A 16-member Gujarat business delegation began a week-long visit to Canada to woo businesses and companies to participate in the fifth annual `Vibrant Gujarat` Summit to held Jan 12-13 in Gandhinagar as reported in Toront ...
Nearly a dozen villages in Punjab`s Ropar district were flooded as the overflowing Satluj river breached its banks near Laudipur village, officials said today in Chandigarh.
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India, looking to launch a second green revolution to boost its food security, has begun looking at distant South America where countries have been able to ramp up food production with new technology and farming methods. ...
Police were negotiating with a gunman who took an unconfirmed number of people hostage yesterday inside the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland, just outside Washington.
The country`s first-of-its-kind Educational Reality Show is aimed at unleashing the creativity and innovativeness of school students in Kerala, thanks to the initiative of IT@School ViCTERS as reported in Thiruvananthapu ...
India`s culture ministry and the British Museum are working closely to conserve Indian art, architecture and traditional textiles, says director of the museum Neil MscGregor.
Bespectacled and grey hair brushed back, Husain Shah, 70, is the quintessential elderly Bengali man next door. But within him he carries a historic legacy, as a direct descendant of Tipu Sultan, the king of Mysore who va ...
Irish group U2 has raked in a staggering $130 million over the last 12 months making the rockers the highest earning band in the world, newly released figures show.
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Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, who has found immense fame in India, says it is difficult to organise shows for Indian artists in his country because of terrorism.
Eminent historian Mushirul Hasan, director general of National Archives of India, will be conferred the top French honour, Order of Palmes Academiques, in New Delhi today for his contribution to education.
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