By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Their daredevil acts in dire straits surpass the everyday acts of courage that we read or hear about. These confident and audacious children have been selected for…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the limit on daily withdrawal from ATMs from Rs 4,500 to Rs 10,000, but a day after the decision many ATMs across the…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Twenty five children from different parts of the country have been selected for Indian Council for Child Welfare’s (ICCW) National Bravery Awards to be presented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Beijing, Jan 17 (IANS) China will launch a satellite this year to gather electromagnetic data which may be used in monitoring and forecasting earthquakes. According to China’s earthquake administrative agencies on Tuesday, the satellite will…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) A senior official on Tuesday urged people living along the Ganga not to defecate near the river so as to keep it clean. “The (cleaning of rivers) is not a…
Washington, Jan 17 (IANS) US President Barack Obama family’s move to their new home in Washington, D.C., appears to be underway, according to a news report. A reporter for CBS news affiliate WUSA9, spotted a…
Tokyo, Jan 17 (IANS) An Australian family which went missing at a popular Japanese ski field has been found alive and well on Tuesday, officials said. Police and rescuers on snowmobiles set out on Tuesday…
By Charu Bahri In March 2012, Sanjay and Sunita Ambhore, parents of Aniket Ambhore, 19, a first-year electrical engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B), received a letter informing them that their…
London, Jan 17 (IANS) A woman called Ivanka from Brighton, UK, has found herself mistakenly identified as US President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter on Twitter. On Monday night, Trump took to Twitter to take a swipe…
Chennai, Jan 17 (IANS) Hundreds of people in Tamil Nadu took to the streets on Tuesday against the arrest of those who have demonstrated in favour of Jallikattu. On Monday, thousands of youths who started…
Chennai, Jan 17 (IANS) Hundreds of people in Tamil Nadu took to the streets on Tuesday against the arrest of those who protested in favour of Jallikattu. On Monday, thousands of youths who started their…
London, Jan 17 (IANS) The world’s lightest mechanical watch revealed is a key step forward into the development of more widespread applications of graphene, officials at the University of Manchester said. Graphene, first isolated in…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) The Delhi government on Monday issued notice to over 50 private schools for adopting “arbitrary” criteria for nursery admissions which it had abolished last year. The notice was issued by…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The Women and Child Development Ministry on Monday said it will form a national alliance against online child sexual abuse. In a statement, the ministry said that child sexual abuse…
Warsaw, Jan 16 (IANS) Archaeologists excavating camp Sobibor in Poland, a former Nazi extermination site, have discovered a pendant thought to be identical to one belonging to Holocaust victim and famed teenaged diarist Anne Frank….
Dubai, Jan 16 (IANS/WAM) Global investment company Dubai Holding on Monday announced the launch of Sandstorm, an obstacle race open to all fitness levels and backgrounds. Sandstorm is set across 5km and 10km distances through…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The sanitation employees of East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) on Monday called off their 12 day-long strike over non-payment of salaries. The development came after a meeting of the protesting…
Chennai, Jan 16 (IANS) DMK’s Working President and Leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu assembly M.K. Stalin on Monday urged the central government to ban People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) as it…
Bengaluru, Jan 16 (IANS) Eight richest men in the world own the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity, said a study by Oxfam, an international confederation…
New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) The 9th India International Pet Trade Fair (IIPTF), a three-day event from February 17-19, for the first time will have products related to small mammals and aqua apart from canine…