New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) Paul Newnham's mission is to make the second of the United Nations' Sustainable Goals (SDG2) -- Zero Hunger -- a global reality in our lifetime.
Mumbai, Feb 23 (IANS) Veteran filmmaker J.P. Dutta, who has made films such as 'Border', 'LOC Kargil' and 'Refugee', was conferred with the prestigious Maharashtra Bhushan Raj Kapoor Award for his exceptional contributions to Indian cinema.
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Imagine having paranthas at Chandni Chowk's Paranthe Wali Gali without the grime and the jostling crowds, or gulping down gol gappas and not worrying about hygiene issues, or gorging on lip-smacking biryani right out of a 'degh' without going all the way to Dilli-6.
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) He is from Verona, the Italian city where William Shakespeare set his immortal play, 'Romeo and Juliet', yet Renato Bosco is a man of few words.
Srinagar, Feb 17 (IANS) In order to protect the fragile environment of Kashmir’s rare stag species known as the ‘Hangul’ a social enterprise has decided to plant over 1, 25,000 plants in the habitat of this protected animal.
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) Just 10 per cent of the ancient Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsang's travelogue, which offers an eyewitness account of India at the time of Harsha Vardhan (the itinerant Buddhist scholar was here between 630 and 645 CE), has been discovered so far.
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) At the turn of this millennium, Ana Ros had to choose between a career in her country's diplomatic service or to co-manage a restaurant and inn that her boyfriend inherited from his parents who had just retired.
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) One of India's most creative chefs who put nawabi Lucknow's Dum Pukht cuisine on the world map, and also became the first practising member of his fraternity to ever get a Padma Shri in 2016, Imtiaz Qureshi, passed away on Friday at the age of 93.
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANSlife) A National Mental Health Survey in India revealed that nearly 14 percent of the population in the country necessitated active mental health interventions. The need to provide mental health support and counselling in schools should be one of the top priorities of educators to ensure their holistic development. India boasts the highest population of children and adolescents in the world and this further necessitates the need to bolster the mental health programmes to facilitate healthy psychological growth of the leaders and policymakers of tomorrow.
New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) As China continues to bless the Pakistani deep state's designs on Kashmir, a former top diplomat has made a pitch for India becoming more active across the Karakoram region and reclaiming the ancient economic and cultural ties that bound it with Kashmir.
