New Delhi, March 6 Giving a major fillip to India’s neighourhood outreach in the Indian Ocean region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a five-day visit to the three key island nations of Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka from March 10. However, the Maldives leg of the visit is not on, in view of […]
New Delhi, March 6 Day three of the e-auction of radio frequency spectrum, or airwaves, with the eight companies in the fray made an offer for Rs.77,000 crore at the end of the 17th round, the government said on Friday. “Seventeenth round was completed with Rs.77,000 crore commitment today (Friday),” the government said. It was […]
Patna, March 6 A rescue and rehabilitation centre has opened in Bihar to protect and conserve the Garuda, an endangered species of the stork family. The first-of-its-kind centre opened this week in Bhagalpur district, said Sanjay Sinha, a divisional forest officer. Nearly eight years after these endangered birds started nesting and breeding in Bhagalpur, their […]
Thiruvananthapuram, March 6 (IANS) Kerala Tourism’s popular global multimedia campaign to promote the backwaters has won the Golden Gate award at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin) – 2015, the world’s leading travel trade event. The state tourism department bagged the silver prize at the Das Golden Stadttor (Golden Gate) Awards presented in the German capital […]
Chennai, March 6 It may sound strange but it’s true that a 61-year-old woman, late last year, gave birth to her own granddaughter whose biological mother and father are her daughter and son-in-law, doctors here said. “A young lady and her mother came to our hospital enquiring about the possibility of having a surrogate mother,” […]
Chandigarh, March 6 While claiming that the Punjab government would come down heavily on those involved in acid attacks in the state, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday said the severest punishment would be sought for offenders involved in a recent such attack on a class 12 student in Gurdaspur district. Condemning the acid […]
Perth, March 6 After beating the West Indies in a World Cup Pool B encounter at the WACA here on Friday, an elated Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni credited his bowlers for keeping the opposition batsmen on a tight leash.
New Delhi, March 6 President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated the Indian cricket team for their four-wicket victory against the West Indies in the World Cup.
New Delhi, March 6 The Editors Guild of India on Friday appealed to the government to revoke the ban on airing of the BBC documentary on the December 16, 2012 gang-rape, terming the move “wholly unwarranted”. In a statement, the Guild said the documentary, ‘Storyville: India’s daughter’, portrayed the courage, sensibility and liberal outlook of […]
Holi has a Muslim history as well. Revered Sufi saints like Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia and Ameer Khusro have, in their chaste Persian and Hindvi poetry, adored the ‘pink’ festival generously. The last Moghul Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, allowed his Hindu ministers to smear his forehead with gulal on Holi. He believed that his religion would […]