Brussels, March 6 (IANS) A float featuring stereotyped Jewish figures at a carnival near Brussels has been widely criticised as anti-Semitic. The float in the town of Aalst, 25 km from the European Parliament, featured…
Tokyo, March 6 (IANS) Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has received this year’s Pritzker Prize, widely considered to be the profession’s highest honour. The jury said he pioneered the “understanding that the need for architecture is…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) here on Tuesday issued a notice to the Divisional Commissioner (Revenue) in the Delhi government, seeking complete ban on sale of acid in the…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) Matua community matriarch Binapani Devi, popularly known as ‘Boroma’, passed away at the state-run SSKM Hospital, here on Tuesday, following multi-organ failure, hospital sources said. Boroma, aged 100, breathed her last…
Stockholm, March 5 (IANS) There are going to be two Nobel Prizes winners for literature this year after a sex scandal caused the suspension of last years award, the Swedish Academy said in a statement…
Dehradun, March 5 (IANS) For Phool Chand, a gardener, it was a dream come true when he got an allotment letter for a one-room flat from Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat at a function…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) A three judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear a petition challenging the constitutional validity of various legal provisions permitting the restitution of conjugal rights, on the grounds that…
Panaji, March 5 (IANS) Police in the beach village of Calangute in Goa have arrested a 23-year-old woman from Mumbai for a bomb hoax at a local restaurant on Tuesday. Rangoli Patel, a resident of…
New York, March 5 (IANS) Ghia Vitale, an autosexual and autoromantic who got engaged to herself in March 2017, is all set to tie the knot soon, media reports said. Vitale, a writer from Long…
Mandi, March 5 (IANS) Nearly 200 idols of deities from hundreds of temples were brought here — popularly known as ‘Chhoti Kashi’ — on Tuesday for the week-long Mahashivratri festivities. Though Mahashivratri was celebrated across…
London, March 5 (IANS) Hotels around the world at the centre of sexual assault allegations are continuing to be promoted on TripAdvisor, despite some complainants contacting the largest travel company to warn them of alleged…
Canberra, March 5 (IANS) Australian researchers on Tuesday revealed that the world’s oldest tattooing kit, which was found decades ago in Tonga, dates back 2,700 years and some were made of human bones. The researchers…
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The Delhi government has drafted a policy to keep a check on the wastage of food at social functions in the national capital. All organisers and caterers…
Washington, March 5 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has once again served fast-food at a White House sports event after a similar dinner for a university football team in January, the media reported. On Monday,…
Washington, March 5 (IANS) A Mexican-American woman has attracted about 70,000 followers on her social media accounts, which she created in support of President Donald Trump as he was “a needed leader to end the…
Mexico, March 5 (IANS) Mexican authorities have announced that at least 200 millennium-old ceramic artefacts have been discovered in an underground ritual cave in the Mayan city of Chichen Itza. According to Mexico’s National Institute…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Passengers traveling by India’s national carrier Air India will continue to hear the nationalist chant of ‘Jai Hind’ after every announcement, said a senior Air India official on Monday. The…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has directed Facebook to remove a video containing allegations against yoga guru Baba Ramdev from its platform. The court was hearing a plea filed by Ramdev…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) A 48-year-old documentary filmmaker from Kolkata hanged himself, apparently due to depression, police said on Monday. “Arghya Basu living in Santoshpur area was found hanging in his flat on March 1….
Bengaluru, March 4 (IANS) State-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday announced the launch of its Young Scientist programme to train class 9 students in space technology and its applications. “ISRO has launched the…