Seoul, Oct 24 (IANS) Seoul’s Incheon international airport is planning to open a plastic surgery clinic in the transfer section, a decision that has sparked controversy regarding the risks involved in boarding a flight after…
Shillong, Oct 24 (IANS) The Meghalaya Election Department has entered Limca Book of Records for the formation of the biggest human logo comprising young voters in the state, an official said on Tuesday. The logo…
Kolkata, Oct 23 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday inaugurated the restored house of Sister Nivedita here to commemorate the Scots-Irish social worker’s 150th birth anniversary. This comes ahead of Banerjee’s London…
Damascus, Oct 23 (IANS) The Islamic State (IS) militants left 100 bodies ahead of withdrawing from a central Syrian town that has recently been restored by the Syrian government forces, a monitor group reported on…
Chennai, Oct 23 (IANS) Unable to bear the harassment by a moneylender, a man along with his wife and two children set themselves ablaze at the Tirunelvelli Collectorate office on Monday. They were admitted to…
Beijing, Oct 23 (IANS) China has reversed an import ban on several types of soft and mould-ripened cheese, including Roquefort, Danish Blue, Gorgonzola and Stilton, the media reported on Monday. The authorities imposed the ban…
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Panaji, Oct 23 (IANS) Noted artist Orijit Sen’s game-based installation of a popular Portuguese-era Friday market at Mapusa town in North Goa, where heaps of colourful spices often contest with stacks of…
Jerusalem, Oct 23 (IANS) Israeli police mistakenly arrested a Palestinian man after they thought he had published a Facebook post saying “hurt them” when he originally wrote “Good morning”, a media report said. According to…
London, Oct 23 (IANS) A world record price of over $166,000 was paid at an auction in Britain for one of the last known letters to have been written on board the famous Titanic ocean…
Kolkata, Oct 22 (IANS) The presence of a high concentration of lead has been detected in raw food items such as polished rice and fish, sold in city markets, says a team of Indian scientists….
By Tarun Basu Aizawl, Oct 22 (IANS) There is something about India’s Northeast that makes it markedly different from the rest of India, and it’s not just the Mongoloid features of its people. At the…
Kolkata, Oct 21 (IANS) Sisters prayed for their brothers’ long lives as West Bengal celebrated the “Bhai Phonta” (brother’s day) festival of sibling love on Saturday with fervour, notwithstanding inclement weather. Attired in sarees, sisters…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) The Supreme Court-imposed ban on cracker sale does not appear to have done much good to the national capital, as the air quality data released on Saturday showed similar pollutant…
New Delhi, Oct 21 (IANS) A C-130 transport aircraft with special forces commandos and frontline fighters from Indian Air Force (IAF)’s inventory will be part of an exercise to use highways as landing strips next…
Kolkata, Oct 21 (IANS) Saddened by her child’s death, a mother allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the Hoogly river in West Bengal’s Howrah district, police said on Saturday. “The body of Puja Singh (23)…
Govardhan (Mathura), Oct 21 (IANS) Govardhan Puja was held in a major way in most temples of Braj, with elaborate ‘Annakoot’ or community feasts with hundreds of dishes, including sweets, namkeens and vegetables offered to…
New York, Oct 21 (IANS) A black-marker drawing of the Empire State Building by US President Donald Trump sold at auction for $16,000, the media reported. According to Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles, where the…
Santiago, Oct 21 (IANS) A global team of experts have said that Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda’s death was was not due to cancer. Neruda was suffering from prostate cancer at the time and…
Indore, Oct 20 (IANS) At least 36 people were injured on Friday while participating in the traditional “Hingot Yuddha” (Hingot war), observed a day after Diwali, officials said. Of the injured, the condition of three…
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) As the country plunged in festivity here, a team of individuals found a different brilliance at the shores in Abu Dhabi with the winning of a Silver and a Bronze…