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A new study has revealed that one mother in every three is the breadwinner for their family.

The research uncovers a new socioeconomic phenomenon with major implications for government policies on childcare and shared parental leave.

The number of breadwinning mothers, which includes those earning more than their partner or those who are working single mothers, has soared from 18 percent 15 years ago to 31 percent today, the study by the IPPR think tank found.

A friend with dogged determination to show that the BJP is a lesser culprit of communal violence and that Congress is the major party to be blamed, listed the major communal riots in India and showed that most of the time when violence took place, it was Congress which has been the ruling party. He asks, so why get stuck with one episode of Gujarat violence and put it as a major point against Narendra Modi or BJP for that matter?

Let us also reflect more deeply on the true meaning of Ramadan; that time when we are are reminded that all Muslims are enjoined by our Creator to abstain from all eating and drinking during daylight hours. This month of fasting and spiritual reflection brings us closer to Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala and more attuned to the needs and suffering of other human beings.

Indeed, we experience the temporary discomfort of hunger and thirst each day, but the magnitude of chronic hunger in our world is truly staggering.

Consider, if you will, the following disturbing statistics:

After remaining stagnant since 2009, housing prices in Hyderabad are set to rise as the market sentiment is likely to improve following Congress party’s decision to create Telangana state out of Andhra Pradesh, rating agency Crisil said today.

After a four-year hiatus, residential real estate prices are set to rise at a relatively faster pace in Hyderabad with the likely resolution of the Telangana issue (the announcement of the creation of a separate Telangana state and giving the city a special status for 10 years),” Crisil said in a statement.

Andhra Pradesh, in the shape it existed for nearly 57 years, will now be cast into history with the centre Tuesday deciding to carve out Telangana state.

The state came into being on Nov 1, 1956, with the merger of Hyderabad State, as Telangana was then known, with Andhra State, which was the first Indian state to be formed on linguistic basis.

Telangana, a part of erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad, is inhabited by Telugu-speaking people.

Excessive use of mobile phone can lead to oxidative stress in cells that is linked to cellular and genetic mutations which cause development of tumours, says a study.

Oxidative stress is a process that damages all aspects of a human cell, including DNA, through the development of toxic peroxide and free radicals.

A round table conference of 1969 Telangana Movement Founders’ Forum was held at Press Club Somajiguda yesterday. More than 40 organizations supporting Telangana attended the meeting. Dr. K.Chiranjevi presided over the meeting. Mr. Zaheer Uddin Ali Khan, Managing Editor of Siasat Urdu Daily, Prof. Vieshveshvara Reddy, Joyti Karan, T.Vivek, Sridhar Nagaraj , Srimata Ramnaya, Sana Ullah Khan, C.L. Yadigri, Prof. Laxman, Dr. Anitha Reddy, Karunakar Reddy attended the meeting and declared they would struggle for separate Telangana till their last breath.

There are certain phrases or words that one might have said kindly to someone over 50, but some things are better left unsaid.

For instance, a seemingly naive enough remark – “Hey, you look tired!” — can be a startling and at times obnoxious reminder of one’s age.

Now, Huffington Post has compiled a list of things, with the help of their Facebook followers, that you should avoid saying to someone over 50.

One user, Cheryl De Primio posted on the social networking site that she got furious recently when a waitress condescendingly called her ‘young lady’.

Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has said all talks about religious nationalism are anti-national in nature and that the country cannot function in an atmosphere of such divisive talks. “India is not a country only for Hindus.

The debate around Hindu Nationalism and Indian Nationalism is not a new one. During colonial period, when the rising freedom movement was articulating the concept and values of Indian nationalism, the section of Hindus, keeping aloof from freedom movement asserted the concept of Hindu Nationalism. The debate has resurfaced again due to the one who is trying to project himself as the Prime-Ministerial candidate of BJP-NDA, Narendra Modi. In an interview recently (July 2013) said very ‘simply’ that he was born a Hindu, he is a nationalist, so he is a Hindu Nationalist!

Indian bones are conventionally weaker, deformed and more osteoporosis-prone compared to Americans or Britons, say leading knee replacement surgeons who participated in a knowledge-sharing exercise here on replacement surgeries.

The exercise also threw up insights about how Africa could also emerge as a major resource pool for tapping patients in India’s quest for medical tourism.

A company based in London recently posted a job advertisement, which cited women as perks.

Event organising start-up Evvnt.com wants a developer, who is proficient in the Ruby programming language, the New Statesman reported.

In an ad posted to the London Ruby user group, Richard Green, the CEO and founder of the company, wrote the following potential perks of the job:

1. Keg of beer and beer tap fitted to your development desk?
2. The recruitment fee as your welcome gift?
3. 4 day week?
4. Building your own team of 4 from scratch
5. Shares and equity (so dull)

A Spaniard, who was competing in a beer-drinking contest, died after drinking seven litres of the beverage.
According to a Spanish media report, the rules of the contest, which was staged in Gea y Truyols in the southern Murcia region on Wednesday, required the competitors to consume as much beer as possible in 20 minutes.

