A n Indian-American classical dancer is set to perform at a concert in California this weekend to raise funds for a high-poverty elementary school, a media report said. Sharanya Balaji, a 16-year-old senior from Harker school, said she wants to help the Grant Elementary School which lacks basic education facilities, mercurynews.com reported on Friday. “It […]
One of India’s oldest universities in the country is facing a malaise of modern times. With swanky cars and two-wheelers cramming into virtually all the open spaces for which the Panjab University (PU) campus is famous, the authorities have decided on a referendum in which the students will decide whether or not the the picturesque […]
After the NSCN (IM), one more banned terrorist group in northeastern India – the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) – may give up arms and sign a peace pact with the government, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said on Saturday. “Officials of union home ministry, central intelligence bodies and Tripura government have already held […]
Chandigarh’s founder architect Le Corbusier may have designed and established one of the country’s few planned cities, but certain buildings that he wanted have not materialised even five decades after his death. A group of young architects has now conceptualised an international creative competition to seek 21st century designs for Corbusier’s unfinished works. “Chandigarh Unbuilt” […]
We all love bold economic forecasts, especially contrarian ones. And every once in a while, they turn out to be correct. Economists who correctly called great market booms and busts, global recessions, identified green shoots before sharp cyclical recoveries and predicted black swan events correctly are given legendary status. Of course, to some extent, they […]
With onions bringing tears to the eyes of consumers as prices soar as high as Rs.70 per kg in the country, online grocery marts still seem to sell this essential commodity at a rate less than the market. So, how are these digital platforms unaffected by the market? For one of the largest players among […]
The Supreme Court’s decision to waive off the rest of the jail term of the powerful Ansal brothers, convicted for causing death in the Uphaar cinema fire by their negligence, hasn’t gone down too well in the judicial corridors and also evoked much disquiet among the average litigant about the court’s lenient attitude towards the […]
The ex-servicemen’s agitation here over delay in implementation of the ‘One Rank, One Pension’ scheme continued for the 67th day on Thursday with three veterans on fast unto death refusing to give up their protest. The indefinite hunger strike by Colonel Pushpender Singh (retd) and Major Singh, a retired Havildar, continued for the fourth day […]
With onion prices across the country on the upswing, the common man is feeling the pinch. Onion prices crossed the Rs 70 per kg mark at many places on Thursday with most people complaining that the government was not doing enough to contain the price rise. The Nashik-based National Horticultural Research and Development Foundation (NHRDF), […]
Delhi is among the most unsafe places for foreigners in India with 164 cases of heinous crimes registered here in 2014, the latest data released by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) has revealed. Of the 164 foreigners targeted, 135 were tourists. Goa follows close on the heels of the national capital with 73 cases, […]