By Saket Suman Dhaka, Nov 18 (IANS) Sri Lankan author Anuk Arudpragasam’s “The Story of a Brief Marriage” — a touching tale of a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan Army…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 18 (IANS) The Odisha government will launch a massive vaccination drive to combat killer Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in 13 districts of the state, said an official on Saturday. The campaign, starting November 27,…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant on Saturday said the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which is being co-hosted by the United States and India for the first time, is expected to…
Kolkata, Nov 18 (IANS) Former Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews, who scored 52, on Saturday said India’s pace battery comprising Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav are top class, adding that half centuries won’t…
San Francisco, Nov 18 (IANS) Google has started rolling out visual search feature Google Lens in Assistant for the first batch of Pixel and Pixel 2 smartphones. “The first users have spotted the visual search…
Mumbai, Nov 18 (IANS) Last year’s Indian Super League (ISL) semi-finalists Mumbai City FC on Saturday announced their association with Infinix Mobile. Speaking on the partnership, Mumbai City FC owner Ranbir Kapoor said: “We are…
Kanpur, Nov 18 (IANS) Overnight batsmen Dega Nischal (195) and Manish Pandey (238) played brilliant individual knocks to help Karnataka post 642/7 at stumps against Uttar Pradesh on Day 2 of a sixth round match…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Congress party’s highest decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC), will meet on Monday to chart out the schedule for the election of the Congress President, that will see the…
Kolkata, Nov 18 (IANS) India pacer Mohammad Shami walked off the field after failing to complete his 14th over on day three of the first Test against Sri Lanka but top-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara insisted…
Noida, Nov 18 (IANS) Over 350 children participated in HCL Foundation’s first national sports meet ‘Sports for Change’ here on Saturday. Union Minister of State for Culture, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Mahesh Sharma felicitated…
Islamabad, Nov 18 (IANS) Pakistan on Saturday said it has received India’s reply to its offer to allow the wife of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death here, to meet…
Sanya (China), Nov 18 (IANS) Miss India Manushi Chillar, 21, was named one of the five winners of the Beauty with a Purpose award at Miss World 2017 here on Saturday. The other winners of…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Calling for an “inter-disciplinary” approach to answer the requirements of the future, President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday said leading educational institutions will need to adapt to the changing technologies….
Mumbai, Nov 18 (IANS) Filmmaker Mohammad Israr Ansari says he would like to dedicate his forthcoming film “Sallu Ki Shaadi” to superstar Salman Khan. “I want to dedicate my film ‘Sallu Ki Shaadi’ to Salman…
Umroi (Meghalaya), Nov 18 (IANS) Indian and Myanmar armies will conduct their maiden joint exercise in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, an army official said on Saturday. The five-day exercise slated to start on November…
Chennai, Nov 18 (IANS) Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday ruffled feathers of political leaders and fishermen organisations with her claim that distanced the Coast Guard from a firing incident off the Rameswaram coast earlier…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Narayan Datt Tiwari on Saturday became unresponsive when he was being given physiotherapy and was shifted to a…
Chandigarh, Nov 18 (IANS) Despite getting CCTV footage from a gas station of the accused, the Chandigarh Police was on Saturday yet to make any arrest in the gang-rape case of a 22-year-old woman. The…
Kottayam, Nov 18 (IANS) A team of investigators attached to the Kochi unit of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday recorded statements of 24-year-old Hadiya, a Hindu woman, who converted to Islam. Hadiya alias…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Delhi University’s Dyal Singh College (Evening), which since the past few months has been functioning as a day college, has decided to rename itself as Vande Mataram Mahavidyalaya. Amitabh Sinha,…