New Delhi: The Shri Ram School in Delhi, Rishi Valley School in Andhra Pradesh Chittoor and the Woodstock School in Mussoorie have been voted India's most respected day, boarding and international schools in the EducationWorld-C fore Schools Survey 2011. The survey has also effectively ended the four-year reign of Doon School, Dehradun (TDS) as the country's most respected traditional/legacy boarding school. The school boasts of many eminent students such as...
08:55 PM, Sep 14, 2011
New Delhi: An average Indian smartphone user spends about two-and-half hours a day on the handset, dedicating more time to entertainment and internet activities than to voice calls and text messages, says a survey. According to a Nielsen-Informate Mobile Intelligence survey, Indian smartphone user spends 72 per cent of the time on activities such as gaming, entertainment, applications (apps) and internet related content. The remaining 28 per cent of the...
03:45 PM, Sep 05, 2011
London: Young women in Britain dress provocatively during summer and cause problems for their male colleagues, a survey has found. Nearly a third of men among 1,200 surveyed said they were repeatedly distracted by scantily-clad female colleagues wafting across the office. When it comes to dressing for work in the summer, both men and women let their standards slip. But the fairer sex seems to be getting away with more...
01:33 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Melbourne: Australia's second-largest city Melbourne has been rated the world's best city to live in, and Mumbai one of the worst, according to a new survey. In the survey of 140 cities around the globe, Melbourne secured the top slot with a score of 97.5 per cent, followed by Austrian capital Vienna (97.4 per cent), and Vancouver in Canada (97.3 per cent) which was rated the best last year. Three...
04:38 PM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: One in three Indian women between the ages 15 and 49 have experienced physical violence. One in ten has experienced sexual violence. These are the dismal findings from the latest National Family Health Survey. Deepa Dasmunshi, Indian National Congress candidate from Raiganj said, "Women atrocities are increasing rapidly. Figures higher in rural areas than in cities." According to the third National Family Health Survey nearly two in five...
07:59 AM, Aug 20, 2011
New York: Men are more concerned with their partner's body type than women but they also seem to value family more highly, according to a new survey released on Tuesday. Nearly half of men questioned in the poll of 70,000 people said they would ditch a partner who gained weight, compared to only 20 percent of women. Two-third of men also said they had fantasized about their partner's friends, while...
11:30 AM, Jul 27, 2011
Mumbai: Leading lenders Standard Chartered and HDFC Bank on Friday said they expect the Reserve Bank to hike its short-term lending rate by 25 basis points in the forthcoming monetary policy, a view echoed in an RBS survey of money market participants. "We see a 25 bps increase in the repo rate at the 26 July policy as inevitable, inflation management will remain the priority, but policy statement is likely...
09:51 PM, Jul 22, 2011
Pune: Pune MP Suresh Kalmadi, who was sacked as the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee boss for his non-performance and alleged involvement in the CWG scam, has added another "feather" in his cap: he has been ranked the worst-performing member of Parliament in the state as far as utilisation of MP funds is concerned. According to a Union government data on the total expenditure by MPs till July 5, 2011, the...
04:42 PM, Jul 18, 2011
New York: An earthquake registering 5.6 shook the Pacific off Honshu, Japan, the US Geological Survey said on Thursday. That is the area of northeast Japan ravaged by a March 11 quake and tsunami that knocked out power at the Fukushima nuclear plant. No immediate damage or casualties were reported from the quake that struck at 6:35 pm GMT on Thursday, the USGS said. No tsunami watch was immediately issued....
02:29 AM, Jul 08, 2011
On this week's episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus gets you the funnier side of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with Editors. ...
06:44 PM, Jul 03, 2011
Agartala: A nationwide socio-economic and caste census to identify people living below poverty line (BPL) was flagged off from Shankhola on Wednesday, a remote tribal hamlet in Tripura West district. Rural Development Secretary B K Sinha said, "Those names would be deleted from the list of BPL beneficiaries who own a vehicle or two-wheelers, pucca houses, land phone, fishing trawler besides government employees having income above Rs 10,000 or holders...
04:31 PM, Jun 29, 2011
Mumbai: Maps and some survey sheets from 1872-1960 related to Adarsh land and surrounding Colaba areas have gone missing from the land records office of the city, the fourth such instance of files related to the controversial society going missing. The two-member Commission, probing the housing society scam, was told by Sanjay Dikhle, Superintendent of City Survey and Land Records, that historical maps of 1847 (the first time when Mumbai...
02:58 PM, Jun 25, 2011
New Delhi: So what if Bollywood star Salman Khan is single? He has been voted the 'perfect father figure' in a survey by online matrimony portal Shaadi.com, ahead of Father's Day Sunday. The Indian youth were asked who they feel would make an ideal Indian celebrity father, and 39 percent of the respondents chose Salman - perhaps thanks to his large-heartedness and compassionate nature. "The poll reflects the mindset of...
10:13 AM, Jun 18, 2011
A recent survey puts India on fourth place in the list of world's five most dangerous countries for women to live in. ...
10:37 AM, Jun 16, 2011
New Delhi: The Manpower Employment Outlook Survey has predicted that Indian employers are the most optimistic in hiring over the next three months as compared to their western counterparts with 57 per cent of Indian employers expected to increase staffing levels. Employers in all four zones report bullish hiring intentions for Quarter 2, 2011. The most optimistic forecast is reported by employers in the South, where the Net Employment Outlook...
01:07 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Tonight at 10, Smitha Nair asks a panel of experts whether governance is in limbo in UPA-2.
01:42 PM, Jun 13, 2011
London: Britain's billionaires are more likely than their US counterparts to have made their own money rather than inherited it, a study has found, challenging popular perceptions of greater social mobility in America. A survey by French bank Societe Generale and Forbes of super-rich people in 12 countries, many of whom are billionaires, found 80 per cent of the British sample entirely "self-made", as opposed to inherited wealth or a...
11:50 AM, May 27, 2011
