New Delhi : Popular crime writer Hussain Zaidi has teamed up with GoQuest Productions to launch Golden Pen Productions, aimed at taking Indian crime stories and writers to the global audience. The venture will solely focus on the crime thriller genre, and produce...
By Archana Sharma, Udaipur : In a small village near this famous lake city in Rajasthan, thousands of physically challenged people are given a fresh lease of life. Not only do they receive corrective surgeries free of cost but, during the course of their treatment,...
By Gurmukh Singh, Vancouver : An Indo-Canadian businessman, who is originally from Bhuj, Gujarat, has been awarded $1.2 million in damages after he was defamed in a series of fake news articles instigated by a prominent American blockchain investor. It is one of the...
Canberra : Pakistani-origin Mehreen Faruqi, of the Australian Green Party, on Monday became the first Muslim woman to occupy a seat in the country's Senate. Faruqi took office a week after Senator Fraser Anning, of Australia's Katter Party, made controversial comments...
By Vishnu Makhijani, New Delhi : Greek-American journalist-entrepreneur Arianna Huffington raised many an eyebrow worldwide when she stepped down as editor-in-chief of the US web portal that bears her name to focus on a wellness start-up she says draws much from...
San Francisco : Facing backlash from employees for its reported plan to enter China with a censored version of its search engine, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed them in an internal meeting and informed that the project, called Dragonfly, was at an exploratory...
By Sheikh Qayoom, Srinagar : Rajnath, 72, a retired school headmaster, continues to live in his ancestral home in north Kashmir's Manigam village. The turmoil of the 1990s saw most members of his minority Kashmiri Pandit community leave the village, but Rajnath stayed...
By Kushagra Dixit, Mukki (Madhya Pradesh) : Mukki zone in the famous Kanha National Park had been known throughout its recorded history to have been ruled by tigresses, rather than tigers. True to this legacy, tribal women of the Mukki zone are breaking conventional...
By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi, Hojai : Markazul Ma'arif, the premier Assam based NGO, is awarded with 'Dakshata Gold Award' today for being the best training centre in the state by Government of Assam. This feat was achieved by the popular NGO which is an Ajmal CSR unit for...
By Siddhi Jain, New Delhi : What began as a nine-year-old's venture at Krishna Caterers about eight decades ago in the city of Nawabs turned into an awe-inspiring, lifelong affair with cuisine. Imtiaz Qureshi, a widely admired and adored figure in the Indian culinary...