Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday announced that the Odd-Even scheme will be back in November, to tackle the rising menace of pollution just around the time of Diwali. The scheme will be enforced on November 4 and will continue till November 15. Apart from that he announced plans to buy electric buses and […]
Ace Indian boxer Mary Kom’s name has been suggested for the prestigious Padma Vibhushan Award, country’s second highest civilian award. The Sports Ministry is also discussing eight other female athletes for the Padma Awards. Recently crowned World Champion P.V. Sindhu has been suggested for the Padma Bhushan Award. The other seven athletes — ace wrestler […]
A new photograph of superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan has fans swooning. Aryan on Thursday uploaded the photograph on Instagram. He wore his classic serious expression as he sat on chair in a dark room in his black sweatshirt and light-coloured pants, sneakers and a pair of round red coloured sunglasses. The image […]
A producer with the US National Public Radio (NPR), Furkan Khan, has resigned after her Hinduphobic tweet caused outrage among the people of all religions. “If Indians give up on Hinduism, they will also be solving most of their problems. What with all the piss drinking and dung worshipping,” she had tweeted on September 9. […]
An international cricket match after a long time in the picturesque hill destination of Dharamsala on Sunday has set the hospitality industrys cash register ringing. Members of the industry expect arrival of over 20,000 cricket buffs, mainly from the plains of north India, to visit Dharamsala that has been luring a stream of Westerners and […]
The horrendous attack on the Twin Towers at New York eighteen years ago by a band of Al Qaeda terrorists sent out on a suicide mission in the name of Jehad, remains a reference point for the international community even today in evaluating the threat that Islamic radicals continue to pose for all democratic nations. […]
Sri Lanka Minister Harin Fernando has rejected claims made by Pakistan Minister Fawad Hussain Chaudhry that India forced the players of the island nation to opt out of their upcoming tour against the Men in Green. Fernando, who is Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister, said that 10 players have opted out of the tour “purely” based […]
Search giant Google is rolling out a new capability for G Suite customers to see their word count as they type on docs, to make their life a bit easier. “We have heard that displaying this information is helpful to users working on docs that require minimum or maximum word count,” Google said in a […]
Young kids, who grow up in homes with limited access to nutritious foods are more likely to experience poor overall health and developmental problems, says a new study. However, these kids are not at higher risk of developing obesity, the research added. For the findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, the researchers analysed data from […]
Before he quit ostensibly over curbs imposed in Kashmir, IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan was issued a showcause notice in July by the Union Home Ministry for indulging in various acts of “omission and commission” which constitute “misconduct” as well as “dereliction of duty”. The ministry cited “dereliction” of duty in the administrative works of the […]