T Venkataiah will be given the award at the launch of Swachh Survekeshan at National Media Center in New Delhi on August 6, 2016. A Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) worker, has been selected as the ‘Best Worker’ under Swachh Bharath Mission. T Venkataiah will be given the award at the launch of Swachh Survekeshan at National Media Center in New Delhi on August 6, 2016. He has been working […]

Chandler, Arizona seems a long, long way from Kovur in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district. Two years ago, it was in Kovur where Avinash Iragavarapu, an MBA graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, joined the YSR Congress’s election campaign in Andhra Pradesh after quitting his job with HCL Technologies Ltd in New Delhi. Political campaigning and strategy, in many ways, were his natural calling. In his college years, Iragavarapu […]

He won eight consecutive elections and spent more than 50 years in his Congress party before becoming the prime minister of India. A father of eight children, he spoke 10 languages, and was a proficient translator. He first travelled abroad when he was 53, mastered two computer languages and wrote computer code in his 60s. That’s not all. Before becoming 10th prime minister of a fractious democracy, PV Narasimha Rao […]

Influential Indian writer and activist Mahasweta Devi has died aged 90, in the eastern city of Kolkata, her family has said. Devi, who was hospitalised earlier this month, died of cardiac arrest and multiple organ failure on Thursday. She wrote extensively about the oppression faced by lower caste and tribes people in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among several leaders who paid tribute to the writer. “Mahasweta Devi” has […]

    Toronto, July 28, 2016: The longest running outdoor South Asian festival in North America, the 14th Annual TD Festival of South Asia, took place at the Gerrard India Bazaar on Gerrard Street in Toronto on July 16 and 17th, 2016 from noon until 11pm, with free admission for all with over 200,000 in attendance. Clamorworld chief  correspondent Samuel Yerraguntla in conversation with Tushar Unadkat, the producer and director of FSA. […]

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday announced its awardees and Carnatic singer T.M. Krishna and Bezwada Wilson, the national convenor of the Safai Karmachari Andolan, both have found a place in the list. Mr. Krishna will receive the award for “social inclusiveness in culture,” while Bezwada Wilson was named as an awardee for “asserting the inalienable right to a life of human dignity.” “Fifty years old, Bezwada Wilson has […]

Former President, Bharat Ratna recipient and the father of India’s nuclear programme, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam was all of this and much more. His was a life of selfless, humble living that exhibited an undying love for children and a never ending quest for knowledge and its dissemination. On his first death anniversary, we remember this great icon who inspired millions. Dr. Kalam once said that he began his tenure […]

Irom sharmila, the iconic activist who has been on a fast for the past 16 years demanding withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), today announced that she will break her fast and contest elections in Manipur. Reports said she could break her fast on August 9. “I will break my fast as the government has failed to give any positive response,” Irom told agencies, adding that she […]

The three things you think when one mentions India or South Asia. Samosa, Taj Mahal and Bollywood. Not necessarily in any given order, but these were the favorites that once again stole the show at  the Festival of South Asia, held at Gerrard Bazaar, Toronto.  Held on  July 16th and 17th, most of Torontonians and visitors from across the globe once again went to their favorite Indian street. Apart from […]

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been sentenced as guilty in the 2002 Hit & Run Case. The case has been going on for the past 13 years and finally the sentence was passed as guilty. There was outrage from all over on hearing that the Khan has been given a jail term of five years. Recently a blogger Soumyadipta Banerjee, had penned down the details of Salman Khan’s “Hit and […]