Festivals & Events News Updates

Sydney: A giant seal, angry at being disturbed, has helped the Australian police bust an international drug smuggling ring and seize over a tonne of drugs, including cocaine, ecstasy and methamphetamine, reports said on Thursday. The crime was detected after a British and a French national were found hiding on an island on September 3, […]

Alappuzha (Kerala): Time and tide wait for none, not even coronavirus. And this prompted Abhirami to don her PPE kit instead of the traditional bridal wear and tie the nuptial…

New York: Researchers have found that rats can be baited to or repelled from locations using pheromones found in the scents of other rats. Rats cost the world’s economy more than $300 billion a year. In addition to causing fines and business closures, rats spread disease, start fires and disable motor vehicles. For the study […]

Pratapgarh (UP): A ten-kilometre journey has been his ticket to fame and Vinay Kumar is now being hailed as a hero in his Bojhi village in Pratapgarh district of Uttar…

Sydney: Australia’s Queensland state will be forced to end their shark culling programme after a court on Thursday banned the practice in protected areas of the Great Barrier Reef. Brought forward by animal welfare group, Humane Society International Marine campaigner Lawrence Chlebeck on Thursday said: “The science is crystal clear, killing sharks does not improve […]

Ahmedabad: Dharmendra Pratap Singh, considered to be the tallest living person in India, underwent hip replacement surgery at a private hospital here. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, 43-year-old Singh, who is 8 ft 1 inches tall, said he was recovering well. He was suffering pain after meeting with an accident, he said. A native […]

London: Geologists have discovered a new continent hidden in the Mediterranean region after analysing all the mountain ranges from Spain to Iran in detail for 10 years. The research, published in the journal Gondwana Research, revealed how a piece of continental crust the size of Greenland that once separated from North Africa plunged into the […]

Islamabad: The Pakistan government has blocked 900,000 websites for carrying blasphemous and pornographic content and/or sentiments against the state, judiciary or the armed forces. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecom was informed of the move the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Thursday, Dawn news reported. However, the officials informed the meeting […]

Sydney: Australia’s world famous Bondi Beach will get a multi-million-dollar revamp, with plans revealed on Monday to improve it’s iconic lifeguard tower and facilities in order to cope with skyrocketing tourist numbers. With millions of visitors flocking to Sydney’s Bondi Beach every year, an outdated and undersized lifeguard tower, which sits in the middle of […]

Panaji: Stray cattle in Goa’s tourism savvy coastal belt, which includes popular beach villages like Calangute and Candolim, have “turned non-vegetarian” and only eat scraps of chicken and fried fish, claims the state’s Garbage Management Minister Michael Lobo. Lobo, who is a BJP MLA from Calangute Assembly constituency, also said that 76 stray cattle from […]

Seoni (MP): Three children were injured when a `pencil’ cell exploded in a classroom at a government school in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, the police said. The incident took place at Matama village. While the children were out of danger and undergoing treatment, a bomb disposal squad has been sent to the […]

Panaji: Days after Goa’s Garbage Management Minister Michael Lobo claimed that stray cattle in the state’s coastal belt have “turned non-vegetarian”, trustee of a cow shelter where such animals are being relocated, has confirmed the unusual trend. Kamlakant Tari, trustee of Mayem-based Gomantak Gosevak Mahasangh in North Goa, told IANS that chicken and mutton bones […]

New York: Archaeologists have found new evidence that an extraterrestrial body crashed to Earth almost 13,000 years ago that caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans. The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, controversial from the time it was presented in 2007, proposes that an asteroid or comet hit […]

Ranchi: Thousands of fish have died in a pond here due to lack of oxygen, government officials said on Monday. The dead fish were found floating in the pond on Monday at Line Tank Pond situated in Chadari in Ranchi. Environmentalists say that the immersion of Goddess Durga idols and Deepawali caused the death of […]

India skipper Virat Kohli turned 31 on Tuesday and the run-machine is off-the-field, celebrating his birthday with his better half in the capital of Bhutan. Anushka took to social media platform Instagram and shared a series of pictures with Virat trekking in the mountains of Bhutan and mentioned that they were touched by the gesture […]