Baisakhi or Vaisakhi marks the beginning of the new spring year and the end of the harvest of Rabi crop in India. The festival is celebrated with lot of enthusiasm in agriculture dominated…

January 2 is celeberated as  Guru Gobind Singh Ji Jayanti, also called Prakash Utsav or Prakash Parv. Guru Gobind Singh Ji Maharaj was one of the ten revered Sikh gurus. Gobind Rai,…

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to William Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza for their pioneering research into how human cells respond to…

NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar has been honoured with the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award — the highest honour given to Asian individuals and organisations and often referred to as the Asian version of the Nobel…

One of the most noteable Indian quintessential firebrand revolutionary,Chandra Shekhar Azad, popularly known as ‘Azad‘, was born on 23 July 1906. He  was part of a group of young revolutionaries who…

Today is 180th birth anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay the writer of our national song.Bankim Chandra Chatterjee also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was one of the greatest novelists and poets of…

Six sites,  the Ganga ghats in Varanasi, temples of Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu and the Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, Maratha military architecture in Maharashtra, the Hire Bengal megalithic site…

Here is the list of winners at the 91st Academy Awards held at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. BEST PICTURE – Green Book ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE – Rami Malek, Bohemian…

Producer Guneet Monga  film Period. End of Sentence –  the film, set in India and dealing with menstruation taboo, took home the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The Documentary, featuring the real…

Mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta  became the youngest man to climb the seven highest peaks and volcanic summits across all continents after conquering Antartica’s highest point Mount Sidley.                …