Sydney – The competition to be named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s Hottest Vegetarian Celebrity of 2013 was fierce. Early leaders Jacqueline Fernandez and Shahid Kapoor as well as Amitabh Bachchan, R Madhavan, Kareena Kapoor and Vidya Balan put up a real fight. But now, after thousands of votes were cast […]
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the union environment ministry to immediately probe why pollution levels in the Ganga continue to rise despite thousands of crores of rupees being spent on cleaning the revered river. The move came after B.D. Tripathi, an environmental scientist in Varanasi, wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh drawing his […]
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Saturday expressed a wish to see his political mentor Sharad Pawar of the NCP as the prime minister of India. “I would be happy if Sharad Pawar became the PM. He is my political guru and I entered politics because of him,” Shinde, a policeman-turned-politician and former Maharashtra chief minister, […]
Former prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, 85, passed away Saturday after being comatose for eight years. Sharon’s son Gilad confirmed that his father has died at the Sheba Medical Centre in the city of Ramat Gan in Tel Aviv district of Israel. “He left when he decided to leave,” Xinhua quoted Gilad Sharon as […]
Chris Gayle is set to captain Jamaica in the West Indies NAGICO Super50 tournament to be staged in Trinidad and Tobago from this month. Gayle was recommended for the job by the national selection panel, a decision ratified by the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) during a board meeting Thursday, the Gleaner has reported. The decision […]
More than 300 people, including women and children, fell ill after eating left over food distributed as part of the funeral rites of a person in Malpura area near Agra. The affected persons began lining up at medical cetres from Thursday and many people were admitted to a hospital here Friday after they complained of […]
UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos arrived in Syria Saturday amid a flurry of aid meetings underway in the conflict-torn country. Amos’s visit came just one day after Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, arrived in Damascus for talks on broader access to besieged areas and visits to […]
The alumni meet of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur (IIT-K) beginning Jan 17 may be attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who graduated in mechanical engineering from the institute in 1989, the alumni cell said Saturday. “This year, the 1989 batch will be celebrating its silver jubilee. We have sent a formal invitation. We […]
Lauding late litterateur Sunil Gangopadhyay, President Pranab Mukherjee said Saturday the amount of historical research that went into his writing was noteworthy. Presenting the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award for Excellence in Bengali literature at the Raj Bhavan here, the president said he has read many of his works and was extremely impressed with his talent. […]
A policy of broader cooperation, coupled with loose coordination, to cobble up an alliance of non-Congress secular parties ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls is what the Left hopes for, CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat said here Saturday. Karat spelt out the strategy of his Communist Party of India-Marxist, as well as of the […]