Well-known journalist and TV host Anita Rani was reduced to tears during a BBC programme after discovering her family’s fate in the violence that consumed India after the subcontinent’s partition at the end of British rule in 1947, a media report said. The “Strictly Come Dancing” star came to know that her grandfather lost his […]
An Indian cultural troupe from Rajasthan performed Kalbelia, one of the most sensuous dance forms of the state, here this past week. Kalbelia dance, performed by a tribe of the same name, has been part of the Unesco’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2010. Sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations […]
An Indian man and his Pakistani driving instructor are facing a trial in Dubai in a corruption case, a media report said on Sunday. The 24-year-old Indian, who was seeking a driving license, was presented in the Dubai Criminal Court on Saturday for bribing the Pakistani driving school instructor, Emirates 24/7 news reported. The Indian […]
The NSW Government has introduced a new payment to foster, relative and kinship carers to help young people in out of home care complete secondary education after they turn 18. Minister for Family and Community Services Brad Hazzard and Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli announced the new payment – the Post Care Education Support […]
The living room can be made in the northeast for a north or east facing house. For a west facing house, it can be in the northwest. For a south facing house, it can be in southeast direction. Heavy furniture can be placed against the south and west walls not touching them. TV should be […]
After lying “dormant” in the music world since the release of her last album “Amanda Leigh” in 2009, Hollywood actress and songstress Mandy Moore is confident that she’ll be back with a bang in 2016. She says she feels “unfulfilled” without creating music. “I’ve been working on music steadily for the last couple of years. […]
For anyone out there who is not a part of Apple Inc.’s workforce, it would be very hard to imagine the Apple logo without connecting the name of Apple’s late founder Steve Jobs in their heads. But the truth is that the company’s latest announcements, launches and strategies are in deviation of Jobs’ ideologies and […]
In a breather for a man who has undergone 29 years of trial for allegedly possessing secret documents of the commerce ministry, a court has released him on probation of a year. While the man has not been awarded a prison term due to the long-drawn trial he underwent, a telling commentary on IndiaÂ’s judicial […]
Even as they spar over jurisdiction, there are signs of cooperation as the union and Delhi governments are to create a single agency to clean up Yamuna river – which accounts for 70 percent of the capital’s water needs – realising that the multiple authorities engaged in the task have complicated the job. The agency, […]
Fifteen-year-old generators being used in the natioanl capital for residential and commercial purposes are to be phased out to bring down the city’s air and noise pollution, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has been told. The Centrral Pollution Control Boad (CPCB) informed the NGT that generators would be deactivated after completing 15 years from the […]