46-year-old Joaquin G A, a hospital watchman by profession, won the competition with seven litres, but soon after he started vomiting, News24 reported.

Later, he fainted and died on the way to the hospital.

The Obama administration’s use of drone strikes against terrorist groups has been condemned across the world, according to a new survey. The Pew Research Centre, which conducted a survey on the issue in 39 countries, found that more than half of the respondents in 31 of these countries disapproved of US drone attacks against extremist groups.

In a globalised world, currency volatility should not be a worrying factor? India’s economy made a remarkable recovery in the nineties in the face of almost going bust when the country was forced to mortgage part of its gold reserves. Massive economic scams, some terrible amendments to the Income Tax Act and FEMA in the last eight years seem to have brought on a fresh specter of crisis -either the economy is facing serious illness or has symptoms of one. The current volatility of the rupee is first sign of the impending crisis if one is prepared to face it.

Makkah’s Zamzam Well has the best drinking water on the face of the earth. Pilgrims at the Grand Mosque make sure they drink as much as possible and buy containers to take home to friends and family. There is abundant Zamzam water despite huge consumption by Haj and Umrah pilgrims over the years.

The dance bars were once considered the jewel in the crown of Mumbai’s non-stop night life — until they were banned and shut down in August 2005.

Unique to the maximum city which never slept, dance bars had scores of young girls or women dancing away to blaring Bollywood numbers with colourful lights, a hazy airconditioned atmosphere reeking of the smell of cigarette smoke and liquor, plus food.

The patrons, mostly youth or wealthy businessmen, tourists both domestic and international, enjoyed an “interactive” session with the dancers by showering them with currency notes.

Since last two decades terrorist violence has been added on to the weapons for polarizing communities along religious lines. In Mumbai for example, we first witnessed the major blasts in the wake of 92-93 post demolition violence, then blasts in the aftermath of Gujarat carnage of 2002 and then 26/11 2008 attack from Kasab and company. This shows the multifaceted nature, many causative factors, of terrorist violence. In the similar vein, the country as a whole witnessed regular repeated violence with loss of lots of lives.

Millions of Muslims visit the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah every year, but very few know that Madinah Munawwarah, the City of Light, is not only the first settlement in Islam, but also a shining example of urban planning based on principles outlined in the Qur’an.

“The city of Madinah as built by the Prophet, peace be upon him, is a very good example of urban planning. The ultimate purpose of life, of worshipping God, provided guidance for the planning of Madinah (in the first year of the Hijra or 623 CE),” said Dr. Hisham Mortada, an architect and environmental expert.

Ramadan is here again providing us the opportunity to reach out to Allah more than ever and ask for His forgiveness and blessings. As Allah has singled out this month more so than others for showering His blessings and mercy, it is only prudent that we also use the opportunity to reassess our conditions, our purpose and direction in life, and accordingly make appropriate changes in line with His commands.

A huge chunk of ice broke off on Monday from Antarctic’s Pine Island glacier, the longest and fastest flowing glacier in the frozen continent, and is now flowing as a very large iceberg in the Amundsen Sea.

Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have been following this natural spectacle via the earth observation satellites TerraSAR-X from the German Space Agency (DLR) and have documented it in many individual images.

The data is intended to help solve the physical puzzle of this “calving“.

A new research on victims of forced marriage and honour violence in UK has revealed that the victims are hesitant to seek social workers’ help citing cultural differences.

Forced marriage victims are subjected to emotional blackmail, physical violence and even death threats if it is thought they could damage the family”s honour.

The study that has analysed the forced marriage experiences of both men and women from Indian and Pakistani communities has been presented at the Royal Holloway University.

A carefully crafted conspiracy of abduction, torture, pre-meditated murder and calumny is rapidly unravelling. At the centre of the maelstrom are the highest police officers of Gujarat, DIG Crime Branch, DG Vanzara and the Additional Director General of Police, PP Pandey. The dubious role of a senior official of the Intelligence Bureau, Rajinder Kumar, in the cold-blooded murders of four “suspected” terrorists, including 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan in 2004 is becoming increasing clear. No less implicated are Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his then Home Minister Amit Shah.

A Muslim search engine that blocks forbidden content as per Islamic law has been launched.

The press release said that ‘Halalgoogling’ gives results from leading search engines such as Google and Bing.

It added that the search engine has a built-in advanced special filtering system that blocks Haram content according to the Law of Islam.

According to the Express Tribune, a special and unique filter system in the search engine excludes forbidden content from its search results such as pornography, nudity, gay, lesbian, bisexual, gambling, anti-Islamic content.

Spending too much time with mobile phones can harm your health, a new research has revealed.

The study conducted by Kent State University found that students, who spent lot of time on their phone- up to 14 hours each day- were less fit than those spending about 1 and a half hour a day, New York Daily News reported.

The report also said that people, who spent more time on their mobile devices, were more likely to engage in other sedentary forms of entertainment, like playing video games or watching films.