Varanasi, May 8 (IANS) BJP workers Thursday took to roads in Varanasi and protested the Election Commission’s decision to deny its prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi permission to hold rallies in the city. The party announced that all scheduled programmes of Modi for the day have been cancelled except for one rally. Modi is expected to […]
Jaipur, May 8 (IANS) Away from the hustle and bustle of the busy streets of the Pink City, this majestic property welcomes you with a warmth and hospitality that perhaps the Mughals and Rajputs would have experienced in days of yore. A convenient drive of a little over 250 km from the capital, Fairmont Jaipur, the […]
London, May 8 (IANS) Do not junk your singing or classical music training class as there is a healthier side to it. Just half an hour of simple music training daily increases blood flow to a particular area of brain that processes language skills. According to researchers at the University of Liverpool, a brief musical training […]
London, May 8 (IANS) Pregnant women show increased activity in the area of the brain related to emotional skills as they prepare to bond with their babies, a study has found. Researchers examined the neuropsychological activity of 39 pregnant women and new mothers as they looked at images of adult and baby faces with either positive […]
Islamabad, May 8 (IANS) Five militants were killed and three injured as clashes continued between two factions of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan, Pakistani media reported Thursday. The fighting erupted between the groups led by Sheher Yar and Khan Said alias Sajna in Shawal, a mountainous area near Afghan border, Tuesday and continued Wednesday, […]
Mumbai, May 8 (IANS) In “Hawaa Hawaai”, young Partho Gupte’s roller-skating coach is played by Saqib Saleem. However, the young actor’s real-life coach on whom Saqib’s character is modelled, is Ajay Shivlani, who runs the skating school Rollfit in Mumbai. Partho, who learnt roller-skating from scratch for his role as the underprivileged dreamer Arjun Harishchandra Waghmare, […]
Beijing, May 8 (IANS/EFE) The Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has trained a group of macaques to help protect an air base close to Beijing. These monkeys have been put here to take care of the huge flocks of birds that pose a threat to flights. According to China’s Air Force […]
Rio de Janeiro, May 8 (IANS) Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has unveiled his 23-man World Cup squad. The list released Wednesday includes 16 players who were in the team that won last year’s Confederations Cup by beating world champion Spain in the final, reported Xinhua. Squad: Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Toronto FC), Jefferson (Botafogo), Victor (Atletico […]
Book: Coolie Woman – The Odyssey of Indenture; Author: Gaiutra Bahadur; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 274; Price: Rs.599 Over half a million Indians were taken to the Caribbean colonies to work on the sugarcane plantations; a little more than a third of them were women. Some of them travelled abroad on their own without male […]
Beijing, May 8 (IANS) China’s foreign trade volume declined 0.5 percent year-on-year from January to April to $1.32 trillion, data showed Thursday. Exports decreased 2.3 percent year-on-year, while imports went up 1.4 percent during this period, Xinhua quoted the General Administration of Customs as saying. The trade surplus stood at $35.24 billion, down 41.4 percent from […]