London, June 25 (IANS) The LGBT community in Britain still has to hide their sexuality even almost half a century after homosexuality was decriminalised in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday. Cameron’s message…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) Urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare July 1 as Daughters Day in memory of Indo-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) has launched a campaign…
Mysuru (Karnataka), June 24 (IANS) Elaborate rituals for the June 27 grand wedding of the Mysuru’s titular Maharaja Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraj began on Friday at the Ambi Vilas Palace here amid chanting of Vedic hymns…
Kolkata, June 24 (IANS) Neil O’Brien, credited with pioneering quizzing in the country, passed away here on Friday, his son and Trinamool Congress MP Derek OBrien said. The 82-year-old former Lok Sabha and West Bengal…
By Brajendra Nath Singh New Delhi, June 24 (IANS) Travelling on the highways is set to be a smoother and more interesting affair — a la ‘Rajmarg villages’ based on the concept of rest areas…
Solan, June 24 (IANS) Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday inaugurated the century-old Shoolini fair here in Himachal Pradesh on Friday. A colourful procession that started from the Shoolini temple marked the beginning of three-day-long…
By Sukanya Bhattacharyya Over 10 years, the central government spent Rs 21,482 crore ($3.2 billion) building houses for the urban poor but 23 per cent of them are vacant, according to a May 2016 answer…
Ahmedabad, June 23 (IANS) An Ahmedabad-based NGO, Human Development and Research Centre (HDRC), sparked off a controversy by putting out an advertisement seeking “upper caste” candidates for a vacancy of cleaner-cum-sanitation worker. The recruitment advertisement…
New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) The Central government has identified 10 iconic places for observing international standards of cleanliness under the Prime Minister’s flagship ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ with the help of the World Bank, officials…
London, June 23 (IANS) The world’s largest solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, has entered Spanish airspace with the aim of landing in Seville to complete its Atlantic crossing, BBC reported on Thursday. Pilot Bertrand Piccard…
Canberra, June 23 (IANS) The latest survey of Australia’s population shows that women continue to outnumber men, after the female population hit 12 million for the first time this week. Figures released by the Australian…
By Anil K. Rajvanshi I stay in rural Maharashtra. We have reached a stage in life where we hardly shop but sometimes need specialty items like books, computer peripherals, herbal teas and the like. These…
By Chinmaya Dehury Bhubaneswar, June 23 (IANS) A friend, philosopher and guide, she’s the motherly figure for the children of jail inmates in Odisha. Meet 42-year-old Niroja Laxmi Mohapatra, the guardian angel for these children…
Ranchi, June 22 (IANS) Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghuvar Das on Wednesday launched an App named Irrigation Source Monitoring System (I&SM) to facilitate surveillance and monitoring of construction work of small irrigation sources. During the launching…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Stressing the importance of good health, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari on Wednesday said Yoga is a science that helps improve the fitness level as well as the overall health…
New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday said that Patanjali Ayurved Limited will soon spend Rs 10,000 crore on Yoga research work in India. “We are already spending a lot of…
Shimla, June 22 (IANS) To strengthen water supply and sewage disposal and to prevent recurrence of water-borne diseases in Shimla town, the Himachal Pradesh government on Wednesday decided to create a water supply and sewerage…
By Saumya Tewari Family courts in the prosperous, southern state of Kerala ruled on just over five divorces every hour in 2014 – 130 every day – more than any of the 12 Indian states…
Ahmedabad, June 21 (IANS) More than 1,600 pregnant women in Gujarat’s Rajkot city claim to have set a new Guinness record on the International Yoga Day by performing a special kind of “pre-natal” yoga on…
Chennai, June 21 (IANS) On the second International Yoga Day on Tuesday, a woman advocate in Tamil Nadu created a new world record for continuous performance of yoga asanas or exercises. K.P. Ranchana, 34, an…