Leptospirosis kills 2 this month
Ten days after rains and floods paralysed Mumbai, leptospirosis has struck in a big way and claimed two lives and affected 15 others in the first four days of July.
Ten days after rains and floods paralysed Mumbai, leptospirosis has struck in a big way and claimed two lives and affected 15 others in the first four days of July.
A little less than half of the city’s homeless children aged between 15 and 18 years are school dropouts, a report released on Friday by a social venture, Information and Resource Centre for the Deprived Urban Communities (IRCDUC), has found.
Capital controls in Greece don’t appear yet to have significantly curbed the country’s imports—amounting to about $64 billion a year—especially that of essential items like food, drugs and fuel. That is thanks to safety valves long in place amid years of economic strain here. But for nonessential goods, in particular luxury items, Greek importers are starting to feel the squeeze.
The Botanic Garden of Indian Republic (BGIR) in Sector 38 will soon set up its own weather station for meteorological data analysis to improve the ex situ (outside their natural setting) conservation of plants.
Chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Saturday morning took oath as member of legislative assembly, a few days after she was declared elected in a bypoll to the Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency in north Chennai.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Adding a second round-trip train between St. Paul and Chicago could prove to be popular, a new Amtrak study says.
(AP) — Adding a second round-trip train between St. Paul and Chicago could prove to be popular, a new Amtrak study says. The proposal for a second Amtrak train is independent of discussions about starting high-speed rail service between St. Paul and Chicago. The study assumes the train would follow the same route as the current one, with a top speed of 79 miles per hour, with the addition of a Milwaukee Airport Rail Station stop.
Career criminal has committed 506 offences but has avoided prison for each of his latest crimes
Teaching posts lying vacant for long, non-appointment of a fulltime registrar, a retired professor officiating as ‘director’ and commencing new courses without adequate infrastructure have all started harming the academic profile of Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University.
An illegal four-storey building in Nalasopara is leaning on its adjacent wing. Eyewitnesses claim that the building started tilting about two months ago, but residents said they noticed the anomaly only on Friday and reported it to the civic body.
Francois Bernier once said the mausoleum of Taj Mahal should be numbered above the pyramids of Egypt when it comes to wonders of the world.
During the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin and Paul Revere were among the people who created stunning pieces of art that inspired the fight for America's independence.
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The Noida Authority has finalized the financial bids for appointing a consultant for a proposed 6-km skywalk for the Sector 18 market complex.
LONDON - About an hour after flopping on her back and kicking her feet overhead to celebrate a stunning comeback from a set and a break down against defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, Jelena Jankovic still was giddy.
Opposition parties in the state, including DMK, PMK and MDMK, have registered strong protests against the Tamil Nadu government for citing an Intelligence Bureau report in its petition to the Supreme Court that ‘remnant cadres of LTTE’ were posing a threat to the Mullaperiyar dam.
With just months away for the assembly polls, CPM leaders on Saturday called on MDMK leader Vaiko and announced a joint movement with like-minded parties to fight corruption, communalism and anti-people policies of the state and Union governments.
Following a disciplinary inquiry initiated against one of its professors, the management of Wilson College, Charni Road, has decided to terminate his services. A notice has been issued to professor Naseer Jahagirdar (48), asking him to explain why his services should not be terminated.
Though two Shiroda colleges - Shri Kamaxidevi Homeopathic College and Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology – have been allowed provisionally to carry out admissions for 2015-16 by Goa University, varsity officials said the decision had to be taken only out of consideration for the students andfaculty.
It's the second formal meeting with the newly formed gruop.
Power minister Milind Naik on Saturday refuted the recent allegations that the state government was responsible for the steep hike in the power tariffs
LONDON (AP) — About an hour after flopping on her back and kicking her feet overhead to celebrate a stunning comeback from a set and a break down against defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvi…
LONDON (AP) — About an hour after flopping on her back and kicking her feet overhead to celebrate a stunning comeback from a set and a break down against defending Wimbledon champion Petra Kvi…
OREM, Utah - A pilot who delivered candy to children in Berlin at the end of World War II parachuted sweets down to Orem to celebrate Independence Day.
The community flocked to downtown Saturday for the city of Tomah's annual Fourth of July parade down Superior Avenue. The parade The parade route ran south down Superior Avenue from Nott Stree…