Bangalore (PTI): Amid protests over the ban on playing of live music and dancing at pubs in the city, police today raided and closed down 32 discotheques which were “operating illegally.”
The discos were operating without a legal valid license, Bangalore Police Commissioner Shankar Bidari told reporters here on Monday. (more…)
NEW DELHI: Nearly 600 foreign and national companies will participate in Aero India-2009, one of the largest international aerospace exhibitions, to be held in Bangalore next year.
Armament majors from several countries, including the US, Britain, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Ukraine and the Netherlands, will participate in Asia’s premier show starting February 9. (more…)
Bangalore: A state cabinet sub-committee is still analyzing the possibilities of scrapping the capital value system (CVS) of property tax collection in Bangalore . International examples , though, suggest ensuring streamlined tax-collection depends more on administrative will than the model of taxation.
Lawrence C Walters , professor of public policy and management at Romney Institute of Public Management, Utah, while presenting a paper during an international conference on public policy and management, said ability to realize the potential of land-based tax critically depends on quality of governance. (more…)
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain isn’t letting Paris Hilton distract him from his new line of attack — that Barack Obama is more of a celebrity than a leader.
McCain on Wednesday released a second television ad that paints Obama as a celebrity, following an earlier ad that linked his Democratic rival in the November election to tabloid staples like Hilton and Britney Spears. (more…)
Anna Patterson
Anna Patterson (born 1973 in Chicago) is an American academic and technologist. She is president of Cuil, a search engine. Patterson is noted for having created the world’s biggest search engine index consisting of 30 billion pages using information from the Internet Archive at Archive.org.
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Former president Bill Clinton said on Thursday that he would like to campaign in support of Barack Obama’s candidacy “whenever he asks”.
“We had a good talk and he said he wanted me to campaign with him and I said I was eager to do so”, Bill Clinton said this at a press conference to announce his foundation’s breakthrough on Malaria drug prices. (more…)
Pope Benedict XVI will meet thousands of young Catholics from all over the world in Sydney
Billed as the largest youth event in the world, World Youth Day’08 is a five-day long international Catholic youth rally, where young people gather to meet Pope Benedict XVI. It begins in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday July 15 and ends with a Mass said by Benedict XVI on Sunday July 20. The Pope arrived on Sunday, July 13. (more…)
More than 2,200 Online Viewers Selected the Golden Retriever, Siberian Husky, and Yorkshire Terrier as Three of the 15 Most Beautiful Breeds
DAYTON, Ohio, April 12 /PRNewswire/ — Gorgeous celebrities like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Taye Diggs, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, and even George Clooney will have some unexpected competition for the title of “most beautiful” this Spring. While these stars are known for gracing the cover and pages of People magazine’s annual most beautiful issue, a new breed of beauties are getting their chance at print stardom as Eukanuba, in partnership with Gatsby Publications, unveils the winners of the first annual Eukanuba 15 Most Beautiful Breeds survey today. (more…)
BANGALORE: The IT capital Bangalore and rest of Karnataka appears to be heading for fuel shortage following inability by oil companies to supply sufficient quantity of oil.
“There is fuel shortage and the situation might get worse in another one week to 15 days”, says Bhushan Narang, President, Bangalore Dealers Association and Akhila Karnataka Petroleum Dealers Association. (more…)
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton at their first joint campaign appearance Friday in Unity, New Hampshire.
UNITY, N.H. — Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton set off on their maiden political voyage on Friday, trading their rivalry from the presidential primary battle for a newfound display of harmony intended to set a fresh tone for any Democrats still harboring bitterness from their grueling duel.
It was a day of choreographed unity — their destination was a rally here in this small western New Hampshire town — with the two senators appearing together before the cameras for the first time. Three weeks after suspending her campaign, Mrs. Clinton renewed her endorsement and pledged to do all she could to help Democrats win the White House in the fall. (more…)