Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) is gearing up to get a foothold in Bihar by contesting assembly elections in the Seemanchal region and is confident of making a modest but impressive debut. Confined to Hyderabad politics till recently, the party is making a serious attempt to cash in on its electoral gains in Maharashtra for a pan-India […]
The men’s final at the U.S. Open tennis championship this year was a weird five-cornered contest. It was Roger Federer versus Roger Federer versus Novak Djokovic and Novak versus the spectators. One of the players did not particularly seek spectator love but received loads of it anyway. That would be Federer. The other played in […]
Following suggestions by traditional healers that goat milk may be beneficial to people infected with dengue, the price of such milk in the National Capital Region (NCR) has reportedly soared to Rs.2,000 per litre. Though it is claimed that goat milk helps in increasing platelet count — which drops alarmingly in dengue patients — there […]
Indian-origin author Sunjeev Sahota is among the half a dozen authors short-listed for the prestigious 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Sahota, who was adjudged the Granta Best Young British Novelist 2013, competes with fellow Briton Tom McCarthy, Jamaican Marlon James, US-based Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara and Nigerian Chigozie Obioma for his second book […]
NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance today announced tunnelling on the $8.3 billion Sydney Metro Northwest has passed the 70 per cent mark with 22km of tunnelling now complete. Mr Constance congratulated tunnel builders Thiess John Holland Dragados for setting a new standard in tunnelling, including Australian-first innovations like a $1.2 million […]
The finalists for the 2015 NSW International Student Awards have been announced by Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres. Fundraising for local charities, volunteering at aged care facilities and coordinating homestay accommodation are just some of the notable ventures up for nomination. Organised by StudyNSW within the NSW Department of […]
In today’s era, people don’t look for perfection in a movie but superstars like Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, veteran actor-writer Kader Khan has said, adding a lot of good movies “suffer” due to that on the box office. “Today, people don’t look for elegance and the perfection in any movie, all they care […]
Small tea manufacturers, who do not own plantations but buy green leaves, process them and sell them to blenders, are irked by a recent commerce ministry order directing them to hold auctions for 70 percent of their produce. Technically called bought leaf factories, which position themselves between the garden owners and the packagers and blenders, […]
One of the major paradigm shifts one sees of late in India’s political economy is a focus on states. With terms like competitive and cooperative federalism floating around and becoming part of the political and economic lexicon, it is important to have an in-depth understanding of the factors that define these terms. The concept of […]
If you are a female student from India and aspires to join a British university, brace yourself for the “lad culture” first. Defined as “a subset of student life that promotes one particular masculinity,” the “lad culture” – a local euphemism like ‘eve teasing’ in India for sexual harassment – has made campus life difficult […]