Festivals & Events News Updates

Jaipur: A man in a village in Rajasthan’s Nagaur district hired a helicopter to bring home his newborn daughter from the house of her maternal grandparents on Wednesday. Hanuman Prajapat’s…

Beijing: A cockroach and more than 10 of its babies were found living inside the ear canal of a Chinese man after he complained of a “sharp pain” in his right ear while sleeping, a media report said. Following the discovery, Lv, 24, sought out doctors at the Sanhe Hospital in Huiyang district, Guangdong province, […]

Guwahati: FMCG major Nestle India has launched a programme to train 1,000 street vendors to prepare food in a hygienic manner across Assam in the coming months. For this CSR initiative ‘Serve Safe Food’ in Assam, the company has tied up with the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the state government and National […]

London: A woman whose tongue was removed during treatment of cancer has got a new one. It is made from skin and tissues taken from her arm, a media report said. Stephanie Wigglesworth, 36, of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma six years ago and underwent neck dissection, The Mirror reported. Surgeons […]

Gwalior (MP): Want to obtain a gun license in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh? Then donate ten blankets for cows in a ‘gaushala’ to protect them from cold. The orders on the new rule for securing a gun license were issued on Saturday by Gwalior district collector Anurag Choudhary, after visiting a civic-run ‘gaushala’ in […]

Thrissur (Kerala): Twitter users on Sunday tweeted congratulatory messages as an old couple staying put in a government-run old age home in Kerala tied the knot. Kochaniyan Menon and Lakshmi Ammal, in their late 60s, met and fell in love at the home in Ramavarmapuram in Thrissur district. As the wedding pictures of 67-year-old Kochaniyan […]

Monks are known to possess high level of concentration which they apparently acquire through meditation but sometimes a furry little creature is enough to destroy their attention with “cuteness bomb”. In one such instance, a saffron-robed monk had to probably face the most difficult test of his life when a cat crawled into his lap […]

New Delhi: A video clip of a fierce territorial fight between two wild tigers, replete with blood-curdling roars from the beasts, in a forest in central India has wowed Twitterati. Indian Forest Service officer Parveen Kaswan shared the clip and wrote: “Territorial fight between two full grown #tigers. Listen with headphones. The powerful roar and […]

London: The wreckage of the Titanic will now be protected under a “momentous” treaty between the US and UK governments, 107 years after the mammoth ship hit an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage. The international agreement gives the governments power to grant or deny licences […]

New Delhi: A photograph of an Uttar Pradesh Police officer going into a snake-infested well to rescue three puppies has gone viral on the social media and the internet is all praises for him. The ‘Call 112’, a Twitter page (@112UttarPradesh) dedicated to the emergency services in Uttar Pradesh, posted the photograph with a caption […]

New Delhi: The latest edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary features 26 new Indian English words, including Aadhaar, chawl, dabba, hartal and shaadi. The 10th edition of the dictionary, which was launched on Friday, has 384 Indian English words and incorporates over 1,000 new words such as chatbot, fake news and microplastic. The dictionary […]

Washington: In a further twist to Jeff Bezos’ phone saga, a new report has claimed that his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, shared compromising texts about her affair with Bezos to her brother, Michael Sanchez. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Michael reportedly sold those photos to the National Enquirer, which then published a […]

New Delhi: Eight lakh married Indian men and women, with the largest percentage from the tech hub of Bengaluru, have registered on an extra-marital dating app — Gleeden, a new report said on Monday. Gleeden has substantial evidence that the New Year’s resolution of thousands of Indians is to commit infidelity or flirt with the […]

Chennai: The doctors at the VGM Gastro Centre in Coimbatore were baffled when they saw a ball of hair and empty shampoo sachets in the stomach of a 13-year-old girl after a CT scan followed by endoscopy. Couple of weeks back, the girl from an upper strata family was brought to the hospital by her […]

New Delhi: A photo of Australian army soldiers feeding and cuddling rescued koalas is doing the rounds on the Internet. Many servicemen and women were captured taking care of the koalas, wrapped in blankets. The Australian Army shared the picture with caption, “#OurPeople from 16th Regiment Emergency Support Force have used their rest periods while […]