Mumbai Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said a society will stagnate without innovation and called for collective efforts to improve the quality of higher education. The IITs have built brand India globally and now, become an “instrument for transformation”. Innovation and enterprise are the foundation of making India a developed nation, Modi said addressing the […]
Vietnam India’s Ajay Jayaram stood a step away from his first title of the season as he made it to the finals of the Vietnam Open after defeating Japan’s Yu Igarashi in straight games in Ho Chi Minh City. The 30-year-old Indian, who is making a comeback after recovering from a hamstring injury he suffered […]
Toronto At least four people were killed in a shooting in the eastern Canadian city of Fredericton and one person was taken into custody, police said on Friday. Police in Fredericton, a city of about 56,000 that is the capital of the province of New Brunswick, said in a post on Twitter the incident was […]
Munnar 54 tourists, including 22 foreigners, who were stranded at a private resort in the popular tea county of Munnar in Kerala’s Idukki district, have been rescued. The roads leading to the resort were blocked due to landslides as rain continued to pound most parts of state. The army was called in to help the […]
Hyderabad Losing a leg in a road accident did not deter a 29-year old Manasi Joshi from pursuing her badminton dream, as she aims for glory at the forthcoming Para Asian Games in Indonesia. The Mumbai-born special player is training at the famed P Gopichand Badminton Academy for the past one month honing her skills […]
A young woman has become the butt of many jokes in Turkey after failing to answer a simple question: ‘Where is Great Wall of China?’. Su Ayhan, a 26-year-old student, was on the Turkish version of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ called ‘Kim Milyoner Olmak İster?’ (Who wants to be a millionaire), when she was presented with […]
E-commerce giant Flipkart has announced the Big Freedom Sale to take on Amazon and Snapdeal’s Independence Day sales. While Amazon is already live with its sale, Flipkart and Snapdeal sales starts from August 10. Flipkart Big Freedom Sale will start from August 10 and run till the midnight of August 12. The company is offering […]
New Delhi A Telugu Desam Party (TDP) lawmaker today dressed as German dictator Adolf Hitler to the parliament to demand special status category status for Andhra Pradesh. As the TDP leaders protested near the Mahatma Gandhi statue, Naramalli Sivaprasad showed up as Adolf Hitler — his look complete with Nazi uniform, toothbrush moustache and a […]
Thiruvananthapuram At least 20 people were killed rain-related incidents and landslides as heavy showers lashed Kerala on Thursday. Idukki district was the worst-affected with 10 deaths, including five of one family. Speaking to the media, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said rains have caused extensive damage to life and properties across the state. “We have […]
Pom-pom girls strut their stuff, pop music reverberates around the arena and a “kiss cam” trains its sights on the next unsuspecting couple. Sounds like a basketball or baseball match? Think again: this is badminton, and probably not as many imagined it. It is all part of an attempt by the sport’s governing body to […]