A spat over yielding space in a traffic jam ended fatally for a middle-aged motorcyclist, who was beaten to death by five people even as his sons, who witnessed the entire incident, unsuccessfully tried to get police to intervene. One of the accused was arrested on Monday. Shahnawaz, a resident of Mata Sundari Road in […]
Lack of government policies on food and water safety is causing the death of 2.2 million people, including children, every year across the globe, health experts said on Sunday. They said the use of pesticides and fertilizers in the past 50 years has grown nearly 170 times. As a consequence, persistent residues of the chemicals […]
With two-thirds of India’s gold held in rural areas, efforts to curb its imports with schemes to monetise holdings or convert them into paper bonds won’t have much sheen till the mindset towards physical possession of the precious metal is changed, experts maintain. Their comments come against the backdrop of two schemes proposed by Finance […]
The Odisha government on Saturday claimed that the state has around 60 tigers and rubbished the tiger census figures prepared by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA). The All India Tiger Estimation Report, 2014 released in January this year reported a fall in Odisha’s big cat population to 28 from 32 in 2010 and 45 […]
Two children suffocated to death here after the television set in their room overheated and smoke from the melting plastic filled the room, police said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night in Khoda residential colony bordering Delhi, when the boys, Lucky (4) and Ishu (2), were watching television. Their mother is a vegetable […]
This year saw the 25th edition of what is now called the Amazon India Fashion Week (AIFW) in the national capital while Mumbai saw the 15th anniversary of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) – two of the country’s premier style events. But are these fashion week going the way of their foreign counterparts? “Right now, […]
India’s external debt at the end of December 2014 stood at $461.9 billion — a 3.5 percent or $15.5 billion rise from what it was in end of March 2014, government data showed on Tuesday. The country’s external debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio stood at 23.2 percent as of December-end, compared with 23.7 percent as […]
To ensure equitable access to health services to all Delhiites, a new initiative that promises to provide free cab rides to hospitals and medical centres of the patient’s choice was launched here on Saturday. Introduced by OXXY, claiming to be India’s largest healthcare network and radio cab company, Uber, the service includes free rides to […]
Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki on Tuesday asked people to follow the principle of “all religions are one” for which India was known, and exhorted the youth to follow the ideals of Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi. He said Vivekananda, through his speech in Chicago, gave a message to the world that all religions were one. […]
Mumbai, March 23 Â Participants from the fields of art, craft, science and technology in India will showcase new and emerging concepts at the ‘Innovation Festival’ in Mumbai, a statement from NCSM said on Monday. The three-day long event begins on March 27 at the Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai, a National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) […]