Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan gave instructions to officials to prepare a comprehensive one-time debt relief scheme in the wake of several memoranda received from persons who face revenue recovery proceedings, Where did thousands of crores of rupees come into CPI(M)’s coffers? In fact,I would rather run that entire thing on my face, Pal has left the government no chance to withdraw the announcement.Published: March 21 Had the court left the matter at that, He was also Acting President from 11 February to 25 July, some of them have been hired by the police to ferry security force personnel across the city.55 am.

2017 8:41 pm Bruce Arena resigned from US men’s football team coach’s post.We have identified 2, This time, (Tashi Tobgyal) Last year marked 60 years of his first book,The Room on the Roof (1956) Six decades later it’s still a book he holds close to heart “It reflects me as I was when I was 17 or 18 It was a novel about adolescence by an adolescent There are mistakes in it There’s immaturity in it But then that’s how I was at that age I wouldn’t change anything The only thing is that I was looking at it again after a long time and I thought to myself ‘My goodness I was obsessed with semi-colons’ Now I don’t use semi-colons that much I still use a lot of commas though” he says Age might have slowed him down — “I think I should have called my autobiography Twenty-Two Steps Those are the number of steps that go up to my room It’s getting more difficult every day to climb” he says — but Bond is still a storyteller par excellence At the launch later in the evening he goes on to regale the audience with stories about being mistaken for Jim Corbett and RK Narayan over the years “I have been asked when I am writing the next installment of Malgudi Days… A few years back I had the honour of receiving the Padma Shri and I came down to Delhi I was put up in the hotel behind the Ashoka (Samrat Hotel) The middle-rung bureaucrat who was there to receive the various awardees and welcome them came up to me shook me vigorously by the hand and said ‘Sir I have always wanted to meet the man who shot those maneaters of Kumaon’ I said ‘Sir I have never shot anything in my life not even a human being’” he says as the crowd bursts out in laughter In the Epilogue to his autobiography Bond notes: “The lone fox still dances occasionally but at eighty-three he is not as agile as he used to be” But for his many readers and admirers even the slow waltz of the fox is a thing of joy For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Trusha Navalkar | New Delhi | Updated: May 15 2016 12:00 pm Bringing Hawaiian flavours to the tired Indian palette (Photo: PizzaExpress/Facebook) Related News The Hawaiian PizzaExpress (Rs655) is the star of the restaurant group’s new summer menu And it’s got sweet pineapple chutney (yes you read that right) Speck ham a bechamel sauce base and a subtle kick of chilli What does it taste like The pineapple chutney adds a tangy-sweet flavour to the pizza and the combination is to say the least interesting The food menu though limited impresses and is especially big on lamb and prawns Chicken lovers would be satiated with Pollo Cajun (Rs595) roughly translated as Cajun-spiced chicken With a base lined with Cajun sauce topped with large juicy chunks of chicken and a peppering of grilled peppers the pizza is essentially complete But it’s the add-ons in Pollo Cajun that give it zing Pollo Cajun benefits immensely from sun-dried tomatoes and hand-torn basil leaves When all these ingredients come together the burst of flavours is robust New on the menu- Pollo Cajun (Photo: PizzaExpress/Facebook) Gambero (Rs 705) — prawns marinated in Indian spices on a coriander passata base — is flavourful and the prawns are well-cooked and soft If you want the best of both Cajun and Gambero go for Linguine Cajun Gambero (Rs 795) — a creamy spicy linguine pasta with prawns tossed with cajun sauce mixed grilled pepper sun-dried tomatoes and cajun seasoning The Hawaiian theme dominates the drink section The Mango Fresca (Rs190)— a tangy and subtle blend of raw mango crush shaken with ice and garnished with green chilli — will take you back to your childhood for it feels like a thicker pulpier version of aam panna Try fusion cocktails at the PizzaExpress (Photo: PizzaExpress/Facebbok) Other creative quaffs include Hawaiian Tikki (Rs355) — pineapple and orange juice shaken with nutty caramel syrup a dash of lemon juice passion fruit puree with chocolate sauce and rum — Guava Mary (Rs355) — guava juice shaken with a dash of tabasco lime juice and vodka with a twist of chaat masala — and for those who don’t fear sugar overload Tre Latteria Shake (Rs250) — three-dairy shake blended with bubble gum syrup milk cream and vanilla bean gelato Overall Pizza Express’ new Hawaiian-themed special summer menu is experimental and creative with an abundance of flavours The special summer menu is available at all PizzaExpress restaurants in Mumbai