Bangalore: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Karnataka. On Saturday, Rahul will be attending the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and National Students' Union Of India (NSUI) - the national executive of Congress' student wings and state Youth Congress convention. Rahul's visit is being seen as another step towards getting party workers together before the 2014 general elections. Rahul, during his two-day visit, will attend many...
09:57 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Chennai: Youth in villages around Kudankulam, where people are agitating against the setting up of the nuclear power plant, are unable to take up jobs abroad as passports are being denied to them, it was alleged at a public hearing in Chennai on Monday. About a dozen villagers deposed at the public hearing on 'Kudankulam and State Supression of Democratic Rights, coming up with startling revelations on the harassment they...
08:32 AM, May 15, 2012
Ahmedabad: Chief Minister Narendra Modi lauded the Gujarat police on Monday saying that the state has the youngest police force that had succeeded in keeping crime rate at the lowest level in the country. Modi was speaking at the passing-out parade at Gujarat's Police Academy at Karai. The trainees comprised 61 deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) including 20 women, 177 police sub-inspectors, 116 women Lok Rakshak and 33 intelligence officers....
12:31 AM, May 15, 2012
Shimla: A 22-year-old Australian tourist has filed a police complaint against a Chandigarh youth, stating that he had raped her in a guest house at Kasol in Kullu district, 220 km from Shimla. In her complaint, police said, the victim alleged that the youth hailing from Chandigarh gave her some sedative and took her to Green Valley guest house where he raped her on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, he...
11:45 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Literary icon Saadat Hasan Manto finds few takers among young readers because the stories are dark, disturbing and reflect a time they cannot relate to. But for the older generation of Indians, he still remains one of the most powerful writers of the 20th century. The writer, who died at the age of 43 in Lahore while struggling to keep the literature of truth alive, was born on...
05:56 PM, May 11, 2012
HYDERABAD: An unconventional and snazzy decor, a magazine to flip through, wifi to carry on with your work and a cup of coffee to savour while you wait for your turn - this and more are a feature of the Yuva Branch inaugurated by the chief general manager of the State Bank of India, Rakesh Sharma at Road No. 36, Jubilee Hills on Thursday.Targeted at young professionals, especially from the...
10:30 AM, May 11, 2012
BANGALORE: A skeleton of a youth, who was allegedly murdered four months ago, was found at a house in Sonnappanahalli in Chikkajala on Thursday. According to police, the deceased Prem Chand Singh, was a worker at a cement mixing factory. Police suspect the assailants have killed him by dropping boulders on his head. The body was totally decomposed and only bones were recovered from the spot.Muttamma, the landlord, in her...
08:59 AM, May 11, 2012
Imran Khan speaks on how he deals with the 'youth icon' tag and more. ...
07:13 PM, May 01, 2012
KOCHI: The recent haul of a large consignment of cough syrup from a wholesale drug store in Kozhikode sheds light on the illegal sale of such syrups and tablets as sedatives targeting the younger generation. Apart from the cough syrup, Nitravet (an inducing agent for treating insomnia), Trica (used against anxiety and nervous disorders), Frisium (used in the management of anxiety, agitation or tension) and Spasmoproxyvon (pain killer) are the...
11:38 AM, Apr 28, 2012
CHENNAI: Aiming to fulfil the higher education dreams of youngsters hailing from rural areas of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that 20 new government colleges " two engineering, 11 arts and science and seven polytechnic colleges " will be started in small towns this academic year.Leaders from several parties " Congress, PMK, CPI, CPM, RPI, MMK, AISMK Kongu Ilaignar Peravai and AIFB " hailed the Chief...
07:08 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Ahmedabad: 13,380 youths were on Thursday handed over appointment letters on behalf of private employers by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as part of 'Swami Vivekananda Youth Employment Week'. Speaking on the occasion, Modi said earlier the youths were reluctant to take courses at ITIs but the government has brought about a drastic change in industrial training being provided at these centres. The state government's labour department had organised surveys...
12:27 AM, Apr 13, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:A complaint has been submitted to the Indian High Commissioner in Maldives by a youngster from Thiruvananthapuram alleging that he was attacked and robbed of his money by a group of Maldivian citizens. Vaisakh Ramakrishnan Sadanandan, 24, hailing from Karikkakom here, now working as a front office supervisor at a resort in Maldives, is the one who has filed the complaint over the incident, which reportedly occurred on March 31....
09:35 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Tobacco is addictive, causes cancer and is killing nearly 1.2 lakh young Indians. Two major studies were released in the past week. A study in the Lancet, and the World Tobacco Atlas both found that tobacco use is the single biggest cause of cancers in India, resulting in 40 per cent of cancer deaths in Indian men. Eighty per cent of all oral cancers are tobacco-related, according to...
05:42 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Tobacco is addictive, causes cancer and is killing nearly 1.2 lakh young Indians. Two major studies were released in the past week. A study in the Lancet, and the World Tobacco Atlas both found that tobacco use is the single biggest cause of cancers in India, resulting in 40 per cent of cancer deaths in Indian men. Eighty per cent of all oral cancers are tobacco-related, according to...
08:39 AM, Apr 03, 2012
Karimnagar: Barely a week after an MBA student from Warangal in Andhra Pradesh ended his life over separate Telangana state, a 23-year-old youth from the district has allegedly committed suicide over "inaction" on part of politicians from the region in pursuing the cause, sources said on Sunday. L Nagaraju of Seethampet village under Mutharam police station limits, jumped to death before a moving train from a railway overbridge last night...
03:40 AM, Apr 02, 2012
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