New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) In the wake of stiff opposition from some states, including Kerala, the central government is said to be having a rethink on its order restricting the sale of animals, including…
Las Vegas, May 29 (IANS) Few giraffes have the talent that Ozzie was born with, but the three-year-old giraffe paints at a lion sanctuary in Nevada and his work is selling reasonably well. Standing almost…
Gurugram, May 29 (IANS) In a first, police in Alwar district of Rajasthan have commissioned a pilot programme with Gurugram-based artificial Intelligence (AI) research startup Staqu where an app is assisting the personnel expedite criminal…
Madrid, May 29 (IANS) Muslims across the world observed the holy month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar which brings the faithful together for daytime fasting, prayers and charitable actions. Ramadan commemorates…
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) Though ravaged by a relapse of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 16-year-old Bodhisattva Mandal scored a whopping 91 per cent in his class 10 exams under the West Bengal board. Gearing up for a…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) What if you were told that many of the books that you have read of late have actually not been written by the authors who find mention…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Internet infidelity or involvement in sexual and romantic conversation online with someone other than their own partners is on the rise in India and social isolation is one of the…
By Saket Suman New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) I was staring at the hundreds of people walking up and down the platforms as metro trains whizzed past the busy Rajiv Chowk station in the Capital…
Sydney, May 29 (IANS) A great white shark weighing 200 kg jumped into an Australian fisherman’s boat, knocked him over and lacerated his arm, a media report said on Monday. Terry Selwood, 73, was fishing…
By Shreya Shah Literacy programmes for mothers can not only improve their own learning skills but also impact their children’s education, a recent study has found. During the one-year study, conducted in 480 villages of…
Jammu, May 29 (IANS) Rahul Jarngal, an engineer belonging to Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district, has scaled the Mount Everest. Jarngal belongs to the border village of Gurabeldaran in Hira Nagar and is an engineer…
Paris, May 29 (IANS) Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has called for a black feminist festival in the city to be banned on the grounds that it excludes white people, the media reported. The Nyansapo Festival…
Paris, May 29 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that there was indeed a deeper significance to the prolonged handshake he shared with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Brussels. “My handshake with him, it’s…
Melbourne, May 29 (IANS) Silkworms could have the potential to repair damaged eardrums, a team of Australian researchers has found. The team of researchers, based in Melbourne and Perth, have developed a device that incorporated…
London, May 29 (IANS) British Airways has managed to restore some of its services at two major London airports — Heathrow and Gatwick — following a global blackout of the company’s IT system that caused…
London, May 29 (IANS) British Airways could face a bill of at least 100 million pounds in compensation, additional customer care and lost business resulting from an IT meltdown which affected more than 1,000 flights…
By Anand Singh Chennai/New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) Sightless in her right eye, and with partial vision in the left eye, Dharshana M.V. overcame all challenges to secure third rank among differently-abled students in the…
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) A 32-year-old e-rickshaw driver was lynched by a group of 15 youths, including two allegedly from Delhi University, after he objected to two of them urinating near a metro station…
Washington, May 28 (IANS) The White House omitted Gauthier Destenay, the husband of Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, from the caption to an official photograph of the spouses of Nato leaders taken at…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 (IANS) P. Jayalekshmi recalls with pride how she had to call out the names of two former Kerala Chief Ministers V.S. Achuthanandan and Oommen Chandy and then of the present Chief Minister…