Making a mark on the global map, seven Indian personalities have made it to BBC’s list of 100 most aspirational women. They are singer Asha Bhosle, tennis star Sania Mirza, veteran actor Kamini Kaushal, Rimppi Kumari, farmer, Smriti Nagpal, entrepreneur, Mumtaz Shaikh, campaigner, and Kanika Tekriwal, entrepreneur. The list was announced on Wednesday, a statement said. Each year, BBC names […]
» Read morePrime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders by Time magazine for its annual ‘Person of the Year’ honour. The Time Person of the Year 2015 will be announced next month and the publication said the title will be […]
» Read moreUnidentified gunmen shot and wounded an Italian priest on Wednesday in northern Bangladesh, the latest in a spate of attacks on foreigners that have been blamed on hardline Islamists, police said. The priest, identified only as “Piero”, was riding his bicycle in the northern city of Dinajpur when gunmen on a motorbike shot him several times at close range before […]
» Read moreThe Kerala Police on Wednesday arrested eight people, including “Kiss of Love” campaign organizer Rahul Pashupalan and his wife Resmi R Nair, over their alleged involvement in running online sex rackets across Kerala. The “Kiss of Love” campaign had raised a strong voice against the agents of moral policing. The movement was started after a mob of attackers demolished a […]
» Read moreTwo coaches of the Guwahati-Chennai Express derailed near Mantapampalli between Nandalur and Vontimitta railway stations in Kadapa District of Andhra Pradesh in the wee hours of Tuesday. However, there were no casualties or injuries to the passengers, according to railway officials. The derailment took place due to mud settling on a portion of the railway track as water flowed over […]
» Read morePithukuli Murugadas, the devotional singer aged 95, died here on Tuesday. Murugadas was a writer, lyricist and music composer too. The singer travelled extensively in the country and abroad and his songs on Krishna, particularly the compositions of Oothukadu Venkata Subbaiyer raised the bar for all other singers. Born at Coimbatore on January 25, 1920, in a Brahmin family, Murugadas […]
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