Brussels, Dec 30 (IANS) A project in the Belgian capital is pioneering portable cardboard tents for homeless people to sleep in, a media report said on Saturday. The cardboard tents, known as the ORIG-AMI project,…
London, Dec 30 (IANS) Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb are among the British luminaries who will receive knighthoods as part of Queen Elizabeth’s annual New Year’s Honours list. Singer-songwriter Barry…
By Fakir Balaji Bengaluru, Dec 30 (IANS) India will launch 31 satellites, including the earth observation spacecraft Cartosat on January 10, from its spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, an official said on Saturday. “We…
By Imran Khan Lakhaipur (Bihar), Dec 30 (IANS) Kranti Kumari, Ramrati Kumari, Rupa Kumari and Soni Kumari have one thing in common. They are part of a small team performing street plays across this remote…
By Gaurav Sharma New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Indian badminton in 2017 continued to move northwards, dishing out one stunning performance after another, especially with the men’s shuttlers earning respect on the global stage. While…
Shimla/Manali, Dec 30 (IANS) Tens of thousands of holidaymakers started gathering across resorts in Himachal Pradesh on Saturday to bid goodbye to 2017. Mellow sunshine and no snowfall will greet them at most of the…
Srinagar, Dec 30 (IANS) Four Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, including an assistant commandant, were injured in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Badgam district on Saturday. The accident occurred in the Humhama…
Mumbai, Dec 30 (IANS) Veteran actor Dharmendra says superstar Salman Khan will always be a son to him. Dharmendra on Friday tweeted a few photographs along with Salman from his farm house. In the photograph,…
Mysuru, Dec 30 (IANS) Actor-choreographer-filmmaker Prabhudheva has started shooting for his upcoming yet-untitled project here. “My new untitled project produced by Passion Studios… Production number six commenced in Mysuru today (Friday). We seek your blessings…
By Nivedita New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Have you ever felt like eating street snacks like jhal moori cookie or ghugni chaat at one of the top-rated restaurants in the country? The culinary offering at…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Dec 30 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh was a parched land for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for 14 long years. Ever since the then Chief Minister Rajnath Singh lost the plot in…
By Radhika Bhirani and Sandeep Sharma Mumbai, Dec 30 (IANS) The highest earning film in India this year — “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion” — was neither an original Hindi movie nor featured an established star….
San Francisco, Dec 30 (IANS) Facebook has apologised after an investigation exposed inconsistencies by moderators in removing offensive posts reported by the social network’s users. The investigation reported by ProPublica this week showed that in…
By Vikas Datta Title: India Now and in Transition; Editor: Atul Thakur; Publisher: Niyogi Books: Pages: 448; Price: Rs 599 Stretching from icy mountains to the boundless oceans and from arid deserts to tropical forests…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) “Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical” will return to regale Delhi audiencess, staging its 100th show during its February 1-11 schedule at the Jawarharlal Nehru Stadium. “It is an absolute pleasure to stage…
By Amulya Ganguli Only the naive will believe that deep concern for the welfare of Muslim “sisters” and for the maintenance of the “dignity of women” and “gender equality” persuaded the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
New York, Dec 30 (IANS) The term “doggos” – internetspeak for “dogs” – has spread across social media in such proportion that the dictionary deciders at Merriam-Webster have taken note of the nonword and deemed…
By Subhash K. Jha 2017 will be remembered as the year of inspirational dramas in Hollywood. By accident or by design, I saw three masterpieces of varying degrees from the West that left me enthralled…
New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Palestine’s envoy to Pakistan shared a stage with JuD chief and the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks Hafiz Saeed, to which India has reacted strongly. “We have…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that there will be no deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation without funding to build a wall along the…