Minister for Transport Gladys Berejiklian today announced the NSW Government had reached a major milestone, with the Opal electronic ticketing card now available at 120 train stations. “From today, customers can use Opal at another 26 train stations, including Western Sydney stations to Richmond and Emu Plains,” Ms Berejiklian said. “This marks a significant milestone […]
Shimla, Feb 26 A two-day film festival will be held in Himachal Pradesh’s capital, Shimla, in April, event organisers said here Tuesday. The Shimla Film Festival 2014 will be held April 12-13. It will have two sections – one for Himachal filmmakers and the other for national and international filmmakers, festival director RavinderMakhaik told reporters. […]
A woman in China claims to be the great-great-great-etc granddaughter of the Monkey King. She even has a lock of the divine ape’s hair as proof. Scientists are running tests on it. I read this article on an official Mainland China news website with great interest. Who knew it was even possible to be a […]
As Valentine’s Day approaches Friday, here’s a look at the flip side – about shared possessions that have become casualty of a relationship that has ended. That’s what the Museum of Broken Relationships here is all about. It tells a universal human story about love and heartbreak. This award-winning museum was conceived by artist Dražen […]
J. Jayalalithaa may have edged ahead of her rivals in Tamil Nadu by her unusual move to try to set free seven people convicted in Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination after the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of three of them into life imprisonment. But in the process, she appears to have botched her chances of […]
Reality has been cancelled. We are now all living in a movie. It’s true. Consider this. Workers digging a hole last week found 1,000 buried skeletons. Old documents revealed they’d disturbed the graveyard of an ancient lunatic asylum or a centre of government, which is the same thing. Workers downed tools, feeling ghostly presences. Anyone […]
Sometimes when it comes to doing a good deed, the best thing celebrities can offer is not just money, but themselves. Charities automatically cultivate relationships with stars for their ability to increase the public’s awareness of their charitable endeavours and thus help in stimulating more donations. It has been seen that many celebrities take time […]
Fear is rising. Many people in the West are terrified that activist cells from Asia could cause chaos in urban areas using small, portable weapons of mass destruction. Yes, I am talking about durians. Recent events suggest the fears are justified. Consider this true story. A homesick Asian student living in Britain went to a […]
India is helping in the empowerment of African women through a unique initiative being undertaken in coordination with the internationally-renowned National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. As part of the India-Africa Forum Summit-II held in Addis Ababa in May 2011, the Indian government offered a major design intervention to women basket weavers in five countries in […]
Residents of the Uttar Pradesh capital woke up to heavy rains Saturday that brought down the temperature. The maximum temperature tumbled by three degrees to settle at 23.9 degrees Celsius. Regional Met Office direcor J.P. Gupta told IANS the city and some parts of eastern and western Uttar Pradesh will receive moderate to heavy rainfall […]