National rural jobs scheme loses steam in Karnataka, Rajasthan

Rajasthan and Karnataka, which used to be stand-out performers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)’s flagship scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen...

National Urban Health Mission launched

The ambitious National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), aimed at providing adequate and efficient urban public health delivery system for the urban poor, was launched here toda...

Sachin Pilgaonkar and Ravi Jadhav to be felicitated at the 1st edition of NMIFF

Mumbai, January, 2014: Navi Mumbai, will hold its first ever Film Festival, on 31st January to 2nd February 2014. The fe...

Polar Bears Changed their Diet to Survive Climate Change

Polar bears in the western Hudson Bay area have become more flexible with their diet due to climate change.

Linda Gormezano, lead author of the study and a vertebra...

Cyrus Mistry, Writer in Seclusion

Author Cyrus Mistry trounced competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature, for his book Chronicles of...

Embattled French first lady Valerie Trierweiler to visit India

France’s first lady Valerie Trierweiler is returning to charity work with a trip to India, an anti-hunger group said, two weeks after she was hospitalized following a...

Kerala wins UN award for sustainable tourism

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Tourism has been conferred the United Nations Award for creating innovative initiatives for sustainable tourism, the first time India has ever wo...

Konjo The Fighting spirit by Sandeep Goyal to be launched at 2nd India Non Fiction Festival

Books to be launched at the India Non Fiction Festival

New books with interesting tales will be launched at t...