Kuala Lumour, May 12 (IANS) Virtual hotels operator Nida Rooms, co-founded by former SpiceJet chief executive Kaneswaran Avili, has expanded its portfolio to the Philippines, thus adding one more country to its footprint, that is…
Kathmandu, May 12 (IANS) Three foreign climbers reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday after a two-year hiatus. Two Britons, Kenton Cool and Robert Richard Lucas, scaled the 8,848-metre peak along with two Nepalese…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Age is no bar for learning, nor are the walls of a jail. Condemned to prison life nearly eight years ago as an illiterate, Bhola Malakar at 53 now boasts of…
Bhubaneswar, May 11 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday handed over a cheque for Rs.5 lakh to the widow of Raghu Nayak, who had caught Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse in 1948. Patnaik…
Kathmandu, May 11 (IANS) After a two-year hiatus in the wake of deadly avalanches and last year’s earthquake, the world’s highest peak Mt Everest saw the first ascent on Wednesday as nine Nepali Sherpas made…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The 90-year-old Bengali Club at Kashmere Gate in the national capital’s old quarters will be back in action from Saturday after a decade, starting with the celebrations of the Bengali…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) The faceless postman — once portrayed poetically by Rabindranath Tagore — and the need to revamp the postal services in the country figured prominently during question hour in the Lok…
New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Aiming to fight hunger and malnutrition in the country, KFC India on Wednesday launched ‘Add Hope’ initiative to create awareness and raise funds to provide meals to underprivileged children. It…
Pune, May 11 (IANS) Defying all odds, including religious discrimination that forced him to adopt a Hindu identity, a 21-year old Muslim boy from Maharashtra has cracked the prestigious UPSC examinations, the results of which…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, May 11 (IANS) Gone are the days of the ‘iron curtain’ in the state bureaucracy, when from work to personal life, everything was secretive and out of bounds for the world….
Karachi, May 11 (IANS) A rickshaw driver in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi who shot to fame through his singing video on Facebook, says he has quit driving after being praised by Indian legendary singer…
By Mudita Girotra New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Nineteen-year-old Mrityunjay Sharma, who holds the Guinness World Record for playing the piano for a marathon 127 hours 8 min 38 sec (excluding breaks), now aims to…
New York, May 11 (IANS) Genetic testing has confirmed what the Bene Israel community living in the western part of India has always claimed – that they have Jewish roots, a study says. “Almost nothing…
By Prachi Salve & Saumya Tewari Christian-dominated Mizoram – 87 percent of the population is Christian – has the most inter-caste marriages in India, a nation where 95 percent of Indians marry within their caste,…
Perth, May 11 (IANS) A tiny stone flake found in Western Australia is a remnant of the earliest known axe with a handle, archaeologists have claimed. The discovery pushes back the technological advance to between…
Lucknow, May 10 (IANS) A Muslim woman and her daughter have been felicitated for their campaign in their native village for the construction of toilets to end the obnoxious practice of open-defecation, an official said…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated the candidates who cleared the prestigious Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exams. Congrats to all those who cleared the Civil Services Exam. My…
Actress and BJP MP Hema Malini (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Many young women who move courts for divorce often suffer as the litigation goes on for years and there should be separate…
Srinagar, May 10 (IANS) A 23-year-old Kashmiri IIT graduate on Tuesday made it to the second rank in the coveted civil services final list for this year. Athar Amir-ul-Shafi Khan belongs to a south Kashmir…
Pune, May 10 (IANS) In case the adventurous among you are looking for a brush with the rough and tumble of military life and want to have a closer dekko at the lives of the…