Ghaziabad: Hundreds of jewellers today disrupted rail services here, protesting the proposed increase in import duty on gold and imposition of excise duty on unbranded jewellery. About 500 traders and jewellers raising slogans against Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee blocked the track at the railway station here, disrupting movement of over a dozen trains for about [...]
A new study found that augmenting existing antibiotics with chemical compounds can increase the antibiotic’s effectiveness six times and defeat strains that have become resistant to treatment Alexander Besant Researchers believe they may have found a way of defeating antibiotic resistant “superbugs” with aptly named “superdrugs.” The study at University College Dublin found that fortifying [...]
The hike in electricity tariff could not have come at a worse time for domestic consumers. With summer at its peak and soaring temperatures, the consumption of electricity too is going to increase, and for denizens, that spells a considerable increase in expenditure. Postnoon spoke to four families and found out how much electricity they [...]
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today hinted at a hike in diesel and cooking gas (LPG) prices after the budget session of Parliament, saying political consensus for this will be built after the session. “… After the Budget session of Parliament is over, I shall discuss with various state governments, Chief Ministers, leaders of political [...]
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Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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 [...]
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