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People are calling for a boycott of a Korean automobile company, and one of the hot-selling brands in the market ‘Hyundai’ after the company’s Pakistani social media handles tweeted a post related to remembering the “sacrifices of our Kashmiri brothers” on February 5, which Pakistan observes as ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day. Hyundai The tweet made by […]
As many as 6 crore youths in the age range of 15-18 have received their first Covid-19 vaccination shot. With this, India has hit a new milestone in its vaccination drive – said Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya. “Congratulations to youth power. More than 5 crore youth in the age group of 15-18 got the first […]
Karnataka High Court heard the Hijab row on five petitions filed by girls studying at Government Pre-university College in Udupi. “For me, Constitution is Bhagvad Gita. We have to act according to the Constitution. I have come to this position after taking an oath on the Constitution. The emotions on the issue should be set […]
What started a week ago in a small college in Udupi, Karnataka, is now snowballing into a communal issue. A group of college students were banned entry into their college because they donned the head scarf. “However, we have always worn it. Why object now?” questioned the petitioners, adding that no such discrimination was mentioned […]
The Centre has agreed to launch a postal stamp to honor the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar. Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology of India, Spoke at the India Today Budget Round Table, said that the stamp would be an appropriate honour for the ‘Nightingale of India’. The stamp will […]
A new spider species discovered in Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary has been named as Palpimanus Narsinhmehtai in a way to immortalize the poet. “The particular epithet is devoted to the poet saint Narsinh Mehta. His perception in equality will be understood by one of many well-known poems ‘Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye’, which even impressed Mahatma […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known to use shayaris and famous verses to support his speeches. He used a similar way, on Monday to reply to the President’s ‘Motion of Thanks’ in the parliament. Targeting Congress’s repetitive defeats in the elections, PM Modi slammed the opposition party for not changing its attitude toward the citizens […]
They say the next world war would be fought over water. With India being left with only 4% of freshwater sources while the country continues to tap the already depleting groundwater resources — in fact, as much as 25% of the groundwater extracted in the world is from India. Alert to this worrying crisis, at least […]
Hopping political parties, irrespective of ideologies, seems to have become a norm in Uttar Pradesh. In Allahabad (now Prayagraj), alone, there are at least half a dozen turncoats who have moved to rival parties just for tickets to the intensely-contested assembly elections. Handia assembly seat is all set to witness a tug of war between […]
Workouts are one of the most important ways of keeping ourselves fit. For two years now, Corona necessitated Working From Home better known as WFH has become the new normal. In this scenario, it has become all the more important to move our body and stretch it. It is a well known that sedentary lifestyle […]
ST-13, an eight-year-old tiger has remained missing several weeks after it went missing from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan’s Alwar district. Authorities have been trying to locate the big cat, last seen on January 15 at Rampura-Devra in the reserve’s Talvriksh range. The radio collar fitted around ST-13’s neck around five years back had […]
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday planted a sapling here in the memory of singing legend Lata Mangeshkar. He also made an announcement that a music academy and a museum showcasing all songs sung by her will be set up in her birthplace Indore. Mangeshkar (92) died at a hospital in Mumbai […]
A 19-year-old woman who allegedly started facing dowry harassments soon after marriage,ended her life on February 5 in her rented accommodation in Ambedkar Nagar of Sahnewal. The woman got married to the accused in December 2020. Her father, from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh,told the police that he tried to intervene several times in the matter but […]
This trend-setting minimalist wedding saw only the bride, groom, a digital priest and some virtual invitees. Above all, the union was immortalised using blockchain technology. How? Anil Narasipuram and Shruti Nair tied the knot in November 2021. Their unique wedding (billed as India’s first blockchain wedding) is among the top viral videos on Twitter. In […]
On multiple occasions, Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit has put out her Hindutva right-wing political views out in the open unhesitatingly. She has now deleted her Twitter account, after journalists started sharing her tweets. Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit, currently a professor of politics and public administration in Savitribai Phule Pune University, was appointed the new vice-chancellor of India’s […]
Lata Mangeshkar has been the voice been the voice of countless movies of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. To pay last respects to the mortal remains of veteran singer, SRK went to Shivaji Park in Mumbai along with his manager Pooja Dadlani. In a video that went viral, SRK was seen standing stern in a […]
Feb 3, 2022: “In dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing, about the dark times” Iconic German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s words continue to echo and remain relevant, particularly in South Asia, as underscored by prominent artists at Resisting Together: Art and the Artist in South Asia, an online gathering across time […]
Not everyone knows about the singing diva Lata Mangeshkar’s appearance in a pharmaceutical ad in over seven decades of her career. One of the most celebrated celebrities of the country, Lata Mangeshkar, has never appeared in any advertisements in the past seven decades of her career. In the 1990s, she acted for Glycodin cough syrup […]
The Amreli man, Mahesh Rathod, 47, is shattered in pieces as the legend succumbed to death early on Sunday. Lataji’s caretaker and assistant for the past 27 years, is a native of Morangi village, Amreli. The man was inconsolable, broken into bits and pieces. While the whole country mourned this loss, Rathod had shared a […]
The Union Home Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday notified that the single dose of the Sputnik Light covid vaccine has received emergency use permission from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). This is the 9th vaccine that has been approved for emergency use in the country. “DCGI has granted emergency use permission to Single-dose […]
