India receives less than one per cent international tourists annually and their average stay in the country has come down by two days, Union Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma said today.
In response to a question in Lok Sabha, he said India received…
The preparations for the four-day-long Ramanayana Mela, which is to start in Ayodhya fromDecember 15, is in the last leg.
Chairman of the Mela(fair) committee, Mahant Nrityagopal Das and General Secretary Seetla Singh reportedly said the fair…
Japanese TV channel is in Patna to make a documentary on how students from the underprivileged sections of the society aspire to be at the IITs under the guidance of mathematician Anand Kumar and his Super 30 team.
Masaki Hojo of Tokyo TV has…
Film director Anurag Basu said people in the film industry have always raised their voice against the establishment.
He reportedly feels that the film industry is leftist and it has always been. “As film fraternity we are a little leftist,…
In a bid to curb high dropout rate in primary classes, the government schools in Jharkhand will now give Hindi and Mathematics lessons to students of Class one and three in their tribal mother tongue, said an Education Department official.
Lack…
In a bid to extend his support for the cause of distributing clothes to needy people in winters, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has donated his “Silsila” jacket to a construction worker.
He visited a construction site along…
In a bid to bring languages and ways of living of the tribals in the country to the mainstream, a conclave has been organized by Tata Steel in Jamshedpur which is being attended by over 1,500 tribals from 20 states.
The ‘Samvaad: A tribal…
The Chhath festival will begin tomorrow (Monday) but the water bodies that the devotes will be stepping into to offer arghya to the sun god are in a terrible condition.
According to the survey of the Ranchi Municipal Corporation several…
A Special General Body meeting of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association will be held on November 21 at the stadium complex in Ranchi.
The meeting has been convened to discuss the grant of Test status to the JSCA International Stadium Complex…
Sonagachi in Kolkata, considered to be one of Asia’s largest red light districts, will next month roll out an experimental project for providing HIV-preventive medicine to sex workers.
The feasibility project, first such initiative in…