Vladimir Putin was the world`s most powerful person for a fourth straight year in 2016, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday in its annual rankings. US President-elect Donald Trump is in the second place. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ranks ninth on the Forbes list of 74 of the World’s Most Powerful People. “Russia`s President has exerted his country`s influence in nearly every corner of the globe,” the US business magazine […]

In 2007, Trivani Acharya spent sleepless nights trying to track down two girls who had disappeared after expressing their desire to be rescued from the field of sex trade. She suspected that the girls who were sisters and had come from Bhutan, were in danger. Not willing to give up, she sent two of her staff members to Delhi on receiving a clue that they had been sent there. Twice […]

“I didn’t choose garbage, it chose me!” for a woman fighting to keep her very first project in India alive, Jodie Underhill – co-founder of Waste Warriors – seems rather upbeat. “When I witnessed how severe India’s garbage problem is, it completely broke my heart. I also realised then that I’d found my life’s mission. I love a challenge and I’ve picked up lots of garbage whilst on my travels […]

President-elect Donald Trump, whose election to the post was one of the biggest surprises of the year, was on Wednesday declared the TIME 2016 Person of the Year. Time magazine every year chooses one person “who had the greatest influence, for better or worse, on the events of the year.” “It’s a great honor. It means a lot,” Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s “Today” show. The magazine’s […]

Her mortal remains will be kept in state at the historic Rajaji Hall on Tuesday to enable the public to pay homage. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is no more. Seventy-four days after being admitted to hospital here, the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam passed away at 11.30 p.m. on Monday. She did not respond to emergency life support treatment administered after she suffered a […]

The revolutionary leader cultivated moringa seeds- that he got from Kerala and Tamil Nadu- in his garden. Fidel Castro, who passed away last month, was “a simple man” who “appreciated fine food, and good wine,” the revolutionary leader’s former private chef has told The Telegraph UK. According to Erasmo Hernandez Leon, Castro loved almonds, olives, cheeses, and meats. And he was even preparing a selection of snacks, brought from the […]

This digital world we exist in wouldn’t have been without the contributions of master inventors. One of whom is Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, and it’s his 158th birthday today. He’s a forgotten genius from the turn of the 20th century – someone who’s efforts and contribution to science should never be forgotten. Master of Radio Communications At first the subject of some dispute but it’s now a fairly common scientific […]

Born November 29, 1899, she is the world’s oldest living person and the secret to her age appears to lie in eschewing usual medical wisdom. An alert and chatty Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century. Born November 29, 1899, she is the world’s oldest living person and the secret to her longevity appears […]

Meet Halima Aden. She is breaking stereotypes in unthinkable ways and is winning praises all over. In no way is Halima an ordinary teenager. The Somali-American teen is the first woman to participate in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant with a hijab. Representing the state of Minnesota, Halima Aden is a 19-year-old St Cloud college student who has big dreams of competing at the 2017 Miss USA pageant. On Saturday […]

Yahiya had to wait in vain outside a bank for two days together to get Rs 23,000 exchanged, all of which were in Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes In the Mahabharata, Draupadi refused to tie her hair until she took revenge on the Kauravas. A 70-year-old man in Kerala, hit hard by demonetisation, shaved off half the hair on his head and has taken a pledge to grow it […]