Kolkata — Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, whose short film “Slum Stars” won an award at the International Film and Entertainment Festival Australia, on Monday said Mother Teresa inspired him to do his bit for children in slums. “Long time back, when I had come for a trip to Kolkata, the nobleContinue Reading
A post graduate in public administration and a graduate from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Ratikanta Pradhan had interned with a newspaper before opting for a clerical job in a bank. Later, she had cracked the state civil service.Continue Reading
Kolkata — Mother Teresa will make history with the fourth Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF) dedicated in her honour in Kolkata, on the occasion of her canonization scheduled for next year. The Mother Teresa International Film Festival (MTIFF) which commemorates special occasions associated with the Nobel laureate will in 2016 present theContinue Reading
The juvenile convict is set to be released from the reform home tomorrow.Continue Reading
Bengaluru: Disappointed after a bill to legalise homosexuality failed to pass through Parliament, members of sexual minorities and their supporters turned out at Bengaluru’s Town Hall on Saturday afternoon. Akkai, a transgender activist, spoke emotionally to NDTV. “Parliamentarians are supposed to play their roles and carry out their responsibilities. HowContinue Reading
New Delhi : A recent WHO report has ranked India with having the highest number of tuberculosis cases in the world, health minister JP Nadda said on Friday. “As per the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global TB Report, 2015, in the year 2014, 2.2 million cases were estimated in India whichContinue Reading
Imphal: The journalist faternity of the State came out on the streets on Wednesday registering a strong protest against the bomb threat on Impact TV editor-in-chief Yumnam Rupachandra Singh who is also the general secretary of the Editors’ Guild Manipur. The demonstrating media persons including reporters, editors and others stayedContinue Reading
Patna : Villagers in Bihar’s Gopalganj district have prohibited children from eating mid-day meal cooked by a widow at a government-run school, an official said on Thursday. Angered over reinstatement of a widow Sunita Kunwar as cook, the villagers and parents issued a diktat that the school will remain closedContinue Reading
New Delhi: Four years since a Supreme Court order mandated night-shelters for outstation patients and attendants at AIIMS, the poor from far-off places jostle for living space on pavements outside the country’s top referral hospital, shivering in the night chill with temperatures plunging below five degrees Celsius. AIIMS caters toContinue Reading
The herbal garden has 70 varieties of medicinal plantsContinue Reading
