Haryana to give cash incentives to non-state players
byChandigarh: The Haryana government has decided to relax its sports policy to enable it give cash prizes to players from other states, an official said…
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Guns N’Roses dedicate Gurgaon concert to Ravi Shankar
byGurgaon: American rock band Guns N’Roses Wednesday dedicated their concernt in Gurgaon to sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar who died in the US at the…
Ravi Shankar gets Lifetime Achievement Grammy
byWashington: Indian music legend Pandit Ravi Shankar has been named a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award recipient, a day after his death at 92 in a…
RIP Ravi Shankar: the sitar gently weeps
byNew Delhi: He was a classical musician in the purest sense and was also dubbed the ‘godfather of world music’ by Beatles friend George Harrison….
Stress among army officers being studied
byNew Delhi: The Indian government has undertaken a study to determine the level of distress among young army officers, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said today….
Bihar to bring speech recognition technology to jails
byPatna: The Bihar government plans to record voices of all prisoners through an advanced speech recognition technology besides holding prisoner ‘darbars’ to redress their grievances,…
Ravi Shankar: a man of numerous awards, recognitions
byNew Delhi: From India’s highest civil honour Bharat Ratna to the global music world’s prized Grammy, which he won thrice, sitar maestro Ravi Shankar was…
No probe yet on Italian bribery allegations
byNew Delhi” The government said Wednesday that it had not started a formal probe into bribery allegations over the sale of VVIP helicopters to India…
Activists call for debate on India’s nuclear power programme
byChennai: The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) has called for a national debate on India’s ambitious nuclear power programme and making it an issue…
Education in Uttarakhand suffers neglect
byDehradun : Even as the deteriorating standard of education in Uttarakhand is crying for attention, the state had to bear a loss of about…