The
government is planning to introduce some austerity to aid fiscal
consolidation, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Wednesday as
the rupee slumped to a record low
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US
lawmakers of both Democratic and Republican parties have slammed
the Obama administration's request for $2.4 billion for Pakistan,
calling it a "black hole" where the US has "sunk" $24 billion over
the last decade. "Pakistan is like a black hole for American aid,"
Gary Ackerman, top Democrat on the House Foreign
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Were the guilty to be punished, the loss of faith
can be restored to a large extent. But the CBI's report may well
be only a storm in a tea cup. The Manmohan Singh government has
neither the
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The Kuwaiti
TV Band performs in the capital at the week-long
panorama of Kuwaiti culture which opened in the capital May 15. It has
for the first time brought arts, crafts and performing traditions
of the ancient port-nation to India to strengthen people-to-people
cultural ties between the two countries.
The 63-year-old cartoon by the eminent Shankar - considered the
father of Indian political cartoonists who ran the highly regarded
Shankar's Weekly till it closed down during Indira Gandhi's
Emergency regime »
The skeletons
are tumbling out of the corruption cupboard but Uttar Pradesh's
former ruling party, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is unusually
quiet -- not even reacting to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's
allegation that it
The
demolition of a portion of former Pakistani president Pervez
Musharraf's ancestral home, Neharwali Haveli in Old Delhi's
Daryaganj, has stirred a row with the legality of the construction
coming under question.
The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued a notice to
the central government on a petition that alleged political parties
in power misused public funds by giving advertisements on the birth
and death anniversaries
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is expected to skip the
upcoming BJP National Executive meet in Mumbai, with an aide
saying it will be his personal decision.
Although no one in the Bharatiya Janata Party is ready to confirm
"Mar ke bhi
chain na paya to kidhar jayenge? (If there is no peace in death,
then where will I go?" This Urdu couplet from Ibrahim Zauq aptly
sums up the problem of the dead in Hyderabad. In this booming
metropolis, where thousands struggle for a place to live in, even
death offers no solution
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Most of these rural poor are landless labourers. After working the
whole day in the fields in scorching sun they come home in the
evening and have to cook for the whole family. The cooking is done
on the most primitive 'chulha' (wood stove), resulting in
tremendous indoor air pollution.
»
Your smartphone helps you smoothly navigate highways and streets of an
unfamiliar city. But once you enter a mega mall, its global
positioning system (GPS) goes blind.
»
When he
does not wield a pen, he is Saadat Hasan, just another man
pilloried by the wars of survival.
The "asfana" (short story) that keeps him alive hides in his
pocket, says actor Ashwath Bhatt, encapsulating the spirit of the
legendary storyteller Saadat Hasan Manto in his solo performance
»
An average person can virtually add
two to three teaspoons of fat to his or her waistline in a matter
of hours after eating. Fat from meals eaten later in the day is
more likely to be stored around the middle »
The Left-ward turn in politics in France and Greece
and weak domestic economic data weighed heavy on Indian equities
markets with a benchmark index closing lower for the third
»
A week-long panorama of Kuwaiti culture which
opened in the capital May 15 has for the first time brought arts,
crafts and performing traditions of the ancient port-nation to
India to strengthen people-to-people cultural ties between the two »
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