India hosts conference for ‘Peace in Afghanistan’
New Delhi, April 25: India hosts for the first time the Heart of Asia Istanbul Process conference aimed at bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan. “India is actively participating in…
15 IIT-Kharagpur students selected for GOOGLE coding programme
Kolkata: As many as 15 students from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur have been selected for the Google Summer of Code open-source coding programme, the institute said. The Google Summer…
Spanish priest, 90, gets Indian citizenship after 38 years of struggle
Mumbai, April 23: After a long struggle of 38 years, a 90-year-old Spanish Jesuit priest — who has lived and worked in the country for 67 years — was finally…
First Indian Woman Gymnast seal Olympic berth
April 22: Dipa Karmakar entered into history books as she became India’s first woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics after putting up a strong show at the final qualifying and…
The MAN who knew INFINITY
It is a romantic story – well romantic story in the history of MATHEMATICS! It goes back to 1913 when an Iyengar man, Srinivasa Ramanujan and English mathematician and Cambridge…
Gravitational waves ‘sixth sense’ will understand more about Universe
Thrilled at the detection of the elusive gravitational waves a century after Albert Einstein’s prediction and the first observation of collision of two black holes at the Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory…
Priyanka in Time’s list of 100 most Influential People
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has made India proud once again. Her name has been featured in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World list alongside Oscar-winner Leonardo DiCaprio,…
India elbows out China on Foreign Investment
London, April 22: After logging a higher growth, India has emerged as the top-ranked nation in the flow of foreign direct investment in 2015, beating China on the very turf…
Emraan Hashmi is a magnet for ‘match-fixing’ movies
Actor Emraan Hashmi, who features in another cricket-based film “Azhar” after “Jannat”, says he doesn’t know why he always gets films with the controversial match-fixing angle. “‘Jannat’ released six years…
Madhuri Dixit has a bit of street-dancing in her
Actress Madhuri Dixit-Nene, known for her graceful dance moves, says primarily she is a stage dancer but has a bit of street dancing in her as well. “I have stage…