Indian-origin boy Sameer Mishra has won Scripps National Spelling Bee contest, beating 288 children in the 8 to 15 age group.
“Guerdon” said the judges. Thirteen-year-old eight grader asked for the definition, and then confidently spelled it out correctly to the thunderous applause from the audience.
It was a proud moment for Mishra who had participated in [...]
Pressing matters of state prevented Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from meeting and catching up with his old school friend Raja Mohammed Ali, 76, for almost a week.
Ali, resident of Singh’s ancestral Gah village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, came bearing soil from Singh’s old homestead to meet his old friend ‘Mohna’, now the Prime Minister of [...]
NEW DELHI: Tata Motors on Wednesday warned of “challenging times ahead” and announced raising of Rs 7,200 crore through three simultaneous but unlinked rights issues to fund its ambitious takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover marques from Ford.
In a first of its kind in the country, the company will introduce shares with differential voting rights, [...]
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Wednesday 28 May, 2008
NSW Premier Morris Iemma today welcomed the Hon. Sri Praful Patel, Minister for Civil Aviation in India, to Sydney to discuss ways to further strengthen ties between NSW and India in the aviation sector.
“I met with Mr Patel during my visit to India last year, and I am delighted to welcome him [...]
Leading Indian-origin women from the fields of journalism, art, education and finance were among the awardees at this year’s Asian Women of Achievement Awards announced at a high profile event here.
Cherie Blair, wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and actress Liz Hurley looked resplendent in saris as they attended the ninth annual awards event [...]
Indians have turned out to be the largest group of immigrants, who have been granted British citizenship during 2007, according to the official figures released this week.
Last year, a record numbers of foreign nationals, 164,635 people, were granted citizenship, a seven per cent rise in 12 months. It was the highest since the Home Office [...]
A Goa-born surgeon researching and teaching at the Dundee University in Scotland has pioneered a new method for the early detection of breast cancer.
Jayant Vaidya, senior lecturer and consultant surgeon at the university, is a leading member of a team of surgeons that discovered that malignant tumours remain cold when surrounding breast tissue is heated [...]
SYDNEY- A passion fruit extract can cut down severe wheezing and coughing among asthma patients and help reduce blood pressure, a new study published in the journal Nutrition Research , has found.
In a placebo-controlled, double-blind trial, only about a fifth of the people receiving purple passion fruit skin extracts had wheeze as a symptom, compared [...]
It has become a norm of sorts. Every time Shaun Marsh walks out to the middle, he scores without fail. It wasn’t any different on Wednesday. Instead it was better than whatever he had dished out prior to this match. The left-hander came out firing on all cylinders, unleashing strokes to every corner of the [...]
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