Record breaker Mithali Raj reaches landmark feat of 5,000 runs India batters and New Zealand bowlers rise in latest player rankings Although India claimed the overall spoils 3-2 in the five-match series, it is New Zealand who has moved up two places to joint fourth in the ICC Women’s Championship table following its 2-1 win […]
Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres today announced the NSW Government has secured the world premiere of renowned New York LEGO brick artist Nathan Sawaya’s latest exhibition, exclusively for Sydney, ahead of the exhibition’s world tour. The Art of the Brick: DC Comics sees the world’s pioneer LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya […]
The City is investing $200,000 to give five local arts and culture groups a huge boost. The Accelerate Triennial Grants program will help build their capacity to grow and deliver high-quality cultural products for the community. Mayor Tom Tate said the three-year funding would have an immediate impact. “A key challenge for […]
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s (FARC) negotiating delegation reiterated here its willingness to lay down arms in the name of peace with the government as long as the safety of its members was guaranteed. The armed group’s reaffirmation was contained in a statement read to the media at the Palace of Conventions here, Xinhua […]
To help Kolkata residents learn more about animal birth control and how it could prevent the animals from becoming homeless, PETA India will kick-off a unique awareness campaign here on Friday. Dressed as giant condoms and holding signs that read “Dogs Can’t Use Condoms. Sterilise Them”, two volunteers of People for the Ethical Treatment of […]
India’s longest running detective TV series “CID” is giving a chance to viewers to complete an incomplete story by giving a unique twist to it via a contest. As part of the ‘Shaatir Lekhak Contest’, starting from July 10, the audiences will be given an incomplete story with clues and they will be expected to […]
Scientists have developed a new approach to develop highly-potent drugs which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in patients. The study that appeared in Nanomedicine identified a new mechanism of targeting multi-subunit complexes that are critical to the function of viruses, bacteria or cancer. Thus the mechanism will reduce or […]
Children of Rohingya Muslims, one of the world’s most persecuted communities who have been living on the outskirts of Delhi for some three years, are falling prey to diseases, including lung infections and severe skin allergies, due to bio-medical waste being dumped by two prominent hospitals in front of their camp, enquiries by IANS have […]
More than a month after a communal clash engulfed Atali village in Haryana, all its Muslims and most Hindu men have fled — either fearing more violence or the police. Only a few hundred Hindus are still left in the village that once had a population of over 5,000, located 12 km from Ballabhgarh town […]
For all mango lovers who thought the ‘king of fruits’ is just to dig your teeth into or is to be sipped through a straw as a juice or shake, there is more this summer! For, the land of nawabs has come a long way from the times that mangoes were sucked under trees in […]