The Awami League president and Prime Minister-in waiting, Sheikh Hasina has said the first task of her government will be to bring prices of essentials down within the purchasing power of the commoners and eradicate poverty, branded as the country”s worst enemy, reports UNB. "Our real victory will come if we could also ensure rule […]
Bullying Leads to 2 Deaths in India
Unable to bear the ragging by the senior students in college and frequent scolding by parents at home, Harika, a student of Osmania University Engineering College hanged herself to death at her home in Hyderabad on Saturday. The police said the girl has left behind a three page note detailing the reasons for her extreme step. […]
A cute little story….
‘How long will you be poring over that newspaper? Will you come here right away and make your darling daughter eat her food?’ I tossed the paper away and rushed to the scene. My only daughter Sindu looked frightened. Tears were welling up in her eyes. In front of her was a bowl filled to […]
The master of horror.
The jowly Brit with the morbid wit made lots of movies,hardly a misfire among them. Alfred Hitchcock invented the suspense genre,hosted a widly popular TV anthology series,and he is generally revered as one of the greatest creative mind in the history of the movies. In nearly every Hitchcock movie,there´s a central couple – lovers who […]
Trying to Make Nice
Dear Senator McCain, Well, gee, look at you, ‘eh? Have we finally met the “kinder, gentler” Republican that Republicans have been teasing us with for 20 years now? And why is my first instinct still to pull away? Maybe because it’s a Republican talking. Pure and simple. Perhaps you’ve heard the joke about what’s actually […]
Persevere and change your world
The Dainik Bhaskar group of newspapers is running an interesting advertising campaign titled "zid karo –duniya badlo" – persist and change the world. The campaign provides illustrations about how Indians have typically taken the path of least resistance in life – if you encounter a road that has been dug up, you take a different […]
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