Chennai: ST-CMS Electric Company, a subsidiary of the global energy company Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA), today announced that it has contributed US$50,000 to the Chief minster’s public relief fund for Tamil Nadu Government’s relief and rehabilitation efforts following Cyclone Thane in December 2011. This follows an initial donation made by ST-CMS Electric [...]

Manila: Targeted food subsidies can help in South Asia says an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report. A 10% increase in prices could push almost 30 million more Indians and nearly 4 million more Bangladeshis into extreme poverty. South Asia’s high population growth rates and the high number of people already living on or close to [...]

Kolkata: CRY- Child Rights and You has expressed its deep reservations about the grossly inadequate provisions made by the union government for important child welfare programmes and schemes in the union budget 2012-13. With at least 8.1 million children in 6-14 age group currently out of school, the allocation for the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) [...]

Mumbai: Church accepts the possibility of god’s intervention in human being’s life in extraordinary way’s, while it does not pays too much attention to extraordinary phenomenon’s, says a statement by Bishop Agnelo Gracias from Mumbai Archdiocese. Reacting to statements made on television by Sanal Edamaruku, the founder-president of Rationalist International, over the ‘dripping cross’ at [...]

Mumbai: The primary concern for an urban Indian during financial planning is Child’s education, as per Life Freedom Report by HDFC Life and ValueNotes survey. Other high priority concerns are health expense, dependent’s marriage and retirement. The unexpected events like accident, death or natural calamity rank second on the list of priorities. External factors like [...]

Nevada: The popular new Hindu-themed angry action video-game “Asura’s Wrath” is under the scanner from Hindu groups for trivializing Hinduism and its concepts. As per the makers, Once a revered deity, Asura was betrayed by his fellow gods and stripped of all his powers. Consumed by anger at the injustice he has suffered and swearing [...]

Utah: A US researcher has alleged proxy baptism of Mahatma Gandhi by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) headquartered in Salt Lake City (Utah, USA). Independent researcher Helen Radkey of Salt Lake City, in an email to Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, sent pages from FamilySearch, an [...]

Bhopal: Ancient temple town’s Mahakaleshwar shrine, the principal among the India’s dozen jyotirlingas, wore a festive look today as thousands of devotees from various parts of the country arrived on the occasion of Mahashivratri. Mahashivratri is the occasion of marriage ceremony of Lord Shiva and Goddess Uma. Following the morning’s ‘bhasma arti’ early this morning, [...]

London: Davinder Singh Dhaliwal, a person of Indian origin, has been jailed along with an alcoholsmuggling gang for £50m fraud in Britain. The 32 yrs old Dhaliwal, a resident of Langdale Gardens, Dartford, Kent, had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to cheating the Public Revenue and fraudulent evasion of excise duty and was sentenced [...]

The man who designed the National Center for performing Arts (NCPA) and acclaimed architect Mr. Rustom BJ Patell passed away on 13th November, 2011, after a brief illness at Breach Candy Hospital, at the age of 86. Mr. BJ Patell was the architect of the entire NCPA Complex as well as several other iconic structures [...]