India

Bhubaneswar: Singer, actor and entrepreneur Rihanna set the internet on fire with a simple tweet of 50 characters, "Why aren't we talking about this?". She was referring to a CCN...

Tinsukia: When nearly 36 vultures died in Assam's Tinsukia district last month, residents of the village decided to honour the birds by hold a 'shraadha' or a prayer meeting for...

Bhubaneswar: The Centre has agreed to take up 300 km 8-lane integrated economic corridor from Paradip to Barbil consisting 6 stretches in Odisha. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday proposed...

It is ironic that the colonisers who ruled us for 200 years, should today recognise Indian English words and include them in their most well-known dictionary. Hinglish or Indian English...

Chennai: With the whole sea as a mandap and sea creatures as the 'baraatis', a couple from Tamil Nadu tied the knot 60 feet underwater off the coast of Neelankarai...

Kolkata: The corona pandemic claimed 1,54,486 persons as on Tuesday. Relatives of many, whom COVID took away in the early months after the virus struck, are still going through the...

New Delhi: Oxford Languages has selected ‘Aatmanirbharta’ (self-reliance) as its Hindi word of the year 2020. The Oxford Hindi word of the year is a word or expression that reflects...

Yavatmal: In a major goof-up, as many as 12 kids were given hand sanitisers instead of  oral polio vaccine drops at a Primary Health Centre in Ghatanji’s Kapsi-Kopari village here...

Bathinda: Terming the budget a “bitter harvest”, farm groups said that to double the farmers’ income by 2022 is an implausible target. They accused finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman of making...

New Delhi: Hours after blocking nearly 250 Twitter accounts in India for spreading hate, the microblogging website restored the accounts. The decision to restore the accounts was taken after a...