Munawar Ali Hussainy, a 17-year-old poet from Jammu and Kashmir, has been named ‘Poet of the Year’ for 2014 by the National Urdu Cultural Academy here. Speaking to IANS over phone, Hussainy – who was awarded for his poem “Zulm Ka Mara” – said the academy every year invites five poems from a poet to […]
Sakari Momoi, a Japanese man recognised as the world’s oldest male by Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 112, a media report said on Tuesday. Momoi died of chronic kidney failure at a hospital in Tokyo on July 5. Momoi, who lived in Saitama city near Tokyo, was recognised by Guinness as […]
A drug given to arthritis sufferers could be used to treat patients with blood cancer, say researchers from University of Sheffield in Britain. The discovery may open up cost effective treatment options for people suffering from the blood cancer myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) across the world as the anti-inflammatory medicine is one thousandth of the cost […]
Actress Amanda Peterson, best known for her 1987 film “Can’t Buy Me Love”, is dead. She was 43. The actress died at her home in Greeley, Colorado, reports tmz.com. Peterson’s father said that the family hadn’t heard from 43-year-old since July 3 and became concerned. Her body was finally discovered at her home on July […]
A photograph featuring Shahid Kapoor dancing away with his bride-to-be Mira Rajput at their sangeet ceremony on Monday night has surfaced online, leaving some of the Bollywood actor’s fans in awe of the couple and most female fans heartbroken. The sangeet, reportedly held at a Chhatarpur farmhouse, saw the duo matching steps with each other. […]
It was her parents’ love for sitar exponent Pandit Ravi Shankar that introduced Paola Carraro to Indian art and music far away in Brazil. Carraro, who started learning sitar from Ravi Shankar’s disciple Alberto Marsicano, says India was the biggest inspiration in her life and Indian culture continues to fascinate her. “Indian music has always […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Indian movies, language and music were extremely popular in Uzbekistan. “Indian movies, language and music are very popular in Uzbekistan. In 2012, Uzbek radio completed 50 years of Hindi broadcasting,” he said in a tweet. Modi arrived here on July 6 on the first leg of his […]
If the Indian women’s hockey team can justifiably take pride in qualifying for the Rio Olympics, the men can continue to gloat over the fact that they were the first to make it to the Games, giving them two extra years to prepare for the mega event. Call it the liberal qualification system or what […]
By denying life-saving drugs in jail, the Maharashtra government tried to kill him, alleged G.N. Saibaba, a Delhi University English professor who has just been released on three-month’s bail from Nagpur jail. In a two-hour long conversation with IANS at his official residence in Delhi University campus, a wheel-chair bound Saibaba said that despite being […]
About 86 million more rural Indians have been counted as illiterate than the 2011 census data found. This is revealed by the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC), which counted 315.7 million Indians in rural areas as illiterate in 2011, the same year as the census and the highest number of illiterates of any country in the world. Put […]