Martin Place will light up for the very first time during this year’s Vivid Sydney, with seven spectacular light installations transforming the bustling thoroughfare into a gallery of light. Deputy Premier and Minister for Tourism and Major Events Andrew Stoner said Martin Place is one of five new Vivid Sydney precincts in 2014, together with […]
Title: The Marwaris – From Jagat Seth to the Birlas; Author: Thomas A. Timberg; Series Editor: Gurcharan Das; Publisher: Allen Lane; Pages: 184; Price: Rs.499 What makes Marwaris so successful as a business community that a quarter of the Indian names in the Forbes billionaires list are from the community? Is it their sense of […]
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is welcome in the United States. The Obama administration extended the most explicit invitation to India’s prime minister-to-be on Friday, indicating that the visa flap that had dogged ties with him is a thing of the past. White House officials said President Obama himself will reach out to him with […]
New Delhi, May 16 The BJP was Friday set for a comfortable majority in the Lok Sabha, its candidates taking early leads in 265 of the 498 seats in two hours of vote count across the country. The Congress, India’s oldest political party which had ruled India for a decade since 2004 at the head […]
Mumbai, May 12 The famous Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat will be seen in the dress designed by Indian designer Manish Tripathi’s appearance at the forthcoming Cannes International Film festival. On the micro-blogging site Twitter, the actress shared the sketch of the outfit. “My outfit sketch for Cannes 2014 by uber talented Indian designer Manish Tripathi,” […]
New Delhi, May 12 The Election Commision of India on Monday was issued a notice by The Supreme Court on a plea seeking direction for combined counting of votes from a constituency as a whole and not ward-wise. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice N.V. Ramana said: “It may not be possible for […]
Isha Sahni Mumbai, May 10 Recently reports came that the Piggy Chops of the bollywood industry, Priyanka Chopra will soon have a film directed on her life. Aseem Merchant who was allegedly her boyfriend in the former beauty queen’s modeling days is said to plan directing this movie. Reportedly, the film will not only chronicle […]
New York, May 10 An Indian-origin scientist Vivek Reddy, recently developed the first leadless pacemaker in the world. The invention has shown promising results after one year of human trials on 32 patients who received the pacemaker. “This is the first time we have seen one-year follow-up data for this innovative, wireless cardiac pacing technology. […]
The book entitled Mahatma Gandhi & My Grandfather, Allama Mashriqi: A Groundbreaking Narrative of India’s Partition by Nasim Yousaf, a grandson of Allama Mashriqi, will be exhibited at BookExpo America, one of the largest book fairs in the world. The fair runs from May 28-31, 2014 at the Javits Center in New York City. BookExpo […]
Education: .550 more teachers next year .Total education budget of $4.58billion .Includes extra spending of $188million next year (a 4.3% increase on 2013-14) .Plus $10million to support the transition to the student-centred funding model .An extra $812million over four years for forecast growth .Average spend per student $15,824 (an increase of $150 or 1% per […]