Republican presidential candidate Bobby Jindal has been mocked on Twitter for posting a photo of himself holding and admiring a weapon while at a campaign stop in Iowa last week. “My kind of campaign stop; Capital Armament in Sibley,” read the photo caption of Louisiana’s Indian-American governor, inviting mocking comments, according to Atlanta Journal Constitution […]
A day after the Civil Services examination results were announced and the country got some new raring-to-go IPS (Indian Police Service) officers, a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed that there is a huge shortfall of police officers across the country. In response to a poser by Lucknow-based social activist Sanjay Sharma, the home […]
With preparations on for the upcoming Third India-Africa Forum Summit in October in New Delhi, an Africa-India Partnership Day was recently organised here jointly by the Export-Import Bank of India and industry chamber FICCI for sharing India’s developmental experiences with Africa, particularly on the public-private partnership model of financing infrastructure development. Speaking on the occasion, […]
Continuity in treatment and the help offered by NGO-run homes for free stay during medication of children fighting cancer are the focus of a documentary film made by a cancer survivor here to spread awareness. Kapil Chawla, who successfully fought off cancer a few years ago, has filmed the facilities at a Kolkata-based free-stay home […]
Using NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites, scientists have provided estimates for the global water cycle budget for the first decade of the 21st century, taking the pulse of the planet and setting a baseline for future comparisons. The water cycle describes how water evaporates from the Earth’s surface, rises into the atmosphere, cools, condenses to […]
An inaugural advisory committee to help tackle one of the biggest challenges in NSW – reform of the social housing system – has been established by the Minister for Social Housing, Brad Hazzard. Mr Hazzard announced the six one-year appointees to the Ministerial Advisory Committee today: Bruce Morgan (Chair) Chairman of Sydney Water […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday presented Uzbek President Islam Karimov a specially commissioned reproduction of the “Khamsa-i-Khusrau” quintet by the great 13th century Sufi poet Amir Khusrau. Khusrau was born in Uttar Pradesh but his father hailed from Uzbekistan. Written in Persian, and profusely decorated and illuminated with various colours including gold and ultramarine, […]
Munawar Ali Hussainy, a 17-year-old poet from Jammu and Kashmir, has been named ‘Poet of the Year’ for 2014 by the National Urdu Cultural Academy here. Speaking to IANS over phone, Hussainy – who was awarded for his poem “Zulm Ka Mara” – said the academy every year invites five poems from a poet to […]
Sakari Momoi, a Japanese man recognised as the world’s oldest male by Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 112, a media report said on Tuesday. Momoi died of chronic kidney failure at a hospital in Tokyo on July 5. Momoi, who lived in Saitama city near Tokyo, was recognised by Guinness as […]
A drug given to arthritis sufferers could be used to treat patients with blood cancer, say researchers from University of Sheffield in Britain. The discovery may open up cost effective treatment options for people suffering from the blood cancer myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) across the world as the anti-inflammatory medicine is one thousandth of the cost […]