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Music connects people with life: Singer Mukhtiyar Ali
Udaipur, Feb 22: Music bridges the gaps between people and connects them with the essence of life itself, believes Mukhtiyar Ali, a 26th generation Sufi singer from the Mirasi community of Rajasthan, who has been collaborating with French…
Khattar government lets Jat agitation go out of hand
Chandigarh, Feb 20: Over the past month, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has been marketing Haryana as an ideal and peaceful investment destination across the country and even in China and Japan. That image of the state has been dented…
Bad start for Freedom 251: Website crashes, people mob its office
The much-hyped launch of the world's cheapest “Made in India” smartphone was thrown into disarray on Thursday as a mad rush to book the Rs.251 (less than $4) device caused the firm's website to crash within hours of opening up for…
Six Indian-Americans among early-career scientists honoured by Obama
President Obama has named 106 researchers, including six of Indian origin, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest US government honour for young independent researchers.
The…
New train service to link southern Assam to Tripura, Manipur
A goods train service that gets flagged off on Saturday will link southern Assam with other north-eastern states, meeting an old demand of the people, the officials said.
"Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu will flag off the service from…
Egg freezing attracting young Indians, but social approval a far cry
Former Miss World Diana Hayden, 42, gave new hope to women who are in no rush to becoming mothers when she gave birth to her first child born out of her egg that she froze eight years ago.
But while young Indians feel that freezing of…
Should one revert to a stone-age diet to stay fit and healthy?
Amid all the rush to find a balanced diet that can keep one healthy, prevent from early ageing and kiss lifestyle-induced diseases a goodbye, modern calorie-counters in India have discovered a new fad: eat the way our ancestors ate.
The…
Good Samaritan of unclaimed bodies, a friend in need, indeed
Bhubaneswar, Feb 16: Despite not hailing from a well-off background and a school dropout to moot, he fervently feels that "Service to mankind is service to God". To this extent, this auto-rickshaw driver revels in a job that everyone would…
Goa minister says peacock cannot be called vermin
Panaji, Feb 15: Goa Forest and Environment Minister Rajendra Arlekar on Monday said there was no possibility of the peacock, India's national bird, being relegated to the list of vermin.
Arlekar was speaking to reporters a few days after…
‘Tea lady’ inspires people to give up opium cultivation in Arunachal
Guwahati, Feb 15: The foray of a resident of a village in Arunachal Pradesh into tea plantation inspired scores of people in the area to follow her example with many of them giving up growing opium.
Affectionately called 'tea lady',…