New Delhi, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) An indifferent student, especially disliking history, he was advised by his school principal to become a politician or an actor, given his imposing personality and resounding voice. As fate would…
New Delhi, Oct 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Srinagar was initially saved in the last week of October 1947 by the valiant efforts of a handful of J&K state forces and Indian Army soldiers but was still threatened…
New Delhi, Oct 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ashwin Fernandes, Executive Director at UK-based QS World University Rankings, has recently launched a book titled “MODIALOGUE” to celebrate the far-reaching impact of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s acclaimed monthly radio…
Srinagar, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) J&K Lt Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha on Sunday released the book of the former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union Vice President, Shehla Rashid, titled ‘Role Models: Inspiring Stories of Indian Muslim…
New Delhi, Oct 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Conversations for a Viksit Bharat, a new literary work by Ashwin Fernandes, Executive Director at UK-based QS World University Rankings, has been launched to celebrate the far-reaching impact of Prime…
Kasauli, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) He says that it is a long journey and only those truly passionate about music can think of surviving and aim at excellence — something which takes years. L. Subramaniam, India’s…
New Delhi, Oct 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) In November 2018, the world suddenly woke up to a community that did not care to be known. And as much as it intrigued many, the incident caught the fancy…
New Delhi, Oct 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a cosmic conundrum that had left the world’s foremost physicist puzzled, while a leading astronomer’s efforts to help him complicated matters further, but this teenage Indian student, using…
Kasauli, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 13th edition of the three-day Khushwant Singh Litfest took off to a grand start on Friday with the recitation of Gurbani and Sant Kabir’s couplets. In the inaugural session noted…
New Delhi, Oct 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Oxford University Press (OUP) on Friday announced the launch of a trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary to make the Sanskrit language accessible to learners across the globe. This aligns with OUP’s…
New Delhi, Oct 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) South Korean author and poet Han Kang, who came to global prominence with her unsettling novel “The Vegetarian” (2015), about a woman seeking to reclaim her agency through her food…
New Delhi, Oct 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Urdu poet Jigar Moradabadi could have never conceived that the opening couplet of his ghazal placing man at the centre of the cosmos would achieve such fame — but as…
Los Angeles, Oct 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon is all set to turn writer as she will be co-penning a thriller novel with bestselling mystery author Harlan Coben. Witherspoon announced that she is co-writing…
New Delhi, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) His lyrical exploits in Hindi films spanned over half a century, starting from K.L. Saigal to the Khan trio, but were versatile, prodigious, and paradoxical – the pathos-filled “Jab dil…
New Delhi, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) His lecherous look, his salacious sneer, and a voice that could range from silken menace to wheedling entreaty were all he needed and no woman his sly stare fell on…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Leave alone the dynasty, their title has become a byword for luxurious indulgence, cultural refinement, genteel fastidiousness — the famed ‘nafasat’ and ‘nazakat’, and political passivity, but do the Nawabs…
Bhopal, Sep 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pune-based veteran Hindi poet and writer Damodar Khadse was felicitated with the prestigious ‘Rashtriya Hindi Seva Samman’ award by the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday. Khadse was facilitated by Chief Minister…
New Delhi, Sep 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) ‘The Four Attempts on Narendra Modi’s Life’, a book authored by Binay Kumar Singh, was unveiled in the national capital on Tuesday, coinciding with Prime Minister Modi’s birthday. The book…
New Delhi, Sep 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) BlueKraft Digital Foundation on Tuesday launched the Viksit Bharat Fellowship programme, an initiative aimed to encourage and empower writing and creative talents across various domains. The data analytics agency said…
New Delhi, Sep 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) A perspicacious peregrination through the discombobulating gallimaufry that is the English language with its penchant for purloining from other languages, its hermetic spellings, its recondite pronunciation, its abstruse punctuation, and…