A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, as the old song goes. Who know this better than South Asia’s policemen, who saw criminals strike alliances with politicians to become their masters, terrorists become another implacable enemy and jealous colleagues turn out to be most lethal. This makes for a complicated life of compromised principles, […]
The sixth edition of the Jagran Film Festival came to an end on Sunday with the screening of National Award-winning filmmaker Nila Madhab Panda’s satirical drama film “Kaun Kitney Paani Mein”. The screening of the film – based on water crisis, caste and the power equation when water, the most important resource, vanishes and how […]
Unesco has designated several new World Heritage Sites in Norway, Germany, Israel, Britain and the US during the 39th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in the western German city of Bonn. Norway’s Rjukan-Notodden industrial site includes a group of hydraulic centers and was built early in the last century by the Norsk Hydro company […]
Australia’s Sydney Opera House has joined a growing list of cultural institutions worldwide to crack down on the use of the telescopic camera attachment that gives a wider field of view for “selfie”-style photographs, media reported on Monday. Sydney Opera House was the most instagrammed site in Australia in 2014, Xinhua news agency reported. A […]
The residents of the Chinese capital are obsessed with the weather. The first thing they check in the morning on their phone application is the pollution level. And then they look out of the window. What they hope for is a ‘Blue Sky’ – a portender of sunny, pollution free day. They even have a […]
Top police officers who undertook rare deterrent action against the killings on the streets of Delhi following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 ran into a wall of disapproval from the police leadership, according to a new book. Some of the most dramatic police action came from additional deputy […]
Initial results of Greek’s referendum on the signing of a new debt deal with creditors showed the “No” campaign leading by a significant margin, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Of the 14.09 percent of votes counted till 8:33 p.m. on Sunday, 60.15 percent were “No” votes, while 39.85 percent were “Yes” votes, the ministry […]
A female trainee sub-inspector on Monday committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district. She had been selected through the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal (Vyapam), police said. Anamika Kushwaha was posted as a trainee at the Jawaharlal Nehru Training Centre. The training centre is situated near a pond in which she jumped to death early […]
Frequent consumption of citrus fruits — whole grapefruit and orange juice — may be associated with an increased risk of melanoma, a type of skin cancer, says a large study. Analysing dietary patterns among more than 100,000 people in the US, the researchers found that melanoma risk was 36 percent higher in people who consumed […]
Orlando, FL: July 1st, 2015: Joseph M. Chalil, MD, MBA, FACHE, is the honored recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award by the Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI). Dr. Chalil was bestowed with the award for pioneering the ground-breaking initiative Global Clinical Research and Trial Network in front of an audience of 2,000 during […]