Lee Hui Ying, MP from Nee Soon GRC at the festival (Image: Indian high comission in Singapore on Instagram) Indian mangoes were the ultimate prize at a cultural festival in Singapore this weekend. The performers were rewarded with boxes of the fruit as India pushes campaign to promote mango exports overseas.The “Threads of Indian Tradition”…
Sanjeev Arora (File photo) NEW DELHI: Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora was on Sunday remanded to seven-day custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a day after the central agency arrested him in an alleged Rs 100-crore GST fraud-linked money laundering case.Judge Narender Sura of the Sessions-cum-special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Gurugram…
M Veerapandiyan and Vijay NEW DELHI: CPI state secretary M Veerapandiyan on Sunday said that the ‘Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu’ (state song of Tamil Nadu) must be accorded the foremost place in the protocol of government ceremonies.In a letter issued after the swearing-in ceremony of Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay, Veerapandiyan objected to the order in…
Youth jumps into ‘Badi Deg’ at Ajmer Sharif Dargah, beaten up by crowd NEW DELHI: A youth allegedly jumped into the giant cauldron, known as the ‘Badi Deg’, inside the premises of the Ajmer Sharif Dargah on Sunday, prompting intervention by shrine staff and an investigation by authorities.According to eyewitnesses, the youth suddenly ran towards…
NEW DELHI: Exactly 50 years ago, Runa Laila arrived in Hindi films crooning the sizzling title track for ‘Ek Se Badhkar Ek’ (1976). Filmed in a nightclub, with Helen trying to tempt and tease a very hairy-chested Raaj Kumar, the song rode on the inviting hook line, “Kya programme hai aaj raat ka.” In a…
NEW DELHI: TVK chief Vijay on Sunday took oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in a massive display of starpower, with thousands attending Thalapathy’s swearing in. However, what stood out at the event was the commencement of the programme with Vande Mataram and not with the state’s official song Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu, which…
Pregnancy and childbirth bring with them a range of transformative changes for a woman that are physiological, psychological, and emotional all at once. From the time of conception to carrying a life in her womb for months, the journey alters not just her body, but also reshapes and readjusts her emotional and mental wiring to…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: A major security scare emerged in Bengaluru on Sunday ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit after two gelatine sticks were found near the main event venue.According to the DIG of Bengaluru’s Central Range, the explosives were discovered during a security check on Sunday morning, around 3 km from…
Representative image (AI-generated) ‘You’re probably just stressed.’ For many women living with lupus, that is often where the story begins. A young woman walks into a clinic complaining of fatigue, joint aches, hair fall, fever or persistent body pain.Instead of answers, she is told she is overworked, anxious, sleep-deprived, hormonal or simply exhausted from balancing…
NEW DELHI: After losing her two elder sons to a rare genetic disorder, the wife of an Army personnel from Jammu and Kashmir donated a part of her liver to save her youngest child, an eight-year-old boy suffering from severe liver failure due to Wilson’s disease. The story of the mother’s sacrifice was shared by…
