Although the new 2016 is approaching rapidly the designer’s trends and specific stylistic of this year are so distinctive and with such richness of expressions, that no matter how many articles about the trends we research and publish there always will be something more to be said. And keep in ... Read More »
Kids love the unstructured days of summer, but parents need to be sure children get moving during their summer holidays, a physical education expert says. “I always encourage students to keep active in the summer,” Martin Wurmlinger, a physical education teacher at a Los Angeles middle school, said in a ... Read More »
Mirroring sentiments expressed by its peers, oilfield services company Weatherford said the market, particularly in North America, has bottomed out. Weatherford, based in Switzerland with offices in Houston, reported second quarter revenue of $1.4 billion, down by almost half from last year. In North America, the company said revenue was ... Read More »
Through his programme Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi apprised the nation of a new government scheme–Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan– aimed to curb India’s worrying maternal mortality rates. The prime minister said that though India’s maternal mortality rate was declining, there were still many pregnant women whose lives could not be ... Read More »
The Chinese government issued nationwide ride-hailing regulations that will allow companies that include Uber and its Chinese counterpart Didi Chuxing to legally operate in the country. The new rules, which will take effect Nov. 1, require that companies and their drivers apply for and receive licenses through the government. The ... Read More »
Maharashtra chief of Samajwadi Party, Abu Azmi said a law along the lines of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act should be enacted for Muslims to protect them from “particular section” of society. “On the lines of the Prevention of Atrocities Act, a similar law should also be ... Read More »
Even as the death toll in the current wave of devastating floods in Assam claimed 26 lives and affected 37 lakh people in the state, union home minister Rajnath Singhon Saturday in Guwahati called for finding long-term solutions to tackle the recurring problem. “Short-term measures are temporary. What we require ... Read More »
DNO, a Norwegian oil and gas company with strong Iraqi assets, said Friday it made a $300 million bid for Gulf Keystone Petroleum, which is restructuring debt. DNO said it was offering 40 percent of the full offer in cash, which it said would give investors in Gulf Keystone Petroleum ... Read More »
Tension prevails at Kadali village in Muzaffarnagar district after a mob attacked the house of a Muslim family on Saturday on suspicion of cow slaughter. The owner of the house, Zeeshan, who managed to slip out the backdoor with his family before the crowd arrived, was arrested on Sunday afternoon. ... 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 »
New Delhi: On Wednesday, newly-appointed human resource development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar had a close door meeting with the BJP’s ideological fount, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and some of its affiliate organisations, to seek their suggestions on the draft national education policy (NEP). According to sources in the HRD ministry, the six-hour meeting was ... Read More »
Figures submitted by State governments to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) have led the monitoring body to observe that while “many States have generally allocated funds to the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) on a par with the Scheduled Castes (SC) population of the States, the actual expenditures under ... Read More »
