Singapore: An Indian-origin business school has been rated among the world’s top 100 MBA institutions this year, according to a study. SP Jain School of Global Management, which has campuses in Dubai, Singapore, Sydney and Mumbai, is ranked 95th on the list by ‘The Economist’. “The Economist MBA rankings along with Financial Times and Forbes […]
Fasting for nine days during the Navratri festival will not harm your health if you learn how not to starve or eat later in a balanced manner, experts suggest. Dr Anup Dhir, senior consultant at Apollo Hospitals, stresses that devotees should not gorge on fried or oily food as this will result in high-calorie intake […]
Assistance in building up a strong defence system, peace keeping and an efficient anti-terrorism arrangement are among the prime topics to be discussed between India and Namibia during the upcoming Indo-Africa Forum Summit here, the country’s envoy said. Namibian High Commissioner to India, Pius Dunaiski, said that to boost the country’s defence system, they wanted […]
With growing instances of hospitals, especially private ones, being accused of misleading patients to jack up their medical bills, leading specialists and other doctors have been brought on an online platform so that patients could avail of a second opinion from them as to whether the treatment course being adopted for them is right and […]
If the union agriculture ministry is to be believed, not a single farmer’s suicide was registered in Bihar and Rajasthan in the past 15 years due to agrarian reasons. This is in sharp contrast to the data issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Altogether, 7,927 suicides were recorded by people involved in agriculture/farming […]
A three-year-old child fell into a 100-foot-deep borewell on Sunday in a field in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district. The army’s help has been sought in the rescue effort being carried out, a police official said. Raghav, son of villager Devendra Sharma, had gone along with his grandmother to the fields in Nand Gangoli village where […]
Title: Good Morning, Mr Mandela; Author: Zelda la Grange; Publisher: Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 373; Price: Rs.599 If someone thought they were going to be vouchsafed some secret when Nelson Mandela indicated that he wanted to have a “private discussion” with them, they would be left disappointed – and possibly embarrassed – as all […]
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has crooned numbers like “Holi khele Raghuveera” and “Ekla chalo re” and “Piddly” for his films, credits his father and late poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan for his inclination towards music. “The music that represents me, that I get the opportunity to explore and compose, comes from within by its own accord. […]
A day after a two-and-half-year-old was allegedly gang raped, her relatives on Sunday attacked one of the accused in hospital, prompting Delhi Police chief B.S.Bassi to assure action was being taken and to appeal for calm. The incident took place when one of the two accused, both minors, who are in police custody, were taken […]
Violence raged in parts of the Kashmir Valley on Sunday after a victim of the October 9 fire-bomb attack on a truck in Udhampur died in Delhi and separatists and others called for a bandh on Monday, police and residents said. Zahid Rasool Bhat, who was being treated for serious burn injuries in Delhi’s Safdarjung […]