Mumbai: Anita Lobo, Mumbai's only female traffic warden, has been a familiar sight on city streets for the past 15 years. It is a position she has taken up voluntarily for no remuneration. Lobo has been appointed by the Mumbai Police to bolster its ranks, though not on its rolls. Come rain or shine, Lobo is on hand to sort out sticky jams and she does it all gratis. "People...
09:36 AM, May 28, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan's interim government will transfer power to the new government June 5, 2013, a cabinet minister said on Monday. Information Minister Arif Nizami said that the interim government will relinquish responsibilities on the same day, reported Xinhua. Talking to newsmen in Islamabad, Nizami said the members-elect of the National Assembly will take oath June 1. Caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has sent an advice to the president...
04:45 AM, May 28, 2013
Bangkok: Police say a bomb put inside a garbage bag exploded at a street market in Thailand's capital and injured seven people. Police Col Narongrit Promsawat said the explosion slightly injured seven people and damaged merchandise stalls at the market yesterday night. It happened in a residential area in front of a barber shop and across from Ramkhamhaeng University. Forensic scientists say the bomb was made of nails and other...
12:15 PM, May 27, 2013
DU's top academic body has adopted a four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) which is going to be implemented from July 2013. The Academic Council, at a marathon meeting held sometime back, debated the proposal by a task force that was eventually passed with 80 votes in favor and 6 against. The Delhi University has formed a special taskforce, which includes 61 faculty members on the panel. This panel will help to...
11:44 AM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh left on Monday on a two-nation five-day visit to Japan and Thailand aiming to give a "new meaning" to India's 'Look East' policy and hoping it will contribute to peace, prosperity and stability in the Asia-Pacific. PM Manmohan, who flew to Tokyo, his first halt, described Japan as a "key regional and global partner for India". In his departure statement, he said he proposed...
10:30 AM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: With just days left for Delhi University's admission process to begin, over 80 academicians on Sunday issued a statement in support of the new four-year undergraduate programme and said detractors were spreading false and misguided propaganda. In the statement issued by DU Registrar, the academicians said a handful of "misguided individuals" from within and outside the university were trying to derail the process of introducing the new structure....
01:41 AM, May 27, 2013
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11:33 PM, May 26, 2013
Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal has admitted that the United Progressive Alliance government has failed to communicate to the people its achievements in the last four years. He was speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate ...
09:16 PM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal has admitted that the United Progressive Alliance government has failed to communicate to the people its achievements in the last four years. He was speaking to CNN-IBN's Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Sibal conceded that this has been one weakness of UPA-II because of which it has suffered in perception. Here's an excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar: Why is it that your...
09:55 AM, May 26, 2013
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08:30 PM, May 25, 2013
Kolkata: They have disowned their CEO, refused to admit he is their owner and now face an uncertain future in the Indian Premier League, but Chennai Super Kings will live another day. Live for maybe their last day of existence and fight for their third title in just six years of the IPL - against Mumbai Indians. It's not the ideal way to prepare for a title clash. Players, however...
08:12 PM, May 25, 2013
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday issued notice to Delhi's Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University for an anomaly in its admission exams in which aspirants were allotted an examination centre which had been shut for the past 10 years. "Seventy aspirants to the engineering programme of the varsity lost nearly an hour because of this goof up. No extra time was given to them," said an...
05:38 AM, May 25, 2013
Kanpur: Ninty three colleges of Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University in Kanpur will be served notice on May 27 for their alleged involvement in mass cheating in the undergraduate and postgraduate exams of 2012-2013. "The examination committee of the university has probed the complaints of mass cheating against the colleges, mostly in Allahabad and Kaushambi, and they were found to be true," said Ashok Kumar, Vice Chancellor of the university,...
02:43 PM, May 24, 2013
Los Angeles: Former News Corp president Peter Chernin and private equity fund Guggenheim Digital Media have placed bids for Hulu, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, triggering a tug-of-war for the online video service. Satellite operator DirecTV and cable operator Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters. Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time...
10:32 AM, May 24, 2013
Kolkata: Having accepted the fact that rumours about his private life are "part and parcel" of the film industry, 'Barfi!' star Ranbir Kapoor Thursday maintained that he would stay away from social-networking sites to shield his off-screen life. "My personal life should be on guard. I will not keep it open. I am not on any social networking sites and I won't be there also," Ranbir told reporters at a...
10:06 AM, May 24, 2013
Bangalore: From being a newspaper delivery boy to making news himself, 23-year-old Shivakumar has got through to the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Calcutta. Shivakumar, an engineering student and the only educated member in his family, has fought hard to make his dreams come true. For the past ten years, N Shivakumar's day has started at the crack of dawn, sorting newspapers and heading out to deliver them in...
08:49 AM, May 24, 2013
Gurgaon: With the CBI probing alleged kickbacks in the VVIP chopper deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday asserted that his government will continue to seek the highest standards of probity in defence deals. The Prime Minister, who laid foundation of the Indian National Defence University in Gurgaon, said the government has paid close attention to sound defence acquisition policies and reformed them to ensure that the armed forces have...
04:45 AM, May 24, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday regretted that successive governments at the Centre neglected the importance of yoga, which is gaining prominence in the world. "Yoga was intentionally neglected by Britishers while they were ruling the country as they feared that through yoga India will become powerful in the world," Modi said inaugurating the Lakulish Yoga University. "But even after Independence, we didn't come out of the slave...
10:12 PM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for India's first National Defence University in Gurgaon on Thursday. The move comes more than a decade after the Kargil Review Committee recommended such a university. Existing institutions such as the National Defence College will be affiliated to the university. The Indian National Defence University is a dedicated first-of-its-kind institution for training and research in military studies. The proposed...
11:38 AM, May 23, 2013