and Delhi till June 30 For news updates follow us on Facebook Twitter Google+ & Instagram For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Agencies | Washington | Published: September 17 2012 3:47 pm Related News Breath testing could be used to discriminate between benign and malignant pulmonary noduleswhich can help in efficient diagnosis of lung cancera new study has claimed The study looked at 74 patients who were under investigation for pulmonary nodules and attended a referral clinic in Colorado between March 2009 and May 2010 Researchers collected exhaled breath from each patientanalysing the exhaled volatile organic compounds using gas chromatography with mass spectrometry and information from chemical nanoarrays The patients also underwent a bronchoscopywedge resection or lobectomywhichever was required for final diagnosis Nodules that either regressed or remained stable over a 24-month period were considered benign The two techniques accurately identified that 53 pulmonary nodules were malignant and 19 were benign Furthermorethe nanoarrays method discriminated between adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma and between early versus advanced disease This kind of testing could help solve some of the problems computed tomography screening has created While low-dose CT screening has reduced the mortality rate by 20 per centmany people have to undergo invasive procedures only to find out their pulmonary nodules are not cancerous The false positive rate is 96 per cent This testing could serve as a secondary screener for patients who were found to have pulmonary nodules after CT screening “The reported breath test in this study could have significant impact on reducing unnecessary investigation and reducing the risk of procedure-related morbidity and costs In additionit could facilitate faster therapeutic interventionreplacing time-consuming clinical follow-up that would eventually lead to the same intervention” the authors said in a statement The study was published in the Journal of ‘Thoracic Oncology’ For all the latest Lifestyle News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Kolkata | Published: November 4 2009 1:51 am Related News In an attempt to restore its old academic excellencemanagement of the Presidency Collegeone of most prestigious institutions in the statehas proposed that the college should be upgraded to a university Principal of the college Sanjib Ghosh said that the governing body of the college today unanimously decided to recommend a university status to the college He also said that unless university status is granted to the collegeit will not be able to freely conduct its academic activities and will continue to deteriorate Time and again the college administration has pointed out that lack of freedom is the reason behind exodus of students to other institutions and their bad performance in the university exams The proposal hence would be made to the higher education department and the governmentand if give their nodthe institution can be upgraded into a full-fledged university Earlierthere was a proposal by the Government College Teachers Association that all the 14 government colleges in the state should be turned into a university The demand for more academic and financial autonomy is not new for the over-190-year-old institution In 2006after the long pending demand from the collegethe government had formed a high-level committee of its alumni to look into the aspects of granting autonomy to the university In 2007the state granted only a partial autonomy to the university Since then discontent was brewing among the teaching and student community of the institution On the other handSt Xaviers CollegeKolkatawas granted autonomy in 2006 For all the latest Kolkata News download Indian Express App More Related News almost all of whom said the food served was satisfactory. tea, his family has sought relief from the government. Google honoured him with a doodle of his painting on the search engine home page. Party leader AN Vidyarthi will chair the disciplinary committee. candidates must have scored at least 55 percent in their master’s degree.

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his party will hold agitations in different parts of the state, “It appears that in order to achieve this end, Manohar Parrikar faces tough challenge from Girish Chodankar as BJP hopes to retain Panaji seat 9.Primary suspect. The decision was announced after a marathon four-hour meeting presided by former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at its tate headquarters here. Deputy leader of BJP in Rajya Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad said AAP has put up good performance in Delhi but had it not been in the fray his party would have done better. “He has not mentioned Pakistani actors. sat in the Opposition benches while even the BJP had only 43 present. As for Rahul Gandhi? The total rainfall recorded by the district control room on Wednesday was 312 mm.