Documentary on gender violence screened
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 13:15:34 -0700 | entertainment-news
A documentary film 'Not Every Time', was shown to around 400 students of Khalsa Girls' Senior Secondary School, Civil Lines, on Saturday. The film directed by captures a movement which had been initiated as a response to the disappearance of...
Polluting scrap dealers in Chennai under the scanner
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 15:49:06 -0700 | business-news
The Chennai Corporation, on Saturday, cracked down on scrap dealers who pollute residential neighbourhoods. The revenue department of the Corporation locked and sealed six unauthorised commercial units in Guindy after residents complained. Many residents had expressed concerns about the pollution...
Water supply restored
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 13:07:56 -0700 | travel-news
Vipin Chandran Water supply to several divisions on the eastern side of the Thrikkakara Municipality leading up to Manakkakkadavu was restored on Saturday after Kerala Water Authority repaired a pipe that had burst on the Athani-Navodaya stretch on Thursday.
Tamil Nadu police bans Yasin Malik-linked pro-Eelam public meeting
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 10:21:40 -0700 | sports-news
Police withdrew the permission granted to Naam Tamizhar Katchi headed by film director Seeman to hold the meeting in support of separate Tamil Eelam as the organisers violated certain conditions, DSP Radhika told reporters here. The party violated the conditions...
Double murder: Victims' daughter sexually abused, say Goa cops
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 09:24:43 -0700 | sports-news
Police today said the minor daughter of the couple , who was murdered last week, was sexually abused by one of the culprits. Police have slapped Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act against the culprit. The six-year-old girl and...
Simple and sublime
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 06:44:24 -0700 | business-news
In the centenary year of Tagore's Nobel Prize, the Gitanjali continues to strike a chord in the reader. (T)his book fathoms all...Yeats referred to when it was published in 1912 went on to win for its author Rabindranath Tagore (then...
Seeking clues to heart disease in the DNA of an unlucky family
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 17:19:14 -0700 | health-news
Early heart disease ran in Rick Del Sontro's family, and every time he went for a run, he was scared his heart would betray him...He stayed lean, kept away from red meat, spurned cigarettes and exercised intensely, even completing an...
Low-cost housing: Want cheaper funds, and more
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 15:10:31 -0700 | sports-news
Addressing the shortage of housing in the country poses a significant challenge owing to the sheer numbers involved in enabling a sizeable population own a home. The Union housing ministry's technical group on the estimation of housing shortage has projected...
Warasgaon villagers turn landless again
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 15:10:02 -0700 | green-news
Allowed to till land acquired in 1963 for Panshet dam but not used, 27 villagers displaced again as government now gives land to BSF. For the poor villagers of Warasgaon who do not understand the difference between military and paramilitary,...
Barack Obama's budget would cut $1 trillion from US deficit
Source: The Economic Times
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 14:02:15 -0700 | business-news
President Barack Obama's budget proposal, if enacted into law, would cut more than $1.1 trillion from the government's projected deficits over the next 10 years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Friday. It would bring deficits down to near 2...
Hindi Laugh Riot
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 13:15:39 -0700 | sports-news
The Hindi edition will have fondly-remembered characters such as Shikari Shambu with all his jungle jamborees, Tantri the Mantri with his evil schemes, Suppandi with his quirky thought processes and Kalia the Crow with his heroic escapades. The comic will...
Pulse of the Youth
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 13:15:21 -0700 | entertainment-news
Some time last year, a pulsating nightclub emerged and sank back into the dust just outside the city...Embarrassing pictures appeared in the newspapers and public sentiment seemed to firmly back the party poopers. Those unfortunate youngsters caught in the crossfire...
Coal shortage to be significant by end of XII Plan
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 13:07:49 -0700 | green-news
The dependence on imported coal for meeting energy requirements is likely to continue in the coming years, going by the Planning Commission's estimates. The Plan panel is of the view that the country would face shortfall of 200 million tonne...
Under Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal hurtling towards devastation, says Congress
Source: Indian Express
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 13:07:37 -0700 | sports-news
With Mamata Banerjee government completing two years in office in West Bengal, the Congress today claimed that its former ally's achievements were nil, and the state was hurtling towards devastation. "The achievements of Trinamool Congress regime in the last two...
Fire at Odisha Secretariat
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-05-18 09:13:06 -0700 | travel-news
A fire broke out at the health and family welfare department of the Odisha state secretariat in Bhubaneswar on Saturday, destroying some official documents and furniture, police sources said. According to sources, panic-stricken employees ran out of the backdoor as...
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