Despite its lofty self view of impartiality, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been tainted with a string of controversies and scandals since its early years.
As an 11-year-old, New Zealander Matt Thomson sampled wine for the first time. He grew up and decided to take his love for wine to a different level by becoming a professional winemaker.
Some love never fades; ask Laila-Majnu, Antony-Cleopatra, Salim-Anarkali et al. In modern times we have love stories that look like a love-hate relationship but truly a poem in love. For instance, love between the Telangana ‘Tiger’ K Chandrasekhar Rao and the Congress party.
LOL and OMG are old-school. Words like ROFLOLLAMWWCOHTCS, Interninja and Onlinalitya are now making their way on to college campuses.
After Radha Mohan’s upcoming bilingual film Gauravam, Yami Gautam will soon be seen in yet another bilingual film being produced by Gautham Menon under Photon Kathaas banner.
Old City resembled a curfew zone this morning, with the renovation work on the temple on Charminar premises being completed under heavy police cover.
Most fireworks businesses have registered poor sales so far, but are optimistic about the last two days. will be fruitful.
Barack Hussein Obama II has won his second term as president of the USA, and the world, particularly the non-white one, is euphoric. A Black man has once again become the president of the most powerful country on Earth.
At a face-to-face programme held for students by Confederation of Voluntary Association (COVA) and Indian Child Action Network (ICAN) at Enginebowli, Jahanuma, had around 50 students from 25 schools saw children throw some tough questions at officers from various civic departments and the corporator.
If your idea of a holiday is by the beach, then this is for you — especially if you think Goa is a cliché. We list the best untouched beach destinations the county has to offer.
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Andhra Pradesh tops in revenge murders over illicit affairs according to the National Crime Records Bureau statistics. The motive for 445 murders, reported in the State last year, was revenge on cheating partners or their paramours. This amounts to 16 per cent of the murder cases registered here. While the motive for 317 murder cases [...]
Don’t blame the weather for your gloominess. Good rainfall last week and the forecast of further rains due to an active South-West monsoon prompts farmers to sow crops in 50,000 hectares more than last year in Andhra Pradesh. The acreage is expected to increase 25-30 per cent over the normal area of 81.12 lakh hectares, [...]
The man who took a ‘stand’ at Taksim Square
A man stood still in Istanbul’s Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. His peaceful action, on the square that police cleared of protesters on Saturday and where the Turkish authorities have banned gatherings, was a new form of protest. He arrived Monday evening as night was falling and took [...]
As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
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