Former Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh has dismissed speculations about his return to the party fold. Pointing out that he will never “again fall in the Samajwadi trap”, the leader also announced late Wednesday that he would be distributing blankets to the riot victims at relief camps in Muzaffarnagar […]
Himachal Pradesh’s picturesque resorts Shimla and Manali woke up Thursday to a white blanket of snow, turning the hill stations even more picturesque. The residents of Shimla shivered as icy winds brought down the minimum temperature to 0.1 degree Celsius. It saw 8 cm of overnight snow. According to the Met Office here, Manali recorded […]
The licence and tax bills for the BJP’s prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi’s rally Jan 12 near Panaji have not been paid, an official said. Mayor of the Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP) Surendra Furtado told IANS Wednesday that the banners and posters promoting and advertising Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate’s […]
Ruling AIADMK general secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday announced her party’s candidates for the Feb 7 Rajya Sabha elections, and said her party would support the CPI-M’s candidate. In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said the party has nominated S. Muthukaruppan, N. Chinnadurai, L. Sasikala Pushpa and Vijila Sathyanand as its […]
A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at 30.11 points or 0.14 percent down in the pre-noon trade Thursday. Good buying was observed in capital goods sector, while selling pressure was seen in auto and banking index (bankex) sectors. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which […]
Switching off your smartphone at night means better productivity at work the next day. “Smartphones are almost perfectly designed to disrupt sleep,” said Russell Johnson, assistant professor of management at Michigan State University in the US. “Because they keep us mentally engaged late into the evening, they make it hard to detach from work so […]
A natural pest-control plan from US-based Virginia Tech that halted the papaya mealybug – that created havoc in southern India causing mold and stunted growth of several crops – has saved up to $309 million in the first year itself. For a relatively modest cost of $200,000 during the first year of the intervention, financial […]
Lakhs of Shiv Sainiks are expected to assemble in Mumbai Thursday evening to take a pledge: “We shall grab power”. The day marks the 88th birth anniversary of the Sena’s founder-patriarch late Bal Thackeray. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray will administer the pledge at a massive rally planned at the Somaiya Grounds in eastern Mumbai […]
Believe it! Humans can smell whether the food on the dining table or in a restaurant is low or high on fat. New research reveals humans can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food. However, it remains unclear which sensory systems contribute to this ability. “That we have the ability to […]
collA distinguished Indian-American scholar and teacher, Rakesh Khurana, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School (HBS), has been named dean of Harvard College, a prestigious Ivy League institution. Khurana, who earned his PhD through a joint programme between HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1998, is also […]