The new Delhi government’s proposal to reserve 90 percent seats in Delhi University (DU) colleges for locals has undoubtedly cheered city students, but has not found favour with others from across India, including students from the northeast who flock to Delhi for quality education. “The proposed reservation does not keep up with the spirit of […]
Frowning at Sahara Group’s real estate and finance companies for taking advantage of its “politeness and generosity”, the Supreme Court Thursday told them to provide all information sought by SEBI about their claim to have returned 90 percent of Rs.24,000 crore collected from investors. “We have been most polite. We have been most generous. But […]
The government is planning a higher dose of diesel prices to cut the fuel subsidy bill, Petroleum Secretary Vivek Rae said here Thursday. “We are circulating the Kirit Parikh report for inter-ministerial consultation. The suggestions for higher dose of diesel price would be part of it,” Rae told reporters on the sidelines of a business […]
A senior Maoist leader and his wife, who surrendered to police in Andhra Pradesh, were disillusioned with Maoist ideology and fed up with the “mindless violence”, police said Thursday. Gumudavelli Venkatakrishna Prasad alias Gudsa Usendi, official spokesperson of the Communist Party of India-Maoist Dandakaranya special zonal committee (DKSZC), and his wife Santoshi Markam, also a […]
If having pleasure can help you stay healthy then what could be better than this! Scientists from the University of Quebec in Canada have found that sexual activities can be significantly effective in burning calories when compared to moderate intensity exercises. To prove their point, they picked 21 couples aged between 18 and 35 and […]
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Thursday criticised BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for continuously speaking about his own state, and asked him to adopt a broad, national outlook. Thackeray also hit out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying nobody was aware who were its leaders in Maharashtra. The MNS founder-president sought […]
by Indian diplomat Abhay K, whose “Earth Anthem” could be taken around the globe by Unesco, set off a discussion at a recent meeting at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) secretariat here about an anthem for the eight-nation grouping. The heads of different divisions of SAARC, as well as the foreign ministers […]
India has its ears to the ground on the developments in Afghanistan ahead of the 2014 drawdown of international forces and is “more than prepared” to face any challenges, said Spain’s Ambassador Gustavo Manuel de Aristegui y San Roman here. In a talk at the India Habitat Centre here Wednesday evening, Aristegui said in Afghanistan […]
Even a heart attack can discriminate between the poor and the wealthy. In a first-ever study linking socio-economic status to frailty after a heart attack, researchers have established that poor people are more than twice as likely as the wealthy to become frail after a heart attack. “By defining frailty, which combines many areas of […]
DNA tests will be conducted on four unidentified bodies of the nine passengers who died in Wednesday’s Dehradun Express fire in Thane, near the Maharashtra-Gujarat border, an official said here Thursday. “Their bodies have been burnt beyond recognition and hence it has been decided to conduct DNA tests,” a Western Railway spokesperson told IANS. The […]