Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced demonetisation of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes with effect from midnight, making these notes invalid in a major assault on black money, fake currency and corruption According to an official statement by PM Modi, persons holding old notes of five hundred or one thousand rupees can deposit these notes in their bank or post office accounts from 10th November till close of […]

An India-Pakistan love story has had a happy ending after Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj got the bride her visa. Naresh Tewani, from Jodhpur in north India, tweeted Ms Swaraj asking for help, after his Pakistani bride Priya Bachchani’s visa was delayed. The minister ensured that all 35 members of Ms Bachchani’s family got visas to attend the wedding on Monday. The couple have thanked Ms Swaraj for helping them at a […]

Three Omani fishermen hit the jackpot after scooping 80kg of floating “whale vomit” that is expected to net them $2.5 million. Khalid Al Sinani, who is in his late 30s, found the rare “whale vomit” floating on the shores of Qurayat province last week. ‘Whale vomit’ or Ambergris is a very costly wax that originates as a secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale. It can be found floating […]

One of India’s most iconic and influential spiritual personalities – Swami Vivekananda – born as Narendranath Dutta, was a disciple of Ramakrishna Paramhamsa, an ardent devotee of Goddess Kali. Representing India at the Parliament of the World’s Religions on September 11, 1893 at the Art Institute of Chicago, Swami Vivekananda, began his speech by addressing the audience as “Sisters and brothers of America!” His words echoed compassion and universal brotherhood. […]

IMI terrorists, who today fled from Bhopal Central Jail after killing a prison guard, have been killed in an encounter in Eintkhedi village on Bhopal outskirts. “We located the 8 inmates,they fired on us, and all of them were killed in cross firing,” Yogesh Chaudhary,IG Bhopal told ANI Earlier today, eight terror suspects of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, who were accused of heinous crimes including murder, escaped […]

Why are we so afraid? Fear continues to saturate our lives: fear of nuclear destruction, fear of climate change, fear of the subversive, and fear of foreigners. But a recent Rolling Stone article about our “age of fear” notes that most Americans are living “in the safest place at the safest time in human history.” It continues: Around the globe, household wealth, longevity and education are on the rise, while […]

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Although Diwali is a festival of beaming lights, mouth-watering sweets, lots of fun activities, and firecrackers, it is also a time when a little negligence on your part can cause mishappening. Fire injuries, burns, eye infections, skin allergies and breathing problems are certain issue that comes as a package with the celebrations. Amongst the festivities, it is really difficult to keep an eye on your kids all the time, hence, […]

Scientists from Sweden have found a bird that can fly in the air for almost a year and that too without landing. Known as the common swift, it is a small, dark-feathered bird which can fly for the said time without landing, the longest time spent aloft by any known bird. The findings in the US journal Current Biology confirmed a 46-year-old hypothesis, first offered by British researcher Ron Lockley, […]

She weighs half a tonne, believe it or not. This Egyptian woman, tipping the scales at about 500 kg, is thought to be the fattest woman alive, media reports said on Sunday. Only 36, Iman Ahmad Abdulati has not left her home in Alexandria for 25 years and is unable to move from her bed or even roll over because of her enormous size, the Daily Mail reported. She relies […]