With monsoon reaching Rajasthan on Thursday, Delhiites can find solace in the fact that very soon monsoon showers will drench their streets too. With Southwest monsoon already reaching Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, leading to rains in those parts, India Meteorological [...]
Bangaloreans have to live with a new threat. If you go by The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) recent study on increasing ozone pollution across the country, tbe city is likely to be one of the worst affected. Pollutants like [...]
A study has found that the best way to lose weight is to concentrate on the quality of food that we eat and not on the amount . What you eat is said to have a greater impact on weight [...]
Salman Khan talks about his latest venture Chillar Party and more… What made you want to turn producer for a small film like Chillar Party? Nothing is small or big. We make big budget films and koi bhi nahi dekhta [...]
If you thought Aamir Khan was a good marketing mind, think again. Shah Rukh Khan is leaving no stone unturned for his magnum opus RA.One scheduled for release this Diwali, Wednesday, October 26. Predicted to be the biggest release across [...]
With the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ruling out rapes in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhatta Parsaul during the recent farmers’ agitation, union information and broadcasting minister, Ambika Soni on Thursday questioned the accuracy of the human rights body’s findings. While speaking [...]
The order, concerning debentures issued by two group companies, is subject to Supreme Court clearance. In the biggest refund order in its two-decade history, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) today directed two Sahara group companies to return [...]
Bowing to Anna Hazare’s fast against corruption in April, the government had agreed to setup a drafting committee to discuss the formation of a Lokpal (Ombudsman). “We will sit with Anna Hazare and draft a good bill,” Congress leader and [...]
The re-emergence of two of China’s most prominent dissidents does not signal any relaxation of the government’s wider clampdown on dissent, human rights groups say. The release on bail of detained artist Ai Weiwei, who helped design Beijing’s Bird’s Nest [...]
Facing flak for not monitoring the affairs of the Satya Sai Central Trust, the state government has decided to withdraw some of the 16 concessions that the trust has been accorded to carry out its various philanthropic, educational and charitable [...]
US President Barack Obama’s military commanders have said he ignored their advice for a more modest drawdown from Afghanistan and warned his decision carries risks for the war effort. Both General David Petraeus and Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of [...]
To break the stranglehold of the parking mafia, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has come up with a unique plan to advertise its 108 new parking sites, which are up for bidding. For the first time, MCD is using its [...]