During the past several years, public concern has increased in the Greater Vancouver Regional District (the “GVRD”) over the steep rise in home prices. For many residents of the GVRD, owning a home has become beyond their reach. The affordability and availability of rental units is also becoming increasingly problematic ... Read More »
Slamming the State Bank of India’s decision to sell the non-performing assets (NPAs) in the education loan portfolio to Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company, the CPI(M) asked the State Government to help students repay the loans. The CPI(M) organised an agitation here on Monday with the demand. The CPI(M) district secretary, ... Read More »
Most self-respecting tea aficionados, who take their cuppa a tad too seriously, have a pet peeve: a brew called masala chai. “There’s no real flavour of tea leaves”, “overwhelming spices”, “too much milk”: the complaints against it can go on and on. Yet, for most of us aam aurat and ... Read More »
e price of a ticket to the new “Ghostbusters” will buy you not just one happy ending but two. After the paranormal investigators played by Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Kristen Wiig have finished freeing New York from supernatural domination, the grateful mayor offers them unlimited resources to ... Read More »
Members of Students Federation of India (SFI), along with an applicant of education loan, laid siege to the Bank of India’s Ganapathypalayam branch here on Friday, for rejecting the application without attributing any reason in writing. SFI district secretary R. Vimal said that R. Sabareesan, a resident of the same ... Read More »
The Madras High Court Bench here has directed State Bank of Travancore to consider a mechanical engineer’s plea to waive interest levied on an education loan of Rs. 1.19 lakh availed by him to pursue engineering in 2006. Disposing of a writ petition filed by the engineer, T. Jerin of ... Read More »
The announcement took place in Copenhagen in October 2009: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge opened the envelope and told the world that Rio de Janeiro had won its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. Crowds watching a live broadcast on Rio’s famous Copacabana Beach exploded into a delirious uproar. Ticker tape ... Read More »
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots and reinstated an additional week of early voting, finding that legislators had acted with “discriminatory intent” in imposing strict election rules. The decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of ... Read More »
It is said that one must think out of the box to excel and stand out. Funnily enough, the key to out-of-the-box thinking today comes in the shape of a box – Pod Squad, a monthly subscription box for kids between three to seven years. It exposes them to nine ... Read More »
There were several times during this week’s Democratic National Convention when delegates could be excused if they thought they’d stumbled into the wrong party’s meeting. For President Obama, one of GOP candidate Donald Trump’s greatest sins was replacing Ronald Reagan’s visionof “a shining city on a hill” with “’a divided ... Read More »
After its huge success, Anand Kumar’s Super 30, which helps underprivileged students crack JEE test for entrance into IITs, is set to be expanded this year to include students who have passed class X, in an extension of the existing programme involving class XII pass-outs. “We are planning to teach ... Read More »
To hear her daughter, to watch a video about her life and to listen to her own words, it was hard to believe that a significant majority of Americans hold a negative view of Hillary Clinton, finding her untrustworthy and dishonest. How could that be true of such a devoted ... Read More »
