New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and outgoing Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh of the Congress on Friday indulged in some light banter in the house. Delivering his farewell speech as an…
Hyderabad, May 13 (IANS) The Society for Advancement of Human Endeavour (SAHE), a not for profit organisation, on Friday announced an initiative to recharge 10,000 defunct or dried up borewells in Hyderabad. The initiative is…
Rome, May 13 (IANS/AKI) The oldest person alive is now believed to be a 116-year-old woman from northern Italy, Emma Morano, following the death of a black American woman in the US, media reports said…
Shivpuri, May 13 (IANS) An animal lover in Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh hosted hundreds people at a grand wedding for his she-camel Kallo with he-camel Gopal from Rajasthan. Naresh Raghuvanshi distributed about a thousand…
New York, May 13 (IANS) Susannah Mushatt Jones, the granddaughter of slaves who held the title of “world’s oldest living person” and “the last American born in the 19th century”, has died at the age…
Kolkata, May 13 (IANS) Babusona Sarkar, 27, from West Bengal, in the running for the state assembly polls is a tea seller. However, any comparisons with Prime Minister Narendra Modi a la the chaiwala are…
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, May 13 (IANS) Every morning, Gao Ru Lung zigzags on his bicycle between the crawling cars in the maddening traffic of Beijing. After wading through a sea of cars, the 46-year…
New York, May 13 (IANS) When applying for a job, women seek positions with fewer applicants than men – a factor that could partly explain why we see fewer of them in the corporate boardrooms,…
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the constitutional validity of India’s criminal defamation law that was contested by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Thiruvananthapuram, May 12 (IANS) Social media, including Twitter and fast-flying WhatsApp messaging service, has been flooded by upset Malayalis attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he compared Kerala with…
Kuala Lumour, May 12 (IANS) Virtual hotels operator Nida Rooms, co-founded by former SpiceJet chief executive Kaneswaran Avili, has expanded its portfolio to the Philippines, thus adding one more country to its footprint, that is…
Kathmandu, May 12 (IANS) Three foreign climbers reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday after a two-year hiatus. Two Britons, Kenton Cool and Robert Richard Lucas, scaled the 8,848-metre peak along with two Nepalese…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Age is no bar for learning, nor are the walls of a jail. Condemned to prison life nearly eight years ago as an illiterate, Bhola Malakar at 53 now boasts of…
Bhubaneswar, May 11 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday handed over a cheque for Rs.5 lakh to the widow of Raghu Nayak, who had caught Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse in 1948. Patnaik…
Kathmandu, May 11 (IANS) After a two-year hiatus in the wake of deadly avalanches and last year’s earthquake, the world’s highest peak Mt Everest saw the first ascent on Wednesday as nine Nepali Sherpas made…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The 90-year-old Bengali Club at Kashmere Gate in the national capital’s old quarters will be back in action from Saturday after a decade, starting with the celebrations of the Bengali…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The faceless postman — once portrayed poetically by Rabindranath Tagore — and the need to revamp the postal services in the country figured prominently during question hour in the Lok…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Aiming to fight hunger and malnutrition in the country, KFC India on Wednesday launched ‘Add Hope’ initiative to create awareness and raise funds to provide meals to underprivileged children. It…
Pune, May 11 (IANS) Defying all odds, including religious discrimination that forced him to adopt a Hindu identity, a 21-year old Muslim boy from Maharashtra has cracked the prestigious UPSC examinations, the results of which…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, May 11 (IANS) Gone are the days of the ‘iron curtain’ in the state bureaucracy, when from work to personal life, everything was secretive and out of bounds for the world….