Started in 1989, World Haemophilia Day is observed each year on April 17 to raise awareness and also to raise funds for the bleeding disorder. Haemophilia is a congenital lifelong bleeding disorder that prevents the blood from clotting properly, leading to internal bleeding; mostly in the joints, muscles and vital organs like the brain. In many cases, the disease leads to permanent disability. Major Types   There are two major […]

  LONDON: India’s foremost mental health expert who spends most of his time between Goa and London has now been named as among TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. Professor Vikram Patel, who has done seminal research on suicides in India hopes that his presence in the list makes the Indian government wake up to the serious shortage of programmes and experts meant specially to deal with […]

They are rich, they are posh, they are good looking – but underneath all that lies the craziness in the Mehra family. The much awaited trailer is out and boy does it raise the expectations. Anil Kapoor and Shefali Shah play rich parents to a bratty Ranveer Singh who keeps running away from commitment and a unhappily married Priyanka Chopra. The trailer speaks volumes of the miscommunication, the daggers drawn […]

HYDERABAD: There may not be many takers for the famous Ongole bull in its native Andhra Pradesh, but Brazilians have second bred it by the lakhs and are in turn exporting it to other countries at very high prices. Realizing that the original Ongole bull has become the proverbial goose that lays the golden egg, the Brazilians have now sought permission from the Chennai-based National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) to take […]

India’s secularism is strong and it will not be shaken, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a reception in Berlin for the Indian community, hosted by the Indian ambassador to Germany on Monday night.   The Prime Minister was talking about Sanskrit. He said decades ago, German radio had a news bulletin in Sanskrit when there was none in India. “I must applaud the Germans, they had Sanskrit news bulletins…our […]

[2015] Wondering how much money we’re making at the start of 2015? Statistics Canada has just released their latest report on how the average salaries that Canadians are earning. And it turns out that we’re taking home a little more than we were a year earlier. At the end of last year, as of December 2014, the average wage for Canadian employees was $943 a week – or just over […]

A special court on Thursday sentenced the former chief of outsourcing giant Satyam to seven years in jail over a USD 2.25 billion accounting fraud scandal dubbed “India`s Enron”. Prosecutor K Surender said Byrraju Ramalinga Raju, his brother and eight others had been found guilty of manipulating Satyam`s books, in a 2009 case that shook the industry and raised questions about the country`s regulators. Following are the important events in […]

Yograj Singh, father of Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh, rued his son’s exclusion from the ICC World Cup 2015 and blasted skipper MS Dhoni saying there will be a day when he will be left to beg and become penniless and would not get any favour.   “Dhoni was nothing. He has become a God in cricket just because of media. Media has crowned him as a great which he never […]

  A 34-member Indian Army mountaineering team has also been tasked with cleaning the slopes of Everest and bringing down non-biodegradable mountaineering waste that’s been left behind by generations of mountain climbers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat mission is set to reach the top of the world. A 34-member Indian Army mountaineering team is preparing for a challenging journey to scale Mount Everest to mark the golden jubilee of […]

Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe’s directorial debut “The Water Diviner” is set to release in India on April 24. Crowe is back to enthrall the audience with his performance and not just as an actor, but as a director as well. The movie is an adaptation of the book “The Water Diviner”, written by Andrew Anastasios, read a statement. The movie stars Jai Courtney, Olga Kurylenko and Crowe himself in pivotal […]