Mumbai, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sooraj Pancholi will be seen sharing the screen for the first time with veteran actor Suniel Shetty in the highly-anticipated biopic, ‘Kesari Veer: Legends Of Somnath’. As the film inches closer…
Chennai, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday announced that the grand library currently under construction in Tiruchi will be named after former Chief Minister K. Kamaraj. The decision, Stalin told…
New Delhi, March 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) K.K. Birla Foundation’s prestigious Saraswati Samman 2024 will be conferred upon renowned Sanskrit scholar Mahamhopadhyay Sadhu Bhadreshdas for his outstanding book Swaminarayana Siddhanta Sudha in Sanskrit. The decision was made…
Seoul, March 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Writer Han Kang, the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, was among hundreds of South Korean authors calling for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be removed from office…
New Delhi, March 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Renowned Hindi litterateur Vinod Kumar Shukla has been selected for the prestigious 59th Jnanpith Award for 2024, recognising his unique contribution, creativity, and distinctive writing style in Hindi literature. Shukla…
New Delhi, March 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nearly four decades after it broke out, the probe into the Bofors scandal still remains inconclusive even though papers and people that can establish the truth are still out there…
New Delhi, March 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) V.K. Saxena on Saturday attended the launch of Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri’s book ‘Swallowing the Sun’ becoming a national bestseller, which was hosted at the Partition Museum,…
New Delhi, March 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The scandal tarnished the image of two popular Prime Ministers (one posthumously), threw light on the unscrupulous world of the global arms trade and its nexus with politics, and forced…
New Delhi, March 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even amid themselves, they note how they seem to only make gulab jamuns and samosas by the hundreds for official occasions, but India’s ‘informal diplomats’ frequently show their metier. Like…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) At the inauguration of the 48th Kolkata International Book Fair on Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee remembers the connections of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with Germany. “The main string…
Kolkata, Jan 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, rejected the appeal from the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) for allotment of a stall at the forthcoming Kolkata International Book Fair…
Jaipur, Jan 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 18th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) will be held from January 30 to February 3 at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur, offering a meticulously curated program celebrates literature, culture,…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the Publishers & Booksellers Guild, the organiser of the Kolkata International Book Fair, to arrange space for the stall of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)…
Chennai, Jan 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin conferred the prestigious Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Award on K.V. Thangkabalu, former president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, on Wednesday. Thangkabalu, a former Member of Parliament…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) His contribution to Hindi film music, spanning classical to casual, is considerable, but composer C. Ramchandra’s biggest endowment was to the nation, in creating the haunting, heart-rending, yet inspiring strains…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected the plea by a leading human rights group for allotment of a stall for the Kolkata International Book Fair 2025, scheduled to begin by…
Agartala, Jan 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amidst the unrest followed by the political changes in Bangladesh, no booksellers or publishers from the neighbouring country will participate in the Agartala Book Fair, beginning from Thursday, officials said. The…
New Delhi, Jan 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Soon after the ban on Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses’ was lifted after 36 years, the mercurial excitement of readers drove them to bookstores in select cities to fetch a…
Kozhikode, Dec 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Kerala mourns the loss of its literary titan, MT Vasudevan Nair, who passed away at a private hospital on Wednesday night. As a mark of respect, the state government has declared…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel ‘The Satanic Verses’ has quietly reappeared in India, 36 years after it was banned by the Rajiv Gandhi government under pressure from religious groups….