Pt. Bhimsen Joshi
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi was born into a Kannada family in the town of Ron which was then in Gadag District in northern Karnataka state of India. His father, Gururaj Joshi, was a school teacher. Bhimsen was the eldest in a family of 16 siblings. Some of the siblings still live in their ancestral home in Gadag. Bhimsen lost his mother when he was young, and his step mother raised him. His parents lived initially with his grandfather as tenants of a Kulkarni household, but then moved to Gadag District. Read more
Kargil courier resumes service
Srinagar, Jan 19 (PTI) The Kargil courier air service resumed today after remaining suspended for over a fortnight due to bad weather with 248 stranding passengers airlifted in two sorties from Srinagar and Jammu. Read more
BSF jawans celebrate Lohri on Indo-Pak border
Octerio BOP (Indo-Pak border), Jan 13 (PTI) Miles away from their families, BSF jawans celebrated Lohri by dancing around bonfires and exchanging sweets with locals at Forward Border Out Post.
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Consumer Protection in India
The Consumer Protection Act in India celebrates its silver jubilee next year. Consumer is considered as an inevitable part of the socio-economic-political system, where the exchange initiated and transactions realized between two parties, namely buyers and sellers has an impact on a third party i.e., society. The inherent profit motive in mass production and sales also offers the opportunity to many manufacturers and dealers to exploit consumers. Thus the need for consumer satisfaction and consumer protection has been recognized. Read more
Special lanes for Cyber City execs
Employees of various multinational companies located in Gurgaon can now travel non-stop on the Expressway.
A separate lane has been marked at the toll plaza for DLF and Udyog Vihar bound traffic.
'TECHNOLOGY HAS TAKEN OVER'
Was your entry into journalism, as a trainee at The Statesman, New Delhi, by design or default?
It’s a funny story. People of your generation will probably not understand. When we were in final year at St Stephen’s in 1963, we started thinking, `After BA (in history) what?’ I did my MA but we were thinking what career we should get into. In our time, barely 20 years after the country’s independence, job opportunities were very limited. There were five or six options for boys: IAS, the Army, tea gardens, one of the British companies, medicine and law.
In the IAS, IFS was the first choice. Read more
Flood situation worsens in UP, 177 villages inundated
The flood situation worsened further in the western districts of Uttar Pradesh with the death of four more persons in rain related incidents even as around 177 villages of Bareilly, Badaun, Pilibhit and Shahajanpur were inundated.
Meanwhile, Congress President Sonia Gandhi has arrived here to undertake an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas, officials said. Read more
Tharoor may wed Dubai girlfriend on August 17
He’s been married and divorced twice.
Now, former Union minister of state for external affairs, Shashi Tharoor, is expected to get hitched again, this time to his friend Sunanda Pushkar, on August 17–the start of the Malayalam New Year.
Tharoor–whose divorce from his second wife, Canadian Christa Giles, came through on Friday –is likely to tie the knot at the Sree Padmanabha Swami Temple at Thiruvananthapuram, his constituency. Read more
Bengal train accident: 'Station master tried to alert driver'
The death toll in Monday’s Sainthia train collision in West Bengal has reached 63, with only 33 bodies identified so far. All bodies recovered from the wreckage will be shifted to Bardhaman Medical College hospital today.
While an enquiry is underway to ascertain what actually caused this devastating accident, preliminary reports point towards a human error. The Uttarbanga Express drove into the station at high speed, crashing into the rear of the Vananchal Express.
Now a signal incharge at the station told NDTV that he heard the station master trying to alert the driver of the Uttarbanga Express on the walkie-talkie (more formally known as a hand-held transceiver), but got no response.
Read full story at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/bengal-train-accident-station-master-tried-to-alert-driver-38498?from=rightpanel