Indonesia on Friday cancelled execution of an Indian drug convict, after senior Indian diplomats intervened hours before the execution was to take place. Gurdip Singh, 48, of Jalandhar was to face the firing squad in the island of Cilacap, on Friday morning as part of the planned execution of 14 ... Read More »
Gurugram If you thought renaming Gurgaon to Gurugram was funny, the citizens of the area had another option in mind – especially after Thursday evening’s downpour. The traffic nightmare due to waterlogging in the Millennium City was so bad that some commuters were stuck since Thursday evening. Some reached home ... Read More »
In most classrooms, it’s not a good sign when students’ eyes flick to the clock. It means they’re distracted and waiting to get out. In Nicole Naditz’s 12th-grade class in Sacramento, California, the opposite is true; students desperately eyeball the clock, wishing for more time. Naditz’s trick? She’s incorporated a ... Read More »
WASHINGTON — In her speech accepting the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton wrongly implied Donald Trump has proposed banning Islam in America and sketched out a plan for defeating Islamic State militants that merely mirrors what the U.S. is already trying to do. Clinton spoke Thursday night to the largest TV ... Read More »
Education, agriculture and healthcare got the maximum focus, while several items including candles, kerosene stoves, packaged drinking water, cinema tickets, LED bulbs and tubes, citronella oil and feeding bottles would become cheaper, as theBJP-led government in Assam tabled its first budget, of Rs 78,253.36 crore, that showed an overall deficit ... Read More »
Many a time, while watching a well-made Hollywood rom-com, we wonder why this genre isn’t explored enough in Indian cinema. Slice-of-life films can be great fun when they hit the right note. Debutant Tharun Bhascker has written and directed one such film. Pelli Choopulu is effortlessly cool. Portions of what ... Read More »
BHUBANESWAR: A wind of change is sweeping through the tribal communities where a group of NRIs and their Indian volunteer friends have been trying to improve the state of primary education through a slew of programmes under India Literacy Project (ILP). ILP has been working in eight States of the ... Read More »
I’ve always been too awkward, too self-conscious, to laugh out loud in theatres. But there were parts in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG that blew all reticence into smithereens, that inspired the sort of wide-eyed wonder and unabashed laughter we all promised our childhood selves we’d safeguard into adulthood. For those ... Read More »
It is probably not news to most that the red zone is important. I’ll spare you the clichés about it being the most valuable real estate in football and instead point out that we never hear about an organization adding an athletic receiver to serve as a “midfield specialist.” You ... Read More »
The government will come up with an action plan for revitalising the public education sector with a mission to bring back the State’s rich culture of secular education, Minister for Education C. Raveendranath has said. He was speaking after inaugurating a newly constructed building of the Karaparamba Government High School ... Read More »
Fresh violence, including attacks on Army camps, on Friday left 65 people injured in Kashmir as protesters defied curfew and restrictions in 10 districts on a day when separatists had called for a protest march towards the Jamia Masjid here. A Srinagar-based police spokesman said 70 incidents of stone-pelting were ... Read More »
Terming the Centre’s draft ‘National Education Policy 2016’ as an obvious attempt to subvert equity and secularism of India’s pluralistic society, the Samaththuva Kalvikkaana Koottamaippu (Confederation for Egalitarian Education) has appealed to the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) to redesign its proposals by including outstanding educationists from various ... Read More »
