Mumbai, May 12 The famous Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat will be seen in the dress designed by Indian designer Manish Tripathi’s appearance at the forthcoming Cannes International Film festival. On the micro-blogging site Twitter, the actress shared the sketch of the outfit. “My outfit sketch for Cannes 2014 by uber talented Indian designer Manish Tripathi,” […]
New Delhi, May 12 The Election Commision of India on Monday was issued a notice by The Supreme Court on a plea seeking direction for combined counting of votes from a constituency as a whole and not ward-wise. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice N.V. Ramana said: “It may not be possible for […]
Amman, May 12 (IANS) Jordan and Saudi Arabia signed $232 million grant agreements Sunday, the state media reported. Jordanian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Ibrahim Saif said the amount will be used to finance projects in the field of water, irrigation and infrastructure, Xinhua reported. The grant is part of $1.25 billion grant that Saudi […]
Ancient Greek playwrights invented this literary device but the Romans gave it the name we know – deus ex machina (God from a machine) to untangle a plot which seems irrevocably stuck by lowering a god on to the stage to resolve it. But what if this service is performed by the devil, but one […]
Isha Sahni Mumbai, May 10 Recently reports came that the Piggy Chops of the bollywood industry, Priyanka Chopra will soon have a film directed on her life. Aseem Merchant who was allegedly her boyfriend in the former beauty queen’s modeling days is said to plan directing this movie. Reportedly, the film will not only chronicle […]
New York, May 10 An Indian-origin scientist Vivek Reddy, recently developed the first leadless pacemaker in the world. The invention has shown promising results after one year of human trials on 32 patients who received the pacemaker. “This is the first time we have seen one-year follow-up data for this innovative, wireless cardiac pacing technology. […]
Palakkad (Kerala), May 10 (IANS) The total number of mass marriages arranged by Middle East based Keralite P.N.C. Menon’s Sobha Group has touched 438 after 19 more weddings were solemnized Saturday. Under the programme of organising community marriages, women from the Vadakkenchery and Kizhakkenchery gram panchayats, in Palakkad district, which have been adopted by Menon, are […]
The book entitled Mahatma Gandhi & My Grandfather, Allama Mashriqi: A Groundbreaking Narrative of India’s Partition by Nasim Yousaf, a grandson of Allama Mashriqi, will be exhibited at BookExpo America, one of the largest book fairs in the world. The fair runs from May 28-31, 2014 at the Javits Center in New York City. BookExpo […]
The Department of Agriculture’s Authorised Officer (AO) programme is saving Australian exporters time and money by empowering them to undertake specific export inspections. Australia’s Chief Plant Protection Officer, Dr Vanessa Findlay, said the AO programme provides greater flexibility to export businesses. “Plant and plant products for overseas markets must be inspected to ensure importing country’s […]
Education: .550 more teachers next year .Total education budget of $4.58billion .Includes extra spending of $188million next year (a 4.3% increase on 2013-14) .Plus $10million to support the transition to the student-centred funding model .An extra $812million over four years for forecast growth .Average spend per student $15,824 (an increase of $150 or 1% per […]