A group of beggars in this Bihar town has opened their own bank, which they run and manage to provide financial security in times of crisis. Dozens of beggars, who have been depending for their survival on alms from hundreds of Hindu devotees at the gate of ‘Maa Manglagauri Mandir’ (temple) in Gaya town for […]
In the six decades he was in electoral politics, the now ailing Atal Bihari Vajpayee, presented the Bharat Ratna on Friday, catapulted from one who lost one election after another to a colossus who eventually became India’s only non-Congress prime minister to last a full five years in office. In the short but tumultuous period […]
A Western Australian health researcher investigating the possibility of using an antibody to trigger natural immune responses to fight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is one of 131 researchers who will share about $6 million in State Government research funding. Announcing round 18 of the annual Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (MHRIF) grants, […]
An Indian restaurant owner in Britain has been charged with manslaughter following the death of a customer after eating curry prepared at the restaurant, a media report said on Thursday. Owner of a number of award-winning food outlets, Mohammed Khalique Zaman, 52, was charged with manslaughter by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), The Independent reported. […]
One person was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded at the Istanbul offices of a Turkish magazine taken to be sympathetic to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Efe news agency reported citing Turkish media on Thursday. The explosion on Wednesday night at the offices of Adimlar magazine left a journalist […]
A 14-year-old boy shot himself dead in Allahabad on Thursday after his father reprimanded him for chatting too often on social networking site Facebook, police said. The incident took place in Parasnagar locality of Naini in Allahabad. The boy, a student of Class 9, was chatting on Facebook on Wednesday night on his mobile phone. […]
Eighteen tax defaulters — 11 of them Gujarat-based — collectively owe over Rs.500 crore to the exchequer, tax officials announced on Thursday. “Defaulters are advised to pay tax arrears immediately,” said a Central Board of Direct Taxes notice. In view of the multiple cases of assessees not being traceable, the CBDT has also provided the […]
Asian cinematic icon Jackie Chan, whose latest actioner “Dragon Blade” hits Indian screens on Friday, says he may come down to the country to shoot his new film “Kungfu Yoga”, the first project under a India-China co-production agreement signed during President Xi Jinping’s visit here last September. When Chan last visited India in 2013, he […]
Angry cricket fans on Thursday smashed their TV sets at various places in Bihar after India’s 95-run loss against Australia in the semi-finals of the ongoing World Cup. Some of the incidents were reported from Gaya, Purnea, Muzaffarpur, Aurangabad, Patna and Begusarai districts. “Over a dozen television sets were either smashed or broken by angry […]
In a shocking revelation, the French prosecutor said on Thursday that the co-pilot of the Germanwings A320 flight deliberately crashed the airliner, killing all 144 passengers and six crew members on board. The action of the first officer, Andreas G. Lubitz, of the crashed Germanwings A320 in the French Alps “can be analysed as his […]