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Shimla, March 16 (IANS) Expanding the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) support base to bring it back to power is the main priority, said Himachal Pradesh Forest Minister J.P. Nadda said, after being named a party general secretary.
Talking to reporters here, Nadda said: ‘We will try to strengthen the party by expanding its cadre, their ideological [...]

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Xavier Henry scored 18 of his 23 points in the first half and No. 1 Kansas clinched at least a share of its sixth straight Big 12 regular season title with an easy 81-68 victory over Oklahoma on Monday night.
Kansas (27-1, 13-0) didn’t wait to clinch its latest title, sewing it [...]

Karachi, Sep 7 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) is keeping mum on the protracted dispute between Pakistan and India over the ownership of Sir Creek even after the expiry of the deadline May 2009 deadline set by the world body to resolve this issue.

The UN had set the deadline for both the archrival countries to [...]

Siliguri, Aug 26 (ANI): To create awareness regarding the history and evolution of the heritage railway especially amongst schoolchildren, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) in collaboration with the Siliguri Science Centre has organised a week-long [...]

Washington, Aug 26 (ANI): Leonardo DiCaprio is getting super skinny for his new action film ‘Inception,’ it has emerged.

“There’s an action scene coming up at the end of the year in which he needs to appear emaciated, so the pressure is on,” Contactmusic quoted set insider as telling RadarOnline.com.

The Departed star is apparently following a [...]

Jindal Cotex IPO | Jindal Cotex Public Issue | Jindal Cotex IPO Opens on 27th August | JCL | JCL IPO
Jindal Cotex Limited (JCL) is a flagship company of Jindal group of Ludhiana. The Jindal Group was promoted by Sh. Jagdish Rai Jindal in 1977 with trading business of iron and steel. From the time [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa figure among the list of states lagging behind when it comes to providing the toilet facilities in rural households.

“The percentage of rural households without toilet facilities in Bihar stands [...]

Hyderabad, May 21 (ANI/Business Wire India): Popular Entertainment based Social network Indyarocks (www.indyarocks.com) has made it to Dataquest’s list of the [...]

London, May 17 (ANI): Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra has lost the chair of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford to British classical scholar Ruth Padel.

Mehrotra lost the battle to Padel, who became the first female to hold the post since its inception in 1708, [...]

Lahore, May 16 (ANI): With the country facing one of its major crises since its inception, former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf is eyeing yet another term in office.

“If Pakistan is in trouble and if any Pakistani, myself included, if you can see that we can do [...]

Sodial (Jorhat), Apr 28 (ANI): A self-help group (SHG) that mooted a weaving unit in Assam has facilitated a large number of women economically self sufficient by generating employment for them.his self-help group named ‘Bhogdoi’ and based at Sodial village in Jorhat region was the brainchild [...]

London, Apr 28 (ANI): Veteran actor Sir Michael Caine has said that he would retire from films if no more good roles come his way.
Currently, the 76-year-old actor is doing a British film ‘Is Anybody There?’ in which he plays a retired magician, Clarence, who befriends a young boy whose parents run a retirement home.

“I’ve [...]

According to Business Standard’s Wednesday report, expansion is on the cards for HMSI – Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India. The 100 per cent subsidiary of the Japanese Honda Motor Corporation, the HMSI intends spending Rs 300 crore in the next three-year period.
Elaborating on the HSMI plans, on the sidelines of the launch of the company’s [...]

Imphal, April 17 (ANI): A group of Manipuri artistes recently staged “Phou-Oibi”, a Manipuri Ballad Opera for the first time here showcasing the unique culture and traditions of the state.

Large number of people thronged the open air theatre [...]

New Delhi, Apr.14 (ANI): Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh DFC will turn 90 on April 15.

The Marshal of the Air Force was born on April 15, 1919 at Lyallpur. He was educated at Montgomery and later at Government College, [...]

Dharamsala, Apr 10 (ANI): The Tibet Women Association (TWA) on Friday began its six-day long ninth general body meeting to elect its members.

This year’s meeting is remarkable as it marks the 50th anniversary of the TWA since its inception at Lhasa [...]

Washington, Apr 2 (ANI): Oscar winner Marion Cotillard might star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’.

‘Batman Begins’ star Cillian Murphy, actress Ellen Page and Cotillard are in talks to star in contemporary sci-fi actioner set within the architecture of the mind, reports Variety.

The production is expected to begin this summer.

While the film is Nolan’s [...]

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s new film ‘Bruno’ is said to be facing an adults-only certification in the U.S., after it was judged to be too sexually explicit for young viewers.

As per TheWrap.com, when the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) panel reviewed the film, it listed it under the restricted [...]

New Delhi/Pune, Mar 31 (ANI/Business Wire India): Suzlon Energy Limited, the world’s fifth leading wind turbine maker, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TERI University for setting up and offering an MTech Programme in Renewable Energy Engineering and Management.

This MoU will facilitate Suzlon Energy to contribute to the Programme through exchange of [...]

Ludhiana, Mar 23 (ANI): A lot has been said about how sporting talent from rural areas should be nurtured and given exposure at national level competitions.

Chakar village in Ludhiana District has set an example for others by doing precisely this.
The agriculture-dominated hamlet is prosperous and majority of people [...]