Mathura: To maintain eco-friendly environment in and around its premises, the Mathura Refinery has decided to undertake a massive plantation programme in the forthcoming rainy season. "To ensure survival of the plants, efforts would be made to take help of social organisations as well as individuals would also be taken. Not only employees of refinery would be encouraged to adopt a plant, but people in general would also be motivated...
06:38 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Los Angeles: The fan votes, not just the odds, were in 'The Hunger Games' favor at the MTV Movie Awards. The dystopian survival saga escaped from Sunday's 21st annual extravaganza with the most golden popcorn-shaped trophies, including best fight for the film's final three-way battle and best on-screen transformation for Elizabeth Banks' over-the-top futuristic makeover. 'Hunger Games' stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson were also honored for best female and...
01:14 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Chandigarh: Zulfikar Khan, a theatre graduate from the Punjab University, chucked up a professional career to help the street children. And thanks to him, they are enacting new roles. Mindro Devi came to Chandigarh after her husband and a daughter died in Dehradun. For 20 years, she has been a rag-picker in the city. But Khan intervened at the right moment to stop her son Anup from following in her...
08:55 AM, May 28, 2012
Tokyo: The world's tallest tower and Japan's biggest new landmark, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday. Nearly 8,000 visitors were expected to take high-speed elevators up to the observation decks of the 634-meter (2,080-foot) tower to mark its opening. Some reportedly waited in line more than a week to get the coveted tickets for a panoramic view, though on Tuesday ended up being cloudy in Tokyo. Skytree...
11:50 AM, May 22, 2012
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the US Congress to back his efforts for tough new financial industry oversight, saying a $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan underscored the need for such regulation. "We've got to finish the job of implementing this reform and putting these rules in place," Obama said in a weekly radio address that accused some on Wall Street of causing the 2007-2009 economic...
06:14 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: During her interaction with Kolkata's students and others on CNN-IBN, West Bengal Chief Minister bristled at every question that brought up the issue of intolerance and insensitive statements from the authorities. She branded most of these as 'Maoist' or 'CPI(M)' questions. However, two specific questions incensed her to a point where she openly accused the questioners " both of them university students " of being 'Maoists' and 'CPI(M)...
02:23 PM, May 20, 2012
New York: Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the world's No.1 online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in US history. Valued at $104 billion, Facebook is larger than Starbucks Corp and Hewlett-Packard combined, sparking intense speculation on how much higher its valuation will rise once shares start trading. "A 15 to 20 per cent pop is...
01:01 PM, May 18, 2012
Lucknow: There seems to be a scam a day in Uttar Pradesh. After a toilet scam, an elephant statue scam, now a tree scam has emerged. The Akhilesh Yadav government has ordered a probe into why 37,000 date saplings and palm trees were imported at 16 times their original price under the Mayawati regime. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has been calling it vendetta politics. It is an all out...
08:13 AM, May 17, 2012
Be careful. Very careful. "Bad management theories are destroying good management practices". That is what Sumantra Ghoshal, one of the most respected voices in the world on what management ought to be like, argued in a path breaking paper by the same name. It was published shortly after he died in 2004 and continues to hold resonance even today. It was written when a wave of devastating corporate scandals had...
01:46 PM, May 12, 2012
New York: Soap opera 'General Hospital' scored the highest number of daytime Emmy nominations on Wednesday, including a nod for best drama, with long-running children's program Sesame Street coming in tied for second place. 'General Hospital' on ABC gained 23 nominations, including best lead actor in a drama series for both Maurice Bernard and Anthony Geary and best lead actress for Laura Wright. Fellow soap opera stalwarts 'The Young and...
11:04 AM, May 10, 2012
Halle, Germany: Roger Federer has had his name on the trophy. Now he has it on the street sign as well. The small town of Halle in western Germany hosts the Gerry Weber Open, a grass court tournament that serves as a Wimbledon warm-up. Federer has won at Halle five times and has a "lifetime contract" with the tournament " if the Swiss great plays a pre-Wimbledon event, then it...
03:23 PM, May 09, 2012
HYDERABAD:With the Hyderabad Metro Rail project picking up momentum, environmental activists and concerned citizens are raising their voice against the destruction of trees in the city. About 3,000 trees need to be removed or translocated in the three metro rail corridors. Of them, the HMR corporation has already felled 340 and translocated 384 but is finding it difficult to uproot 3 others on the LB Nagar-Miyapur stretch where the initial...
09:25 AM, May 07, 2012
BANGALORE: While the citys environmentalists are battling tooth and nail to win back the title of the Green city, the ever expanding infrastructure leaves a little to be achieved in this regard. For instance, the city puffed its shoulders a decade back for being the most clean and green city in the entire country, but today the greenery is depleting and smoke and grime veil the dream of winning this...
09:19 AM, May 07, 2012
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