Malayalam's long wait for 'classical' status soon to be over

Malayalam's long wait for 'classical' status is over. The Union Cabinet decided to grant the coveted recognition to the language, spoken by 3.33 crore Malayalis spread over all parts of the globe, at its meeting in the national capital on Thursday.

Jonah Einstein LONG ISLAND CITY A plan to replace Queens graffiti mecca 5Pointz with was blasted by critics at a contentious public hearing Wednesday night, as opponents accused the developers of ripping the iconic art center from the hands of the ...

Mamata Banerjee rode to power on enormous goodwill. But two years on, she seems to have squandered away her advantages Two year ago, when West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee entered Writers Building in Kolkata, there were great expectations ...

Is Mastercard Inc (NYSE:MA) a buy here? Investors who are in the know are in a pessimistic mood. The number of long hedge fund bets were trimmed by 7 in recent months. To the average investor, there are plenty of metrics market participants can use ...

: Oil Corp (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) are looking to buy up to 41,000 tons of gasoline, after a long absence, to plug a supply gap caused by a plant outage and maintenance that coincides with summer demand, traders said. IOC is ...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP hired Steven R. Meier for its corporate department in Chicago. Meier joins Seyfarth from Jenner & Block LLP, where he was the co-chairman of the real-estate securities practice and a member of its tax department, the firm said in a ...

We all retire some day. Some people retire voluntarily long before they reach their retirement age, and others involuntarily due to age limits and retirement rules. Whichever your case is and whoever you are, the day will surely come when you have ...

Kevin S. Hughes and Barbara L. Smith, Massachusetts General Hospital; Jennifer R. Bellon and Eric P. Winer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Lauren A. Schnaper, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, MD; Constance T. Cirrincione, ...

PARIS, May (Xinhua) -- Second seed Ma Long of China cruised to the men's singles quarterfinals at the World Championships here on Saturday. Ma, a member of China's winning team at the London Olympics, fought off hard challenge from Japan's Niwa ...