An Indian-American teen may soon feature in International Tennis Federation (ITF) top 200 rankings after she won the girls’ singles and doubles titles at the 2015 Atlanta ITF tournament. The first Indian-origin player to achieve the double feat in an international tennis tournament, 14-year-old Natasha Subhash, from Virginia, played on hard courts at the Life […]
An Indian-origin researcher in the US has won a $150,000 grant to study genes linked to the deadly melanoma skin cancer, a media report said. Anurag Singh, an assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at Boston University, won the grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance to study as to why some forms of melanoma with […]
Hockey India has announced the commencement of on-ground ticket sales for the Hockey World League (HWL) Final to be held at the International Hockey Stadium in Raipur from November 27 to December 6. Tickets are available at the stadium and a couple of outlets in Raipur. Bilaspur will also have an outlet, the HI announced […]
India’s limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday said that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has helped him and several other cricketers a lot, allowing them to come together and break the ice irrespective of their nationalities. “The IPL really helped us to get to know the culture of players from other countries, especially […]
Two Indian-origin entrepreneurs in New Zealand are among the finalists for the 2015 Women of Influence Awards in the community and not-for-profit category, a media report said on Monday. Founder of East Tamaki Healthcare Group Ranjna Patel and Westpac and Massey University’s Financial Education and Research Centre director Pushpa Wood will compete with 18 other […]
Australia Post today announced it will invest an initial $20 million in emerging eCommerce businesses and co-locate its accelerator at Lab-14 premises with its first partner, the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP). The investment fund and initial partnership with MAP are part of an ambitious program to support small business and to accelerate […]
The Australian Border Force (ABF) is asking the community to be alert to attempts to smuggle native wildlife out of Australia, after officers in Perth saved fifteen native Australian lizards concealed in parcels bound for Slovakia. Earlier this month (6 October), ABF officers at the Perth International Mail Gateway selected three parcels for further examination […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for rising food prices and questioned his silence on the issue. “Modi is responsible for the soaring prices of pulses and other essential commodities. But his silence has shocked the people,” Gandhi told an election rally in Araria district. “The Modi government has […]
Police in Nepal on Monday shot dead an Indian national during protests in the the country’s Birgunj city close to the Indian border, officials said. The deceased was identified as Asish Kumar Ram, 24. He belonged to Raxaul in Bihar. Nepal’s Home Secretary Surya Silwal confirmed that a protester had been killed in a clash […]
He never minces his words. And looking at the scenario where creative minds of the country are returning their awards and honours, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap feels suppressing voices of artistes can only put a civilisation into “grave danger”. Multiple writers, filmmakers and historians have returned their national awards over the past few weeks, as a […]