Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhoea resulting from a drought, the prime minister said on Saturday, as the area braces itself for widespread shortages of food. In February, United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said the drought in Somalia could lead to up to 270,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition this year. “It is a difficult situation for the […]
Did you know Kolkata has the highest number of millionaires? If this surprises you, let’s tell you that Kolkata even houses the most posh localities in India- Alipore and Ballygunge. India’s financial capital Mumbai, which is home to 46,000 millionaires and 28 billionaires, is the richest Indian city with a total wealth of $ 820 billion, says a report. According to New World Wealth, Mumbai is the richest city in […]
In a spirit of brotherhood, villagers clean Nand Kishore temple in Bandipora for puja. Muslims have cleaned up and organised a puja at a temple and 1,000 specially-designed ‘Herath’ greeting cards have been produced: this Sivaratri, Kashmiri Pandits and Muslims are bonding strongly, and social media is providing the platform to relive past memories. For the first time since hundreds of Pandit families migrated out of the Valley in the […]
Global wealth migration is accelerating as around 82,000 ultra-rich people shifted overseas in 2016, compared to 64,000 in 2015 and Australia is the top country for millionaire inflows, says a report. Millionaires or High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs) refer to individuals with net assets of $1 million or more. According to New World Wealth’s latest report on global wealth and wealth migration trends in 2016, for the second straight year […]
Skyscrapers are sprouting in Dubai like wild mushrooms – the latest project being the Dynamic Tower Hotel that will be the world’s first rotating skyscraper. Yes, you guessed it right. The residents will be able to spin their apartments and control the speed of it too. Scheduled for a grand opening in 2020, the Dynamic Tower hotel is being planned since 2008 by Israeli-Italian architect David Fisher. The tower will […]
Malaysian police said on Sunday that four North Korean suspects in the murder of the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fled Malaysia on the day of the killing. The four North Koreans flew out of Malaysia, but police would not reveal the flight’s destination, just that they were coordinating with Interpol to track them down. Malaysian police arrested a North Korean man on Friday in connection […]
The most sought-after ‘Tirupati Laddu’ has caused an annual loss of over Rs 140 crore to the cash-rich administration of Lord Venkateswara hill shrine for the last three years owing to its subsidised price and free distribution to some devotees, temple sources said. The mouth-watering sweet dish has been sold by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) at a subsidised price of Rs 25 per piece for the last 11 years […]
Can you believe that Bengaluru was a rocky, barren plateau just 250 years ago? Since then, thanks to the efforts of first the Tigers of Mysore, and then botanists and horticulture authorities, Bengaluru has managed to become home to one of the greatest collection of trees from around the world. This is the story Vijay Thiruvady, a Koramangala-resident and Trustee at the Bangalore Environment Trust (BET), tells in his beautiful […]
A Pakistani activist abducted last month has broken his silence on his weeks-long disappearance, but is refusing to point fingers in a country where criticising extremism or the security establishment can make you a target. Ahmad Waqass Goraya was among five activists who vanished in Pakistan in early January. Human Rights Watch, opposition lawmakers and Pakistani activists have said their near simultaneous abductions pointed to government involvement in a country […]
It’s a quiet, sunny morning in Bateshwar. There isn’t a soul in sight and the only sign of human activity one can see is a plume of smoke rising up from the top of a ravine. “It’s from a house inside the hill,” the driver says. “The old baba always cooks his lunch outside.” So off I go a steep, sandy path to the top, where the dry sand […]
