The Delhi government has finalised amendments to two municipal acts, which would enable the authorities to levy a tax of Rs 500 a year on dog and cat owners, a senior official said. The Amendment Bill also plans to tax people for keeping buffaloes and cows for milking. While Rs 2,500 tax would have to be paid for a buffalo, a tax to the tune of Rs 2,000 would be levied for a cow.
The tabla maestro Zakir Hussain is heading to New York to perform at a Lincoln Center theatre as part of the Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion national tour.
Among the speakers will be F C Kohli, former vice chairman, TCS, Ajit Balakrishnan, founder chairman and CEO, rediff.com, Prabhakar Raghavan, head, Yahoo! Research, USA, Dr Pandu Nayak of Google, USA, Professor Noshir Contractor of Kellogg School of Management; Professor Vijay V Raghavan of University of Louisiana, Dr Rohini Srihari, CEO, Janya Inc & Faculty, University at Buffalo, among others.
Reduced hiring in the US market due to the lingering impact of the global financial crisis has resulted in a spike in the number of non-resident Indian resumes received by Indian human resources (HR) companies. Over 15,000 NRI resumes have accumulated in the inboxes of headhunters, and the number is set to increase, say HR executives.
India also happens to be the most richly endowed agricultural nation in Asia having 169 million hectares of arable land, accounting for one-tenth of the world's arable land and a fifth of the world's irrigated land at 56 million hectares with a coastline extending to 8000 km and vast marine wealth. India is the 10th most industrialised country and fourth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity with its GDP projected to grow at nearly 8 per cent in 2006-07.
A new study has shown that cutting down on calories at a young age may help you touch 70.
The goal is to identify the perpetrator in a security setting before he or she has the chance to carry out the attack
A dwindling population of swarm buffalo has hit the dairy industry in Assam's Sorbhog and Bokakhat areas, famous for curd and milk products.
Police sources said villagers looted around 35 truckloads of cattle feed after breaking open a rail rake when the train stopped near Mansi village in the district on its way to deliver relief to other flood-hit areas.
There was a time when the footwear exporters of Agra used to rue the fact that their export market was predominantly Europe where they could tot up only modest gains.
Life for him has come full circle, the paper said - from dire poverty in India to the life style of rich in America and back to his native village where he has traded his Mercedes for a bicycle.
It seems outsourcing is going to be the litmus test for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the run up to the 2008 United States Presidential elections.
For Nestle India, 'go for cow' is the new slogan. Even though the country concentrates on buffalo milk, Nestle is now consciously encouraging milk farmers to shift from buffalo to cow milk.
With the rural segment accounting for 60 per cent of sales for fast moving consumer goods companies and 40-50 per cent for consumer durables manufacturers, the government's admission of sowing having fallen almost 20 per cent due to the weak monsoon, and declaring 161 districts as drought-prone, has put these sectors under a cloud.
'Indian government is very keen to attract talent back, particularly for all the new institutions that it is building in the field of higher education.'
When John P Kapoor graduated from Bombay University in the 1960s, he had hoped to continue his studies in the United States but could not afford to pay for it. The State University of New York at Buffalo offered him a graduate fellowship.He never forgot his alma mater. In 2000, he gave it $5 million, and, recently, he increased that sum to $10.8 million.
Pakistan would discuss with the Indian government whether it would permit export of 5000 cows and buffalos, instead of meat through the Wagah border to meet the domestic demand.
The real assessment of the actual diplomatic gains out of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's three-day India visit can be made only after promised actions are initiated, but surely it has yielded some political dividend for the beleaguered United Progressive Alliance government, notes Sheela Bhatt.
With the biggest mandate for any Indian government in nearly two decades, Mr Singh can now enact bold legislation - including financial, labour and land reforms.
Dr Thomas Mar Makarios, metropolitan of the Canada, Britain and Europe Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, died on February 23 at Newcastle General Hospital, London. Dr Mar Makarios, 82, was seriously injured in a car accident on January 5 and remained on life support system thereafter.
The team now states that fever actually benefits the whole process by accelerating the surveillance process. "It's an attempt to accelerate identification and eradication of infection," said Evans.
Venkayya, who announced that he will join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, becomes the second Indian American to walk away, following close on the heels of Karan Bhatia, who resigned as deputy United States trade representative in October.
After being invited by IIM-A to lecture on the turnaround of the loss-making railways, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and his management techniques will be the subject of a new book.
Over 30 people, mostly women and children, are missing after a boat ferrying over 50 people capsized in the Ganga in Patna district on Thursday.
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Of the approximately 11,000 employees of Satyam USA, 7,000 are on H1B visas, says Mathew Daniel, a vice president of US operations with the company.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit says in an interview that the Centre can continue to handle the city's law and order situation but should reform the police system.
American researchers have revealed that a car's middle back seat may be the least desirable, most uncomfortable, most "un-cool" spot in the vehicle, but it happens to be the safest.
Dr Kumar Bahuleyan was born in a poor Dalit family in Chemmanakar. He moved to the US in his youth and earned millions as a neurosurgeon.
Andrologist and microsurgeon Dr Sudhakar Krishnamurti responds to rediff readers' sexual queries.
The government has approved livestock insurance scheme for implementation in 100 districts on pilot basis during 2005-06 and 2006-07 while its extension in eleventh five-year plan depends on the performance in the two years.
A woman along with her five children was burnt alive in Raghopur block of Bihar's Vaishali district in the wee hours Sunday for refusing to withdraw a theft case against three persons, police said.
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