China has ranked the 3rd place as the world’s largest exporter of arms along with US and Russia being the 1st and 2nd, respectively. According to research conducted by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, it is said that China between 2010 and 2014 competed with Germany, France Continue Reading
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This is about two profiles of sample audiences. In the first case, they had dropped out of classroom and school when they were twelve, thirteen or may be even fourteen. They were just disinterested in education at that time. My friend Khalid studies their life style and body language. He makes inferences from his sixteen […]Continue Reading
On 17 January, Manappuram Finance was in the news when we were awarded the prestigious KMA NASSCOM IT Innovation Award at the annual convention of the Kerala Management Association, in Kochi. The announcement was a fitting acknowledgement of the cutting-edge work our IT department has been doing in recent days. So far, much of the […]Continue Reading
Fairy tales and frothy princess gowns might be the perfect draw for kids, but with Walt Disney Co.’s retelling of the “Cinderella” story, the grown-ups might find themselves doing the fantasising. British director Kenneth Branagh has taken the fairy tale that Disney’s 1950 animated film made famous and turned it into a live-action spectacle. Stars Continue Reading
A court summoned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday over accusations of criminal conspiracy and corruption in the legal award of a coal field, a blow for the Gandhi dynasty that ruled India until last year. A special court under the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ordered the 82-year-old Singh, billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla […]Continue Reading
Sam Simon, a co-creator of Fox’s long-running hit animated series “The Simpsons” and an ardent philanthropist for animals, died after a battle with colon cancer, his agent said on Monday. He was 59. “The Simpsons” co-creator Matt Groening, who worked with Simon to develop the show for Fox’s broadcast channel, said in a statement, Continue Reading
Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta are seeking to overturn penalties imposed against them for insider trading, citing a recent U.S. court decision that narrowed the definition of that offence. Rajaratnam, who is serving an 11-year prison term, is trying to void a $92.8 million […]Continue Reading
The police arrested 22 people on Sunday over last week’s storming of a high security prison in Nagaland and subsequent lynching of a rape suspect, an act of mob violence that sparked protests in a region divided on religious and ethnic lines. Several thousand people in restive Nagaland state attacked the prison to drag out […]Continue Reading
Progress is being made on drawn-out border talks with India, China’s foreign minister said on Sunday, likening the process to climbing a mountain that becomes harder the closer to the summit you get. The neighbouring giants have had numerous rounds of talks over the years without making much apparent process, in a dispute which dates […]Continue Reading



















