Mumbai (IANS) Backed by increased Internet penetration in rural India, the number of Internet users in the country will reach 627 million by the end of this year, registering an 11 per cent growth over 566 million users in 2018, according … read more
Araku (Andhra Pradesh) (IANS) From tribal hamlets to Paris, Araku coffee has come a long way and is set to lure the taste buds of New York’s coffee aficionados this year. Started as a livelihood project for tribals by Naandi Foundation, … read more
Panaji (IANS) Indian parents are now more open-minded and allow their wards the liberty to pursue alternative careers in dance, culinary arts and not just the hackneyed medicine and engineering, cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar said on Sunday. Addressing reporters on the … read more
New Delhi (IANS) His bravado apart, Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot Abhinandan Varthaman’s stylised beard — a mix of a thin mutton chop beard, a classic gunslinger or a Franz Josef — has become the talk of the town. It may … read more
Considering that previous governments had backed away from a military response to terrorist provocations from Pakistan — notably in November, 2008, when a Lashkar-e-Taiba suicide squad attacked Mumbai — the raid by Indian jets on a Jaish-e-Muhammed terror camp in … read more
New Delhi (IANS) An MiG-21 shooting down an F-16 in a dogfight over Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday is being hailed as some sort of a military aviation feat, but experts said IAF aircraft might have … read more
New York (IANS) The US had launched diplomatic efforts to tamp down the rising New Delhi-Islamabad tensions before Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s announcement that he was going to free the Indian pilot captured by his country and there were signs … read more
Agartala (IANS) Poverty has not stopped nonagenarian Thanga Darlong — all of 91 years — from playing the rosem, a flute-like tribal musical instrument made of bamboo. This labour of love saw him nominated for the Padma Shri, India’s fourth … read more
Mumbai (IANS) Finally waking up to the growing instances of man-animal conflict in Maharashtra, the state government has set up a Special Committee to enact a law to provide proper compensation to the victims, besides ensuring conservation and safety of animals … read more
New Delhi (IANS) From Punjab to Tamil Nadu, from Maharashtra to West Bengal, the families of CRPF troopers killed in the Pulwama suicide bombing hailed Tuesday’s air strike inside Pakistan, with many saying had they come earlier, many security personnel could … read more