Have Diabetes? Get Married

Meet your match here: A screenshot of the website diabeticmatrimony.com An NGO has come up with a website that aims to provide matrimonial services and awareness to people affected by the disease Even a chronic disease like diabetes needn't stop you from spending a normal life. But most impaired persons know that discrimination is almost inevitable. Kavita Sharma...

Why Do People Pay So Much For Celebrity Items?

Washington, Feb 16 : Why would someone pay a fortune for an item that had belonged to Jackie Kennedy or for a celebrity's footstool? Study authors from Yale and Bar-llan Universities, seeking to find an explanation, researched the concept of "contagion" -- the belief that a person's essence can be transferred onto an object through contact. "We were curious to examine the degree to which contagion...

This Special Child Is A Special Police Informer

By Vivek Sabnis Young Samaritan: Sonu Gaikwad, who has learning difficulties, has also saved an injured person's life in a hit-and-run case. Pic/Vivek Sabnis Pune, Feb 16 : 12-yr-old boy who attends school for special kids helps cops catch criminals by reporting people whose behaviour he finds suspicious. Three days ago, 12-year-old Sonu Balu Gaikwad tipped off policemen...

Realty Check

Chronicling Shahid Balwa's astounding rise to one of the richest men in the country DB Group managing director Shahid Usman Balwa came into the limelight when Forbes magazine named him in its November 2009 issue, as the 50th richest man in India, estimating his net worth at $ 1.2 billion. Ever since, his net worth has continued to be a topic of constant discussion by the financial community,...

2 Mizoram Districts Declared 'Gender Critical' For Census

Aizawl, Feb 16 : Women population in Mizoram will be given extra attention during population enumeration beginning February 9 with two of the eight districts being been classified as 'gender critical. Based on certain indicators in the Census 2011, Lawngtlai district and Mamit district in the male-dominated state of Mizoram have been identified as gender critical among 262 districts and cities in...

High Court Admits PIL On Kau-Tlabung Scam

Aizawl, Feb 16 : Gauhati High Court admitted a petition filed by Mizoram-based anti-corruption watchdog Prism, seeking restoration of a corruption case involving Kau-Tlabung mini hydro projects in Mizoram. Prism (Peoples Right to Information and Development Implementing Society (PRISM) had last year filed a restoration PIL against the state government’s alleged withdrawal of a criminal case in this...

Mizoram Elderly Excited To Be On India Tour

Aizawl, Feb 16 : Fifteen senior citizens from remote places of Mizoram will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit some important historical places in India, thanks to the country's oldest para-military force. ''I am really excited. This will be the first time in my life that I am travelling out of the state of Mizoram,'' exclaimed 70-year-old Dorema, who is part of an Assam Rifles-sponsored...

Displaced Persons From India- Bangladesh Border Stage a Protest Rally in Agartala

Agartala, Feb 16 : Hundreds of displaced persons from the India-Bangladesh border region in northeastern state of Tripura staged a rally at Agartala, the capital of Tripura to pressurise the state government to consider and implement their demands for apt rehabilitation. The people were displaced due to the erection of barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh border. Subal Bhowmick, President...