Army’s special recruitment drive in northeast India
The Indian Army has given a special dispensation for the youth of northeast India to join the military, an official said here on Wednesday.
Ex-king’s kin flees Nepal
Kathmandu, Aug. 11: Former king Gyanendra’s son-in-law, Raj Bahadur Singh, has fled Nepal after his brush with the law last week that got him handcuffed and cooling his heels inside a police cell.
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US okays bill to hike visa fee
Washington, Aug. 11: Amid protests from India, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill to steeply hike US visa fee for skilled workers to raise $600 million in emergency funding to help secu
US man marinates cat in car
New York, Aug. 11: An American man who was caught marinating his cat in a mixture of peppers, salt and oil inside a cage in the car bonnet said he was doing so because the feline was mean and ill-temp
Colonise space, says Hawking
London, Aug. 9: Unless humans colonise space within the next two centuries, they will become extinct, said noted astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.
He has warned adding: “Our only chance of long term su
‘Foreign firms eye Dhaka, Chittagong’
Asian investors want to set up manufacturing units or relocate their existing industries only around the national capital and port town of Chittagong in Bangladesh, says an official.
Rajya Sabha adjourned over Mamata rally
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 12 noon on Tuesday following heated words between the Opposition and the treasury benches over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s demands for suspending question hour for a discussion on railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s rally at Lalgarh.
'CEOs worth their huge pay packets'
Do CEOs deserve their huge salaries? 'Yes', a good chief executive is not only worth his or her whopping pay packet, but it's also vital to ensure business success, says a new study. The international
Mamata bashing unites BJP, Left in Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday witnessed rare unity between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left parties with both attacking Trinamool Congress chief and the railway minister, Mamata Banerjee, over her rally in Lalgarh.
Even insects have a self-protective instinct
Plant-dwelling insects drop to the ground to avoid being chewed by herbivores as they can sense the imminent danger on mammals' breath, a study has found.
Herbivores could easily gobble up some extra