Delhiites woke up to a cold Wednesday morning with light rain. The minimum temperature was recorded at 12 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season’s average. Met Office has forecast a rainy day ahead. “The skies will remain overcast and parts of the city will witness light rain,” said an official of the India Meteorological […]
Former Indian-American US Treasury official Neel Kashkari, architect of the bank bailout during the 2008 financial crisis, plans to run for governor of California with a pledge to create jobs and improve public schools. “Today, the gift of a good education and the opportunity it creates are out of reach for millions of struggling Californians,” […]
Telugu cinema icon Akkineni Nageswara Rao died here early Wednesday, his family said. He was 91. The thespian, who was battling cancer for few months, breathed his last at a private hospital. Family sources said the end came at 12.10 a.m. However, the announcement was made after 2 a.m. Popularly known as ANR, he is […]
The aged care industry is working cooperatively with the NSW Government to ensure all nursing homes in the State are fitted with fire sprinkler systems, according to new results published today. New laws that came into effect 12 months ago require all NSW nursing homes to have fire sprinkler systems installed. Almost half of the […]
A controversy erupted Monday over a purported letter handed over by a Ugandan High Commission “official” to Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, with the external affairs ministry revealing that the Ugandan mission staff are not in town and “not to give credence to rumours”. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that he felt “sad […]
The Jain community was Monday granted minority status by the central government which will enable them to avail benefits in government schemes and programmes. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting here, an official release here said. The decision comes a day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took up this issue with Prime […]
Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Minister Shashi Tharoor, died due to drug overdose, says the autopsy report, adding more than a dozen injury marks were also found on her body. According to police sources, the post-mortem report submitted to Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok Sharma said Pushkar died due to drug overdose. There were more than a dozen […]
A legislator of the ruling Biju Janata Dal was booked in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district after a woman alleged that he raped her, police said Tuesday. The incident took place Jan 3 in block headquarters town of Updala, around 230 km from here, but came to light only after police registered a complaint against the legislator […]
A rolling stone gathers no moss. So goes the old adage. But the human resource managers can’t agree more even today, a study suggests. According to the research by Robert Half, a premier US-based staffing agency, employers tend to term the employees “job hoppers” if they have changed five or more jobs in 10 years […]
The Delhi Police Tuesday tried to persuade Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal twice to change his protest venue. However, he refused to budge, officials said. “We have spoken to Kejriwal twice, and tried to persuade him to shift the protest base to Jantar Mantar as, like here, Section 144 is not implemented in that area,” Deputy […]