Category: Society

60-year-old Australian wine bottle sold for $41,000

Melbourne, July 21 (IANS) A 66-year-old bottle of Australian wine has sold for more than $41,000 in Melbourne, it was…

8 years ago

London to banish winter blues with biggest ever light show

London, July 21 (IANS) More than 40 installations are to light up London in one of the biggest ever light…

8 years ago

Musician plays guitar during brain surgery in Bengaluru

Bengaluru, July 21 (IANS) A 37-year-old musician played guitar while a nerve disorder in his brain was stimulated at a…

8 years ago

Ola yet to plug policy gap that helped doctor’s kidnappers

By Nikhil M. Babu New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Fourteen days after an Ola cab driver kidnapped a 29-year-old Delhi…

8 years ago

Rescued after 13 days, traumatised Delhi doctor thanks police

New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) A day after he was rescued from kidnappers who held him hostage for 13 days,…

8 years ago

Ola was ready to pay Rs 5-crore ransom, say police

New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) A day after a 29-year-old Delhi doctor kidnapped by an Ola cab driver was rescued…

8 years ago

Jubilation, jigs and sweets in Kovind’s village

Lucknow/Kanpur, July 20 (IANS) As the news of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Ram Nath Kovind being elected the 14th…

9 years ago

O.J. Simpson expected to walk free

Washington, July 20 (IANS) O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted of murder but later jailed for a failed bid…

9 years ago

Heavy rain in Delhi leads to waterlogging, traffic jams

New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) People in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) got relief from the sweltering heat…

9 years ago

Mass cactus bloom attracts thousands to US desert

Washington, July 20 (IANS) Thousands of people gathered to enjoy the beauty of "bloom night", an event in a US…

9 years ago

Humans reached Australia 65,000 years ago: Study

Canberra, July 20 (IANS) The first settlers of Australia reached the continent 65,000 years ago, about 15,000 years earlier than…

9 years ago

Medieval-era Arabic graffiti uncovered in Egyptian cave

Cairo, July 19 (IANS/AKI) Archaeologists have discovered Medieval-era Arabic graffiti in a cave in Upper Egypt's Red Sea governorate, the…

9 years ago

Saudi police detain woman wearing mini-skirt in online video

Riyadh, July 19 (IANS) Saudi police have detained a young woman who appeared in a video walking through a historic…

9 years ago

Rahul visits Jaipur to meet his relatives

Jaipur, July 19 (IANS) Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who was in Rajasthan to address a rally in Banswara, also…

9 years ago

Don’t buy ‘Chinese Manjha’, Delhiites told

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Delhi government on Wednesday issued an advisory reminding people not to buy the sharp…

9 years ago

Video of rough arrest of woman vendor in California sparks anger

Los Angeles, July 19 (IANS) A video of a female street vendor violently arrested in California has triggered anger on…

9 years ago

Flash floods the dangerous new normal in Bhutan

By Gopilal Acharya On the evening of June 26, there were two flash floods in eastern Bhutan. Roads, culverts, bridges,…

9 years ago

Why India needs to count its broken toilets

By Ranajit Bhattacharyya and Aadarsh Gangwar In 2016, as many as 96.5 per cent of rural elementary government schools had…

9 years ago

Smartphone-centric enhanced headsets key to mass VR adoption in India

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The year gone by was touted as that of Virtual Reality (VR).…

9 years ago

HC seeks Centre’s response on plea against marital rape

New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the central government to file its response to…

9 years ago



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