Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Documentary filmmaker Amlan Kusum Ghosh is all set to make his Bengali feature film debut with a political thriller exploring the possibility of Indian revolutionary Netaji Subash Chandra Bose resurfacing in…
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Around 500 monks and ‘kung fu’ nuns of the Drukpa Buddhist order, who commenced a 2,500 km arduous cyclethon from Kathmandu in Nepal and will culminate in the famed Hemis…
Cairo, July 14 (IANS) Solar Impulse 2, the world’s largest solar powered plane, landed in Cairo, Egypt, after departing from Seville in Spain, on the penultimate leg of its round-the-world flight. The plane, which reached…
By Anurag Dey Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) She is as inquisitive as many others for a convincing answer to one of India’s greatest mysteries-the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. But nonagenarian INA veteran Aruna…
Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) Mumbai Mayor Snehal Ambekar dedicated a prominent square in Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, in memory of slain veteran journalist Jyotirmoy Dey on Wednesday. The square is close to venue where Dey was…
Islamabad, July 13 (IANS) A special coin will be issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in honour of celebrated humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi who passed on Friday in Karachi. The denomination, shape and…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Aiming to save the girl child and nurture her bond with nature, the West Bengal forest department has conceptualised project ‘Bonani’ (forest) envisioning girls turning ambassadors to protect the environment. Bengal…
Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) Actors Swara Bhaskar, Vir Das, Vivek Oberoi, Kalki Koechlin and Govind Namdev have featured in a video to make an appeal to the citizens of India to gift masks to the…
Mumbai: Actor Nana Patekar during the trailer launch of Marathi film Natsamrat in Mumbai on Dec. 2, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, July 13 (IANS) A fundraising campaign organised on micro-blogging website Twitter saw over 2,670…
By Ruwa Shah Srinagar, July 13 (IANS) The weddings are still taking place, albeit quietly, in the Kashmir Valley. But invitations to wedding receptions have been cancelled en masse amid violence, curfews and shutdowns. The…
New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday approved compensation of Rs 5 lakh for civilian victims of cross border firing and hiked the compensation for victims of Maoist violence from…
By Sarwar Kashani and Ruwa Shah Srinagar, July 12 (IANS) With shops shut for a fourth day due to official restrictions and separatist-called shutdown, curfew-bound parts of the Kashmir Valley are facing several shortages of…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, July 12 (IANS) It’s that time of the year again when 14 Hindu deities are out in full glory, worshipped by thousands of tribals in Tripura. It’s time for the Kharchi…
Patna, July 12 (IANS) It was supposed to be a WhatsApp number for drawing the Bihar government’s attention to get bad roads repaired. What has happened is it has drawn the young maidens as if…
London, July 12 (IANS) Humans might have learned how to eat cashew by observing Brazilian capuchin monkeys cracking the tough nuts with stone tools, suggests new research. The researchers found archaeological evidence to suggest that…
Islamabad, July 12 (IANS) Around 100 snakes have been ruthlessly killed as part of a so-called magic show at the Karachi zoo, it was reported on Tuesday. Titled “The snake-eating man”, the stunt has been…
Hyderabad, July 11 (IANS) First Sathya Sai World Youth Festival, beginning at Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday, will bring together youth from diverse global cultures, the organisers said. The three-day conference, to be attended…
Madrid, July 11 (IANS) The world’s largest solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, on Monday took off from Seville in Spain to Egypt. After intense preparations, pilot Andre Borschberg communicated with the control tower just after…
Patna, July 10 (IANS) Now people can get “Gangajal” — holy water from the Ganga — at all post offices across the country and if they want, they can even get it delivered to their…
New York, July 10 (IANS) Prosocial behaviours, such as willingness to help others, may be linked to specific personalities, revealed a study. According to the research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB),…