India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and invited him for his marriage which is scheduled later this month. Harbhajan is tying the knot with long-time girlfriend Geeta Basra. PMO India tweeted about the meeting and a couple of photos with Harbhajan and Modi shaking hands. Source: twitter.com
» Read moreChennai: Flipkart is sending half a million postcards to people in small towns to participate in its ‘Big Billion Days’ sale scheduled for next week. The online major is taking the snail mail route to reach its message to places like Jhumri Telaiya in Jharkhand, Barmer in Rajasthan, Buxar in Bihar and Kargil in J&K. “This one-time exercise is our […]
» Read moreSTOCKHOLM: Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that the prize judges called “a monument to suffering and courage”. Alexievich, 67, used the skills of a journalist to create literature chronicling the great tragedies of the Soviet Union and its collapse: World War II, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster […]
» Read moreHYDERABAD: Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao today said the state assembly will pass a resolution for 12 per cent quota to Muslims in the state and send it to the central government. Reiterating his commitment to increase the reservation for the community in education and employment, he told the assembly that the panel studying the socio-economic and educational status […]
» Read moreNine persons were killed in a ghastly road mishap and several others sustained severe injuries at Indrapalanagaram village of Ramannapet mandal here on Wednesday. The Narketpally depot Telangana State RTC bus was proceeding to Nalgonda from Bhongir when a lorry coming in the opposite direction hit it leading to the accident. The passengers, sitting in the seats on the right […]
» Read moreA day after writer Nayantara Sahgal returned her Sahitya Akademi award against what she described “unmaking of India, poet Ashok Vajpeyi also handed back the prestigious literary honour to the government, criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not speaking up against the recent spree of violence. Mr. Vajpeyi said that “it’s high time that writers take a stand” to mark […]
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