Dedicated fever/dengue clinics across the national capital would start functioning from Monday morning, the Delhi government said on Saturday. These clinics will function in the government dispensaries at 55 locations across the city. Health Minister Satyendar Jain has directed these clinics to function from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. including Sundays and holidays till further […]
Manipuri designer Robert Naorem is hosting the Kanglei Fashion Extravaganza here on Sunday to raise funds to help the flood victims in northeast – and also promote the region. Now in its third year, the show was earlier titled Manipur Fashion Extravaganza and was held in the state’s capital Imphal. “I always wished to take […]
The Odisha government on Saturday decided to form three committees which will counter West Bengal’s claim as the birthplace of rosogolla. Both the states are fighting a gastronomic war over obtaining the Geographical Indication tag for rosogolla, a syrupy sweet. Science and Technology Minister Pradeep Panigrahi said the government has decided to form three committees […]
By Aijaz Nazir With hundreds of families across the country preparing Eid-ul-Azha in the last week of September, the ban on sale of meat, including beef, has come as a huge setback for the traders who were expecting a good business during the festive season. Akbar Qureshi, a meat trader in the Mankhurd area of […]
Saturday morning was a momentous day in the history of the 57-year-old Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) as the last train on the solitary meter-gauge track left in the entire northeastern region departed from Agartala station. Except some railway employees led by Agartala station manager Paramananda Das and some curious locals, there was no VIP or […]
Sheikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the son of the ruler of Dubai, died of a heart attack on Saturday, state media reported. He was 33. Sheikh Rashid is the son of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice-president and the prime minister of UAE, and the ruler of Dubai. UAE President […]
Taking pot shots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his poll promises, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday called him a Feku. Addressing his first election rally in Bihar’s West Champaran district, Gandhi targeted Modi over his various promises made during the 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign but which remain unfulfilled till date. “He […]
A woman was kidnapped here in a Meru cab by three people, one of whom was known to her, and then driven to a shop where she was gang-raped, police said on Saturday. The 37-year-old woman was driven around west Delhi early Friday and later taken to a shop where two more men waited. She […]
Film: “Pawn Sacrifice”; Cast: Toby Maguire, Live Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe, Robin Weigert; Director: Edward Zwick; Rating: *** Based on the true story of American chess legend, Robert James Fischer who was known as “Bobby Fischer”, the film “Pawn Sacrifice” triumphs both as a character study and as a window into history. […]
The unending ceasefire violations by the Pakistani Army on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir have become a matter of life and death for thousands of families living in villages close to it and the international border. Despite the directors general level meeting between the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) and the […]