Shillong: Good news for boxing fans as six Indian Boxers: M. C. Mary Kom, L Devendro Singh, Shiva Thapa, Manoj Kumar, Vikas Krishan, Pooja Rani advanced to the finals of the 12th South Asian Games on Sunday. The woman boxing star of the North east, Olympic bronze-medallist Mary Kom, in 51kg weight category, defeated her Bangladeshi […]
Don Bosco School Guwahati now has a replica of its patron saint’s house. The Salesians of Don Bosco installed a replica of the house at Becchi in Italy, in which saint John Bosco or Don Bosco was born and spent his childhood, on the Don Bosco School premises at Panbazar. The structure is to inspire kids to ‘dream […]
The visit of President François Hollande, at the Republic Day celebrations is far more significant than that by the American President last year. France represents the most important diplomatic relationship for India at its present stage of development. Some 50 years ago, Capgemini – a pioneering company founded by the entrepreneur, Serge Kampf, in the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kicked off the BJP election campaign in the north-eastern state of Assam, promising growth and development, as he seeks to reverse a recent trend of electoral setbacks for his party. Assam is the gateway to the region bordering Bangladesh and Bhutan and residents have long complained that successive federal governments […]
Shillong: No beef on Monday in Eastern Meghalaya because butchers have a beef with smugglers ! The Butchers’ associations in Meghalaya’s eastern region stopped selling beef in protest against the rampant smuggling of cattle to Bangladesh. What’s at steak? Though the lean beef-selling period will continue till February 3, butchers will slaughter at least 74 […]
BOMBAY (MUMBAI) -Police in Maharashtra have ‘successfully deployed’ an unusual technique to retrieve a gold chain that a thief had swallowed while officers were in hot pursuit – they force-fed him more than 40 bananas. A man snatched a chain off a woman’s neck in a street in Bombay. When caught, the man denied snatching […]
It’s well known the Zoroastrians are like the Jews, you are born into the faith. So, if you aren’t born a Parsi, you can’t become a Zoroastrian and call yourself a Parsi. The Indian Parsis have been told by seven of their high priests, that non-Zoroastrian spouses can’t be considered Parsi. In an open letter […]
Come Friday, all roads lead to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium India’s most exciting Street Food Festival National Street Food Festival from 11-13 December Several ministers, cultural personalities, social entrepreneurs and master chef will join the festival New Delhi: A THREE DAY JAMBOREE OF STREET FOOD! VENDORS WITH MORE THAN 300 VARIETIES OF MOUTH WATERING STREET FOOD! […]
NEW DELHI : Now the Press Information Bureau is handing out ‘photoshopped’ photos ! A doctored photo released by the Indian government showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveying severe flooding from a helicopter has been deleted, and his office promised remedial action after criticism on social media. Mr Modi travelled to Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai, […]
AIZAWL: The Congress swept the elections to Mizoram’s Lai Autonomous District Council by bagging 16 out of 25 seats. The BJP-Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) alliance failed to bag a single seat despite all efforts to ‘win the hearts of people’ before the elections. The candidates backed by Opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) managed to win […]
New Delhi: 007 cannot kiss for too long in India, thanks to the dictates of chief censor Pahlaj Nihalani had also “unofficially” reviewed the film “Spectre” and suggested the cutting the length of the kissing scenes! In yet another ‘nanny act’, Indian censors have shortened the lengths of two kissing scenes in the latest James […]
New Delhi: Is the Jawharlal Nehru University next on the radar for a ‘socio-political and cultural cleansing’? After the Film and Television Institute, is JNU going to see a takeover bid by RSS backed ‘academics’? An RSS aligned weekly has described Jawaharlal Nehru University as a hub of “anti-national” lobbies, in an obvious attempt to […]
