Eddie Murphy got lucky with kids
Los Angeles, March 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor Eddie Murphy says he is very proud of his children and that none of them turned out to be ‘the bad one’. Eddie has five sons and five daughters,…
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Tisca Chopra unveils cover of new book
Mumbai, March 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood actress and author, Tisca Chopra, unveiled the cover of her second book “What’s up with me” on Sunday. Actress took to Instagram to share the cover of the book and…
Indian-origin crypto investor buys $69.3 mn artwork
New Delhi, March 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Singapore-based Indian Cryptocurrency investor Metakovan has bought an artwork by digital artist Beeple for $69.3 million. Various media reports cited that Metakova is a pseudonym of the investor, which means…
Arundhathi Subramaniam, Anamika, M Veerappa Moily win Sahitya Akademi Award
New Delhi, March 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Poets Arundhathi Subramaniam and Anamika, and politician and writer M Veerappa Moily are among the twenty writers who will be conferred with the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020. Announcing this on…
Vicky to ‘Uri’ maker Aditya Dhar: Your faith in me scares me
Mumbai, March 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vicky Kaushal shared a birthday message on Friday for Aditya Dhar, director of the 2019 blockbuster “Uri: The Surgical Strike”. The film won Vicky a National Award as Best Actor, and…
Unravelling the India Covid story
New Delhi, March 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) When WHO first declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, there was a great deal of apprehension about how India — the country with the highest TB cases and…
Afghans commemorate destruction of 2 Buddha statues
Kabul, March 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Afghans commemorated the two decades since the Taliban destroyed the two giant Buddha statues in Bamiyan province, with a pledge to preserve the world’s cultural heritages. “Although the Taliban dynamited the…
Raised in deprivation, Karunanidhi became a metaphor for modern Tamil Nadu
New Delhi, March 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) In “Karunanidhi: A Life” (Penguin), A.S. Panneerselvan tells the story of the man who became a metaphor for modern Tamil Nadu, where language, empowerment, self-respect, art, literary forms and films…
Amit Shah’s biography released in Assamese
Guwahati, March 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) A biography of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, which has been translated by Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma from English to Assamese, was released here on Monday. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda…
Girl who beat up miscreants, made collector for a day
Katni (Madhya Pradesh), March 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Archana Kewat, 21, the daughter of a vegetable vendor, who took on criminals who were teasing two minor girls and handed them over to the police, was on Monday…
Banksy to auction artwork for UK’s NHS
London, March 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Banksy, the acclaimed anonymous British street artist, has offered to auction a piece of his artwork in an effort to raise funds for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), the media…
Declare NSD an institute of national importance, says Paresh Rawal
New Delhi, March 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The National School of Drama (NSD) in the Capital is pushing several major initiatives to strengthen the present system of imparting theatre education and reaching out to more practitioners and…
What does it mean to love?
New Delhi, March 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) “Klara and the Sun”, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational…
Global Encyclopaedia on Ramayan to release on Saturday
Lucknow, March 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is going to give a unique gift to Ram devotees across the world. The first edition of the Global Encyclopaedia of the Ramayana is…
First-ever virtual New Delhi World Book Fair from March 6-9
New Delhi, March 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 29th edition of the much-awaited New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) will be held virtually this year from March 6-9. The virtual editions theme pavilion will be ‘National Education…
Delhi riots: Judge quotes Russian Novelist, says ‘hundred suspicion don’t make a proof’
New Delhi, March 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) : “From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse, a hundred suspicions don’t make a proof,” said the Additional Sessions Judge of a district court in Delhi, quoting Russian…
Rome’s Mausoleum of Augustus set to reopen
Rome, March 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) For the first time in its more than 2,000-year history, the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome will be fully open to the public starting from Tuesday. But Roman history buffs may…
Can a cursed inheritance be turned into a blessing?
New Delhi, March 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Award-winning author and poet, Sutapa Basu brings to you a heady mix of mystery and the paranormal, a treasure hunt, and an amateur detective at work that will remind readers…
I see my book as a journey of healing, forgiveness: Sarah Maas
New Delhi, Feb 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) To celebrate the publication of the sequel to ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ (ACOTAR) titled ‘A Court of Silver Flames’, American author Sarah J. Maas was in a live…
On the trail of 12 Indian fugitives who fled to London
New Delhi, Feb 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) At a time when a British court has ordered the extradition of diamantaire Nirav Modi to India to stand trial in a Rs 13,500 crore bank fraud after dismissing arguments…