Pune, Dec 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) An Indian bison, known as Gaur, which strayed into a residential complex in Kothrud in Pune, was rescued but died a few hours later, officials said here on Wednesday. The bison…
London, Dec 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UK has begun one of its largest vaccination drives and 81-year-old namesake of the Bard of Avon, William Shakespeare, became the second citizen in the West to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) He constantly looks for possibilities in which artists and audiences can gather and tries to see the relational aesthetics between them. How can they change, how can…
New Delhi, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Award-winning writer, publisher and co-founder of the Jaipur Literature Festival Namita Gokhale is to chair the jury for the 2021 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the UKs most…
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) A baby marsh crocodile was rescued after a five-day long operation from a well at a closed construction site in the thickly-populated Marol area of Mumbai’s suburban Andheri…
Agra, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) A five-foot-long crocodile, which wandered into a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras, was rescued in a late-night operation by Wildlife SOS and the Forest Department, and released into a nearby water…
Lucknow, Dec 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Lucknow Raj Bhawan will now develop a ‘Panchatantra van’ (fabled forest — a garden of sort) where people, especially children, will learn lessons of Panchatantra (an ancient Indian collection of…
New Delhi, Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan was born amid communal violence and a collective consciousness of danger. Right from the outset, democracy was up for debate between the politicians nurtured by the British Raj and…
Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), Dec 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) A jeweller from Meerut has found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for making a ring with the maximum number of diamonds. The record was earlier…
Jaipur, Dec 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the wake of a Ranthambore tiger being spotted with wire snare around its neck, the forest department of the Rajasthan government has issued a ‘Red Alert’ till February 28, 2021…
Kohima, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Naga Heritage Village, the epicentre of the world famous Hornbill Festival is quiet this year with the celebrations turned online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Located about 12 km away…
New York, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) A team of Indian-origin researchers in the US has made it possible to essentially let their bodies act as the link between the card or smartphone and the reader or…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) For this former Special Forces officer in the UK Navy, making the world record of climbing all 14 of the world’s highest peaks above 8000-meters (called the…
New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Perceived from the eyes of the subaltern and the marginalised, this is a powerful narrative that would pull at the heartstrings of every reader as it tells the stories of…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) India’s banking system continues to lurch from one crisis to another — the latest being the RBI asking HDFC to temporarily stop all launches of its digital…
New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The timing couldnt be more perfect. “Joe Biden: American Dreamer” (Bloomsbury) is a concise, brilliant and incisive examination of the US President-elect and his lifelong quest for the White House…
By Sukant Deepak New Delhi, Dec 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) : Dhanya in ‘Peepli Live, Kanta Bai in ‘Sacred Games, ‘Karma Devi in Gurgaon and Lata Kutty in ‘Ludo — her quiet (and sometimes not so) intensity…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The irony couldn’t be more apt. The Sino-American rapprochement saw the once bitter enemies establishing diplomatic relations in 1979. A decade later came the Sino-Soviet rapprochement -…
Srinagar, Dec 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Night temperatures across Kashmir again dropped below the freezing point on Wednesday as the weather office forecast dry and cold weather across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh till Saturday. Morning chill…
New Delhi, Dec 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) This is among the first books to explore the psychological impact of social media, especially Instagram. Garv Roy Gill and Yahvi Kothari meet by chance at an airport lounge. Six…