The government Monday consulted leaders of parties in the Lok Sabha on the controversial women’s reservation bill but some of them remained bitterly opposed to the proposed legislation.
In his capacity as the leader of the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee convened the meeting attended by a string of political heavyweights at the parliament complex.
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Police Monday seized the passport of Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik after quizzing him for nearly two hours at his fiancee Sania Mirza’s home in connection with a complaint filed against him by Ayesha Siddiqui, who claims to be his first wife.
Shoaib was unhappy that his passport had been seized and said he would complain to [...] Continue reading Cops seize Shoaib’s passport after two-hour grilling
As the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh prepares to take workers from the state to participate in the party’s April 21 agitation against price rise in Delhi, its IT cell has decided to launch an e-campaign against the hike in prices, party sources said Monday.
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An anthropologist has successfully recreated the face of a woman, who lived 600 years ago in New Zealand, with the help of a skull excavated in 1939.
Using digital technology, facial anthropologist Susan Hayes from the University of Western Australia (UWA) determined the facial structure from Computed Tomography (CT) scans of the skull recovered from a [...] Continue reading Skull CT scans recreate face of woman in ancient world