Shopian Dec 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Shopian district in Kashmir has created history by conducting the first ever music festival in 30 years, welcoming the harshest phase of winter with a musical note. Jashn-e-Chillai Kalan, organised…
Hyderabad, Dec 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) A rescue and rehabilitation centre for monkeys has come up in Telangana, where several districts are facing monkey menace. The Monkey Rescue, Rehabilitation and Sterilisation Centre, only the second such facility…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) “I hope that I have managed to establish who Devika Rani really was. A rebellious and unusually talented and beautiful woman, a great actress and studio head…
BY VISHAL GULATI Shimla, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Taking cue from the Asia’s oldest British-era skating clay surface rink in this Himachal Pradesh hill town, authorities in state’s remote Spiti Valley had a natural coating of…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Seventeen years back, she made every critic take note of her debut performance in Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’. She laughs that she could never better it….
New Delhi, Dec 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) Guru Dutt’s filmography has some names which have long been considered as some of the best films to have ever been made in India. His masterpiece “Pyaasa” (1957) was featured…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) What happens when a business strategist and out-of-the-box-thinker distils the lessons learnt from cinema, sports, music, poetry, politics, the corporate world to offer an alternative view of…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib was born in Agra in the closing years of the 18th century. A precocious child, he began composing verses at an early age and gained recognition…
Belthangady (Karnataka), Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) An eight-year-old boy, the son of a hardware shopkeeper, was kidnapped by a four-member gang of criminals on Thursday evening and the kidnappers have demanded ransom in “bitcoins”, which is…
Chandigarh, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Mashkoh Valley was a strategic point during the Kargil War of 1999, Brig Umesh Singh Bawa, who was then commanding 17 Jat that was instrumental in the capture of Pimple…
Mumbai, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a rare medical feat spanning patients across four generations, a four-year-old girl got a new lease of life after her 70-year-old maternal great-grandmother donated a kidney, officials said here on…
Mau (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) A mound being dug up for the Purvanchal Expressway near the Mahpur village in Mau district has thrown up a Buddha head and a coin board, reportedly dating back…
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the Covid-19 pandemic shifting the paradigms of engagement to the virtual world, the 14th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will feature an online programme spread over two…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) “Horror is a very difficult genre to handle — you can make it gory or all blood, but to do it intelligently and engage the audience without…
Hyderabad, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will review the Combined Graduation Parade (CGP) at Air Force Academy (AFA) Dundigal here on December 19. The parade, with full military splendour, will mark the successful…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) One of the most prestigious educational institutions of north India, Agra’s St John’s College on Wednesday celebrated its 170th foundation day. Its majestic red sand stoned building in…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Contrary to the usual scary image of police station lockups anywhere in the world, a pleasant five-star review of a Maharashtra Police lockup has surprised not only the…
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Fifty-year-old Jai can now breathe freely and enjoy his sunset years in comfort at the Elephant Hospital on the Agra-Mathura border. Jai, the elephant, was forced to keep…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Stressing that it is important to ascertain that farmers’ concerns are addressed, and that their true representatives constantly meet the government to break the deadlock, actor Anupam…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) “I thought India was pretty jammed with poor people and cows wandering around the streets, witch doctors and people sitting on hot coals and bathing in the Ganges, but I…