New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday presented the Padma awards to eminent personalities like author Ruskin Bond and actor Paresh Rawal at a function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. The president presented one Padma Vibhushan, 11 Padma Bhushans and 44 Padma Shri awards at a civil investiture ceremony, an official statement said. Yoga […]
By-“Isha Sahni” Cairo, April 26 (IANS) It’s known that Amitabh Bachchan is popular in Egypt but the extent of this can only be gauged when an Indian lands in Egypt, the land of pyramids and one of the world’s oldest civilisations, just like India. Soon after this IANS correspondent landed at Cairo International Airport one hot […]
Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) The Congress was “keen and eager” to see party chief Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra play a bigger role in the election campaign, its national spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said Saturday. “Yes, I accept the entire party is very keen and eager that she should campaign more and that is true […]
· Bigger, faster and can travel longer distances without refuelling · Delivering the highest level of care and rapid transport · Victorian Coalition Government building a healthier Victoria Victorians will have a new fleet of state-of-the-art helicopters from January 2016 thanks to an estimated $550 million Victorian Coalition Government investment, Minister for Health David Davis […]
· Victorian Coalition Government delivers an extra $130 million to repair and restore Victorian roads · More than half a billion dollars to be invested in road management in 2014-15 · Coalition Government continues to fix more roads, more often Commuters, businesses and visitors will enjoy better, safer journeys on Victorian roads, Treasurer Michael O’Brien […]
Canberra/Kuala Lumpur, April 26 (IANS) As the 14th day of the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 began Saturday, 95 percent of the underwater search area has been covered, the Joint Agency Coordination Centre (JACC) said in Canberra. Early into Mission 13 Friday the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Bluefin-21 was recalled due […]
Aizawl, April 26 (IANS) A 100-seat medical college will come up soon in the northeastern state of Mizoram, an official said here Saturday. “Mizoram government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the union health ministry recently to set up the first ever medical college in the state,” a Mizoram health department official told reporters. […]
Chennai, April 26 (IANS) Director Vijay Saturday put an end to rumours about his relationship with actress Amala Paul by announcing that they plan to get married soon. “I herewith take this opportunity to announce my conversion of status from single to couple. The search for my life partner ends here as I have found […]
Film: “Tarzan”; Voices of: Kellan Lutz, Spencer Locke, Trevor St. John, Les Bubb, Mark Deklin, Jaime Ray Newman and Anton Zetterholm; Director: Reinhard Klooss; Rating: ** Who isn’t familiar with Tarzan, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs? The plot is inconsequential as it is the jungle boy’s experience of living with the apes that is the […]
London, April 26 (IANS) This may sound strange but many couples agree not to have children after only one discussion, and sometimes none at all! According to researchers from Middlesex University, 40 percent of the childless women they surveyed had either not talked about having children, or had only discussed this once early in their […]