Actor Irwin Keyes, who has appeared in films like “The Jeffersons” and “The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas”, has died. He was 63. Keyes died of acromegaly, a pituitary gland disorder on Wednesday, reports variety.com. On Wednesday, Keyes’ niece, Rene Galarza, announced his death in a post to his Facebook page. “It’s with deep sympathy […]
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 […]
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 […]
The residents of the Chinese capital are obsessed with the weather. The first thing they check in the morning on their phone application is the pollution level. And then they look out of the window. What they hope for is a ‘Blue Sky’ – a portender of sunny, pollution free day. They even have a […]
Top police officers who undertook rare deterrent action against the killings on the streets of Delhi following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 ran into a wall of disapproval from the police leadership, according to a new book. Some of the most dramatic police action came from additional deputy […]
A female trainee sub-inspector on Monday committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district. She had been selected through the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal (Vyapam), police said. Anamika Kushwaha was posted as a trainee at the Jawaharlal Nehru Training Centre. The training centre is situated near a pond in which she jumped to death early […]
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), has inducted the Old City of Sanaa to the list of World Heritage in danger due to the “serious damage” done amidst clashes between Shiite Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in Yemen. The decision was made on Thursday during the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee […]
Four Indian-Americans are among 38 individuals being honoured for having “helped advance and enlighten our society, culture, and economy” as “Great Immigrants: The Pride of America” by Carnegie Corporation of New York. As a July 4th American independence day “Salute to Great Immigrants Who Help Make America Strong” and their accomplishments, the corporation for the […]
Sanitation in Jammu & Kashmir is among the worst in India, with more than 54 percent of more than 1.2 million households without toilets and the 2014-15 target for household latrines falling short by 86 percent, according to government data. While J&K is ranked third, the two worst states are Odisha and Bihar, according to […]
A young man from a militancy-plagued region in Jammu and Kashmir has cracked the AIIMS medical entrance test and is itching to join the country’s premier medical institute as a doctor. Shahid Nabi, a resident of Tral, a town 60 km from Srinagar, has also secured the eighth rank in the Jammu and Kashmir Common […]