Kerala nearly free of child labour: Minister
byThiruvananthapuram, May 21 (IANS) State Labour Minister Shibu Baby John Tuesday said Kerala is almost free of child labour and that his ministry will…
Opinion
Nine years as PM: What will be Manmohan Singh’s legacy?
byNew Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh completes nine years in office Wednesday, the longest tenure of any prime minister outside the Nehru-Gandhi family. But his…
Dhaka’s rickshaw army – commuters’ ‘best option’
byDhaka, May 21 (IANS) With a hoot and a honk, meandering through Dhaka’s famed traffic snarls, the legion of psychedelic rickshaws that are an…
Prayer, spirituality gets the doctors’ nod
byNew Delhi, May 21 (IANS) Hardly anyone doubts the power of prayer and almost everyone has a turnaround tale – maybe personal, or of…
Now posh residents protest lack of water
byGurgaon: Residents of the posh DLF City here today staged a noisy protest against the developer, saying the area was getting very little water despite…
In a first, NCC expedition scales Mount Everest
byNew Delhi: The first-ever expedition of the NCC to Mount Everest created history when its two teams scaled the world’s highest peak May 19 and…
Rashtrapati Bhavan tours to cost Rs.25
byNew Delhi, May 20 (IANS) Daily public tours of Rashtrapati Bhavan, which began for the first time from Jan 1 this year at the…
Unravelling the Indian curry
bySince childhood, being born in a North Indian Punjabi family, I have been fond of curries – spicy chicken curry or tangy vegetable tangy…
For the elderly in US, poetry blunts the pain of isolation
byChicago, May 20 (IANS) A woman in her seventies takes the microphone to recite a short poem, which, she warned the men present, was…
Woman flees to Britain, refusing to join Swaziland king’s harem
byLondon: 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…