New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Corruption and Lokpal are likely to be the two decisive factors on which young people are going to vote in the Lok Sabha polls, search engine Google has said. After a three-month survey, Google concluded that the Lok Sabha elections have evoked unprecedented interest among […]
Agartala, March 3 (IANS) Tripura has kept its top position for the fifth consecutive year for offering 66 person-days so far in the current fiscal in executing the central government’s flagship rural jobs scheme MGNREGS, a minister said here Monday. “Tripura has been providing the highest average employment for the […]
Kottayam/New Delhi, March 3 (IANS) Retired apex court judge K.T. Thomas, who was named the head of the Lokpal search committee, Monday said he has declined to accept the appointment. Justice (retd) Thomas told reporters in Kottayam that he has already written to the prime minister’s office about his decision. […]
Washington, March 3 (IANS) Mukesh Ambani again emerged as the richest among ten Indians in the Forbes annual list of a record 1,645 billionaires with an aggregate net worth of $6.41 trillion, up from $5.4 trillion last year. Ambani, with a net worth of $18.6 billion was ranked 40th as […]
“You hold the acid that charred my dreams. You will hear and you will be told that the face you burned is the face I love now. You will hear about me in the darkness of confinement.” So said Laxmi, a “Stop Acid Attacks” campaigner from India in her first […]
Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit will be the new governor of Kerala, the presidential office announced Wednesday. A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said Dikshit will succeed Nikhil Kumar, whose resignation President Pranab Mukherjee has accepted “with immediate effect”. It said Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj would also look after Kerala “until […]
“12 Years a Slave”, a real life story of a man’s fight for survival and freedom, Sunday won the best film honour at the 86th Academy Awards. The story is about Solomon Northup, esayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, a free black man from upstate New York, who is abducted and sold […]
