Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf Tuesday filed an appeal against the special court constituted to try him for treason. The petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court against Justice Riaz Ahmad Khan’s decision rejected all three pleas of Musharraf against the special court formed to try him for treason, Geo News reported. Musharraf is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Across the world, 70 journalists were killed in 2013 while on the job, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. The figure was marginally down from 74 in 2012. The committee is investigating the deaths of 25 more journalists in 2013 to establish whether these were work-related. According to the report, Syria, Iraq, Egypt were the […]
New Delhi, Dec 29 Built by the British in 1933, Connaught Place, the Indian capital’s crecent-shaped central business district that had fallen on bad days, has now been restored to its pristine glory, complete with a fresh coat of white paint, brighter signposts, a landscaped central fountain lawn and better access roads. The long-delayed renovation […]
At a juncture when party ideologues are starting to write the first draft of election manifestoes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech to the Combined Commanders of the three services last month provided much food for thought. Certain significant points made by him deserve special attention; not just of the political parties or the intelligentsia but […]
New Delhi, Dec 28 It was at 10.45 a.m. Saturday that Arvind Kejriwal stepped out of his Kaushambi residence in suburban Ghaziabad for his date with destiny. He was headed towards the metro station to take the oath of office for the chief minister of Delhi at Ramlila Maidan that was packed to capacity with […]
New Delhi, Dec 28 AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, who took over as Delhi chief minister Saturday, would prove his government’s majority in the assembly Jan 2, an official statement said. In the Kejriwal government’s first cabinet meeting, it was decided that the first session of the new legislative assembly will be convened from Jan 1. […]
Bhubaneswar Wellknown sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sculpture of NelsonMandela on the Puri beach in Odisha to pay tribute to the anti-apartheid icon who died on December 5th , at the age of 95. A large number of tourists and residents gathered on the beach to lay flowers near the five foot high sculpture Pattnaik created in […]
A Three-Day Celebratory Event to Commemorate 100 Years of Indian Cinema! December 10, 2013, Mumbai: Hundreds of Bollywood movie lovers and film enthusiasts will be transported to the biggest movie extravaganza this month as British Airways opens its doors to the ‘Silent Picturehouse’ in India. Taking place at the exclusive Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai, from […]