By-Nidhi Kumari DJ Abhi has been involved in the art of DJing for the past 15 years. His fans claim that he’s one of the best Indian DJs who smears music and dance in the air. Indus Age brings you a glimpse of DJ Abhi in an exclusive interview. Excerpts: What influenced you to undertake […]
New Delhi With the recent acquisition of PipavavDefence, Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani announced that an additional investment of Rs.5,000 crore will be made as part of India’s emphasis on “Make in India” for military hardware and cut imports. He also underscored the need for larger public-private partnerships in the defence domain, and called for […]
New Delhi, The total number of telephone connections in India crossed one billion mark in May, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) revealed. The total number of telecom subscription stood at 1,002.05 million at the end of May, out of which 975.78 million were wireless connections and 26.27 were wireline. “The […]
The Kumaon Literary Festival (KLF) would be held from October 23-27 at Te Aroha located in Dhanachuli, an enchanting little village in the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, and in Abbotsford in Nainital. This first edition of the literary fest will host authors, poets, cinema and media professionals, political commentators and opinion makers of the country. “KLF […]
Jammu and Kashmir has been through an unusual situation during the last fortnight with cloudbursts occurring with frightening frequency. The freak phenomenon after last year’s unprecedented floods has put the common man on the edge. Six people were killed last week as multiple cloudbursts hit the north Kashmir mountain villages of Kulan, Rizan, Gagangir, Sonamarg […]
Yakub Abdul Razzak Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was hanged till death at Maharashtra’s Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning, officials said. He was sent to the gallows — on his 54th birthday on Thursday — after several of his court appeals and clemency petitions were rejected by various courts, […]
In Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal, teachers are steadily turning out to be ‘punching bags’, with many calling the frequent attacks on them a reflection of the growing lawlessness in the state. From primary schools to prestigious colleges and universities, assaults on the educators have been reported from a number of districts with the attackers, in […]
Social worker Anshu Gupta and whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi on Wednesday won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay awards for “enterprising leadership” and for exposing corruption. The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said Gupta, 45, was being recognized for “his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India, his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a […]
Curtains came down on the legal battle of 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon as the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed his petition that sought a stay on his execution slated for July 30. “Issuance of death warrant cannot be faulted with,” said the apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra, while […]
As the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the hanging of Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon, a majority of voices opined that death penalty was not the answer to terrorism, and underlined that he was not the main accused. “You have to differentiate between this person, who has surrendered before the court and the […]