives on pandacam, I’m sure you’ll agree: Sunshine and Sweetie were meant for each other. Talk about [...]
As US animation titans such as DreamWorks set up business in China, a local studio is hoping the fortunes of a plucky goat will take the battle for box office supremacy straight to its big rivals. Imagi — a company that almost went bankrupt after the dismal failure of its take on the Japanese TV [...]
TONGCHANG-RI SPACE CENTRE: North Korea’s long-range rocket is on its launch platform, AFP reporters said on Sunday, as the regime again insisted it was to send a peaceful satellite and not a missile. The usually secretive North organised an unprecedented visit for foreign reporters to Tongchang-ri space centre in an effort to show its Unha-3 [...]
MILWAUKEE: The young orangutan reaches his hand through the cage and rubs his knuckles over an iPad, drawing wide colours across the screen with his favourite app. A few minutes later, Mahal presses his face up against the mesh, stretches out his long tongue and taps the screen to make it light up and play [...]
Ica: It could take two or three more days to rescue nine miners trapped since Thursday in a mine in southern Peru, a top official said on Sunday, as one of the miners begged “please, get us out of here.” Oscar Valdes, cabinet chief to Peru’s President Ollanta Humala, told journalists that an engineer working [...]
Croatian woman, Radmilla Kus, an avid knitter, hired a small army of knitters to knit these ‘willy warmers’. Winters in Croatia’s mountains are so severe that frostbite was a serious problem for men in the past, especially during long horse rides. So to avoid permanent damage to their genitals, the warmers, called “Nakurnjak” came into [...]
LILONGWE: Malawi’s Joyce Banda on Saturday told supporters there was no room for revenge as she was sworn in after the death of the divisive Bingu wa Mutharika. Banda offered the conciliatory words following two days of political intrigue in which Mutharika’s inner circle tried to block her assuming the post, which fell to her [...]
The Maquech Beetle is actually a live bejewelled insect. They are something of a fashion statement in Mexico. Gemstones and gold are glued on the beetle’s body in which sounds like a cruel process. The insects themselves are pretty harmless and docile, quite perfect to play the part of living jewellery. Each one has a [...]
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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