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Infra for tennis should be more accessible in India: Mahesh Bhupathi
Infrastructure for tennis should be made more accessible to the public in India, said former player and former Indian Davis Cup captain Mahesh Bhupathi.The 12-time Grand Slam winner said that tennis is a sport that needs facilities and…
Rajiv Kumar takes over as new Election Commissioner
Rajiv Kumar today assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India. Sh Kumar joins the Election Commission of India with Chief Election Commissioner Shri Sunil Arora and Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra.Born on 19thFebruary…
Coal India to invest over 1.22 Lakh Crores on 500 Projects by 2023-24 : Pralhad Joshi
With an aim to achieve 1 billion tonnes (BT) coal production by the year 2023-24 and make the nation Aatmanirbhar in Coal, National Miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) will invest over Rs. 1.22 lakh crores on about 500 projects related to coal…
Vice Admiral SR Sarma, AVSM, VSM Assumes charge as chief of Materiel, Indian Navy
Vice Admiral SR Sarma, AVSM, VSM has assumed charge as the Chief of Materiel, of the Indian Navy today (01 Sep 2020). The Admiral is a post graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from IISc, Bengaluru and a distinguished alumni of…
2,57,904 farmers to benefit from the new cold chain projects: Harsimrat Kaur Badal
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Minister of Food Processing Industries has stated that new integrated cold chain projects are likely to generate direct and indirect employment for 16,200 and are likely to benefit 2,57,904 farmers.27 projects…
Pranab Mukherjee (1935-2020): People’s President
About Pranab Mukherjee, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh once told me that he was like Dhrupad Sangeet. If you don't understand Dhrupad or if your ears are not trained to listen to Dhrupad, then it will be difficult for you to enjoy the…
Ex President Pranab ‘Babu’ breathes his last
Pranab Mukherjee -- a former President, the man who missed becoming the Prime Minister of India by a whisker, the Congress party's trouble-shooter during the UPA rule and the unlikely Congressman with proximity to Prime Minister Narendra…
In narco cases, accused can’t be let off just for IO and informant being same: Supreme Court
A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Monday held that if an investigating officer (IO) is also an informant, it does not cast bias and it can also not become the sole ground for acquittal of an accused in a criminal case…
Unravelling life and times of Parveen Babi for new generations
Parveen Babi truly lived life king-size, redefining the manner in which actresses portrayed themselves on the big screen, being cast in over 50 films with every Bollywood A-lister worth the name; appearing on the cover of TIME magazine and…
Shweta Tripathi: Entertainment not tagged ‘essential services’, but needed always
Masaan' actress Shweta Tripathi Sharma says that performing arts will always exist. "I know we aren't labelled as essential services but no matter what you do, you will always need entertainment," she told IANSlife in an interview.Shweta,…