Thiruvananthapuram, May 21 (IANS) State Labour Minister Shibu Baby John Tuesday said Kerala is almost free of child labour and that his ministry will launch an awareness campaign to educate people about the ills of child labour. “Through a massive awareness campaign, we want to ensure that no one will [...]
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Dhaka’s rickshaw army – commuters’ ‘best option’
Dhaka, May 21 (IANS) With a hoot and a honk, meandering through Dhaka’s famed traffic snarls, the legion of psychedelic...
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Prayer, spirituality gets the doctors’ nod
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Hardly anyone doubts the power of prayer and almost everyone has a turnaround tale –...
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Now posh residents protest lack of water
Gurgaon: Residents of the posh DLF City here today staged a noisy protest against the developer, saying the area was...
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In a first, NCC expedition scales Mount Everest
New Delhi: The first-ever expedition of the NCC to Mount Everest created history when its two teams scaled the world’s...
Rashtrapati Bhavan tours to cost Rs.25
New Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Daily public tours of Rashtrapati Bhavan, which began for the first time from Jan 1 this year at the initiative of President Pranab Mukherjee and have become very popular with tourists, will now cost Rs.25 per person. A Rashtrapati Bhavan press release said nominal registration [...]
Read more ›Unravelling the Indian curry
Since childhood, being born in a North Indian Punjabi family, I have been fond of curries – spicy chicken curry or tangy vegetable tangy curry accompanied with rice or a crisp tandoori roti oozing with white butter. Then, there are a plethora of exotic curries such as Kerala’s raw mango [...]
Read more ›For the elderly in US, poetry blunts the pain of isolation
Chicago, May 20 (IANS) A woman in her seventies takes the microphone to recite a short poem, which, she warned the men present, was on the hazards of flirting. “Cheda na karo ate jatein raston mein, pale pad gayi to mushkil hogi” (Do not flirt with every girl who crosses [...]
Read more ›Woman flees to Britain, refusing to join Swaziland king’s harem
London: A 22-year-old woman fled to Britain from the southern African nation of Swaziland and is seeking asylum after refusing to join the harem of 13 wives of Swazi king Mswati III. Tintswalo Ngobeni fled to Britain after she caught the attention of the millionaire monarch, known for his lavish lifestyle, [...]
Read more ›Closer ties between China, India to strengthen BRICS
Only weeks after Chinese President Xi Jinping had a much-publicized meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Durban on the sidelines of a BRICS summit, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reached New Delhi today on the first leg of his maiden tour abroad. Such a short time interval in top-level [...]
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