A top Indian banker in Dubai has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the banking industry and greater understanding of the economic development of the Middle East region. R Seetharaman, CEO of Doha Bank, has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the industry and his support for the environment and the business. The Banker Middle East Industry Awards 2015 […]

  As humans, most of us have been able to appreciate the beauty of African animals, either through photos, video footage, or by getting up close to them at zoos and on wildlife reserves. It almost seems unfair then, that a leopard living deep in the jungle can’t experience that same joy — unless, of course, she’s looking at another leopard. But what if wild animals were given access to […]

  A lion killed an American woman and injured a man driving through a private wildlife park in Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said. The attack occurred at around 2:30 p.m. local time when a lioness approached the passenger side of the vehicle as the woman took photos and then lunged, said Scott Simpson, assistant operations manager at the Lion Park. “They had their windows all the way down, […]

Rare sightings of a beluga whale in the Halifax area are raising questions about whether there is more than one of the animals nearby. The whale has been spotted in both the Halifax Harbour and the waters off Terence Bay, a rural fishing community in the Halifax Regional Municipality, about 30 kilometres by land from downtown Halifax. Initially, it was assumed to be the same whale. However, the timeline raises […]

Let’s talk about the oppression of our minds. How our minds end up screwing everything up, when we don’t want it to. In my own life, I know that my worst foe is my inner critic. Maybe you’ve dealt with this inner critic. This voice that seems to pop up out of nowhere, all of a sudden you feel like you’re on fire, and BOOM! You burst, and you don’t […]

The two co-champions of the US national spelling bee are sharing a trophy, marking the second year in a row the contest ended in a tie. Vanya Shivashankar, 13, is a five-time competitor of the bee, and her sister won in 2009. Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, nearly won last year. Paige Kimble, the bee’s executive director, was shocked to see another tie. She had predicted another half-century would pass before it […]

PATHANKOT: A pigeon which crossed the Indo-Pak border into India’s Pathankot area was captured and detained for being a ‘suspected spy’ on Thursday, according to a report published on The Times of India website. The development comes two days after India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) issued an alert to the Punjab Police regarding suspected militant activity in the area. A stamped message and a wire-like object on the ‘intruder’, which landed […]

  News about heat wave related death is pouring in almost every hour. The unofficial death toll now pegs it over 1000. With the Indian Meteorological Department indicating that temperature will continue to remain this high for at least another week, the fear of more deaths looms very large.  What is essentially worrying is the huge loss in lives. Be it summers or winters, almost every year with clock-work precision […]

HYDERABAD: The heatwave sweeping through Telangana and Andhra Pradesh claimed 90 more lives in the two states, taking the toll to over 800. While 55 people succumbed to sunstroke in Andhra Pradesh, 35 were killed in Telangana. Andhra Pradesh’s deputy chief minister N Chinna Rajappa on Tuesday said 551 people died till Monday while disaster management officials in Telangana confirmed 215 deaths. The deaths reported on Tuesday have not yet […]

  BERNE: Two Indian women figure among scores of foreign nationals with Swiss bank accounts, whose names have been made public by Switzerland in its official gazette for being probed in their respective countries. Making public these names, the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has asked the two Indians to file an appeal within 30 days before the Federal Administrative Court if they do not want their details to be […]