New Delhi, April 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) At the heart lies a profound inquiry into the nature of heroism. Drawing parallels between iconic figures such as Arjuna from the Mahabharata and Achilles from the Iliad, the theatre…
Varanasi, April 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Six more products from Uttar Pradesh have been given the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. These include the famous ‘Tirangi Barfi’ of Kashi, a tricoloured sweet that was sold to prove a…
New Delhi, April 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) There were times she would leave her camera aside, and hold the hand of the woman in labour. The project was not important at that moment in time. Once, a…
New Delhi, April 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) AFS Intercultural Programs (or AFS, originally the American Field Service), the international youth exchange organisation sponsored by the US Department of State, will provide scholarships to two students from the…
Dharamsala, April 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bollywood actress and BJP nominee from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh, Kangana Ranaut, on Monday met Buddhist spiritual leader The Dalai Lama at the latter’s residence in McLeodganj…
New Delhi, April 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Few people can boast of the distinction of having a love poem they penned in adolescence becoming a hit Hindi film song, but this purveyor and versifier of beauty, whose…
New Delhi, April 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Perhaps the best part about the documentary is the fact that it remains focused on the subject. The director, though providing it with cinematic adjectives does not try to make…
New Delhi, April 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Her influence persists in Bollywood even after her name has faded from public memory, althrough remixes of her rollicking hits from the 1950s continue to be in circulation. Another, and…
Srinagar, April 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) To promote voter participation in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, a ‘Nukkad Natak’ performance took centre stage at the Ghanta Ghar in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk on Saturday. District Election Officer (DEO)…
Shimla, April 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Making their way to the male-dominant arena of bugle players, three women personnel of Himachal Pradesh Police have broken gender stereotypes as they completed training at HP Police Training College at…
Mumbai, April 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) In 2010, a small Mumbai firm quietly introduced something unheard of – ‘menstrual leave’ for all its women employees – and the practice continues uninterrupted even now. It was the brainchild…
Chennai, April 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu Forest Department officials have issued a warning to motorists passing through the Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR), urging them to drive at reduced speeds to prevent collisions with animals…
New Delhi, April 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) At the Viksit Bharat Ambassadors Meet-up on Friday, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said the country has seen exponential growth in the last 10 years under the Narendra Modi government, as…
New Delhi, April 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Gopi Thotakura, a pilot, is set to become the first Indian to travel to the edge of space on Blue Origin’s next flight. The Indian American will be a part…
New Delhi, April 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Going bar hopping across Delhi, from celebrity bartender Yangdup Lama and Meenakshi Singh’s Sidecar to KiKi, Lair and Hoots’, is like any other working night for multiple award-winning Japanese mixologist…
New Delhi, April 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Soon after he revolutionised Indian film music with ‘Babul mora naihar’, top classical musicians, meeting in Calcutta, decided that Ustad Faiyyaz Khan, who had sung the thumri earlier, should tie…
New Delhi, April 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Known for his socially relevant films and for playing a crucial role in the revival of contemporary Marathi cinema, filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni’s latest Short ‘U=Me’, focussing on destigmatisation of AIDS,…
Chennai, April 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Tamil Nadu forest department on Wednesday shifted an elephant calf that was found abandoned near Periyanaicekenpalayam in Coimbatore to the Theppakadu camp in the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR) on Wednesday….
New Delhi, April 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Blazing her path to becoming one of Hindustani music’s foremost virtuosos, she did not achieve her status with just her incomparably melodious voice, but also her willingness to shake up…
New Delhi, April 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) In ‘Trial By Fire’, he stunned his audiences with a spectacle of honesty and purity that can inspire an inner silence. In ‘Kohrra’, the pace, the silences and the unsaid…