Police have decided to close all flyovers and some key roads around Hussain Sagar in Hyderabad from Tuesday night till the early hours of Wednesday to prevent any untoward incident during the New Year’s Eve celebrations. All flyovers in Hyderabad and Cyberabad police commissionerates will be shut while the roads around Hussain Sagar lake in […]
The truth behind the unique sex-determination system in honeybees – where males develop from unfertilised eggs and females develop from fertilised eggs – is out. Five amino acid separate males from females in honeybee colonies, say scientists who added that the molecular switch for haplodiploidy – genetic sex-determination – was gradual and adaptively evolved in […]
The Indian consulate in Melbourne is in touch with police and kin of an Indian student who was attacked and is in coma in a hospital. One suspect has been arrested. The Indian ministry of external affairs said Tuesday in New Delhi that its consulate is in touch with the hospital, the police and the […]
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party has said that opposition leader Khaleda Zia may change the country’s name in case she returns to power. The apprehension was expressed by the ruling Awami League (AL) party’s publicity secretary Hassan Mahmud while participating in a human-chain and protest programme Monday at the capital city’s Bangabandhu Avenue Monday, […]
Ghana will host the Glasgow 2014 Queen’s Baton Relay this week, minister of youth and sports Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah said here Monday. The Queen’s Baton Relay is the traditional curtain raiser to the Commonwealth Games and has been an inclusion in the Games program since the Cardiff 1958 Commonwealth Games in Wales. Briefing the media on […]
Jacques Kallis Monday paid handsome tributes to his late parents for all the support they gave to make him a cricketer and hoped he did them proud. Kallis, who retired from Test cricket as South Africa wrapped up the two-match series 1-0 against India, also said he was fortunate to have some great coaches. “I’ve […]
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is scheduled to travel to Europe next week for economic talks with top European officials, the Treasury Department announced Monday. Lew will travel to Europe between Jan 6 and 8 for discussions with officials on economic developments in Europe and policies to boost global growth and promote financial stability, Xinhua […]
As India set up a group of experts, including on international law, to examine how to pursue the case against the US in the arrest and strip-search of envoy Devyani Khobragade, a number of former Indian staff of US consulates in India have complained they have been underpaid. As a measure of reciprocity following the […]
Israel has freed a group of 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of a US-brokered agreement for resuming direct peace talks, BBC reported Tuesday. They released prisoners, making up the third tranche of a total of 104 prisoners set to be freed, were greeted by cheering crowds on their return to the West Bank and Gaza. […]
A total of 70 traffic police teams along with other police officers, deputed in Police Control Room (PCR) vehicles, will man Delhi’s roads for safe New Year’s eve celebrations. The police personnel will be deployed Dec 31 around 7 p.m. onward till the New Year has been ushered in and celebrations end. “Traffic police will […]