If you want to start out as an Intelligence Bureau officer, then be prepared to earn Rs 5500 a month (basic) and expect an annual increment of Rs 175 until your salary touches Rs 9000. No wonder there is such a massive vacancy in the Intelligence Bureau which very often our politicians have accused of not providing the required alerts ahead of a terror strike. While the salary aspect to […]
The less than gentle joke in Maharashtra is that Sharad Pawar “Saheb” has enough personal wealth to run Delhi for five years. Pawar disagrees The formal statement he has filed before the Election Commission on oath indicates that Pawar is so poor that he might barely manage to buy a mid size flat in one of the slightly better neighborhoods of Delhi He is worth just Rs 3.6 crores. Even a casual chat […]
New Delhi: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Shashi Tharoor, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, found dead in a hotel in Delhi. Her dead body was found in suspicious condition in room number 345 of The Leela Palace, a hotel in Chanakyapuri area of New Delhi. The wife of Union Minister was in news yesterday due to a Twitter controversy. The couple yesterday cleared about “unseemly controversy” over some “unauthorised […]
India in the 2012 Olympics. The Olympics are never free from political influence and associations, but in India, political infighting has literally cost the nation’s athletes the chance to compete under their own flag. India’s membership in the International Olympic Committee has been frozen since December 2012, when the IOC learned that India elected officials accused of corruption to its national Olympic committee. The Indian Olympic Association will hold new […]
Anti-apartheid hero, imprisoned for 27 years, later became democratic South Africa’s first president. Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of modern times, passed away Thursday at his home in Johannesburg after a prolonged lung infection. He was 95. South African President Jacob Zuma announced that Mandela, “the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed,” adding that he “passed on peacefully.” “Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our […]
Excerpt from an interview with Vinita Kinra, author of recently published book Pavitra in Paris. Clamorworld: First of all, heartiest congratulations on publishing Pavitra in Paris. I must admit that every single story of your book stirs a range of emotions. How do you make your descriptions so vivid? Vinita Kinra: Thank you for your observation. My aim is to give a soul to every character of every story, […]
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Borgund Stave Church (Bokmål: Borgund stavkirke, Nynorsk: Borgund stavkyrkje) is a stave church located in Borgund, Lærdal, Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church of the so-called Sogn-type. This is also the best preserved of Norway’s 28 extant stave churches. Borgund was built sometime between 1180 and 1250 AD with later additions and restorations. Its walls are formed by vertical wooden boards, or staves, hence the name […]
Each spring thousands of migrant birds cross Malta on their way to breeding grounds in Europe, including the UK. In Malta, hunting birds is a cultural tradition, governed by strict rules, but some protected birds are illegally killed. Here a member of conservation group BirdLife Malta watches for migrating flocks. Hunters are only allowed to shoot two types of bird – quails and turtle doves – within a quota. This […]
