Telugu litterateur Nayani Krishnakumari passed away early on Saturday morning at her home in Hyderabad. She was 86. She was ailing for some time, according to family sources. Daughter of legendary writer Nayani Subbarao, she began writing stories with a history of Andhraites called Andhrula Katha when she was 18. Besides being a well known literary figure, she was an academic who taught in […]
» Read moreThe police on Saturday claimed to have killed a Laskhar-e-Taiba commander in a gunbattle in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, more than 90 km away from Srinagar. The gunbattle started on Friday night in Dardpora, Lol pora, when security forces cordoned off the area. A police official said the militant hiding there opened fire, ensuing an exchange of fire. The slain […]
» Read moreCharles Bombardier, the man behind the concept aircraft Skreemr which could travel at Mach 10, has now unveiled the Antipode, a hypersonic jet that he claims will cover the distance between London and New York in a mind-boggling 11 minutes. Bombardier, who is affiliated with the Canadian aircraft company Bombardier Inc, says the Antipode can reach Mach 24, twice the […]
» Read moreThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed to have cracked the 2014 Church Street blast caseand announced that Alam Jeb Afridi alias Javed Rafeeq (30), who was arrested by NIA and Telangana ATS recently confessed to the crime. Afridi was the same suspect who stabbed a Telangana ATS constable Srinivasa, resisting arrest at Doddanagamangala, Parappana Agrahara. While the Telangana ATS […]
» Read moreThe list of 20 smart cities out of the 98 shortlisted for the ‘Smart Cities Mission’ was released on Thursday. These 20 cities will be the first to receive funds, thus kickstarting the process of developing them into ‘smart cities’. The next two years will see the inclusion of 40 and 38 cities, respectively. A ‘smart city’ is an urban […]
» Read moreA Pakistani die-hard fan of Indian batsman Virat Kohli is facing up to 10 years imprisonment after being arrested for hoisting the Indian tricolour atop his home in Punjab Province which he had done to show his love for the cricketer. 22-year-old Umar Draz, a tailor by profession from Okara district of Punjab province, was produced before a district court […]
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