LeT's Annual Military Budget: $5.2 Million

LeT using JuD's charitable networks to raise funds, recruit fidayeen, says US intelligence report to Pakistan Washington, Dec 6 : The annual military operations budget of terror outfit LeT is a whopping USD 5.2 million, according to a secret US document which gives details about the outfit's fund raising activities, some of which comes through Jamaat-ud-Dawah's charitable networks. The information...

Honey: Nature's Troubleshooter

Honey has been in news for the wrong reasons lately. Antibiotic residues have been found in leading brands of honey – but it is a reflection on the way we produce our food. Honey, a syrupy, sweet liquid is obtained from plant nectar by honey bees. About 80 per cent of honey is simple sugars, mostly fructose and glucose with small quantities of other sugars like maltose, sucrose and other complex...

How The Banana Goes to Heaven

And other food fables Food was once a good word. It symbolised fulfilment, nutrition and well-being. But when did it all change? When did we become such guilt-ridden unhappy eaters? Food writer Ratna Rajaiah explores many such questions in her new book "How the Banana Goes to Heaven". The cover of Ratna Rajaiah's book "How the banana goes to Heaven" "As our cells are nourished and replenished,...

New Rules on How to End Nuisance Calls on Your Mobile

New Delhi, Dec 6 : Dheeraj Kumar, a real estate broker here and frequent traveller, finally hopes he will be spared from the unwanted calls from tele-marketing firms and the hole they burn in his wallet following new norms announced by the telecom watchdog. Experts also agree that this time the penalty on errant companies that can stretch up to Rs.250,000 will be a major deterrent. But what worry...

DGCA Acts: Airfares Slashed by 20-25 Percent

New Delhi, Dec 6 : A day after being rebuked by the government over unreasonably high air fares, private airlines have slashed ticket prices on most routes. Tickets on the Delhi-Mumbai sector, for Saturday evening and Sunday morning, are available for Rs 5,900. Earlier, the lowest available ticket on the Delhi-Mumbai sector was priced at over Rs 17,000, reports added. DGCA had earlier this week...

Pill For Rape Victims a Must

Delhi health dept bats for morning-after pill for victims The Delhi government’s health department on Thursday said the protocol for rape cases should include administering a morning-after pill to the victim so as to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The Dhaula Kuan rape victim was not given a morning after pill after the crime, said officials at the Safdarjung Hospital — where the girl’s medical...

Northeast Girl Molested, Beaten up by Africans in Delhi

By Atul Krishan New Delhi, Dec 6 : The victim, who is from Manipur, has identified two African men in police records as the perpetrators. The accused are at large A day after Delhi police arrested the fourth accused in the gang rape case of a BPO employee in the Capital, another woman from the northeast revealed to MiD DAY that two men of African origin tried to rape her in Saket...

Return Of The Rebel

By Patricia Mukhim UNLF chairman Raj Kumar Meghen in Guwahati on Friday. After the Wikileaks and the transcripts of the Niira Radia tapes, the former having created a major political quake worldwide and the latter throwing out of gear the entire edifice of what is respectfully referred to as the fourth estate, we in the Northeast are now grappling with the modus operandi in which different rebel...