The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday announced its awardees and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna finds a place in the list. Mr. Krishna will receive the award for “social inclusiveness in culture.” “He saw that his was a caste-dominated art that fostered an unjust, hierarchic order by effectively excluding the lower classes from sharing in a vital part of India’s […]
» Read moreOn a night awash in history, Hillary Clinton triumphantly became the first woman to lead a major American political party toward the White House, breaking through a barrier that painfully eluded her eight years ago. She put an electrifying cap on the Democratic convention’s second night, appearing by video from New York and declaring to cheering delegates, “We just put […]
» Read moreBangladeshi police stormed a militant hideout in a Dhaka neighbourhood and killed nine suspected Islamist extremists after a gunbattle on Tuesday morning, officials said. “Nine Islamist militants were killed after two hour-long gunfight” deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Masud Ahmed said, adding another extremist was shot and arrested during the raid in Kalyanpur neighbourhood. Police said they cordoned off […]
» Read moreTamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) has relieved former Congress and TMC MLA C Gnanasekaran as its vice-president. In a statement, TMC chief G K Vasan said apart from Gnanasekaran, Srinivasa Gandhi has also been relieved from Vellore district president post. Sources said both are joining AIADMK on Tuesday. Already former TMC leader S R Balasubramanian joined AIADMK and is now a […]
» Read moreThe Solar Impulse 2 was on Monday approaching the end of its epic bid to become the first sun-powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote renewable energy. When the experimental aircraft touches down in Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Tuesday it will cap a remarkable 42,000-km journey across four continents, two oceans […]
» Read moreAt least 19 people were killed and about 20 wounded in a knife attack on Tuesday at a facility for persons with disabilities in a city just outside Tokyo in the worst mass killing in generations in Japan. Police said they responded to a call at about 2.30 a.m. from an employee saying something horrible was happening at the facility […]
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