Beijing — Around 30 per cent of China’s Ming-era Great Wall has disappeared over time as adverse natural conditions and reckless human activities – including stealing the bricks to build houses – erode the Unesco World Heritage site, state media reported. The Great Wall is not a single unbroken structureContinue Reading
Jakarta — At least 49 bodies have been recovered after a military transport plane crashed in Medan, Indonesia, the Indonesian air force commander, Air Marshal Agus Supriatna, told reporters Tuesday. Twenty-three of the bodies have been identified, Supriatna said. Supriatna said the C-130 Hercules took off from Jakarta’s Halim PerdanakusumaContinue Reading
About 17,000 colorful condoms were stitched together to fashion the portrait called “Eggs Benedict”Continue Reading
Ahmedabad — The BJP government in Gujarat is mulling to introduce a chapter on Reliance Group founder Dhirubhai Ambani in school textbooks to instill spirit of entrepreneurship in young minds. The idea has been put across by Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasma to the state Textbook Board, a senior state officialContinue Reading
Kochi- Jose Kavi, Editor-in-Chief of Matters India, and a regular contributor to the One Magazine of the US, has won the best award for features published in Catholic periodicals of the United States. His was among 12 awards that ONE, a multimedia magazine of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA),Continue Reading
Satyabhama Nayak of Balliguda, as told to K P Sasi, documentary film producerContinue Reading
The Missionaries of Charity received 1.98 billion rupees in the past three yearsContinue Reading
He will take charge on August 15Continue Reading
Qualifying exams have become the norm these daysContinue Reading