I have an abiding memory of Manmohan Singh. It goes far back to the days when he was not the prime minister, not even the finance minister, when in the early ’90s he took transformational steps to open up and liberalise a collapsing Indian economy and got his name etched in the history of global […]
It’s true. People of this Pakistan want Narendra Modi to become prime minister of India. More than 250 residents, including over 100 voters of a village called “Pakistan” in Bihar’s Purnea district, are set to vote for the BJP to help Modi to fulfil his dream. “We want Narendra Modi to become PM,” said Hira […]
New York, Does diet has a connection with discipline in your life? Yes. A junk food diet makes you fat and lethargic, and later indisciplined. A study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary – not the other way around. “Overweight people often get stigmatised as lazy and lacking discipline. The results […]
Sao Paulo, Singer Lorde has played the biggest show of her career — performing for 40,000 people in Brazil. “Today I found out that I played to forty thousand people at Lolla last night (Sunday),” the singer tweeted Monday after the show, The New Zealand Herald reported. The “Royals” star will be in Australia later […]
Abuja, Nigeria has surpassed South Africa as Africa’s biggest economy, rebased gross domestic product (GDP) figures from authorities showed Sunday. The biggest oil producer in Africa climbed to the 26th largest economy in the world, according to the statistics announced by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the national […]
London, Outdoor exercise could be more beneficial than indoor workouts as a study has found that children exposed to scenes of nature while exercising are likely to have lower blood pressure. “Hypertension is a chronic health problem across the world, so given the results we have seen in our study it is crucial that we continue […]
Baghdad, At least three people were killed and 34 others injured in four car bomb explosions across Iraq’s capital Baghdad Wednesday, the country’s interior ministry said. One of the blasts early Wednesday morning hit a busy intersection in the Shiite district of Sadr City in the eastern part of Baghdad, leaving a civilian dead and […]
Bhubaneswar, Over 13 million electors will cast their ballots in the first phase of polling Thursday for 10 Lok Sabha and 70 assembly seats in Odisha. Security has been tightened, and 60 companies of paramilitary forces – each comprising about 100 troopers – have been deployed in vulnerable areas to ensure trouble-free polling, Director General […]
Los Angeles, US actor Johnny Depp, who admits that he is “an old-school guy,” transforms himself into a tech semi-god in the new sci-fi film “Transcendence,” the first project by Wally Pfister, the regular cinematography director for Christopher Nolan. “Bad things happen between technology and me all the time,” the 50-year-old actor said during the […]
Chennai, April 10 (IANS) Chennai-based independent filmmaker Lokesh, currently working on a crowd-funded gay-themed Hindi film titled “My Son Is Gay”, says the city is still “conservative” and that is why “I didn’t make the film in Tamil”. “Since it’s a gay-themed film, I don’t think everybody would accept it. Except for places like Bombay and […]